Britain appears to have finally lost patience with and is stepping up its action against the murderous regime of Israel. Speaking to MP’s, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Foreign Secretary David Lammy sounded genuinely angry about Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.
The government in London City has paused trade talks and imposed sanctions on Israeli settlers as European and other world leaders mount pressure on Israel to end its military criminal offensive in Gaza.
Israel is committing daily war crimes in the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank, former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Wednesday
Along with Britain, French and Canadian leaders have strongly opposed the expansion of Israel’s military brutal offensive in Gaza, threatening to take concrete actions if Israel does not cease its onslaught and lift restrictions on aid supply to the Palestinian enclave.
After 600 days of humanitarian slaughter with over 60.000 people killed, even US President Donald Trump, who has already cut ties with Netanyahu, has warned that now dozens of people a day in Gaza are starving to death.
BBC reports: Sir Keir said the level of suffering in Gaza, especially among innocent children, was intolerable. Israel’s decision to allow in a small amount of aid was, utterly inadequate.
The prime minister added he was horrified by Israel’s decision to escalate its military campaign against the almost entirely destroyed Palestinian concentration camp. Lammy employed similar language, saying the situation in Gaza was abominable.
He condemned as monstrous the suggestion by Israel’s hard-line finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, that Gaza should be cleansed of its civilian population.
Israel’s actions, Lammy said, were isolating Israel from friends and partners around the world and damaging the image of the State of Israel in the eyes of the world. Nor is Britain alone in expressions of outrage or threats of concrete action.
The EU says it’s reviewing its association agreement with Israel, which governs its political and economic relationship. Kaja Kallas, the EU’s foreign policy chief, said a strong majority of members favored looking again at the 25-year-old agreement.
On Monday night, Britain joined France and Canada in signing a strongly worded joint statement, condemning Israel’s military action and warning of further concrete actions if the humanitarian situation in Gaza did not approve.
Another statement followed, signed by 27 donor countries including the UK, condemning a new Gaza aid delivery model being promoted by Israel.
The model aims to replace existing humanitarian agencies, including the UN, with civilian contractors, backed by the Israeli military.
The UN and its donors say the new model is poorly conceived and politically motivated, incapable of replacing the decades-long tried and tested international humanitarian ecosystem in Gaza.
A representative of one of the aid agencies operating in Gaza told me the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation scheme was totally premature, adding that Israel had never provided evidence to back up its assertion that Hamas was responsible for the widespread diversion of aid.
One western diplomat, quoted in Israel’s liberal Haaretz newspaper, described the new model as a crazy plan and absolute madness.
During a passionate debate in the House of Commons, Lammy clashed with his Conservative opposite number, Dame Priti Patel, who suggested Hamas was benefiting from international criticism of Israel.
Lammy accused her of refusing to confront the reality of what was happening in Gaza.
However, the British government is facing fresh questions about its Royal Air Force (RAF) surveillance flights over Gaza, which have apparently continued even as Foreign Secretary David Lammy announced that Britain was suspending free trade agreement talks with Israel.
Former Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn is to table legislation in parliament on Wednesday for an independent public inquiry into the British involvement in Israeli military operations in Gaza.
In an X post Corbyn wrote: I will be introducing a Bill for an independent public inquiry into the British involvement in Israel’s assault on Gaza.
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A silly move just to mask the intentions after 600 days of genocide.
Through the Rothschild’s banking mafia israel owns this world. Our Jews are only 2.3% of population yet own 70% of all Americans wealth and control over 200 major corporations.
They will slow roll any protests until after Gaza has been bulldozed.