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United Kingdom Suspends Free Trade Talks with Israel Following Escalation in Gaza Conflict

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".

Jens Laerke
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
1. 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.
Jean-Noel Barrot
France Foreign Ministry
1. It is totally insufficient … Immediate and massive aid is needed.
Kit Malthouse
British Conservative Party
1. He knows as well as I do that the Israelis couldn't give a damn what he says in this chamber.
David Lammy
British Home Office
1. Opposing the expansion of a war that has killed thousands of children is not rewarding Hamas.
2. We will continue to act against those who are carrying out heinous abuses of human rights.
3. Settlement approval has accelerated while settler violence has soared.
4. 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.
5. 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.
Keir Starmer
Labour Party
1. I won't descend into silly language like he did.
2. The current situation in which we are seeing the bombardment, including of children, and the prospect of starvation, is just intolerable.
Oren Marmorstein
Israel Foreign Ministry
1. 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.
2. External pressure will not divert Israel from its path in defending its existence and security against enemies who seek its destruction.
Bezalel Smotrich
Religious Zionist Party
1. Just as we levelled Rafah, we will level all of Gaza.

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