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Harrowing Gaza testimonies describe children shot through the heart as Britain defends arms exports
Displaced Palestinians fleeing Beit Lahia amid ongoing Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip arrive in Jabalia, northern Gaza, May 16, 2025

LAWYERS shared harrowing testimonies today from doctors who treated children shot through the heart in Gaza as the government defended its decision to continue exporting arms to Israel in court.

In written submissions for the case, the government has claimed there is a “tenable view that no genocide has occurred or is occurring.”

But last August, doctors submitted chilling evidence now being shared by Global Legal Action Network (Glan), which launched the challenge alongside Palestinian organisation Al-Haq.

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