Campaign groups urge UK government to suspend all arms exports to Israel

A group of civil society organizations on Friday urged the British government to not unpause the current suspension of some 30 licenses, but to suspend all arms exports to Israel, Anadolu reports. A few days after Business Secretary Peter Kyle’s remarks, signaling that the government may unblock arms sales to Israel, campaign groups urged the government to not unpause arms export licenses to Israel, but rather to halt all arms exports. A joint statement by Campaign Against Arms Trade, Global Justice Now, Global Legal Action Network, International Centre of Justice for Palestinians, and War on Want, said they were “appalled” by the government’s movement toward unblocking arms licenses to Israel. “The Government’s position was already untenable, temporarily suspending approximately 30 […]