UK government fails to engage with serious concerns over UK arms to Israel: joint letter

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Group of UK-based human rights and international law organisations, including War on Want, disappointed with UK government support for Israel’s unlawful attacks on Palestinians, Lebanon and Syria — and the UK government's failure to respond to written concerns.
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UK government fails to engage with our serious legal concerns joint letter

Given the overwhelming body of evidence indicating that Israel has been committing genocide and other serious violations of international law, amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity, notably; persecution, starvation, extermination, murder, the deliberate targeting of civilians, and the crime of aggression; we find it hard to reach any conclusion other than that the UK government knows that it has been breaching domestic and international law by transferring arms to Israel — in spite of the clear risks of UK involvement in such violations, and that it is being deliberately opaque.