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The former prime minister's comments come amid a mounting backlash to the government's decision.
Sir Ephraim Mirvis said the announcement "beggars belief".
Foreign secretary David Lammy said there was a "clear risk" they could be used to break international humanitarian law in Gaza.
HuffPost UK looks at what we know so far and what this could mean for the Middle East.
Mark Smith quit with a letter titled: "FCDO complicity in War Crimes".
It comes amid increasingly fraught ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Hamas.
There's a lot of pressure on Thursday's peace talks in Doha.
Israel is the "vanguard" of civilisation and "should be praised," Gilad Erdan said.
But Iran has reportedly rejected the pleas to avoid escalation in the Middle East.
David Mencer accused a BBC presenter of being a "pro-Palestine reporter" this morning.