Europa Press

The newspaper La Jornada
Monday, August 19, 2024, p. 29

Madrid. I cannot continue to perform my duties knowing that this department could be complicit in war crimes. in Palestinian territories, said the second secretary of the British embassy in Ireland, Mark Smith, as he resigned in protest at the sale of arms from the United Kingdom to Israel. In a public letter, Smith said he had raised his concerns at all levelsbut only received a thank you“Senior officials in the Israeli government and army openly expressed genocidal intent… Israeli soldiers took videos of deliberately burning, destroying and looting civilian property and openly admitted to raping and torturing prisoners… These are war crimes,” he said.