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A British Foreign Office diplomat has resigned over the UK’s refusal to end arms exports to Israel, citing concerns that the country may be complicit in war crimes and international law violations in Gaza. Mark Smith, who worked as a second secretary in the UK embassy in Dublin,shared his resignation letter online, which stated that there is no “justification for the UK’s continued arms sales to Israel”, given the number of “clear and unquestionable examples of war crimes and breaches of international humanitarian law in Gaza” carried out by Israel “each day”. Smith said he had internally rais…

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