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Meanwhile, UK on Tuesday suspended free trade talks with Israel and called its intensified genocidal operations in Gaza as “utterly intolerable,” reiterating calls for a ceasefire and a massive scale-up in humanitarian assistance for those impacted in Gaza.
“We’re horrified by the escalation from Israel. We repeat our demand for a ceasefire as the only way to free the hostages,” Prime Minister Keir Starmer said.
“We repeat our opposition to settlements in the West Bank and our demand to massively scale up humanitarian assistance into Gaza,” he said.
Starmer’s parliamentary statement was followed by Foreign Secretary David Lammy updating the House of Commons on the latest set of sanctions against individuals, illegal settler outposts, and organisations “supporting violence” against Palestinian communities in the West Bank.
Lammy said the persistent cycle of violence by extremist Israeli settlers in the West Bank demanded action.
“I have seen for myself the consequences of settler violence. The fear of its victims. The impunity of its perpetrators,” said Lammy.
“The Israeli government has a responsibility to intervene and halt these aggressive actions. Their consistent failure to act is putting Palestinian communities and the two-state solution in peril,” he said.
The statements come a day after UK, France, and Canada threatened to initiate “concrete actions” against Israel, including sanctions, for its genocidal activities in Gaza and the West Bank.
Meanwhile, Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, including attacks on a displacement shelter in Gaza City, killed at least 85 Palestinians on Tuesday, mostly women and children. According to Al Jazeera, a pregnant woman was among those killed in the strike on the school turned shelter.
Israel’s 19-month-long genocidal war on Gaza has so far killed over 53,339 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and wounded at least 121,034. According to the Government Media Office in Gaza, the updated death toll stands at 61,700, as thousands of people missing under the rubble are presumed dead.
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