The Israeli regime has compensated the British government for restoring a British cemetery in Gaza despite being responsible for the death of tens of British troops.
After the British government accused the Israeli regime of damaging headstones at a Gaza cemetery in which British soldiers are buried, Israeli officials paid Britain nearly $63,000 for the restoration of the cemetery.
The Commonwealth War Graves cemetery is where over 35,000 soldiers, mostly British soldiers, who died during World War I are buried. The amount paid by the Israeli regime was half the sum the Commonwealth War Graves Commission had asked for, as Israel refused allegations made by the commission.
“The Gaza War Cemetery was damaged in 2009 when shells fell in the cemetery. Some structures were hit, turf was gouged and scorched and more than 350 headstones were damaged, some of them beyond repair,” said Peter Francis, a spokesman for the commission.
The Israeli regime"s decision takes the lid off its hypocritical nature in dealings with even its own staunch allies.
On 22 July 1946, a bomb exploded at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, where the central offices of the British Mandatory authorities of Palestine were located, killing 91 and injuring 46.
The attack, which was organized by a right-wing Zionist organization Irgun, was considered the deadliest directed at the British during the British rule over Palestine from 1923 to 1948.
The Zionist organization placed a bomb in the basement of the hotel which housed offices of the British military headquarters.
The attack was a response to British security forces" raid on the Jewish Agency during which they made thousands of arrests and confiscated many documents.
Moreover, the British-Zionist conflict led to the death of the British minister of state in Cairo at the hands of Zionist rebels determined to forcibly evict the British authorities from Palestine.
Furthermore, in 1947, in response to the execution of three of its members, Irgun killed two British Sergeants.
The hypocritical nature of British-Israeli ties becomes more obvious as they are engaged in talks over damage to a cemetery while Israel"s war crimes led to the death of over 1,400 Palestinian civilians and Israel"s use of white phosphorus and toxic metals has resulted in an increase in the number of babies born with birth defects and a 30% increase in cancer cases.
