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UK’s F-35 exports more important than stopping genocide, lawyers to argue

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High Court case will test whether ministers have broken the law by continuing to supply parts for the F-35 programme that may be used by Israel to attack Palestinians in Gaza .

The four-day case starts on Tuesday and has taken nearly a year to come to court.

It has been brought by Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq but supported by a raft of British human rights groups.

Defence Secretary John Healey said suspension would affect the whole F-35 programme’ Said suspension would have a profound impact on international peace and security’ Added that it would “undermine US confidence in the UK and Nato at a critical juncture in our collective history’.

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