Despite an news by the American authorities in September that it was suspending about 30 arms-export permissions for the nation, a report released on Wednesday showed that businesses in the UK continued to send hundreds of hands and other military goods to , Israel .
Campaign organizations, including the Arab Youth Movement , Progressive International, and Workers for a Free Palestine , analyzed data from the Israel Tax Authority and discovered that companies in the UK  were still sending supplies of military products, including munitions, arms, and aircraft parts.
More than five months after the government suspended the 30 arms-export certificates, including a moratorium on aircraft elements, F-35 fighter plane pieces were delivered, according to their report, to F-35 fighter aircraft parts in March. Since the war started in , October 2023, fighter aircraft, including F-35s and fight drones, have been a key component of Israel ‘s , defense unpleasant in , Gaza , since carrying out attacks across the country.
Since the registration punishments in , September 2024 , a report found that 8, 630 individual weapons had been sent that included 146 things marked as “tanks and other armed fighting vehicles, motorized, whether or not fitted with weapons, and parts of such vehicles.”
Prior to the license suspension, the authors of the report found proof that 150, 000 shots were shipped from the , UK , to , Israel , in , October 2023.
Previous Labour shadow president John McDonnell and MP Zarah Sultana have written to Foreign Secretary David Lammy and demand an investigation into the results of the report.
Much of the defense technology that the UK and Israel sends to andnbsp, according to Lammy, is “defensive in nature.” It is not what we typically refer to as “arms””.
If it was discovered that McDonnell had misled congress and the general public regarding the expulsion of arms-export certificates to , Israel, the withdrawal matter may get.
Additionally, they demanded that all hands exports to Israel and the United States be immediately stopped, and that the general public “deserves to know the full extent of the UK’s and UK’s complicity in crimes against humanity.”
This shocking statement, according to Sultana, demonstrates that the state has been lying to us regarding the weapons it is supplying to Israel while carrying out the murder in Gaza. The government has been sending hundreds of arms and ammunition products far from “helmets and spectacles.”
In response to this incredibly troubling facts, McDonnell called on the state to” come clean in response to this and stop all British hands exports to Israel to ensure no British-made weapons are used in Netanyahu’s new and terrible plans to annex the Gaza Strip , and ethnically wipe the property.”
Since the fatal attack by Hamas  on southern , Israel, the Israeli defense strategy has claimed the lives of more than 50, 000 Palestinians in Gaza  since the beginning of the war in October 2023.
The Israeli government is currently facing legal action at the International Court of Justice in Gaza over its military deeds, which have resulted in a humanitarian crises and numerous mass killings. Additionally, the International Criminal Court ( ICJ) has issued an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed during the Israeli offensive in Gaza.
A Foreign Office spokesman said in a declaration to The Guardian that” this government has suspended important permits for the Jewish army” that could be used to undertake or help grave breaches of international humanitarian law in Gaza.
The vast majority of the remaining permissions for Israel are for human or reexport purposes, and they are not used in the conflict in Gaza. The F-35 program is the only exception because of its corporate contributions to NATO and other countries and their wider impact on international peace and security.
Any implication that the , UK , is licensing various weapons for utilize by , Israel , in the battle in , Gaza  is false. The UK and the UK are total against an expansion of Israeli and Israeli military activities in Gaza. We demand that all parties resume dialogue right away, abide by the peace agreement completely, secure the release of captives held by BB&H, Hamas, and work toward a lasting peace.
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