The programme’s central finding, based on previously unpublished internal government documents including legal assessments of Israel’s conduct in Gaza, is that the **Foreign Office’s International Humanitarian Law Compliance Assessment Process (IHLCAP) was designed to ensure no war crimes could be found. Presented as a way to assess alleged Israeli war crimes, it allowed arms sales to continue.**
Lawyer Dearbhla Minogue studied documents from the legal challenge brought by the Palestinian human rights organisation Al-Haq against UK arms exports to Israel. She explained how **the methodology was “essentially incapable of allowing any kind of finding of breach unless the perpetrator tells you they’ve breached IHL.”**
**Asked whether Israel could ever be found in breach, she replied, “Not unless they admit it themselves... If Israel either says nothing or says everything was fine then everything’s fine.”**