BREAKING: Labour rules out suspending further arms exports to Israel as a 'mistake'

Israel and violent organisation Hezbollah person exchanged a volley of rockets pursuing amid the ongoing warfare successful Gaza wherever tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians person been killed

David Lammy has said it would beryllium a “mistake” to suspend each arms export licences to Israel, suggesting specified a determination would pb to “a wider war”.

The Foreign Secretary was asked by an assemblage subordinate astatine a fringe lawsuit astatine Labour league erstwhile the Government would instrumentality the measurement of introducing a afloat arms embargo, aft the authorities suspended immoderate exports to Israel. “We person suspended those licences that could beryllium utilized to breach planetary humanitarian instrumentality successful Gaza,” helium said.

“I don’t deliberation it would beryllium rather close to suspend licences, for example, that the Israelis could usage successful narration to the Houthis, that Israel whitethorn request to usage successful narration to the challenges it has with different proxies successful the area. I deliberation that would beryllium a mistake. It would pb to a wider warfare and an escalation that we present successful the UK are committed to stopping, truthful I’m acrophobic I disagree with that position.”

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