More than 600 lawyers, academics and three former judges of the UK Supreme Court have warned that “Britain is violating international law by continuing to arm Israel.”

This came in a letter they sent to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

The signatories of the letter stressed that the current situation in the Gaza Strip is “catastrophic.”

They said in the introduction to the letter: “We are lawyers, legal academics and former members of the judiciary residing in Britain. We support the rule of law and the protection of basic rights, and we are deeply concerned about the catastrophe in the Gaza Strip.”

The letter stressed that “Britain is violating international law by continuing to arm Israel.”

She called on the Prime Minister to "work for a ceasefire and impose sanctions on individuals and organizations that make statements encouraging genocide against the Palestinians."

On Wednesday, the Hebrew Channel 13 said that the British Prime Minister informed his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, that London may be forced to declare Israel a “state violating” international humanitarian law, against the backdrop of the killing of 7 aid workers working within the “World Central Kitchen” organization in the Gaza Strip. Gaza.

The letter also called for Britain to resume providing support to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).

It is worth noting that the British government suspended its funding to the UN agency on January 27, along with a number of Western countries, against the backdrop of Israeli allegations that employees of the agency participated in the attack on settlements adjacent to the Gaza Strip on October 7.