Ministers under growing pressure to act amid signs Israel intends to ignore UN ceasefire resolution
, amid signs that Israel intends to ignore the UN security council resolution passed this week calling on all sides to commit to a ceasefire.
Other signatories include the former Foreign Office permanent secretary John Kerr and the former Labour minister Tessa Blackstone. A total of 46 Labour MPs have backed the call and almost the entire SNP parliamentary party. A growing number of human rights and aid organisations have also called for arms licences to be suspended, including Oxfam, Save the Children, Christian Aid, Amnesty International and Islamic Relief.
Katie Fallon, the advocacy manager at Campaign Against the Arms Trade, claimed the government’s response to an arms sales ban had “ranged from stonewalling MPs, repeating meaningless answers, and most concerningly, going to great lengths to ensure that legal advice from the Foreign Office never definitively admits there is a ‘clear risk’ Israel might use these arms exports in a serious violation of international humanitarian law”.
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