British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said today, Tuesday, that Britain will not stop selling arms to Israel by British companies after reviewing the latest legal advice on the matter.

Six months after the Israeli air and ground campaign in Gaza, which was triggered by a Hamas attack on southern Israel on October 7, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's government has come under intense pressure to cancel licenses allowing the export of arms to Israel.

Cameron said during a press conference with his American counterpart Antony Blinken in Washington, "The latest assessment leaves our position on export licenses unchanged. This is in line with the advice I and other ministers have received."

He added, "As always, we will keep the situation under review."

Britain supplied Israel with arms worth £42 million ($72 million) in 2022.

Last week, three senior former judges in the UK joined more than 600 members of the British legal profession in demanding that the government stop selling arms to Israel, saying this could make Britain complicit in genocide in Gaza.

Some opposition political parties in Britain called on the government to recall Parliament from its current recess and cancel the export licenses, as well as publish the legal advice the government used to reach its position.

Cameron said Britain remains "deeply concerned about the issue of humanitarian aid access to Gaza."

He defended the decision not to publish legal consultation on arms export licenses. He said it is an important principle that ministers act consistently with legal advice without making it public.

He said, "The general judgment is that these export licenses will remain open and ongoing."