Ministers have rejected calls to suspend arms exports to Israel despite objections from campaign groups
have been issued by the UK government between the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October and 31 May, according to government figures.
Numerous international bodies and UK campaign groups have asserted Israel’s use of military equipment in, leading to the deaths of thousands of Palestinians, risk breaching international humanitarian law, the UK’s legal criteria for deciding if arms exports licences should be suspended. UK arms sales are dwarfed by US arms sales. The US president, Joe Biden, has accepted that some of Israel’s military action is indiscriminate, but has said the Israeli offensive on Rafah has shown greater restraint than some of its previous actions.
The move came as Britain’s two premier human rights organisations, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, said they were seeking to join a claim for judicial review about arms sales that has been launched by Global Legal Action Network and Al-Haq, a Palestinian human rights group.
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