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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor and Sinéad Campbell

Foreign Office unit tracking Israel’s potential breaches of international law closes due to cuts

People walk among the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli airstrikes.
Destroyed buildings in Gaza. Photograph: NurPhoto/Getty Images

The Foreign Office unit tracking potential breaches of international law by Israel in Gaza and more recently Lebanon has been closed because of cuts within the department, the Guardian can reveal.

The decision to shut the international humanitarian law cell follows a review by Olly Robbins, the permanent secretary at the Foreign Office dismissed last week by the prime minister over the Peter Mandelson scandal.

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