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Arms trade

August 2024

  • Aerial view of damaged buildings in Khan Younis

    Israel perpetrating war crimes in plain sight in Gaza, says ex-UK diplomat

    Mark Smith, who quit Dublin embassy role, says he raised his concerns over weapons sales with foreign secretary
  • Activists in front of the British consulate in East Jerusalem with large banner reading 'Stop arming genocide'

    Foreign Office official quits over UK refusal to ban arms exports to Israel

    Mark Smith says evidence of Gaza war crimes is clear, but that his complaints were brushed aside

    • US to resume sales of offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia

    • UK reportedly suspends arms export licence applications for Israel ‘pending review’

    • The UK’s arms sales to Israel are tiny – but here’s why Netanyahu’s government is panicking about a possible ban

      Azriel Bermant

July 2024

  • A man carries children next to rubble from destroyed buildings.

    UK delays decision on banning some arms sales to Israel amid Lebanon crisis

    Decision likely to be delayed several weeks, while charities say UK government is facilitating ‘decimation of Gaza’
  • A destroyer tank lies in front of a mosque in a decimated area of Omdurman, Sudan.

    ‘Smoking gun’ evidence points to UAE involvement in Sudan civil war

    Exclusive: Discovery of Emirati passports in wreckage suggest covert boots on the ground, despite Gulf state’s denials

    • Czech Republic says shells for Ukraine plan will fall short without more money

    • I call on Keir Starmer to suspend arms sales to Israel and end Britain’s complicity in the killing

      Zarah Sultana

    • US reportedly foiled Russian plot to kill boss of German arms firm supplying Ukraine

June 2024

  • Tory Hidden Legacy Yemen

    The Tories’ hidden legacies
    What is the Tories’ Middle East legacy? Quietly tying Britain to the Gulf states and the brutal war in Yemen

    David Wearing
  • An aerial view of debris of destroyed al-Bashir Mosque following the Israeli attacks in Hakar al-Jami area of Deir al-Balah, Gaza.

    Activists tell UK arms makers they may face criminal liability over sales to Israel

  • Israeli tanks form a circle on a sandy, dusty road, near to some trees. One tank in the foreground has an Israeli flag

    UK ‘morally incoherent’ for sending arms to Israel and aid to Gaza, says Oxfam chief

  • The final night of Vivid in Sydney Harbour

    Australia news live
    Minns ‘really sorry’ final Vivid drone show cancelled with 20 minutes notice – as it happened

  • Pope calls on G7 leaders to ban use of autonomous weapons

  • UK has issued 108 arms export licences to Israel since 7 October

  • More than 100 artists tell Starmer to halt arms sales to Israel if he becomes PM

May 2024

  • Badly damaged roof of World Central Kitchen vehicle

    New review by UK ministers again finds no reason to stop arms exports to Israel

    Latest three-month period to 24 April includes Israeli strike that killed three workers for British World Central Kitchen
  • A boy with cuts on his face and a distressed look on his face stands in front of a burned car and debris from the explosion at the camp

    Brief letters
    An arresting picture of a child in Rafah that should end the supply of arms to Israel

    Letters: This is no ‘tragic mishap’ | Votes and phones for teenagers | D-day and Dunkirk’s domination | On the hunt for Private Eye | One-word slogans
  • Andrew Mitchell

    Summary of advice that UK arms sales to Israel not unlawful to be released

    Andrew Mitchell preparing to share details of assessment that there is no clear risk in breaching international human law
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