Israel removes 2 British legislators
Great Britain and Israel exchanged acute criticisms this weekend after Israel blocked two British legislators from entering the country and postponed them to London.
The members of the Parliament, Abtisam Mohamed and Yuan Yang, who both belong to the Labor Party of the Government Center, said in a Joint declaration Sunday that had been “amazed” to be denied the entry into Israel the previous day. They described their journey as “a delegation of parliamentarians” to Israeli western West Bill together with beneficial organizations “to visit projects and communities of humanitarian aid”. “We are two, on dozens of parliamentarians, who have spoken in Parliament in recent months in a house in a house in a house in a house in a house in a house in a house in a house in a house in an Israeli house. Municipalities, without fear of being targeted.”
Israel rejected the characterization of their plans by legislators.
The Israeli immigration authority declared in a declaration that was not “false” that they were members of a formal parliamentary delegation, adding that no Israeli official had “no knowledge of the arrival of the delegation”.
The declaration stated that the Israeli immigration officials had questioned the legislators and two assistants and established that they intended to “spread hatred against Israel” and “document the security forces”.
David Lammy, the British foreign secretary, jumped to the defense of legislators In a declaration Saturday, describing the Israeli treatment of “two British parliamentarians on a parliamentary delegation” as “unacceptable, counterproductive and profoundly worrying”.
Lammy said he “clarified to my counterparties in the Israeli government that this is not a way to treat British parliamentarians”.
Mrs. Yang and Mrs. Mohamed are both for the first time in the British Parliament for the first time in July, in the elections that brought their party to the government.
Mrs. Mohamed is a lawyer. Mrs. Yang is an economist and former correspondent for the Financial Times
The refusal they lived also pushed political disputes to Great Britain, where the crisis in Gaza has long been tense.
The Labor government was in some respects Less favorable to Israel of his conservative center -right predecessor: in September Great Britain announced that he would do it suspend some arms exports to Israel. Mr. Lammy said at the moment that there was a “clear risk” that some weapons could be used in “a serious violation of international humanitarian law”.
Sunday, Kemi Badenoch, the conservative leader, defended Israel and seemed to blame legislators in a Television interview: “What I think is shocking is that we have parliamentarians in the work that other countries will not allow,” he said.
Those comments they were quickly reported in turn. “It is shameful that you are cheerlea another country for having retained and deported two British parliamentarians,” Lammy written on x. “You say the same for Mps Tory prohibited from China? “
