John Chapman, 57, James 'Jim' Henderson, 33, and James Kirby, 47, were working for a charity's security team when they were killed by an Israeli air strike on Monday.
Rishi Sunak today swerved growing calls for Britain to suspend arms sales to Israel amid outrage at the deaths of three British veterans in Gaza.
Asked about those calls in an interview with The Sun, the PM stressed Britain would continue to follow its 'careful export licensing regime'. Rishi Sunak, in an interview with The Sun, swerved growing calls for Britain to suspend arms sales to Israel amid outrage at the deaths of three British veterans in Gaza
Mr Chapman, Mr Henderson and Mr Kirby were all former members of Britain's Armed Forces, with their deaths described as a 'grave mistake' by Israel. Asked about growing calls for Britain to stop selling arms to Israel, Mr Sunak replied: 'I think we've always had a very careful export licensing regime that we adhere to.
Alistair Burt , a former Middle East minister, and Lord Peter Ricketts, a former national security adviser, both suggested Britain could now suspend arms sales to Israel Lord Ricketts suggested a suspension of UK arms sales to Israel could also encourage the US to take similar action. 'The Government must take swift action to suspend arms exports to Israel. We must redouble our efforts to secure an immediate bilateral ceasefire.'
'The UK is entitled to have some scepticism when it's told there will be an investigation and it should demand that, this time, there's a proper investigation with some degree of accountability,' he told BBC Radio 4's The World Tonight programme. Labour's shadow foreign secretary David Lammy said Britain should suspend arms sales to Israel if lawyers have found clear risk of serious breaches of international law.
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