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British doctor subject to alleged war crime in Gaza ‘ignored’ by Labour MP

2 July 2024 11:53 BST

A British doctor who returned from Gaza said he wrote to his MP, Jeff Smith of the Labour Party, about an alleged war crime he experienced, but the lawmaker did not advocate for him in the UK parliament.

The doctor described himself as a “victim of war crime” because the Israeli military dropped a GPS-guided bomb on a house where his British medical charity team was staying.

He said medics had informed the Israeli military of their precise location, so this was “a deliberate attempt to assassinate a British medical team in order to dissuade any medical teams coming from abroad”.

Smith said in response: “What is the most useful thing you can do to help resolve the situation in Gaza? I thought and I still think that the right thing for me to do is to remain on the front bench.”