United Kingdom Bars Israeli officials of the Defense Fair in London, citing the climb of the Gaza War

London – The United Kingdom Government has prohibited Israeli officials from attending an important arms trade conference in London in the midst of criticism generalized by the escalation of the War in Gaza. The Ministry of Defense of Great Britain confirmed to News themezone that the representatives of the Israel Ministry of Defense had not been invited to the International Conference on Security and Defense Equipment (DSEI), which is held in London every two years.

“The decision of the Israeli government to further increase its military operation in Gaza is wrong. As a result, we can confirm that the Israeli government delegation will not be invited to attend DSEI UK 2025,” said a spokesman for the United Kingdom government in a statement.

However, members of the Israeli defense industry, including the UK subsidiaries of Israeli defense companies, are still allowed to attend the conference that begins on Saturday.

In response to the decision, a spokesman for the Israeli Ministry of Defense said in a statement: “At a time when Israel is involved in multiple fronts against Islamist extremists and terrorist organizations, forces that also threaten the western and international shipping lanes, this decision of the extremes of the extremist industry, extremist exams, and presents an exhibition of the extremist industry.

The DSEI is a commercial fair that attracts representatives of several governments and private defense companies that produce weapons and other military teams.

The British prime minister, Keir Starmer, has applied an increasing pressure on the government of his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, for the management of the current war in Gaza.

In a speech on July 29, Starmer announced that the United Kingdom would move to recognize a Palestinian state unless Israel ended what he called the “frightful situation” in the Palestinian territory.

On August 8, Starmer again criticized the management of the conflict over the management of the Netanyahu conflict by saying that the decision to expand war to the city of Gaza, which happened on Friday with the beginning of a new Israeli offensive to take the decimated metropolis, “not do anything to put an end to this conflict” and “just bring more blood.”

The decision to prohibit Israeli officials from the Fair for only a couple of months after the authorities in France Sealing of the Cabinas of five Israeli defense firms In Paris Air Show in June. The stands had shown “offensive weapons” that could be used in Gaza, in violation of the agreements with the Israeli authorities, said a source from the French government to the News at that time.

The Israeli president, Isaac Herzog, said he was shocked by the “scandalous” closure of the pavilions in Paris and asked that the situation be “corrected immediately.”

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