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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
David Lammy falsely claimed that the UK is not exporting military equipment for use by Israel in Gaza, ignoring the F-35 components the government has specifically chosen to continue supplying, as an exception to the UK's export control criteria.
We cannot rely on our institutions to uphold international law, we can only rely on ourselves and the power we have to create change.
Israel’s military attacks on Lebanon reinforce the urgent need for UK to halt all arms transfers to Israel Israel has killed almost 2000 people in Lebanon, and displaced 1/5 of the population. Some of Israel’s attacks may amount to war crimes – and the UK is still supplying Israel with weapons. We are joining 9
The announcement on 2nd September 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
This government likes to claim we have a robust arms export licensing system. This claim is now in tatters.
This government is trying to derail this case because it is complicit in genocide and it knows it.
The UK government treats Palestinian lives with utter contempt, ignoring overwhelming evidence in favour of preserving the profits of arms dealers.
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