With the government going to great lengths to hide or downplay their support, I thought it would be useful to set out 10 ways the governing elite has backed Israel’s genocide in Gaza. “Britain stands with you,” Prime Minister Sunak said to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he travelled to Israel in October 2023. Under public pressure, the Starmer government suspended 30 of the 350 existing arms export licences to Israel in September 2024. However, the report found direct shipments of F-35 parts from Britain to Israel were ongoing as of March 2025. In October 2023, the UN general assembly adopted a motion for an “immediate, durable and sustainable humanitarian truce” in Gaza.