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United Kingdom Suspends Free Trade Talks with Israel Following Escalation in Gaza Conflict
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The British government has taken a series of actions in response to the conflict in Gaza, including suspending new free trade negotiations with Israel, imposing additional sanctions on illegal Israeli settler outposts in the occupied West Bank, and summoning the Israeli ambassador. Foreign Secretary David Lammy has condemned Israel's actions in Gaza as "morally unjustifiable" and "wholly disproportionate". He has also criticized Israel's calls to "purify Gaza" by expelling Palestinians and accused Netanyahu's government of "isolating Israel from its friends and partners around the world".
We need to get the supplies in as soon as possible, ideally within the next 48 hours. We will try to reach as many as we can in the days ahead – and are prioritizing baby food on first convoys.
It is totally insufficient … Immediate and massive aid is needed.
He knows as well as I do that the Israelis couldn't give a damn what he says in this chamber.
Opposing the expansion of a war that has killed thousands of children is not rewarding Hamas.
We will continue to act against those who are carrying out heinous abuses of human rights.
Settlement approval has accelerated while settler violence has soared.
They are isolating Israel from its friends and partners around the world. Undermining the interests of the Israeli people. And damaging the image of the state of Israel in the eyes of the world. I find this deeply painful, as a lifelong friend of Israel and a believer in the values expressed in its declaration of independence.
We are now entering a dark new phase in this conflict. Netanyahu's government is planning to drive Gazans from their homes into a corner of the Strip to the south and permit them a fraction of the aid that they need.
I won't descend into silly language like he did.
The current situation in which we are seeing the bombardment, including of children, and the prospect of starvation, is just intolerable.
If, due to anti-Israel obsession and domestic political considerations, the British government is willing to harm the British economy – that is its own prerogative.
External pressure will not divert Israel from its path in defending its existence and security against enemies who seek its destruction.
Just as we levelled Rafah, we will level all of Gaza.
Israel-UK Relations
sources
- 1.CNN
- 2.Al Jazeera
- 3.The Washington Post
- 4.The Guardian
- 5.The Times
- 6.BBC
- 7.France Inter radio
- 8.Washington Post
perspectives
- 1.Israel-Palestine Conflict
- 2.British Foreign Policy
- 3.Israel Foreign Policy
- 4.Israel under Benjamin Netanyahu
- 5.Israel-US Relations
- 6.2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel
- 7.Israel-Lebanese Hezbollah Conflict
- 8.UK under Keir Starmer
countries
organizations
- 1.Labour Party
- 2.Hamas
- 3.British Foreign Office
- 4.European Union
- 5.House of Commons
- 6.United Nations
- 7.World Health Organization
- 8.British Conservative Party
- 9.Conservative Party
- 10.Israel Defense Forces
- 11.European Commission
- 12.Global Legal Action Network
persons
- 1.Bezalel Smotrich
- 2.Benjamin Netanyahu
- 3.David Lammy
- 4.Keir Starmer
- 5.Oren Marmorstein
- 6.Tzipi Hotovely
- 7.Jean-Noel Barrot
- 8.Jens Laerke
- 9.Kaja Kallas
- 10.Caspar Veldkamp
- 11.Emma Graham-Harrison
- 12.Fran Heathcote