Health workers urge Keir Starmer to end UK arms sales to Israel

Dozens of UK-based doctors, nurses and medical professionals who worked in Gaza have called on Prime Minister Keir Starmer to halt arms sales to Israel.

In an open letter coordinated by the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP), the health workers warned Starmer and Foreign Secretary David Lammy that continuing arms sales could put the UK in violation of international law and said ending them is "morally as well as legally right".

“It is difficult for many of us to recount the scenes we witnessed in Gaza, not least of all in the knowledge that many of the injuries we treated may have resulted from the use of weapons systems and components supplied from Britain," the letter read.

The letter also noted that “with only marginal exceptions, everyone in Gaza is sick, injured or both”.

Citing domestic British law, international humanitarian law (IHL) and Britain’s own Strategic Export Licensing Criteria, the signatories stressed that it was imperative to halt the sales.

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