{"id":56306,"date":"2025-05-20T16:05:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T16:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prosfunds.com\/?p=56306"},"modified":"2025-05-20T16:05:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T16:05:38","slug":"uk-halts-trade-talks-with-israel-over-gaza-offensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prosfunds.com\/?p=56306","title":{"rendered":"UK halts trade talks with Israel over Gaza offensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description o3-type-body-base\"><span>Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=0dc7feeb-0136-4229-8154-442daeb973fe\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>The UK has frozen negotiations for a new trade deal with Israel over its renewed offensive in Gaza, as an Israeli opposition leader warned that the country risked becoming a \u201cpariah state\u201d over its military campaign.<\/p>\n<p>British foreign minister David Lammy said the move was a response to the \u201cabominable\u201d situation in Gaza, accusing Israel\u2019s far-right government of \u201cplanning to drive Gazans from their homes into a corner of the strip in the south, and permit them a fraction of the aid that they need\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The UK\u2019s decision came amid intensifying international condemnation of Israel\u2019s offensive, with French foreign minister Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot saying France would support a review of the EU\u2019s association agreement with Israel in response to its actions in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Yair Golan, leader of Israel\u2019s Democrats party, told Israeli public radio on Tuesday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s government was \u201cendangering\u201d the country\u2019s existence with its conduct in the war against Hamas, which has provoked concerns even within US President Donald Trump\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsrael is on the way to becoming a pariah state, like South Africa was, if we don\u2019t return to acting like a sane country,\u201d Golan said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA sane country does not fight against civilians, does not kill babies as a hobby and does not give itself the aim of expelling populations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Golan\u2019s remarks drew a furious response from Netanyahu, who accused the former general of \u201cwild incitement\u201d and \u201cechoing the most despicable antisemitic blood libels against IDF soldiers and the State of Israel\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has hugely ratcheted up its offensive in Gaza in recent days, expanding its ground operations in the enclave and carrying out air strikes that have killed hundreds of Palestinians. <\/p>\n<p>Until Monday, it had also not allowed any food, aid, medicines or fuel to enter Gaza for more than two months, which a UN panel last week said had left nearly half a million Palestinians facing starvation. Tom Fletcher, a senior UN official, this month warned of a looming \u201cgenocide\u201d in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Israel rejected the accusation and has insisted that its restrictions on aid entering Gaza were designed to prevent it being diverted to Hamas.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"n-content-image n-content-image--full\" data-component=\"image-set\"><picture><source media=\"(min-width: 700px)\"  width=\"2289\" height=\"1526\"><\/source><source media=\"(max-width: 490px)\"  width=\"1526\" height=\"1526\"><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"n-content-picture__caption o3-editorial-typography-caption\"><span>Military vehicles near the border with Gaza on Tuesday<\/span><span> <!-- -->\u00a9 Amir Cohen\/Reuters<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But its approach \u2014 including a new plan to allow a little-known foundation to deliver aid to Palestinians at a handful of distribution points expected to be concentrated in southern Gaza \u2014 has drawn increasing international criticism, including from some of its staunchest allies.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu conceded on Monday that the decision to allow minimal amounts of aid into Gaza was a response to pressure from Israel\u2019s \u201cfriends\u201d across the world and in the US Congress, who had warned the Israeli prime minister that \u201c\u2018we will not accept pictures of mass starvation\u2019\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The UK, France and Canada also said they would take \u201cconcrete actions\u201d against Israel if it did not stop the offensive and lift restrictions on aid entering Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The international criticism intensified on Tuesday with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer demanding Israel \u201cmassively scale up\u201d aid to Gaza. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cInnocent children being bombed again is utterly intolerable,\u201d Starmer told the UK parliament. \u201cThe recent announcement that Israel will allow a \u2018basic\u2019 quantity of food into Gaza \u2014 a basic quantity \u2014 is totally and utterly inadequate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lammy also lambasted Bezalel Smotrich, Israel\u2019s ultranationalist finance minister, who said on Monday that Israel was \u201ccleansing\u201d Gaza and \u201cdestroying everything that\u2019s left\u201d of the enclave.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must call this what it is: it is extremist, it is dangerous, it is repellent, it is monstrous and I condemn it in the strongest possible terms,\u201d Lammy said, adding that the behaviour of the Israeli government was \u201can affront to the values of the British people\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>There was further criticism from Qatar and France, with Qatar\u2019s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani saying that Israel\u2019s blockade on Gaza \u201cshouldn\u2019t be acceptable to the international community\u201d. Barrot, the French foreign minister, said Paris was \u201cdetermined\u201d to recognise a Palestinian state, without setting a concrete timeframe for such a step.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Fletcher warned that 14,000 babies in Gaza were at risk of dying in the next 48 hours if aid did not reach them.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s offensive in Gaza has killed more than 53,000 people, according to Palestinian officials. During Hamas\u2019s October 7 attack, militants killed 1,200 people, according to Israeli officials, and took 250 hostage.<\/p>\n<p>There is also mounting international alarm about the situation in the occupied West Bank, where Israel has ratcheted up its military operations and settler violence against Palestinians has surged.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the UK imposed sanctions on three Israeli settlers, two illegal settler outposts and two organisations supporting violence against Palestinian communities in the territory.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Additional reporting by Chloe Cornish<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/0dc7feeb-0136-4229-8154-442daeb973fe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. 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