“Much like the US, the UK has proved duplicitous, the only difference is that Washington has never pretended otherwise. Britain, by contrast, has been carefully managing its image, both at home and abroad, showing concern for international law and civilian lives while the weapons kept moving.”
“In this case, Israel is getting its weapons from the UK to kill and exterminate Palestinians, in what the UN now calls a genocide. Everyone responsible for that weapons transfer should be brought to justice, from the prime minister to the civil servants implicated in that transfer,” Prashar adds.
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Evidence of regular transfers
The evidence of regular transfers is now a matter of documented record.
A May 2025 report by the Palestinian Youth Movement, Workers for a Free Palestine and Progressive International found that the UK shipped over 160,000 items classified under international customs codes for arms and ammunition to Israel in the 18 months from October 2023 through March 2025, with no observable decrease in aircraft component shipments after the September 2024 suspension announcement.
In fact, a statistically significant increase was recorded in the months that followed.
Some of this continued flow is traceable to a deliberate government decision: when London suspended its 30 licences, it explicitly carved out F-35 components, creating a loophole that allowed military hardware to reach Israel indirectly through other countries in the Global Spares Pool.
“The F-35 is one of the main tools used by Israel in the extermination of the Palestinian population. Components, parts and resupply keep the plane flying. If the plane doesn’t fly, it doesn’t kill people,” Prashar says.
“It’s no different to the Nazis who fixed the gas chambers. Saying it’s not the actual bomb or missile doesn’t change that the parts allow the F-35 to complete its mission, which is extermination.
“If you are providing the instruments for the weapon to fulfill that purpose, you are as guilty as those pressing the button,” he adds.
Nevertheless, the transfers do not stop with what the UK claims is its only exception.
UK export licensing figures show that Britain approved licences worth $172.5 million in military equipment to Israel in the single quarter of October to December 2024; more than the total for 2020 to 2023 combined, covering military radars, targeting equipment and related components, all granted after the suspension announcement.
And as recently as June 2025, a Channel 4-verified report found that military goods worth $540,704 from the UK passed through Israeli customs in a single month, the highest figure since records began.
The picture that emerges is of a government that has used the language of restraint to manage domestic and international opinion, while preserving, through loopholes and reclassification, the substance of an arms relationship with a genocidal state it publicly claims to have curtailed.
Now it’s on Belgium, who have the evidence to take those individuals to court, Prashar argues.
“It’s not enough for Belgium to stop the transfer of military equipment or seize shipments. They are, in essence, still in breach of the original ICJ order, which instructed everyone to do everything they can to prevent this genocide.”
“This is a breach of Belgium’s sovereignty too. It’s saying to Belgium, ‘Your law doesn’t matter. We’re going to transfer through you.’ It’s a direct disregard for other partners and neighbours in Europe,” he adds.
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