Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, pursuant to the Answer of 27 November 2023 to Question 3317 on Gaza: Genocide, what assessment he has made of the implications for his Department's policies of the finding of the International Commission of Jurists that the threshold to trigger States' duty under international law to take measures to prevent acts of genocide has been reached in Gaza.

It is the UK's longstanding policy that any judgment as to whether genocide has occurred is a judicial decision rather than a Government decision. Competent courts include international courts, such as the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice, and national criminal courts that meet international standards of due process. We have consistently called on Israel to respect International Humanitarian Law regarding its operations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.