This interview is so, so important. It's about a big, big question. Could British citizens really be arrested and prosecuted for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed because of Israel's onslaught against Gaza?

Now, you may think it sounds far-fetched, given the impunity long enjoyed by Israel and indeed the role of the British

state in arming and facilitating Israel's genocide. But a legal team have launched a major legal case

submitting a detailed report to the Metropolitan Police against 10 British individuals for

alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.

This comes in the context of a broader set of legal challenges, both in individual countries and, of course, for example, the International Criminal Court issuing arrest warrants

for Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister and and his former Defence Minister, Yov Gallant.

Now, I've spoken to a member of the legal team here in Britain,

the barrister Sean Somerfield.

He specialises in international criminal law and human rights.

I start by asking him, how did this case come about?

And why did these lawyers decide this was a case they needed to pursue?

I think it's probably quite clear that the

report comes, or then is certainly situated within the context of a much wider solidarity

movement. We've seen protests up and down the country, people turning out in tens of thousands

a week in week out to protest the current state of affairs in Gaza, and more

broadly, the occupation and the situation in Palestine. States have systematically failed

the Palestinian people, and when that happens, it falls on civil society and lawyers to do what

they can, I think, to provide accountability.

But for us in this report, we are very much lawyers.

And so although the report is situated within that broader context, for us, it's about

following the evidence, and that's what we did here.

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