{"id":226326,"date":"2025-06-30T09:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T09:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/226326\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T09:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T09:55:10","slug":"uks-sale-of-f-35-fighter-jet-parts-to-israel-is-lawful-high-court-rules-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/226326\/","title":{"rendered":"UK\u2019s sale of F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel is lawful, high court rules | UK news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Britain\u2019s decision to allow the export of F-35 fighter jet components to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/israel\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Israel<\/a>, despite accepting they could be used in breach of international humanitarian law in Gaza, was lawful, London\u2019s high court ruled on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Al-Haq, a human rights group based in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, took legal action against Britain\u2019s Department for Business and Trade over its decision to exempt F-35 parts when it suspended some arms export licences last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">The UK had assessed that Israel was not committed to complying with international humanitarian law, in relation to humanitarian access and the treatment of detainees, as the basis for its decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">But Britain decided to \u201ccarve out\u201d F-35 licences, with the government saying suspending those licences would disrupt a global programme that supplies parts for the aircraft, with a knock-on impact on international security.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Any such disruption would \u201cundermine US confidence in the UK and Nato\u201d, the Ministry of Defence said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Al-Haq argued at a hearing last month that the decision was unlawful as it was in breach of Britain\u2019s obligations under international law, including the Geneva conventions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">But the high court dismissed the group\u2019s challenge in a written ruling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">More details soon \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s decision to allow the export of F-35 fighter jet components to Israel, despite accepting they could be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-226326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114771717201916445","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}