Great Britain is suspending all licenses for the sale of goods to Israel through Bath of Possibility and Vikoristannaya in the Gaza Strip From violations of international law. Jerusalem is “deeply disappointed” with such decisions.
RBC-Ukraine reports this via Sky News and The Times of Israel.
Britain's decision
Britain's Foreign Affairs Minister David Lemmy said: that the British government praised the decision to completely sell the stock to Israel after the review of export licenses, which revealed a “clear risk” that they could be violated by international law.
“Faced with such a conflict as this (the war in the Gaza Strip – ed.), there are a number of demands to reconsider British export licenses. It’s not a complete fence, it’s not an embargo on exports,” he said.
According to Lemmy, there are approximately 30 out of 350 licenses.
It is clear that Britain will not immediately supply Israel with export licenses, rather than give British companies export licenses ї sales.
Reaction Israel
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said he was “deeply disappointed” by Britain's decision to slow down sales of his country's military equipment.
“This is true at a time when we are fighting a war on seven different fronts – a war that was provoked by a wild terrorist organization. At a time when we mourn the six guarantors who Hamas coldly slaughtered in the tunnels of Gazia. At a time when we struggling for those to turn 101 guards home,” he said.
Also, reacting to the reduced licenses, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Territory Israel Katz noted that Israel is “disappointed by the low decisions taken British order”, including decisions regarding the export of defense products.
In his words, this document “strengthens the most problematic message” to Hamas and its patrons in Iran.
Guess what, the grass has a lot of mines istr of the Abroad of Great Britain, David Cameron stated that Britain would restrict the export of certain species to Israel so that the IDF could continue its large-scale invasion of the Rafah area near the southern part of the Sector Gaza.
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