Seven legislators including Jeremy Corbyn, the former leader of the Labour Party, and Carla Denyer, the co-leader of the Green Party, have demanded “an independent, public inquiry into the UK’s involvement in Israel’s military assault in Gaza”, Al Jazeera reports.

In an op-ed in the UK’s Guardian newspaper, the parliamentarians noted how an inquiry into the country’s conduct during the Iraq war found “serious failings in the British government, which ignored the warnings of millions of ordinary people over its disastrous decision to go to war”.

History is repeating itself, they wrote.

The UK has “played a highly influential role in Israel’s military operations, including the sale of weapons, the supply of intelligence and the use of Royal Air Force bases in Cyprus”.

And with the International Criminal Court issuing arrest warrants for Israeli leaders for war crimes and crimes against humanity, many in the UK believe the British government “has taken decisions that have implicated officials in the gravest breaches of international law”, they said.