Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP Prime Minister 10 Downing Street London SW1A 2AA

In March, the Reuters news agency, amongst others, reported on the circulation of an unpublished UNRWA report containing claims that the Israeli intelligence was based on information obtained through abuses, including torture of UNRWA staff.1 According to Reuters, the UNRWA report alleges staff members were subject to “severe physical beatings, waterboarding, and threats of harm to family members”. [...] Also in February, a group of UN Special Procedures called for investigations into “credible allegations of egregious human rights violations”, including actual and threatened sexual violence, against Palestinian women and girls held in Israeli custody in Gaza and the West Bank since 7 October.4 Additionally, Israel has severely restricted access by the International Committee of the Red Cross to P. [...] The inadmissibility of evidence obtained through torture in any proceedings is set out in Article 15 of the UN Convention Against Torture, to which the UK is a State Party, and it is also a rule of customary international law. [...] In this regard, we urge you to:      • Immediately and publicly condemn torture on all sides of the conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories;   • Ensure that the UK takes no receipt of, and makes no use of intelligence provided by Israel or other authorities where there is a real risk that it has been obtained by torture or other ill- treatment; • Urgently review the decision to. [...] Available at A/HRC/25/60 (undocs.org) 7 HM Government, The Principles relating to the detention and interviewing of detainees overseas and the passing and receipt of intelligence relating to detainees.