Govt announces suspension of 30 Israel arms licences
Foreign Secretary David Lammy tells MPs in the House of Commons that the UK will be suspending 30 out of 350 arms export licences to Israel. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Facing a conflict such as this, it is this government's legal duty to review export licences.
00:07Criteria 2C of the Strategic Export Licensing Criteria states that the government will not issue export licences
00:16if there is a clear risk that the items might be used to commit or facilitate serious violations of international humanitarian law.
00:27It is with regret that I inform the House today that the assessment I have received
00:34leaves me unable to conclude anything other than that for certain UK arms exports to Israel
00:42there does exist a clear risk that they might be used to commit or facilitate a serious violation of international humanitarian law.
00:53I have informed my right honourable friend the Business and Trade Secretary
00:57and he is therefore today announcing the suspension of around 30 from a total of approximately 350 to Israel
01:07as required under the Export Controls Act.
01:11These include equipment that we assess is for use in the current conflict in Gaza.