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UK suspends 8% of arms licences with Israel, but leaves other 92% in place

We wouldn't want to get carried away, would we?

Laura
Sep 02, 2024
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Foreign Secretary David Lammy has suspended 30 arms export licences with Israel, after establishing a risk of serious violations of international law. Thankfully, those violations would not be serious enough to suspend the other 320 arms export licences because doing so would land us in trouble with the US. Plus, Lammy didn't want to be called “Hamas” b…

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