MINISTERS should face investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for failing to prevent a genocide in Gaza, Jeremy Corbyn’s Gaza Tribunal has said.

The former Labour leader predicted that the landmark investigation will have a profound impact on the US and its allies’ wars in the Middle East as its 112-page final report was released today.

He hailed the report as “our weapon” for peace, accountability and to let the Establishment “know we are watching them.”

The tribunal calls for a full investigation by the ICC into Britain’s actions in response to the conflict, as well as an independent public inquiry into any co-operation between Britain and Israel since October 2023.

It accuses the government of failing to prevent genocide in Gaza and says that Britain was complicit in Israel’s actions that a UN commission said had constituted a genocide last year.

At least 70,000 Palestinians have been killed since the conflict began but some experts believe the true death toll is much higher.

Speaking at a press conference, Mr Corbyn MP said: “There is no dubiety in this report at all, it is very, very clear.  

“To me, the significance is equivalent to the Russell Tribunal about the war crimes in Vietnam.”

The 1967 Russell Tribunal mobilised global public opinion against US intervention in the south-east Asian country, documenting alleged war crimes, and validating the anti-war movement. 

Organised by the philosopher Bertrand Russell, it served as a landmark in “people’s tribunals” and produced a vast catalogue of documentation on US military activities in Vietnam. 

Mr Corbyn, who is now Your Party’s parliamentary leader, added: “What it means for the Labour Party is they have got to recognise that a Labour government has been complicit in wholly illegal activities: in the bombardment and acts of genocide against the people of Palestine.

“They’ve got to get real with this.”

The Gaza tribunal took evidence from lawyers, medical professionals, former Foreign Office officials and Palestinians over a series of hearings in September.

It focused largely on whether Britain should have done more to end its co-operation with Israel to avoid being accused of failing to meet its duty to prevent a genocide.

Its findings are expected to add to Labour’s woes in the upcoming May local elections by seeing it lose further support to the Greens and Your Party over not doing enough to back the Palestinian cause.

Co-author of the report, Dr Shahd Hammouri, a lecturer in international law and legal theory from the Levant region, said that a red line where “human life is no longer sacred” had been crossed.

She said: “Today as we speak at this moment the same crimes happen at the moment.

“In our hands we have evidence that British officials knowingly hid the truth and distorted the truth. 

“They had the legal advice and chose to overlook it: British citizens in good conscience who sought to uphold their legal and moral obligations of standing up against power were threatened with their livelihoods and asked to either quit their jobs or shut the hell up.

“People who went to the streets with a clear conscience and said Britain has to abide by its international obligations.

“As we speak British bases are yet again being used as a launch pad for military war planes that will go and drop bombs in civilian areas in somewhere Britain should never have been in to begin with.”

She said that British colonialism in Palestine was at the root of the problem in the Middle East with the country now “abdicating the Iranian right of self determination by protecting the interests of BP halfway across the world.”

Dr Hammouri added: “It is also the time where the British public needs to be as mobilised as possible — where we stand hand in hand and say no to war, no to interventions in wars and also upholding the international legal system that has died in Gaza. Today we are talking about its resurrection.”

A Vote Palestine 2026 campaign backed by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) is calling for Gaza to be on the ballot paper given that local councils invest billions in Israel.

So far 1,200 council candidates have signed the PSC’s commitment to Palestine.

PSC political organiser Dan Iley-Williamson told the Morning Star that it and its partners in the Vote Palestine 2026 coalition are “taking this demand into May’s local elections, calling on candidates to Pledge for Palestine, sending a message to politicians and political parties: If you want our votes, stand up for Palestine.”