The move means London will lose access to a database of some 26,000 verified violations by West Jerusalem, The Guardian has reported
The British Foreign Office has closed a special unit that had been keeping a record of breaches of international law by Israel in the Gaza Strip, The Guardian has reported.
The shutdown happened despite UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper saying in a speech earlier in April that support for international law is a “core British value” and that it would be the focus of the department under her leadership.
The termination of the operations of the International Humanitarian Law (IHL) cell also means that funding will be cut for the Conflict and Security Monitoring Project run by the Center for Information Resilience (CIR), The Guardian said in an article on Thursday.
British officials have been warned that because of this, the Foreign Office will lose access to a database of 26,000 verified violations by Israel put together by the Conflict and Security Monitoring Project, the report read.
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