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Yesterday’s announcement by Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, that 30 arms export licenses to Israel will be suspended, does not go far enough. The Foreign Secretary has finally accepted that there is a clear risk that UK arms exports might be used to commit serious violations of international law, and this is testament to all those

The Danish news outlet Information, together with NGO Danwatch, revealed today that, for the first time, it has been possible to definitively confirm the use by Israel of an F-35 stealth fighter to carry out a specific attack in Gaza. The UK arms industry produces 15% of every F-35 made, including Israel’s 39 aircraft.

50 days of inexcusable delays. 50 days of complicity. 50 days of impunity for Israel’s crimes.  On Labour’s 50th day in office, our organisations condemn the government’s failure to suspend export licences for arms transfers to Israel. Every day that this government fails to take action, the UK is materially and

The government must clarify its position on issuing new arms export licences to Israel. This failure to clearly articulate the current status of the UK’s arms export licencing regime compounds impunity for Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, and is against the public interest. 

The UK government’s delay in making a decision on whether to stop arms exports to Israel is unconscionable. It is at total odds with Britain’s clear moral and legal responsibility not to render aid and assistance to Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip, its unlawful military occupation of the West Bank including East

This is clearly an attempt to repress and deter protests against arms companies - but this is an attempt that will fail.

This government pretended Rafah was a red line. This was a sickening lie.

Israel's invasion of Rafah is yet another escalation of a 7-month genocide. Western governments, including the UK, must stop making excuses and impose an arms embargo now.