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UK ‘morally incoherent’ for sending arms to Israel and aid to Gaza, says Oxfam chief
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Nevertheless, UK ministers have rejected calls to suspend arms exports to Israel, prompting a legal challenge, in which Oxfam was on Thursday granted permission to formally intervene.
In an interview with the Guardian, Halima Begum, who took over as Oxfam GB chief executive in April and recently returned from a work trip to Israel and the occupied West Bank, said the UK’s stance does not make sense.
Despite being unable to enter Gaza because of the assault on Rafah, Begum said she was left “shell shocked” after hearing first-hand accounts of the humanitarian crisis from Palestinian colleagues evacuated from the territory.
The former ActionAid CEO said that she visited Islam’s third holiest site, the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, during her trip, and prayed there for the people in Gaza and the Israeli hostages, 120 of whom are still being held in the Palestinian territory, although at least 40 of those are believed to be dead.
Ronald Reagan suspended shipments of cluster munitions in July 1982 and he was reportedly so shocked by images of dismembered Palestinian children in a bombardment on 12 August that he warned Israeli PM Menachem Begin “our entire future relations are at stake if this continues”.
The judicial review against arms sales to Israel is being brought by the Palestinian human rights organisation Al-Haq and the UK-based Global Legal Action Network (Glan).
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