UK must impose sanctions on Israel to meet legal obligations, say more than 800 lawyers

LONDON / PNN /

The UK must impose sanctions on the Israeli government and its ministers and also consider suspending it from the UN to meet its “fundamental international legal obligations”, more than 800 lawyers, academics and retired senior judges, including former supreme court justices, have said.

In a letter to the prime minister, they welcomed Keir Starmer’s joint statement last week with the leaders of France and Canada warning that they were prepared to take…