Israeli government representatives will not be invited to attend a London arms fair, a UK government spokesperson said on Friday, amid worsening diplomatic relations between Britain and Israel over Gaza.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can confirm that no Israeli government delegation will be invited to attend DSEI UK 2025,\u201d in September, said a defence ministry statement, referring to the Defence and Security Equipment International arms fair.<\/p>\n
Israeli defence companies will still be allowed to attend the biennial event. But Israel slammed the move taken against officials as \u201cdiscrimination\u201d.<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Keir Starmer\u2019s government has in recent months suspended arms export licences to Israel for use in Gaza, suspended trade talks with Israel and sanctioned two far-right Israeli ministers in protest at the conduct of the war.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Israeli government\u2019s decision to further escalate its military operation in Gaza is wrong,\u201d the UK government statement said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere must be a diplomatic solution to end this war now, with an immediate ceasefire, the return of the hostages and a surge in humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli government representatives will not be invited to attend a London arms fair, a UK government spokesperson said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,49075,132823,393,132824,36,2194,4884,835,837,58284,807,257,1477,13579,77498,812,16,15],"class_list":["post-382173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-britain","tag-copenhagen","tag-dsei-uk","tag-england","tag-excel-london-exhibition-centre","tag-france","tag-gaza","tag-great-britain","tag-hamas","tag-israel","tag-israeli-government","tag-keir-starmer","tag-london","tag-netherlands","tag-palestinian-state","tag-paris-air-show","tag-sweden","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115111538456583039","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382173","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=382173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}