London: On Friday, as he met with the British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at 10 Downing Street in London, anti-apartheid activists demanded that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu be detained for war crimes.

This comes after the International Center for Justice for Palestinians urged the British government to report Israel for war crimes committed in Palestine to the International Criminal Court.

Israel's current prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has committed numerous war crimes during his 15 years in office, according to Friends of Al-Aqsa, a nongovernmental organisation based in the UK that works to uphold Palestinians' human rights and safeguard the Al-Aqsa sanctuary.

Also Read: In Belarus Putin says Russia will station tactical nuclear weapons

Netanyahu has personally presided over the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian towns and villages for the past 15 years, as well as the deliberate killing of Palestinian men, women, and children who are living under illegal Israeli occupation... He is being held accountable for these war crimes today, according to FOA's head of public affairs, Shamiul Joarder.

Putin has a warrant out for his arrest from the ICC, but what about Netanyahu? Instead of approving agreements to deepen ties with an apartheid state and receiving a war criminal at Downing Street, Sunak should be holding Netanyahu accountable.

According to FOA, Netanyahu's visit follows the signing of a "roadmap for UK-Israel relations through 2030" earlier this week.

Yet, according to the NGO, "Israeli soldiers and settlers have killed at least 89 Palestinians, including 15 children, in the first three months of 2023, in some of the worst violence against Palestinians by Israel in decades."

Also Read:  The once-bustling Izium in Ukraine bears the deep scars of war and occupation

Israel's assaults on residential structures in Gaza during the summers of 2021 and 2022, while Netanyahu served as prime minister, were roundly denounced as war crimes, according to FOA.

On May 16, 2021, Israel deliberately targeted two residential buildings belonging to the Abu Al-Ouf and Al-Kolaq families, killing 30 family members, including 11 children. This brutal bombardment claimed the lives of 66 Palestinian children.

It continued, "Israel's use of live ammunition against Palestinians at the Great March of Return protests in 2018 and 2019 who posed no imminent threat to life — including medics and journalists — has also been widely condemned as a war crime under international law."

Also Read:  Battle for Bakhmut is being managed to stabilise

Additionally, Netanyahu was in charge of the 2014 Israeli assaults on Gaza, which left 1,000 Palestinian children permanently disabled.