A team of legal experts, including renowned human rights barrister Michael Mansfield KC, are lodging an extensively researched 240-page report (see summary) with the War Crimes Team at London’s Metropolitan Police, on behalf of The Public Interest Law Centre (PILC) and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR).

The submission requests the War Crimes Team investigate suspected war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed by British citizens and dual nationals in Gaza between October 2023 and May 2024. The report is based on six months of extensive evidence gathering and will be handed over in early April.

Human rights and legal experts, practitioners and advocates to sign the following statement that outlines the importance of fully deploying the state’s existing legal accountability mechanisms to investigate war crimes.

At the time of writing (6 April 2025), the Israeli military has recommenced its ground and air offensive in Gaza, while its ongoing military campaign in the West Bank has not ceased. Israel has killed over 1300 people in the three weeks alone, while its government and military continue to enjoy near total impunity for continued war crimes and crimes against humanity (ICJ, 2024). Over 50,000 Palestinians have been killed, many of them children and hundreds of thousands have been seriously injured in indiscriminate attacks since October 2023. Aerial and ground attacks have flattened entire neighbourhoods and cities across the Gaza Strip, forcibly displacing 90% of its 2.2 million inhabitants. Israel has consistently blocked and obstructed humanitarian aid, bringing about conditions that expose the civilian population to a slow and calculated death.