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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

UK failing Gaza by allowing jets with British parts to bomb hospitals, says surgeon

Prof Nick Hyman, in glasses, blue suit and red tie, sits on the right hand of a desk before a sign reading 'The Gaza Tribunal'. To his right, Hala Sabbah, co-founder of Palestinian-led mutual aid group The Sameer Project
Prof Nick Maynard, a surgeon who has worked in Gaza, told the Gaza tribunal in London that ‘propaganda has been repeated by our media, been repeated by our government’. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

An Oxford University surgeon accused the British government of failing the people of Gaza by allowing F-35 jets with British parts to bomb the children on which he was operating, an independent Gaza tribunal heard at its opening session on Thursday.

The two-day tribunal in London, which is independent of government and parliament, is seeking to amass evidence of Britain’s failure to distance itself from what the tribunal organisers regard as Israeli war crimes amounting to genocide.

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