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AOAV spent more than a year examining the principal explosive weapons used by the Israeli military in Gaza between Oct 23 and Sep 25.
A central finding is the incongruence between so-called “precision” warfare and large-scale destructive effects in dense urban environments.
The use of explosive weapons in Gaza: a forensic analysis of munitions and civilian harm aoav.org.uk/2026/explosive-w…
REVEALED: Britain approved three military export licences involving Israel in 2025, after suspending exports that might be used in military operations in Gaza.
FOI documents obtained by AOAV identify approvals for defence giants BAE Systems and QinetiQ.
BAE Systems received licences covering technology for armoured plate, naval vessels and military radars.
QinetiQ received approval for aerial targets, training equipment and guidance systems.
Officials assessed the items as unusable in military operations in Gaza.
The UK government has not disclosed the detailed assessments behind the BAE approvals.
The question is whether Britain's export restrictions should be independently scrutinised.
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Shocking, but worth remembering that, in 2022, Rwanda denied AOAV’s Executive Director press accreditation to investigate refugee abuses (even as the then UK government hailed Rwanda as a country that respected human rights).
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Afghanistan’s forgotten victims: what Britain’s SAS inquiry must learn from Australia’s failure aoav.org.uk/2026/sas-afghani…
Afghanistan’s forgotten victims: what Britain’s SAS inquiry must learn from Australia’s failure
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A total of 457 UK military personnel and Ministry of Defence civilians died while serving in Afghanistan between 2001 and 2021.
Hegseth on Afghanistan:
I was a captain in Afghanistan, and we would go to the headquarters in Kabul, and there would be 50 flags at the headquarters.
It was a beautiful thing to see 50 different countries contributing to the NATO alliance and the ISAF mission there.
Except there were like maybe five that contributed. It was actually closer to one or two that, by the end, were actually involved in kinetic operations.
In fact, the ISAF patch, we would joke that it meant "I Saw Americans Fighting."
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Over 1100 non-American soldiers from 31 US-allied countries were killed fighting in Afghanistan, approximately 1/3 of the total combat deaths.
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Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) retweeted
AOAV spent more than a year examining the principal explosive weapons used by the Israeli military in Gaza between Oct 23 and Sep 25.
A central finding is the incongruence between so-called “precision” warfare and large-scale destructive effects in dense urban environments.
The use of explosive weapons in Gaza: a forensic analysis of munitions and civilian harm aoav.org.uk/2026/explosive-w…
“Guns don’t kill people; people do”: the global diffusion of gun-rights rhetoric and ideology examined aoav.org.uk/2026/guns-dont-k…
Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) retweeted
New year-long investigation by @AOAV reporting: 'The use of explosive weapons in Gaza: a forensic analysis of munitions and civilian harm'.
Examining the weapons used by Israel tracing them to their makers and their documented incidents of civilian harm.
aoav.org.uk/2026/explosive-w…
1/6 “Guns don’t kill people; people do.”
Six words that have shaped decades of firearms policy. But how did an American gun-rights slogan become a global political argument?
A new AOAV investigation traces the NRA's rhetoric across continents and into parliaments worldwide.
5/6 In Brazil, an NRA lobbyist promoted gun ownership as a question of freedom ahead of a 2005 referendum. Voters rejected a proposed ban on civilian gun and ammunition sales by 64% to 36%.
6/6 AOAV's investigation examines how a slogan about personal responsibility became an international argument against firearms regulation, despite evidence that gun availability and weapon design affect the lethality of violence.
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What is your position on allegations that US military operations in the Caribbean, Venezuela and Iran have breached international humanitarian law and other provisions of international law? And on US military assistance to the IDF amid allegations of serious violations of IHL?
In practice, smaller bombs did not necessarily mean fewer civilian deaths; multi-purpose shells were not used with restraint; and autonomous or semi-autonomous systems did not guarantee greater protection for civilians.