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🚨NEW: UK Quietly Shuts Unit That Monitored Israel’s International Law Violations The British Foreign Office has closed the internal unit responsible for tracking potential breaches of international humanitarian law by Israel in Gaza and Lebanon, the Guardian reports, citing budget cuts following a departmental review. 🔹The closure of the so-called international humanitarian law (IHL) cell comes two weeks after newly appointed Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper declared that respect for international law would be a “linchpin” of her department’s foreign policy. 🔹The shutdown ends UK funding for the Conflict and Security Monitoring Project, run by the Centre for Information Resilience, which operated the world’s largest open-source monitoring system for human rights incidents across Israel, Palestine, and Lebanon. 🔹Officials warned its closure will mean the Foreign Office will lose access to a database of 26,000 verified incidents in the Middle East. 🔹The funding cuts affect the conflict and atrocity prevention team, which had also provided early warnings about potential violence in regions including Sudan.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ 🔹The review that led to the closure was conducted by Olly Robbins, the Foreign Office’s permanent secretary, who was himself dismissed last week by Prime Minister Keir Starmer over an unrelated scandal involving Peter Mandelson.