Britain's strategic licensing criteria states that weapons should not be exported when there is a "clear risk" they could be used in international humanitarian law violations.
In the letter, signatories including former Supreme Court judges said the government risked breaching international law by continuing to allow the export of weapons to Israel.
They added that the worsening situation in Gaza and the International Court of Justice's conclusion that there was a "plausible risk of genocide" obliged to UK to suspend arms sales to the country.
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