Overview

• More than 400 public figures have signed an open letter by refugee charity Choose Love, with recent additions including Dame Judi Dench, Malala Yousafzai and Ncuti Gatwa.
• The campaign demands suspension of all UK arms sales and licences to Israel, guaranteed humanitarian access to Gaza and a brokered permanent ceasefire.
• Government data reveal approval of £127.6m in military equipment licences to Israel between October and December 2024, exceeding totals from 2020 to 2023.
• On June 10, the UK and allies sanctioned far-right Israeli ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich for inciting violence against Palestinian civilians.
• Sir Keir Starmer has condemned Israeli strikes in Gaza as “appalling and intolerable” without labelling the conflict a genocide.