FIRST UK GAZA AIRDROP Inquiry ordered after Hamas attack survivors ‘harassed by airport staff’
BUNDLES of UK aid are airdropped over Gaza for the first time. An RAF A400M plane delivered essential supplies including water, rice and cooking oil by parachute yesterday as defence secretary Grant Shapps urged Israel to allow in more life-saving aid by land and sea. PICTURE: AS1 LEAH JONES/MOD/PA
A PROBE into claims two survivors of the October 7 Hamas terror attacks were discriminated against by Manchester airport staff has been ordered by the government.
Home secretary James Cleverly revealed an investigation would take place after a video showed the Israeli brothers being ‘demeaned’ by Border Force officials.
‘We do not tolerate antisemitism or any form of discrimination. The incident will be handed in line with our disciplinary procedures,’ Mr Cleverly wrote on X.
Brothers Neria and Daniel Sharabi were detained and interrogated for hours after arriving in the UK on Sunday. The pair, who witnessed the Nova Music Festival massacre and provided help to the wounded, had come to Manchester to speak about their harrowing experience to a non-profit organisation.
But footage shows the Border Force officers speaking aggressively to the two men when they arrived.
In the clip, one official says: ‘Knock the attitude off. We’ve made the decision that you’re coming in, so just let us do the checks we need to do and keep quiet. Look at me. Are you clear with that? Good. We’re the bosses not you.’
Marc Levy, of the Jewish Representative Council of Greater Manchester & Region, said the two men ‘do not appear to have been argumentative’.
He added that the officers’ tone was unnecessary and demeaning.
‘We unequivocally condemn the fact that Israeli nationals were detained and subjected to abuse by a Border Police Officer. The only reason for their detention and interrogation was because they are Israeli,’ he wrote in a letter of complaint to airport chiefs.
At least 364 people were killed and 40 taken hostage in the festival attack.