Article 6Q2VZ Israel perpetrating war crimes in plain sight in Gaza, says ex-UK diplomat

Israel perpetrating war crimes in plain sight in Gaza, says ex-UK diplomat

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Kiran Stacey Political correspondent
from World news | The Guardian on (#6Q2VZ)

Mark Smith, who quit Dublin embassy role, says he raised his concerns over weapons sales with foreign secretary

Israel is flagrantly and regularly" committing war crimes in Gaza, according to a former British diplomat who recently resigned over ministers' failure to ban arms sales to Benjamin Netanyahu's government.

Mark Smith, who resigned as a counter-terrorism official at the British embassy in Dublin after raising complaints about the sale of British weapons to Israel, told the BBC on Monday that he believed Israel to be in breach of international law.

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