U.K. Suspends Free Trade Talks With Israel and Announces Sanctions Over West Bank Settlers

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The U.N. said on Tuesday had been granted permission to send "around 100" aid trucks into Gaza following an 11-week blockade.  On the same day aid was partially restored, the U.K., France, and Canada issued a joint statement condemning Israel’s restrictions on humanitarian access as "wholly inadequate." The statement called for an end to the military campaign and warned of "further concrete actions" if Israel did not comply.

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00:00Therefore today I'm announcing that we have suspended negotiations with this

00:05Israeli government on a new trade free trade agreement. We will be reviewing

00:12cooperation with them under the 2030 bilateral roadmap. The Netanyahu's

00:19government's actions have made this necessary, Madam Deputy Speaker. Today my

00:25Honourable Friend, the Minister for the Middle East, is summoning the Israeli

00:30Ambassador to the Foreign Office to convey this message. I say now to the

00:36people of Israel, we want, I want, a strong friendship with you based on shared

00:45values, with flourishing ties between our people and societies. We are unwavering in

00:53our commitment to your security and to your future, to countering the very real

00:57threat from Iran, the scourge of terrorism and the evils of anti-Semitism. But the

01:04conduct of the war in Gaza is damaging our relationship with your government. Our

01:10message is clear. There is a UN plan ready to deliver aid at scale, needed with

01:20mitigations against aid diversion. There are brave humanitarians ready to do their

01:27jobs. There are over 9,000 trucks at the border. Prime Minister Netanyahu, end this

01:39blockade now and let the aid in. We must call this what it is. It is extremism. It is dangerous. It is

01:51repellent. It is monstrous. And I condemn it in the strongest possible terms. The UN and the

01:59World Health Organisation have issued stark warnings of the threat of starvation hanging over hundreds of

02:07thousands of civilians. Madam Deputy Speaker, this is abominable. Civilians in Gaza, facing starvation,

02:19homelessness, trauma, desperate for this war to end, now confront renewed bombardment, new

02:29displacement and new suffering. And the remaining hostages, kept apart from their loved ones by her

02:37mass for almost 600 days, are now at heightened risk from the war around them.

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