Responding to the news, Jamie Livingstone, Head of Oxfam Scotland, said: “The First Minister has drawn an important moral and legal line in the sand: Scotland will not be complicit in the starvation, bombardment and decades of illegal occupation being faced by Palestinians. Pausing new public funding to arms companies in Scotland implicated in this devastation is a vital act of solidarity. It must be implemented quickly and robustly.
“The UK Government must now follow Scotland’s lead and finally halt all arms sales to Israel and use every available lever to help stop the killing. Gaza is being turned into a graveyard before our eyes: history will ask if leaders did everything they could to stop it. The First Minister has committed to act; Westminster must do the same.”
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For more information and interviews, please contact: Rebecca Lozza, Media and Communications Adviser, Oxfam Scotland: rlozza1@oxfam.org.uk / 07917738450
