Caabu has received a response from the Foreign Office on 20 August to a letter to the new Foreign Secretary David Lammy sent on 11 July. The letters are below.
Caabu has welcomed some of the actions the new British government has taken since the letter was sent including the restoration of funding to UNRWA and the decision not to submit observations to the International Criminal Court. However, the failure to impose an arms embargo on Israel not least after, as the Foreign Office admitted, strikes on 17 Palestinian schools in Gaza in July alone, is alarming. There should be no further delay in publishing the results of the review into whether Israel has violated international law, something which has been obvious and clear, even prior to last October. Actions against settlers and settler groups is also woefully insufficient given the violence perpetrated against Palestinians in the West Bank with the full cooperation of the Israeli army - this is particularly important given the ICJ's recent opinion on the legal consequences arising from the policies and practices of Israel in Occupied Palestinian Territory stating that no third country should assist or support the occupation in any way.
FCDO response:
Original Caabu letter:
