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Human rights groups to sue UK government over Israel arms exports

Ministers have been accused of ignoring evidence that Israel has breached arms licence criteria by killing civilians

By Adam Bychawski
Human rights groups to sue UK government over Israel arms exports
A man walks through rubble in the residential area in the south-east of the Gaza strip | Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu via Getty Images
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The UK government is being taken to court over its refusal to stop selling weapons to Israel despite evidence of civilian killings, openDemocracy can reveal.

Palestinian human rights organisation Al Haq and UK-based Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) are suing the government because it has “repeatedly ignored” their claims that Israel has breached the UK’s criteria for licensing arms exports.

The groups said Israel has broken international law by killing more than 11,000 Palestinians since 7 October and forcing the deportation of more than a million more from northern Gaza.

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