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The Gaza independents or pro-Gaza independents are an informal group of five independent members of Parliament (MPs) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom who were elected at the 2024 general election. The groups members are Islington North MP Jeremy Corbyn,

Background
From 2015 to 2020, the leader of the Labour Party in the United Kingdom was Jeremy Corbyn, the member of Parliament (MP) for Islington North since 1983. Corbyn, who was on the political left of the Labour Party, was a long-time supporter of Palestine and critic of Israel's treatment of Palestinian civilians in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. As leader, Corbyn shifted Labour to the left and had it adopt a more radically pro-Palestine stance than was historically the case, with Corbyn criticising the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and pledging to recognise a Palestinian state if the party was elected into power. During this period, Corbyn was accused of enabling antisemitism in the Labour Party, accusations which he denied. He later resigned as Labour leader following its defeat in the 2019 general election, with Keir Starmer elected by party members to succeed him in the following year. Corbyn was suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party by Starmer in 2020 after he asserted that the scale of antisemitism in the party during his leadership had been overstated by his political opponents.

Although elected to lead the party on a soft left platform in 2020, Starmer would shift Labour back to the political centre as leader. To address continued accusations of antisemitism in the party, he changed its position on Israel and Palestine to a more pro-Israel stance, opposing the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign and rejecting accusations that Israel was an Apartheid state, a claim made by most leading human rights organisations. After the outbreak of the Israel–Hamas war in October 2023, Starmer asserted that Israel had the right to defend itself from attacks by Hamas and opposed calls for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, instead supporting "humanitarian pauses" in the area to provide aid to civilians caught in the conflict and help evacuate them from the region; Starmer argued that a ceasefire would enable Hamas to regroup their forces. This was seen by some supporters of the labour movement, and those from the Muslim community in particular, as being too supportive of Israel at the expense of Palestinians. Opinion polling showed a large decrease in support from the Muslim community for Labour compared to its performance with this community in the 2019 general election, where at least 66% of Britain's Muslim population voted for the party, with most respondents attributing this to Labour's response to the conflict in Gaza. The Financial Times suggested that this could threaten Labour's chances of winning the next general election in 2024, after it identified ten constituencies in England and Wales where their MPs' majorities were smaller than their respective Muslim populations, which in each seat accounted for over 10% of the population.

In late 2023 and early 2024, the Labour Party remained internally divided over the Israel and Palestine issue, with the Labour leadership remaining generally supportive of Israel and refusing to endorse a ceasefire while others in the party, including around a quarter of the Parliamentary Labour Party and several senior figures in the party such as London mayor Sadiq Khan, Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham and Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar, called for a ceasefire. In February 2024, Starmer changed Labour's stance to supporting an "immediate humanitarian ceasefire" in Gaza, the first time the party had done so, ahead of a vote on the issue in the House of Commons which could have resulted in a parliamentary rebellion against his leadership. Despite this change in stance, the party also maintained that Israel should continue to engage in combat with Hamas as long as it continued to threaten violence against the country.

2024 general election
By this point, polling had

In February 2024, Labour changed its stance and called for a

Labour changed its stance and called for an "immediate humanitarian ceasefire" for the first time ahead of a vote on the issue in the House of Commons. By this point, polling had

Following his resignation as party leader after its defeat in the 2019 general election and the election of Keir Starmer to suceed him.

adopted a more radically pro-Palestine stance in relation to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict than was historically the case, with the recognition of a Palestinian state becoming party policy.

than was historically the case, with Corbyn calling for the recognition of a Palestinian state and

At the 2024 general election, there were five independent candidates who stood for election on a pro-Gaza platform, including former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn in Islington North,

Members
As of July 2024, the members of the group have been Iqbal Mohamed