Rights groups challenging the UK government over weapons sales to Israel are seeking a court order to halt all arms exports following the issuance of arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
In a letter sent on Monday, the Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq and the UK-based Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) warned the British government that it was “now arming suspected war criminals” who have been indicted by the world’s pre-eminent criminal court. The groups highlighted the ICC’s findings that there were reasonable grounds to believe Netanyahu and Gallant had committed crimes, including intentionally starving civilians in Gaza for at least eight months and preventing medical supplies from reaching the enclave, forcing doctors to operate without anaesthetics.