“The latest assessment leaves our position on export licenses unchanged. This is consistent with the advice that I and other ministers have received. As ever, we will keep the position under review,” Cameron said in a press conference alongside United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Washington.
The British government has faced growing calls to halt arms sales to Israel, including last week from London mayor Sadiq Khan. The calls were heightened after three British citizens were among the seven killed last week in an Israeli strike on a World Central Kitchen aid convoy in central Gaza.
Last week, three former senior UK judges joined more than 600 members of the British legal profession in calling for the government to halt arms sales to Israel, saying it could make Britain complicit in genocide in Gaza.
Cameron’s comments appear to be the latest rebuff of those demands. “The overall judgment is that those export licenses will remain open and continue,” he said. READ MORE
