50016
2016-17
761
Application Of Martial Law In The West Bank
Paul Monaghan
2016-12-01
That this House notes that martial law has now been in place in the West Bank for almost 50 years and that the human rights organisation Military Court Watch has lodged submissions with the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention relating to the continuing practice of detention and transfer for Palestinian adults and children from the West Bank to prisons located inside Israel in violation of both the Fourth Geneva Convention and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court; recognises that this practice is classified under international law as a war crime; further notes that between 7,000 to 8,000 Palestinians are subject to transfer each year, including children; and calls on the Government to make representations to the UN to contest this practice and to ensure that relevant international standards and relevant international legal instruments accepted by both Israel and Palestine as signatories to the Fourth Geneva Convention are fully and timeously addressed.
Human rights
International law
Middle East
Paul Monaghan
2016-12-01
Proposed
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
Scottish National Party
Martyn Day
2016-12-02
Seconded
Linlithgow and East Falkirk
Scottish National Party
Mark Durkan
2016-12-05
Seconded
Foyle
Social Democratic and Labour Party
Liz Saville Roberts
2016-12-06
Seconded
Dwyfor Meirionnydd
Plaid Cymru
Margaret Ritchie
2016-12-06
Seconded
South Down
Social Democratic and Labour Party
Jim Cunningham
2016-12-06
Seconded
Coventry South
Labour
Michael Weir
2016-12-07
Signed
Angus
Scottish National Party
Peter Bottomley
2016-12-07
Signed
Worthing West
Conservative
Alasdair McDonnell
2016-12-07
Signed
Belfast South
Social Democratic and Labour Party
Chris Law
2016-12-08
Signed
Dundee West
Scottish National Party
Chris Stephens
2016-12-08
Signed
Glasgow South West
Scottish National Party
Mark Williams
2016-12-15
Signed
Ceredigion
Liberal Democrat
Alex Salmond
2016-12-16
Signed
Margaret Ferrier
2016-12-16
Signed
Rutherglen and Hamilton West
Scottish National Party
Alan Brown
2016-12-19
Signed
Kilmarnock and Loudoun
Scottish National Party
Drew Hendry
2016-12-19
Signed
Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
Scottish National Party
John Nicolson
2016-12-19
Signed
East Dunbartonshire
Scottish National Party
Hannah Bardell
2016-12-20
Signed
Livingston
Scottish National Party
Joanna Cherry
2017-01-09
Signed
Edinburgh South West
Scottish National Party
Owen Thompson
2017-01-09
Signed
Midlothian
Scottish National Party
Roger Godsiff
2017-01-09
Signed
Birmingham, Hall Green
Labour
Holly Walker-Lynch
2017-01-19
Signed
Halifax
Labour