This document charts how Britain continued to license and facilitate arms exports to Israel, including through the F-35 supply chain, even as courts, UN bodies and major human-rights groups warned of grave breaches and pointed to senior Israeli leaders’ rhetoric as evidence of genocidal intent.
Why did Britain’s arms licensing regime to Israel ignore the genocidal language by Israel’s leadership?
600 reported killed in Russian strike on Mariupol theatre, Ukraine
On 16 March 2022, a Russian airstrike hit the theatre in Mariupol, causing the roof and some of the exterior walls to collapse inwards.