Should the UK stop selling arms to Israel?
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🗓️ 4 April 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
They are among over 600 lawyers and academics who are signatories of a 17-page letter, which also urges ministers to work towards a ceasefire in Gaza and resume funding to the UNRWA aid agency.
It comes as civil servants overseeing arms exports could stop work over fears they may be complicit in war crimes.
On the Sky News Daily, Tom Cheshire asks Michael Mansfield KC, head of chambers at Nexus Chambers and former judge on the Russell Tribunal on Palestine, about why he has signed the letter.
Plus, our political correspondent Rob Powell details the current government's arms dealing with Israel and the response to calls to stop supplying weapons.
Senior producer: Annie Joyce
Interviews producer: Melissa Tutesigensi-Charles
Editor: Philly Beaumont
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| 1:01.3 | Hello, Tom Cheshire here on the Daily. And we're talking about the war in Gaza again. But today, the focus is on the UK and its supply of weapons to Israel. |
| 1:11.4 | The government's been warned to stop arms exports to the country, |
| 1:14.6 | and that comes in the wake of that attack on the aid convoy |
| 1:17.8 | where seven people were killed by the Israel Defence Forces. |
| 1:21.5 | Stopping arms sales to Israel is one of the demands of this letter to the Prime Minister. |
| 1:25.5 | It's been signed by hundreds of well-respected |
| 1:27.8 | lawyers, academics, and we'll be speaking to one of them later on the podcast. But first, |
| 1:33.0 | our political correspondent, Rob Powell, joins me. Looking at this letter, the demands in it, |
| 1:37.8 | you know, I was down at the Palestine Solidarity Campaign March covering that on Saturday. |
| 1:42.5 | The demand's pretty similar, you know, especially this call for an end to supplying Israel with weapons with arms. But this letter, I mean, |
| 1:50.1 | it feels like it's putting a lot of pressure on the Prime Minister, on all sorts of people. |
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