UK government suspends free trade talks with Israel over Gaza war
The EU has also voted to review its trade agreement with Israel due to the “catastrophic” situation in Gaza.
| The British government says it will suspend new free trade negotiations with Israel due to its military conduct in the war on Gaza, where hundreds of Palestinians have been killed in recent days under bombardment, a new ground offensive has been launched and starvation is widespread. Speaking in Parliament on Tuesday, Foreign Secretary David Lammy said the United Kingdom was imposing additional sanctions on illegal Israeli settler outposts in the occupied West Bank, while the Israeli ambassador to the UK, Tzipi Hotovely, has also been summoned to the Foreign Office. This comes as the European Union voted to review its trade cooperation deal with Israel, the bloc’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Tuesday. The actions came a day after the UK, France and Canada condemned Israel’s handling of the war in Gaza and assaults and raids in the West Bank. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer ramped up his pointed criticism of Israel on Tuesday, saying the level of suffering by children in Gaza was “utterly intolerable” and repeating his call for a ceasefire. |
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