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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Haroon Siddique and Pippa Crerar

Palestinians to ask UK to own up to ‘law violations’ between 1917 and 1948

Munib al-Masri in the garden of his home outside the West Bank city of Nablus
Munib al-Masri in the garden of his home outside the West Bank city of Nablus. Photograph: Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP/Getty

A group of Palestinians will serve a legal petition asking the UK to take responsibility for what they call “serial international law violations”, including war crimes committed during the British occupation of Palestine from 1917 to 1948, the consequences of which it says still reverberate today.

The 400-plus page document, drafted by human rights KCs, details “incontrovertible evidence” of the UK’s unlawful legacy.

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