UK suspends trade talks with Israel and sanctions West Bank settlers

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UK suspends trade talks with Israel and sanctions West Bank settlers  UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy announced on Tuesday the suspension of free trade negotiations with Israel and new sanctions on West Bank settlements.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/05/20/uk-suspends-trade-talks-with-israel-as-concerns-grow-over-gaza-military-operation  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00The UK government announced it will be suspending free trade negotiations with Israel and announced

00:08new sanctions on settlements in the West Bank.

00:11The UK's Foreign Secretary David Lammy has criticised Israel's military actions in Gaza

00:17as well as violence by Israeli settlers.

00:20I'm announcing that we have suspended negotiations with this Israeli government on a new free

00:26trade agreement.

00:29We will be reviewing cooperation with them under the 2030 bilateral roadmap.

00:36The Netanyahu's government's actions have made this necessary.

00:41Yesterday Minister Smodrick even spoke of Israeli forces cleansing Gaza, destroying

00:52what's left of residents, Palestinians, being relocated, he said, to third countries.

01:01We must call this what it is.

01:04It is extremism.

01:08International pressure has been building on Israel following a nearly three-month blockade

01:13of supplies into Gaza that led to famine warnings.

01:15The United States has voiced concerns over the growing hunger crisis, and France and Canada

01:22mirrored the United Kingdom and threatened to sanction Israel if it does not halt its offensive

01:28and allow humanitarian aid into Gaza.

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