Leading Palestinian ambassador accuses UK of being hypocritical

The Palestinians’ representative in the UK said the government is being unfair and hypocritical in the way it treats them.

Husam Zomlot said bad things about PM Rishi Sunak for not supporting a request to take Israel to court for war crimes in Gaza.

He said that the UK’s reputation was hurt in the Middle East.

But he was glad that the government decided to stop violent Israeli settlers from coming to the UK.

UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron said that people who live in Israel and have been attacking Palestinians will not be allowed to enter the country. The decision came after the US said they were planning to do the same thing.

“MrZomlot said he is happy about it. ” “In my opinion, that was a very important moment. It’s not about the policy itself, but it’s the first time in 75 years that the UK has taken any action related to sanctions on Israel. ”

Recently, there has been more violence from settlers, especially after the big attacks by Hamas on Israel on 7 October and the Israeli military campaign in Gaza.

Around 700,000 Jewish people live in about 140 communities in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. These areas have been taken over by Israel since the 1967 Middle East war, but Palestinians want them to be part of their own country in the future.

Most countries think the settlements are illegal, but Israel disagrees.

Mr Zomlot disagreed with a law that stops public organizations from refusing to do business with Israel or Israeli settlements. The bill got approved in the House of Commons last week and now it will be sent to the House of Lords.

“This is the contradiction,” Mr Zomlot said at a meeting with reporters in London. Where are you in the UK. Do you think Israel taking over the 1967 borders is a military occupation and colonization.

“The UK policy is so inconsistent that I. ” I don’t know the UK’s policy on Palestine anymore. If you ask me, I don’t understand it. Unreliable, conflicting

Mr Zomlot, the leader of the Palestinian group in the UK, criticized Prime Minister Sunak for not supporting South Africa’s case against Israel for genocide at the International Court of Justice.

The ICJ started listening to the case last week.

A spokesperson for the prime minister said Mr Sunak thought the accusation was completely unfair and incorrect.

“The UK government supports Israel’s right to protect itself under international law,” the spokesperson stated.

MrZomlot said that the UK’s disagreement with South Africa’s claim of genocide is like the UK acting as judge of the world and getting involved where it shouldn’t.

He said that the UK was being unfair and hypocritical in its treatment of Israel and international law.

The envoy said that Israel is causing a big humanitarian problem in Gaza and asked the world to make them stop fighting.

He said that stopping the fighting right away is the most important thing. “This is still our most important priority. ”

Israel has bombed Gaza and killed about 24,000 people, mostly women and children. This information comes from the health ministry in Gaza, which is run by Hamas. Israel started a war to destroy Hamas because the group had killed 1,300 people, mainly civilians, and took 240 others as hostages in their attack on Israel.