A ban on British arms exports to Israel would empower Hamas, Cameron said

Ending British arms sales to Israel if it launches a ground attack on Rafah in the Gaza Strip would empower Hamas, British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said today. Israel ordered Palestinians to leave most of the city's neighborhoods yesterday, in a sign of escalating pressure for a ground attack, despite US President Joe Biden's threat to suspend the delivery of some US weapons systems in the event of Israeli aggression. attack. Cameron said he did not support a ground military operation in Rafah in the absence of a plan to protect the hundreds of thousands of civilians who have taken refuge in the southern Gaza city. However, Britain is in a “completely opposite position” to that of the US in relation to sending weapons to Israel, as he said, noting that less than 1% of the weapons in Israel's arsenal come from Britain are already controlled, by a strict […]
Source: News Beast

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