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LONDON (AP) — <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/queen-elizabeth-loved-one-thing-president-reagan-introduced-u-s-visit-book" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Britain’s</a> main opposition parties demanded Wednesday that the Conservative government publish legal advice it has received on whether Israel has broken international humanitarian law during the war in <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/six-months-families-us-hostages-gaza-stuck-ambiguous-trauma" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gaza</a>. They say the U.K. should ban weapons sales to Israel if the law has been broken.Britain is a staunch ally of Israel, but relations have been tested by the mounting death toll of the almost six-month war. Calls for an end to arms exports have escalated since an Israeli airstrike killed seven aid workers from World Central Kitchen, three of them British.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/london-worlds-most-antisemitic-city-says-israeli-minister" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LONDON IS THE ‘WORLD’S MOST ANTISEMITIC CITY,’ SAYS ISRAELI MINISTER</a><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/uk-lawmaker-on-londons-murder-surge-enough-is-enough" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Lammy</a>, foreign affairs spokesman for the main opposition Labour Party, said "there are very serious accusations that Israel has breached international law."He urged the government to "publish the legal advice now.""If it says there is a clear risk that U.K. arms might be used in a serious breach of international humanitarian law, it’s time to suspend the sale of those arms," Lammy told British broadcastersLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan, one of the country’s most senior Labour officials, said "I don’t understand any justification for not publishing the legal advice that they’ve got.""It’s important they publish that legal advice so that we can have confidence that the British government is following international law as well," Khan told reporters in London.Two smaller opposition parties, the centrist Liberal Democrats and secessionist Scottish National Party, called on the government to halt arms sales to Israel.Prime Minister Rishi Sunak did not commit to publishing the legal advice, but said the U.K. followed a strict "set of rules, regulations and procedures" over licensing arms exports."I have been consistently clear with Prime Minister (Benjamin) Netanyahu since the start of this conflict that while of course we defend Israel’s right to defend itself and its people against attacks from Hamas, they have to do that in accordance with international humanitarian law, protect civilian lives — and sadly too many civilians have already lost their lives," Sunak told The Sun newspaper’s politics podcast.

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title: The killing of aid workers adds to pressure on the UK government to halt arms
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content: LONDON (AP) — <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/queen-elizabeth-loved-one-thing-president-reagan-introduced-u-s-visit-book"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">Britain’s</a> main opposition parties demanded Wednesday
 that the Conservative government publish legal advice it has received on whether
 Israel has broken international humanitarian law during the war in <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/six-months-families-us-hostages-gaza-stuck-ambiguous-trauma"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gaza</a>. They say the U.K. should ban weapons sales
 to Israel if the law has been broken.Britain is a staunch ally of Israel,
 but relations have been tested by the mounting death toll of the almost six-month
 war. Calls for an end to arms exports have escalated since an Israeli airstrike
 killed seven aid workers from World Central Kitchen, three of them British.<a
 href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/london-worlds-most-antisemitic-city-says-israeli-minister"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">LONDON IS THE ‘WORLD’S MOST ANTISEMITIC CITY,’
 SAYS ISRAELI MINISTER</a><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/uk-lawmaker-on-londons-murder-surge-enough-is-enough"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Lammy</a>, foreign affairs spokesman for the
 main opposition Labour Party, said "there are very serious accusations that Israel
 has breached international law."He urged the government to "publish the legal
 advice now.""If it says there is a clear risk that U.K. arms might be used
 in a serious breach of international humanitarian law, it’s time to suspend the
 sale of those arms," Lammy told British broadcastersLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan,
 one of the country’s most senior Labour officials, said "I don’t understand any
 justification for not publishing the legal advice that they’ve got.""It’s
 important they publish that legal advice so that we can have confidence that the
 British government is following international law as well," Khan told reporters
 in London.Two smaller opposition parties, the centrist Liberal Democrats
 and secessionist Scottish National Party, called on the government to halt arms
 sales to Israel.Prime Minister Rishi Sunak did not commit to publishing the
 legal advice, but said the U.K. followed a strict "set of rules, regulations and
 procedures" over licensing arms exports."I have been consistently clear with
 Prime Minister (Benjamin) Netanyahu since the start of this conflict that while
 of course we defend Israel’s right to defend itself and its people against attacks
 from Hamas, they have to do that in accordance with international humanitarian law,
 protect civilian lives — and sadly too many civilians have already lost their lives,"
 Sunak told The Sun newspaper’s politics podcast.
summary: Opposition parties have demanded that the U.K. government publish legal advice
 it received as to whether Israel has broken &apos;international humanitarian law&apos;
 in the Israel-Hamas war.
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