The UK government is complicit in Israel's continuing violations of human rights and international law.

The deadly trade of arms is facilitated not only by the UK government; UK banks and financial institutions participate in Israel’s militarised repression by holding shares in companies that export military technology and weapons to Israel, and by providing and facilitating loans to companies producing such military technology and weapons.

UK banks and financial institutions hold billions of pounds worth of shares in companies that sell weapons, military equipment and technology to Israel.

Banks like HSBC, with high street branches across the UK, are key players in the UK-Israel arms trade by providing financial services to companies that allow for these deadly arms sales. Far from being the removed outsiders that they claim to be, UK high street banks are profiting from the UK-Israel arms trade.

We can’t allow banks on our high streets to continue lending support to Israel’s militarised repression of Palestinians.

Seven years on from Israel’s last major attack on the Gaza Strip in 2014, Israel’s oppression of the Palestinian people continues. Gaza remains besieged, whilst further annexation of the West Bank is a looming threat. Israel’s actions are possible because of the complicity of governments and corporations around the world, including the UK.

Israel uses military force to maintain its oppression of Palestinians. It targets people with tear gas grenades, rubber-coated bullets and live ammunition, and carries out mass arrests, house demolitions and extrajudicial executions. This brutality lies at the heart of Israel’s systematic violations of Palestinian rights, amounting to serious breaches of international law, and even war crimes.

Despite these systemic violations of human rights, the UK government continues to approve exports of UK-made weapons and military technologies that are sold to and used by Israel.

Help us increase the pressure on the UK government to end its arms trade with Israel and its complicity in Israel’s occupation and war crimes by signing this petition!