The UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has shut down a unit responsible for documenting Israel's possible war crimes during its genocidal war in Gaza. The move means that funding for the Conflict and Security Monitoring Project (CIR), which is run by the Centre for Information Resilience, will also end. The FCDO spokesperson stated that the change was part of an "internal restructure" and that the cell's work would continue by a different team within the FCDo. CIR's work included open-source monitoring of incidents in occupied Palestine, Israel and Lebanon dating back to the start of the war on Gaza in 2023. The Foreign Office has also seen internal divisions over the UK’s arms sales to Israel and plans to shrink its workforce by up to 25 percent.