UK Government lifts remaining restrictions on arms sales to Israel after year-long review

‘The Government has lifted any remaining restrictions on arms sales to Israel following a year-long review of 12 export licences for weaponry which it admitted may have been used in last year’s bombardment of Gaza.

Business Secretary Sajid Javid’s department said it was now satisfied that the licences for material including components for military radar and tanks meet the UK’s export criteria, which ban any sale of arms where there is a “clear risk” that they may be used to commit serious breaches of human rights.

The Coalition government was forced to review its weaponry sales to Israel during last summer’s Operation Protective Edge to halt Hamas rocket attacks, which cost more than 2,000 lives, including those of hundreds of Palestinian civilians.’

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