UK government faces legal challenge over arms exports to Israel

Al-Haq and Global Legal Action Network argue sales of British weapons could breach international law

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The high court has been urged to intervene and suspend UK arms sales to Israel in a legal challenge launched on Wednesday.

The Palestinian human rights organisation Al-Haq and the UK-based Global Legal Action Network (Glan) have applied for a judicial review of the government’s export licences for the sale of British weapons capable of being used in Israel’s action in Gaza, which has killed more than 16,000 people – mostly civilians – since 7 October, according to Gaza’s health authorities. Israel’s invasion of Gaza followed Hamas’s attack on southern Israel, in which it killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians.

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