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I'm writing to you to call upon British Cycling, as organisers of The Tour of Britain 2024 to exclude Israel- Premier Tech from this year’s event. The collective punishment of an innocent civilian population, illegal under international law, has been the hallmark of only the most evil regimes in history, and yet the worst imaginable frenzy of collective punishment is being visited upon the population of Gaza as the world watches, shocked at the level of sadistic cruelty. On 19 July, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that Israel’s 57 year old occupation of Palestine is illegal, and earlier this year, the same court recognised that there is a plausible case that Israel satisfies the criteria under international law of the crime of genocide. The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has applied for arrest warrants for the Hamas leaders, for Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Since October 7, forty thousand human beings including a confirmed minimum of 16,000 children have been murdered. Save the Children have warned that up to 21,000 children are estimated to be missing in the chaos of the 'war' in Gaza, many trapped beneath rubble, detained, buried in unmarked graves, or lost from their families. It is disgraceful and unfathomable that we even have to ask for the exclusion of the Israeli team while this unbearable slaughter is inflicted upon two million innocents. Don't Ride with Genocide, drop Israel- Premier Tech from the Peleton.