UK\u2019s Guardian newspaper reports that Foreign Office unit logging possible war crimes has shut amid funding cuts.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Published On 24 Apr 2026<\/span>24 Apr 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n A UK government unit responsible for documenting Israel\u2019s possible war crimes during its genocidal war in Gaza has been shut down amid funding cuts, the Guardian has reported.<\/p>\n The London-based newspaper on Thursday reported that cuts within the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) have forced the international humanitarian law cell to close.<\/p>\n list of 4 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n The move means that funding for the Conflict and Security Monitoring Project, which is run by the independent group the Centre for Information Resilience (CIR), will also end, according to the report.<\/p>\n An FCDO spokesperson told Al Jazeera that the change was part of an \u201cinternal restructure\u201d and that the cell\u2019s work would be continued by a \u201cdifferent team in the FCDO\u201d, without giving further details.<\/p>\n \u201cWe continue to heavily invest expertise and resources into our conflict prevention and resolution work, including the monitoring of international humanitarian law in Gaza,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n CIR\u2019s work included open-source monitoring of incidents in occupied Palestine, Israel and Lebanon, with information dating back to the start of the war on Gaza in October 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n The centre also conducted more than 20 investigations covering topics such as shootings of children in Gaza and maintains a database containing verified information about roughly 26,000 incidents across the Middle East, the Guardian noted.<\/p>\n The Guardian\u2019s report suggested the FCDO would lose access to the database once the funding stream ends, removing a key node of information that has aided decision-making in previous months.<\/p>\n The FCDO spokesperson told Al Jazeera the government department would \u201cretain access\u201d to CIR research it had funded while also noting that the project\u2019s reports were only one element of its \u201cassessments and approach\u201d to IHL (International Humanitarian Law) issues.<\/p>\n The FCDO has been roiled by the prospect of major job and funding reductions. In July, the office\u2019s former permanent secretary said it planned <\/span>to shrink its workforce by up to 25 percent.<\/span><\/p>\n And last November, the FCDO announced plans to abolish its unit dedicated to emerging conflicts and displacement crises, the Guardian reported at the time.<\/p>\n The project provided support to governments and civil society in conflict zones such as Syria, South Sudan, Ethiopia and Yemen.<\/p>\n The Foreign Office in recent months has also seen internal divisions over the UK\u2019s arms sales to Israel.<\/p>\n Mark Smith, a diplomat who quit his job over the UK\u2019s refusal to stop selling arms to Israel, said late last year\u00a0that civil servants who questioned the government\u2019s Israel policies were routinely silenced.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n UK\u2019s Guardian newspaper reports that Foreign Office unit logging possible war crimes has shut amid funding cuts. Published On 24 Apr 202624 Apr 2026 A UK government unit responsible for documenting Israel\u2019s possible war crimes during its genocidal war in Gaza has been shut down amid funding cuts, the Guardian has reported. 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