Two workers’ members of Parliament said they were “surprised” those who rejected them to Israel after their arrest in the country upon arrival.
Abtisam Muhammad and Ywan Yang said that the “animal” parliamentarians were directly able to “witness the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories.”
The country’s population and immigration agency said they were rejected because they intended to “spread hate speech” against Israel.
Foreign Minister David Lami criticized the Israeli authorities, describing the move as “unacceptable, opposite, and disturbing.”
Yang, the deputy of Erly Woodley, and Muhammad, the deputy of Sheffield Central, flew to Israel from Luton Airport with assistants on Saturday afternoon.
The Israeli Immigration Authority said that the Interior Minister Moshe Erbil denied entering all the four passengers after their interrogation. They accused them of traveling to “document the security forces.”
The UK Foreign Ministry said that the group was part of a parliamentary delegation – but the Israel Immigration Authority objected to this claim, saying that the delegation was not recognized by any Israeli official.
The deputies said that the trip was organized with charities in the United Kingdom, which “more than a decade of experience in taking parliamentary delegations.”
They said in a joint statement: “We are two, among dozens of deputies, who have spoken in Parliament in recent months of the Israeli -Palestinian conflict and the importance of compliance with international humanitarian law.”
“Parliamentarians should feel the freedom to speak honest in the House of Commons, without fear of targeting.”
A spokesman for the Ministry of Interior said that the deputies left the country from 06:00 local time (04:00 GMT) on Sunday.
Lami said that the Foreign Ministry was in contact with both deputies to provide support, adding: “I have made it clear to my Israeli government counterparts that this is not a way to address British parliamentarians.”
Yang and Hammam – who were first elected in 2024 – made many interventions on Israel’s Hamas conflict in Parliament.
In February, Muhammad began a cross -speech, signed by 61 deputies and princes, and called for a ban on goods from Israeli settlements on the Palestinian territories, citing the opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
It also criticized Israel because of its blocking of humanitarian aid from Gaza, and the House of Commons in October told the international law that it “prohibits the hunger of civilians as a way of war”, and the allegations of humanitarian organizations stated about “ethnic cleansing” in Gaza.
In January, Yang spoke in favor of bringing sanctions against Israeli ministers Itamar bin Ghafir and Betzzaleel Sottic, after they suggested building Israeli settlements in northern Gaza to encourage Palestinians to leave.
It also shed light on the dangerous conditions faced by medical journalists and professionals while they were in the Palestinian territories.
During the war in Gaza, there were violent protests, incidents and raids by the Israeli forces in the West Bank. Hundreds of deaths were reported there.
The Israeli forces were involved in an extended operation in the occupied Palestinian territories, where two Palestinians were killed on Friday.
The current war began on October 7, 2023, when Hamas fighters launched a sudden attack on Israel, killing about 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages to Gaza.
Since then, the Hamas -running Ministry of Health in Gaza says that more than 50,000 people have been killed. She said 1,309 people have died since the ceasefire ended on March 18.
Lami said: “The concentration of the UK government is still getting a return to a ceasefire and negotiations to stop the bloodshed, liberate the hostages and end the conflict in Gaza,” Lami said.
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