In his response to a question on whether the United Kingdom (UK) will follow the United States (US) after Biden-administration warned that it would withdraw weapons from Israel in the event of a major offensive in the city of Rafah, Gaza Strip, David Cameron said, “our defense exports to Israel are responsible for significantly less than 1% of their total”.
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Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, has made it clear that, Israel will go ahead with its ground military invasion of Rafah “with or without a deal”, so as to “achieve complete victory” over Hamas.
According to timesofisrael.com:
UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron describes Britain’s system and scale of arms exports to Israel as completely different from those of the United States, saying the sales it licenses are relatively small and policed by strict procedures.
Responding to a question on whether Britain will follow the US after the latter warned that it would withhold weapons from Israel in case of a major offensive in Rafah, Cameron says: “There’s a very fundamental difference between the US situation and the UK situation.”
“The US is a massive state supplier of weapons to Israel… We do not have a UK Government supply of weapons to Israel, we have a number of licenses, and I think our defense exports to Israel are responsible for significantly less than 1% of their total.”
