A response to Yvette Cooper, UK Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, from Jim Chimirie on X
@YvetteCooperMP, a joint statement from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Norway and the Netherlands on Israeli settlement building in the West Bank. Issued today. Let us examine what these same nine nations have not found time to issue joint statements about.
Iran massacred 30,000 of its own citizens in 48 hours in January 2026. No joint statement. Sudan has killed up to 400,000 people, displaced 10 million and subjected civilians to mass sexual violence and ethnic cleansing. No joint statement. Pakistan has ethnically cleansed over a million Afghan refugees, deporting children as young as thirteen to overcrowded camps. No joint statement. China has detained over a million Uyghur Muslims in what the UN has described as mass arbitrary detention on an industrial scale. No joint statement. Nine nations. Four catastrophes. Four silences. One statement about Israeli planning permissions in the West Bank.
On the Palestinian Authority you are calling on Israel to support financially. The PA operates the Martyrs Fund, a programme enshrined in Palestinian law requiring seven percent of the PA’s annual budget to be allocated to payments to terrorists and their families. It amounts to over $300 million every year. A terrorist serving a life sentence earns four times the average Palestinian salary and more than Palestinian teachers and doctors. The more Israelis killed, the higher the payment. The US State Department confirmed in February 2026 that the PA continued the fund under a different name, paying $200 million to militants and their families in 2025 alone, with $315 million projected for 2026. Britain recognised a Palestinian state whose governing body pays bonuses for murder. The financial support you are demanding Israel restore funds an institution that has enshrined the incentivisation of terrorism in its own law.