Ministers are under pressure from Tory MPs and peers to stop arming Israel after seven humanitarian workers were killed by an airstrike in Gaza.
Four Conservatives told the Guardian on Wednesday that the UK should stop exporting arms to Israel after its strike, which killed three British aid workers.
Their intervention comes after Peter Ricketts, a government national security adviser during David Cameron’s premiership, said the time had come to send a signal and stop exporting arms. David Jones, the Conservative MP for Clwyd West, said the Israeli strike on the aid convoy was “extraordinary”……more
