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How Israel’s arms industry is integrated into Britain’s military
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Elbit has an MoD contract to provide a simulation trainer for Challenger 3 tanks (Photo: Stephen Bardens / Alamy)
Ed Miliband’s decision to leave the military relationship with Israel intact raises serious concerns about Britain’s compliance with international law.
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Genocide scholar Martin Shaw told Declassified: “The government’s acceptance that the occupation is illegal means that it should act against Israel itself, not just the settlers it has installed.
“The ICJ was clear that states must do nothing that provides ‘aid or assistance’ to Israel in maintaining the occupation, and must ‘ensure that any impediment’ that the occupation causes to the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination ‘is brought to an end’.
“Through the UK’s military alliance with Israel and its comprehensive military-industrial cooperation, Labour still appears to be failing in these legal duties, despite Miliband’s announcements”.
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Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights, told Declassified: “This important investigation exposes precisely why the UK government’s recent measures are largely performative and designed to whitewash the multifaceted, shameless complicity of the UK with Israel’s regime of settler-colonialism, illegal occupation, apartheid and genocide.
“The UK has failed to end the economic relationships, trade agreements and academic relations with Israel that may contribute to its unlawful presence and apartheid regime in the occupied Palestinian territory, as it is obliged to do in order to comply with the ICJ ruling.
“It is absurd for the UK to sanction settlements while simultaneously purchasing and integrating Israeli surveillance and weapon systems that are field-tested on Palestinians into its own armed forces.
“Comparing these largely symbolic measures with the far-reaching sanctions imposed by the UK on Russia after its invasion of Ukraine affirms the UK’s colonial hypocrisy and loss of credibility on the international stage”.
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In addition to military collaboration, Britain’s intelligence relationship with Israel will be untouched, according to Miliband, and there are no signs that either the 2020 UK-Israel military cooperation agreement, nor the 2023 Road Map for UK-Israel bilateral relations will be suspended.
In response to Britain’s sanctions, Israel has said it will close the British consulate in East Jerusalem, remove UK representatives from the International Gaza Support Centre in Kiryat Gat, and terminate Britain’s role in training Palestinian Authority forces in the West Bank.
Omar Barghouti added: “The UK has very clear obligations under international law, as triggered by the ICJ decisions of 2024 about Israel’s plausible genocide and its illegal occupation and apartheid.
“The UK must end all military, intelligence, trade, financial, academic and other relations with Israel that enable its illegal occupation, apartheid or genocide, as the ICJ has called for”.
See the original article at https://www.declassifieduk.org/how-israels-arms-industry-is-integrated-into-britains-military/
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham admits to blatently lying and engaging in deception to become leader of the UK Labour Party and Prime Minister.
Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel. New Labour UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham continues Labour party policy of active support and complicity in Israel’s genocide.
Genocide denier and Current UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is quoted that he supports Zionism without qualification. He also confirms that UK air force support has been essential in Israel’s mass-murdering genocide. Includes URLs https://www.declassifieduk.org/keir-starmers-100-spy-flights-over-gaza-in-support-of-israel/ and https://youtu.be/O74hZCKKdpA
13 September 2026
Israel blows up school, destroys tunnels in southern Lebanon despite framework agreement
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Lebanese Civil Defense and fire crews respond as local residents inspect the site in the town of Kfar Shouba in the Nabatieh Governorate of southern Lebanon following an incursion and subsequent withdrawal by Israeli forces, on September 10, 2026. [Ramiz Dallah – Anadolu Agency]
The Israeli army carried out a series of explosions and shelling in southern Lebanon early Friday, including demolishing part of a school, despite the US-mediated framework agreement, Anadolu reports.
The escalation comes as Israel’s election campaign intensifies, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seeking to rally and unite his right-wing bloc ahead of the Oct. 27 elections.
“Israeli forces blew up most of the public school in the town of Mansouri in Tyre district, leaving only a small part of the building standing,” Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) said.
Israeli aircraft also launched a strike on Mansouri at the same time as the large explosion at the school, the agency added.
At dawn, the Israeli army detonated explosives on the hill of Baraachit in Bint Jbeil district, coinciding with artillery shelling that targeted Wadi al-Hujair.
On Thursday evening, the Israeli army carried out a powerful explosion in the Ali al-Taher heights, causing ground tremors. It claimed the blast targeted a tunnel network and Hezbollah infrastructure extending more than 1.2 miles (2 kilometers).
Israeli Army Radio military correspondent Doron Kadosh said Israeli forces that had entered the Ali al-Taher heights had withdrawn and were stationed behind the front lines in the Beaufort Castle area.
In a post on the US social media company X on Friday, Kadosh claimed that the Israeli army had given fighters in the area a chance to surrender, but they refused, and that nearly 50 fighters were killed as Israeli forces prepared to withdraw and remotely control the hilltop.
READ: Israeli attacks damage 22.5% of agricultural land in southern Lebanon
He further claimed that Israeli forces intercepted supply shipments that Hezbollah tried to send to the fighters by drones.
Kadosh said the Israeli army destroyed the tunnels using 1,100 tons of explosives.
He quoted a senior Israeli officer who led the operation, without naming him, as saying it was “one of the most complex operations carried out by the army in recent years.”
On Thursday, Netanyahu claimed that Israel had destroyed what he described as “the largest Iranian site outside Iran,” referring to the Ali al-Taher tunnels.
The Ali al-Taher hill is located between the towns of Kfar Tibnit and Nabatieh al-Fawqa, north of the Litani River. It rises around 1,970 feet (600 meters) above sea level, giving it strategic importance as it overlooks wide areas of southern Lebanon.
Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon have continued despite a “framework formula” signed by Beirut and Tel Aviv on June 26, which provides for a gradual Israeli withdrawal from occupied territory in return for the deployment of the Lebanese army in those areas.
Israel occupies areas in southern Lebanon, some of them for decades and others since the war between 2023 and 2024, while expanding its presence inside Lebanese territory during its ongoing assault.
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13 September 2026
Israeli occupiers attack Palestinian homes, injure family, steal sheep in Nablus
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Israeli forces look over a Palestinian Shepherd and his flock of sheep [Days of Palestine/Twitter]
Israeli occupiers on Friday injured a Palestinian man and his children in an attack on their home in Beita, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, local sources and a rights group said, Anadolu reports.
Others also stole sheep from the town under the protection of Israeli forces, the sources said.
The occupiers assaulted the Palestinian man and his children, injuring them, Al-Baydar Organization for the Defense of Human Rights said.
It did not specify the nature of their injuries or whether they were taken to hospital.
Earlier Friday, local sources told Anadolu that occupiers attacked Palestinian homes in the Al-Dhahra and Sahl al-Hara al-Tahta areas in Beita, before stealing several sheep.
READ: Israel advances plans for more than 1,000 settlement homes in central West Bank
Palestinians documented the theft in videos seen by Anadolu.
The attack comes amid rising occupier terrorism in the West Bank, including attacks on Palestinians and their property and the theft of livestock, under the protection of Israeli forces.
In August, Israeli occupiers carried out 628 attacks, concentrated in Ramallah and Al-Bireh with 157 attacks, Nablus 137, Hebron 120, Bethlehem 73, Tubas 40, Jenin 36 and Jerusalem 31, according to official Palestinian data.
UN rapporteurs have warned that the sharp rise in occupier terrorism, supported and enabled by the Israeli state in the occupied territory, poses an existential threat to Palestinian communities.
Around 750,000 occupiers live in 194 illegal settlements and 400 settlement outposts across the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. They carry out near-daily attacks aimed at forcibly displacing Palestinians from their land.
READ: Israeli army arrests 33 Palestinians in occupied West Bank, including 2 journalists
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Donald Trump calls for help from NATO allies in securing the Strait of Hormuz despite saying on 7 March 2026 that they don’t need people to join wars after they’ve already won. He’s challenged with the claim that he lies as much as the IDF.
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13 September 2026
At least 46,000 displaced as fighting escalates in Yemen: UN migration agency
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Yemeni refugees are seen as they are living under miserable conditions at makeshift tents during cold weather in Taiz, Yemen on 20 November 2021. [Abdulnasser Alseddik – Anadolu Agency]
At least 46,000 people have been displaced in Yemen since fighting escalated last week, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Friday, warning that the figure is rising “by the hour,” Anadolu reports.
The UN agency called on all parties to the conflict to guarantee safe humanitarian access and protect civilians, aid workers and humanitarian assets on the ground.
“Families are being forced to flee for the second or third time in this conflict, with almost nothing left,” IOM Director General Amy Pope said in a statement.
“As fighting spreads, reaching people with lifesaving assistance is becoming harder. We urgently need safe, unimpeded access,” she added.
Pope urged all parties to protect civilians and humanitarian personnel, as well as the supplies, vehicles and facilities used to deliver aid.
The displacement figure covers Yemen’s western coast and Taiz province as of Thursday and continues to rise, according to the agency.
Large numbers of people were reportedly seen leaving the strategic port city of Mokha overnight, carrying their belongings.
The IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix team is working to compile updated figures to guide the humanitarian response, but widespread telecommunications disruptions have made communication with affected areas extremely difficult.
READ: Saudi aircraft carry out 40 airstrikes in Yemen: Report
New arrivals have been reported in the southern provinces of Lahj and Aden, while others are reportedly moving north toward Ibb province.
Entire villages in Maqbanah, Jabal Habashi and Al-Ma’afer have reportedly been emptied as clashes moved closer to populated areas, the agency said.
The Mokha–Taiz road, a key supply route, has also reportedly been cut off, placing additional pressure on host communities receiving displaced families.
The IOM said it had been assisting displaced people through its shelter, land and property teams, Camp Coordination and Camp Management operations, and other field units since the beginning of the conflict.
However, all operational movements were temporarily suspended Friday because of the “deteriorating security environment.”
The agency urged the warring parties to guarantee safe and sustained humanitarian access, protect aid workers, facilities and assets nationwide, and restore communications and transport routes needed to deliver assistance.
Emergency supplies have already been depleted by the response to last month’s floods, while the most urgent needs include shelter, food, water, household items, healthcare and protection services, according to the IOM.
READ: Houthis seize Mokha as Yemen’s presidential council calls for international action
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Donald Trump calls for help from NATO allies in securing the Strait of Hormuz despite saying on 7 March 2026 that they don’t need people to join wars after they’ve already won. He’s challenged with the claim that he lies as much as the IDF.
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13 September 2026
EU foreign policy chief backs ‘principled’ trade ban on illegal Israeli settlements
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Kaja Kallas, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy speaks during a press conference on September 02, 2026. [Mostafa Darwish – Anadolu Agency]
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has backed a bloc-wide ban on trade with illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, calling it a justified “principled stance,” Anadolu reports.
In an interview with The Irish Times on Thursday, Kallas said there was broad agreement among EU foreign ministers that expanding Israeli settlements violated international law.
“When Crimea was occupied, then it was very clear — it’s illegal, we don’t recognize this,” she said. “We should have the same principled stance — you know this is illegal, everybody agrees, so we should stop trading with Occupied (Palestinian) Territories.”
Kallas said an EU ban on imports from Israeli settlements would not require the unanimous backing of all 27 member states.
As the proposed ban could be introduced as a trade measure rather than a foreign policy decision, it would require a qualified majority of at least 15 member states representing roughly two-thirds of the bloc’s population.
READ: EU rejects any attempt at demographic, territorial changes in Gaza
The EU has previously struggled to approve sanctions against Israel because foreign policy measures require unanimity.
Kallas said the European Commission was under “very clear” pressure from national governments to propose a settlement trade ban and that EU foreign ministers were waiting for the bloc’s executive body to act.
Although the volume of trade originating from Israeli settlements was limited, a ban would deliver an important symbolic message, she added.
Kallas acknowledged that member states had differing positions on relations with Israel and said there were “pros and cons” to acting before Israel’s parliamentary elections in late October.
She added that EU members agreed on supporting a two-state solution and ensuring that humanitarian aid reached Palestinians without being politicized.
READ: 11 European countries plus Canada vow restrictions on trade with illegal Israeli settlements
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Donald Trump calls for help from NATO allies in securing the Strait of Hormuz despite saying on 7 March 2026 that they don’t need people to join wars after they’ve already won. He’s challenged with the claim that he lies as much as the IDF.
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham admits to blatently lying and engaging in deception to become leader of the UK Labour Party and Prime Minister.
Orcas discuss rotting brain, front Orca says Sundown Syndrome is a dead givaway and he wishes someone would Lock Him Up
13 September 2026

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