The UK government is being urged to make a formal apology for alleged war crimes by British troops in historical Palestine nearly a century ago.

The petition, along with 300 pages of evidence, is being brought by an elderly Palestinian - a former politician - who was shot and wounded by UK forces as a boy; in a case set to reopen debate over the UK’s colonial past.

Tom Bateman's report contains some distressing details: 

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