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Government has ‘no plans’ to stop arms sales to Israel despite civilian deaths (www.opendemocracy.net)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by 0x815@feddit.de to c/unitedkingdom

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The Department of Business and Trade said it would suspend and review its export licences for arms to Israel in light of the reported civilian killings. It said the licences were “under continual review” but there were “no immediate plans to stop arms export licences to Israel”.

Emily Apple, media coordinator for the Campaign Against the Arm Trade, said: “It is disgusting that the Department for Business and Trade is refusing to suspend and review arms licences to Israel given the mounting evidence of war crimes committed by Israel in Gaza.

"UK industry is responsible for 15% of the components used in the F35 stealth combat aircraft that are being used in airstrikes, and the UK is therefore complicit in war crimes committed by the Israeli government," Apple added.

Francesca Albanese, the UN’s special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, warned last week that “Palestinians are in grave danger of mass ethnic cleansing”.

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[–] Afghaniscran 8 points 1 year ago

Sound about right for the money grabbing Tory cunts.

[–] Blackmist 2 points 1 year ago

I mean we kept selling them to Saudi Arabia so they could kill Yemeni children.

Don't see why we'd stop over this.

[–] ThePyroPython 1 points 1 year ago

So about the arms trade...