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A UN special rapporteur will contribute to a two-day \u201ctribunal\u201d being held by Jeremy Corbyn into Britain\u2019s \u201crole in war crimes perpetrated in Gaza\u201d, the former Labour leader has said.<\/p>\n
Corbyn, who is campaigning for a new political entity with the working title Your Party, said the event would take place in early September. His private member\u2019s bill for an official inquiry into UK involvement in the Israel-Gaza war was blocked by the government at its second reading in July.<\/p>\n
Instead, the Peace and Justice Project, founded by Corbyn, is holding a two-day event called the \u201cGaza tribunal\u201d. A website dedicated to the event says it will \u201cexamine Britain\u2019s role in war crimes perpetrated in Gaza\u201d by \u201chearing from experts and witnesses\u201d, and \u201cestablish the full scale of our government\u2019s complicity in the genocide against the Palestinian people\u201d.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, Corbyn told an audience at the Edinburgh festival fringe that Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, would be offering her views to the hearings. He told the event that his \u201ctribunal\u201d would seek answers on the use of the RAF Akrotiri airbase around the war in Gaza, as well as other issues.<\/p>\n
Corbyn, interviewed on stage by the musician Calum Baird, said: \u201cWhat we\u2019ve done through the Peace and Justice Project is set up a two-day open public inquiry on 4 and 5 September in Church House in Westminster.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve invited people to make submissions \u2013 lawyers and others and voices from Gaza and the West Bank and other places \u2013 in order to put forward their view on the policy. And Francesca Albanese has agreed to take part and put forward her view on the legality of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said Albanese was \u201cvery keen to support it and get involved\u201d, comparing his event to the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war.<\/p>\n
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