PMQs: Rishi Sunak challenged on UK arming Israel amid Rafah offensive

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PMQs: Rishi Sunak challenged on UK arming Israel amid Rafah offensive
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THE UK will not stop sending arms to Israel amid an unfolding military incursion into Rafah in southern Gaza, the Prime Minister has insisted ...

THE UK will not stop sending arms to Israel amid an unfolding military incursion into Rafah in southern Gaza, the Prime Minister has insisted.

Flynn raised the issue at PMQs, and asked if the UK would follow the Americans’ lead and block arms shipments. Sunak further said that his Government is “deeply concerned about a full military incursion of Rafah given the devastating humanitarian impact”. “Knowing that and the devastation which is going to occur, surely the time has come to end our complicity and to halt our own sales to Israel.”Sunak responded: “Of course, we take our defence export responsibilities extremely seriously, and that's why we operate one of the most robust licensing control regimes anywhere in the world.

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