Webinar: GAZA: The Numbers and the Sources

UKLFI Charitable Trust held a webinar on Gaza: The Numbers and the Sources with Adv. Jonathan Braverman, chaired by Natasha Hausdorff, on Sunday 5 October, 2025. This webinar discusses statistics, sources and methodologies on which serious allegations regarding Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza have been based. The speaker,

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Webinar: The Humanitarian Situation in the Gaza Strip

UKLFI Charitable Trust held a webinar on The Humanitarian Situation in the Gaza Strip with Rev. Dr. Johnnie Moore, Executive Chairman of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, chaired by Natasha Hausdorff, on Thursday 18 September, 2025. The humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip and how to provide humanitarian relief during the

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ActionAid removes false claim that more killed in Gaza that any other recent conflict

The charity ActionAid has amended its website after making false claims that “More women and children have been killed by the Israeli military in Gaza than any other conflict in the last two decades.” UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) researched the comparative numbers killed, and found that conflicts in Ethiopia,

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UK Statistics Authority urged to review fabricated Gaza casualty figures  

The UK Statistics Authority has been urged to review the Palestinian Casualty figures in the Gaza War  after several analyses indicated that the figures have been fabricated. UKLFI Charitable Trust (“UKLFI CT”) has written to Sir Robert Chote, Chair of the UK Statistics Authority, inviting it to assess the quality

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Edinburgh Council rejects twinning with Gaza 

Edinburgh Council has rejected a twinning petition with Gaza following “legal advice”. The Edinburgh-Gaza twinning petition had been listed on the agenda for the Policy and Sustainability Committee meeting at 10am on Tuesday 30 August. However, the Committee refused to allow Pete Gregson who was leading the twinning campaign to

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Edinburgh Council withdraws discussion on twinning with Gaza

A petition calling for Edinburgh to be twinned with the Palestinian city of Gaza was pulled from the agenda of the city’s council’s policy and sustainability committee at short notice so legal advice could  be taken. This follows UKLFI’s letter to Edinburgh council’s head of legal services last week, warning

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Petition to twin Edinburgh with Gaza City could mean Councillors commit criminal offence

UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) has warned Edinburgh Council that Councillors will probably commit criminal offences if they participate in twinning between Edinburgh and Gaza City. A petition to twin Edinburgh with Gaza City  is on the Agenda for a Council Committee meeting on 29 March 2022.  The petitioner is

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