Since 7 October several countries such as Italy, Japan, Spain, Canada, the Netherlands and Belgium have ceased the sale of weapons to Israel.[1][2] Key US allies such as Britain and France are debating it.[3] However the United States and Germany as the major suppliers of Israel's arms imports keep supplying lethal weapons in spite of growing criticism of the mounting civilian casualties.[1][2]
Campaign groups and some Western politicians insist that arms sales to Israel must stop because civilian lives have been lost during the Israeli-Hamas war, due to alleged Israeli atrocities and the humanitarian condition in Gaza strip.[4]
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