LONDON (Dispatches) -- Recently announced UK sanctions to block exports of weapons and other data-x-items that “materially contribute” to Israel’s occupation of Palestine have had no effect on the flow of arms to Israeli occupied territories, Declassified UK reported.
Earlier this month, Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announced new sanctions on Israel in response to its decision to issue tenders for more than 1,200 housing units in the illegal E1 settlement project in occupied East Al-Quds. 
Miliband’s new measures include a ban on trade with illegal Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories of the West Bank, as well as the rejection or cancellation of export licenses for “arms and other exports that materially contribute to the occupation.”
Miliband claimed the measures would result in a “double lock against arms sales” to Israel.
He also claimed they would go further than former UK prime minister Keir Starmer’s ban on 30 out of approximately 350 arms export licenses for Israel in 2024.
However, Declassified revealed that according to new information disclosed to Parliament, Miliband’s “measures have not resulted in any arms export licenses for Israel being canceled or blocked.”
The UK trade department acknowledged last week that “no additional licenses have been revoked or suspended since 8 September 2026.”
The terrorist Israeli regime owns an arms factory in Newcastle called Pearson Engineering.
The failure to halt or even reduce further the flow of weapons from the UK to Israeli occupied territories raises concerns that the “sanctions have not gone nearly far enough,” Declassified wrote.
“This appears to mean no concrete consequences for Israel after this government recognized the likelihood of war crimes, ethnic cleansing and what it terms Israeli terrorism,” stated Dearbhla Minogue, a lawyer from Global Legal Action Network.
Minogue said the government should acknowledge that Israel may be committing genocide in Gaza and do “everything in its power to prevent Israel from completing what it started.”
Declassified reported further that the UK continues to export arms used by the Israeli military to commit war crimes and rights abuses against Palestinians through a loophole that allows exports of data-x-items that are for re-export to a third country or military-grade goods for civilian use such as body armor.
As a result, the UK continues to produce fighter jet components for global spares pools that Israel accesses for its fleet of F-35 warplanes.
The loophole also allows the UK to export parts for trainer aircraft Israel uses to train its air force pilots who bomb Gaza.
The trade department claimed to parliament that such components “are not used in Gaza and … do not materially contribute to Israel’s illegal occupation.”
However, the Foreign Office previously acknowledged that Israel’s M-346 trainer aircraft are “used to train IAF fast-jet pilots” and “facilitate the development of an offensive capacity.”