Lorna Slater said there is a ‘catastrophic’ humanitarian situation ongoing in the Gaza Strip.
The next UK Government must immediately halt arms exports to Israel, the Scottish Greens will say at an election event in Edinburgh.
Sir Keir Starmer has suggested legal advice on arms sales to Israel would be reviewed if Labour are in government. “The arms sales and political support the Tories have offered has actively fuelled and enabled the destruction, which has killed tens of thousands of people and led the International Court of Justice to open genocide investigations.
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