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The value of UK “single individual” arms export licences issued in 2024 (the latest full-year figures) increased by 86% to reach a record £9.2 billion, with Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, Qatar, and the United States being the top recipients. Campaigners decry the close relationship between the UK and American arms industries as evidenced in this new
CAAT condemns the US and Israel’s illegal war on Iran that began on 28th February, which is a flagrant violation of Article 2 of the UN Charter which prohibits the use of force against another state, except in self-defence or following authorisation by a UN Security Council resolution. Following the start of the war, our
UK government arms export licensing figures for the second quarter of 2025 show a surge in the value of licences for the UAE, despite the government knowing that the UAE has diverted UK military equipment to the genocidal RSF in Sudan.
CAAT welcomes the ceasefire in Gaza. An end, at least for now, to Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, and the release of Israeli and Palestinian hostages, is an enormous relief. However, no-one should imagine that this ceasefire represents an end to Israel's genocidal war in Gaza, still less to the decades-long occupation, apartheid, and dispossession of
The act of recognition of Palestine by the UK must be the start of a serious effort to end the genocide and pursue real, practical steps towards securing Palestinian freedom.
The UN Commission of Inquiry’s finding today doesn’t just confirm that David Lammy’s letter to Parliament last week was ‘wrong’ regarding Israel’s genocide. The true extent of UK Government complicity is far worse. In the letter, addressed to the Chair of the International
Campaign Against Arms Trade makes criminal complaint to War Crimes Unit at Met Police over individuals exhibiting at DSEI aiding and abetting Israel’s war crimes in Gaza CAAT has informed the War Crimes Unit at the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command (SO15), of the criminal liability held by a number of individuals for atrocity crimes currently taking
This government keeps insisting it is doing everything in its power to hold the Israeli government to account for its actions. This information shows this is an outrageous and offensive lie.
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