As part of the Lobby Your MP Day activities in Parliament, the Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) submitted a detailed briefing to Members of Parliament, urging the UK government to adopt concrete and decisive measures against the ongoing genocide committed by the Israeli occupation forces against the Palestinian people in Gaza.

Lobby Your MP Day is an established annual tradition in the UK Parliament, providing citizens and civil society organisations with the opportunity to meet their representatives directly at Westminster. It is regarded as one of the most prominent tools of participatory democracy in the United Kingdom, enabling constituents to exercise their right to hold MPs accountable and influence public policy by raising their concerns directly and openly.

The briefing highlighted Spain’s pioneering measures, which included nine decisive actions such as a comprehensive ban on arms and military technology exports to Israel, entry bans on individuals implicated in war crimes, the prohibition of settlement goods, increased humanitarian support to Gaza and UNRWA, as well as recalling the Spanish ambassador from Tel Aviv and considering declaring Israeli officials persona non grata.

The PRC affirmed that this political and legal precedent places the UK’s credibility under serious scrutiny. As a State Party to the 1948 Genocide Convention and the 1949 Geneva Conventions, the UK is under a legal obligation to take urgent action to protect civilians and hold perpetrators accountable, rather than continuing to arm or host them.

The Centre further warned that Britain’s failure to take similar action risks placing it in diplomatic isolation and exposes its double standards, particularly at a time when international consensus is expanding around the need to hold Israel accountable and halt the supply of tools of aggression — all while the UK government continues to host the Israeli president in London and provide him with official platforms.

The briefing concluded by urging the UK Parliament to hold the government accountable for its ongoing military, security, and intelligence cooperation with Israel, and to move forward towards the adoption of a comprehensive arms embargo. Such action, the PRC stressed, would align with the UK’s stated values and its legal obligations to prevent genocide and to uphold the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination.