BRITAIN failed to fulfil “every single legal obligation” it faced as Israel committed genocide in Gaza, a new report has found.

Unofficial body co-chaired by ex-Labour leader says Britain failed to meet its duty to seek to prevent a genocide

The former Labour leader’s Gaza Tribunal report outlines the British government’s complicity and - in some cases - active participation in Israel’s genocide in occupied Palestine since October 2023. H...

Mark Smith, civil servant who resigned over war in Gaza, joins Corbyn-led inquest into UK complicity in Israeli crimes

Independent tribunal told government did minimum to hold Israel to account and maximum to shield itself from scrutiny

The highly publicised tribunal was held last September and its findings were published in a report on Monday

MINISTERS should face investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for failing to prevent a genocide in Gaza, Jeremy Corbyn’s Gaza Tribunal has said.The former Labour leader predicted that ...

Published on 16th March 2026, the Gaza Tribunal Report follows a two-day tribunal held in Westminster in September 2025 at which evidence was taken from 91 witnesses. The Tribunal Members who wrote th...

<article data-history-node-id="428156" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/ex-official-was-ordered-make-uk-arms-report-look-less-bad-gaza-tribunal" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/ex-official-was-ordered-make-uk-arms-report-look-less-bad-gaza-tribunal" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Ex-official was ordered to make UK arms report look ‘less bad’, Gaza tribunal hears</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>A former&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/uk" target="_blank">British</a>&nbsp;foreign office official who resigned over Israel’s war on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/israel-genocide-gaza" target="_blank">Gaza</a>&nbsp;was ordered to alter a document he was authoring on UK arms sales to make it look “less bad”, he told an inquiry into Britain’s role in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israeli</a>&nbsp;war crimes on Friday.&nbsp;<br> <br> Mark Smith joined the final day of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-tribunal-held-jeremy-corbyn-begins-uk" target="_blank">The Gaza Tribunal</a>, an unofficial two-day inquiry led by former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, via audio link to share his testimony.&nbsp;</p> <p>Smith was previously the penholder of a report that assessed whether the UK government was legally compliant in its arms exports to countries in the Middle East and North Africa.<br> <br> It is unclear which specific countries Smith was reporting on or the timeframe of when he authored the report.<br> <br> “While I was working on the report, I was routinely asked to change the report. This was not to correct mistakes or to ensure accuracy, as would normally be the case with a civil service report. But I was actually asked to alter the wording,” Smith said.&nbsp;</p> <p>“I was asked to change the placement of the paragraphs and to omit the information so that it sounded less bad.”</p> <p>He said that in sections where he wrote about civilian casualties, he was asked to “clean them down, make them smaller”.&nbsp;</p> <p>You can read more <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/ex-official-was-ordered-make-uk-arms-report-look-less-bad-gaza-tribunal-hears">here</a>.</p> </div> </div> </article>

The report says the government should be investigated for 'complicity and participation in genocide'