Britain suspends trade talks with Israel and attacks "deworming" extremism | Israel's Gaza War

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy has suspended negotiations on a new free trade deal, saying the Israeli cabinet minister called for the expulsion of Palestinians, expelling Palestinians, expelling Palestinians, the worst state in decades of Britain's relations with Israel.

He also said that wider discussions on the future bilateral strategic roadmap with Israel are also under review.

Lammy condemned Israel's refusal to allow thousands of aid trucks to enter hungry Palestinians, saying Israel's treatment of Palestinians was "an offense to the values ​​of the British people" and "incompatible with principles based on UK-ISRAELI bilateral relations".

Meanwhile, the EU Foreign Minister’s decision to review the trade agreement with Israel after the request of Dutch Foreign Minister Casper Veldkamp. 17 out of 27 states supported the move. The EU is Israel's largest trading partner, accounting for 32% of Israel's total trade in goods in 2024.

Lammy, who has not spoken language since the beginning of the latest Gaza conflict, said the major military invasion of Gaza further planned by the IDF was "morally unreasonable, completely disproportionate, completely disproportionate, completely counterproductive".

When the Foreign Secretary delivered his opening speech in the House of Commons, the backseat shouted "genocide".

Lammy is truly angry at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's administration, saying: "We are now entering a new dark phase of this conflict. Netanyahu's administration is planning to drive people from their homes to a corner of the south and allow them the help they need."

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Israel's Foreign Ministry accused Britain of suffering from anti-Israel obsession.

"It is its own privilege if the British government is willing to damage the British economy due to anti-Israel obsession and domestic political considerations," Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Oren Marmorstein said in response to the trade negotiations.

He said the West Bank-related sanctions were “unreasonable and regrettable”. He added: "The UK's authorization ended just 77 years ago.

“External pressure will not allow Israel to defend its path to survival and security against enemies seeking destruction.”

"Yesterday, Bezalel Smotrich even talked about the Israeli forces' "cleaning" Gaza, "destroying what's left", and residents Palestinians "was moved to the third country". We have to call it that. It's extremism. It's dangerous. It's dangerous. It's weird."

He added that Israeli ambassador to the UK, Tzipi Hotovely, was called to hear the British demanding that the latest attack on Gaza be stopped.

Rami said Israel suffered a "heuristic attack" on October 7, 2023, and the British government supported Israel in defending its rights.

But the military escalation in Gaza is “morally unreasonable and totally disproportionate, which is totally, completely counterproductive – no matter what Israeli ministers claim, it is not a way to bring hostages home safely.

Israel blocked the aid, saying it was stolen by Hamas and insisted that the re-attack was to eliminate terrorists and release the rest of the hostages.

But Rami said Israel will not ensure the release of hostages by causing humanitarian disasters. He said: “The civilians in Gaza face hunger, homelessness, trauma and desperate to see the war end, now facing new bombings, new displacement and new suffering. And the hostages separated from their loved ones for nearly 600 days are now facing high risks of war around them.

"They will control the stripes and will be enough to prevent hunger. Less than 10 trucks entered Gaza yesterday. The United Nations and issued a clear warning that the threat of hunger hung over the heads of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. It's pitiful." It's pitiful. ”

UN aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip on Tuesday at Kerem Shalom Crossing in southern Israel. Photo: Atef Safadi/EPA

He warned that the Israeli government is damaging the country's global reputation. "They are isolating Israel from friends and partners around the world. They have undermined the interests of the Israelite people. And in the eyes of the world, the image of the State of Israel. I find this very painful, as a lifelong friend of Israel, and believers in the values ​​expressed in its declared independence."

However, many labor seats in the House of Commons found a gap between Rami's remarks and government actions, limited to a symbolic moratorium on negotiations on a free trade agreement.

The backstage bench, including many Conservatives, demanded a strengthened control of Israel’s arms exports at a UN meeting next month, a recognition of the Palestinian state and a comprehensive ban on Israeli trade. Rami said further concrete actions will be considered, but combined with allies.

Former conservative minister Kit Malthouse said Lammy’s “angry and anger” was “appreciated by all of us” but added: “He knew, I knew the Israelites could not give what he said in this room.” He added: “Does the front desk need us begging for the lives of those Palestinian children before triggering this specific action, whatever it could be?”

Rami said the Malthouse claimed that “the Israelites could not say anything to this person in front of them, that was “wrong”.

He has also imposed sanctions on three other Israeli settlers and four entities in the West Bank, including veteran settler extremist Daniella Weiss, head of the Nakara movement, who recently starred in Louis Theroux's recent documentary The Settlers. The others targeted others is Zohar Sabah, the Israeli who imposed sanctions on the United States in November. It was from Zohar Zabah Farm where settlers (some of them minors) set out to attack the principal of the Palestinian school for the school’s justification.

Weis shrugged when contacted by phone, assaulting the sanctions as “childish” and claiming they would not affect her individual or the broader settler movement.

“My husband has ordered tickets to the global tour, not including the UK,” she said.

"This is not mature, nor is it serious. If it is a child, I can say the child doesn't understand.

“The UK knows that the (British) government knows that we are under attack and we will not start any war if it is up to the Israeli government.

"But when we get attacked, and there is some intention to continue attacking, so we fight. We will have a huge advantage."

However, Rami once again blocked the imposition of sanctions on two Israeli cabinet ministers Smotrich and Interior Minister Itama Ben-Gvir, although he said some of their languages ​​would be censored.

"Just like we upgrade Rafa, we will upgrade the entire Gaza," Smotrich said this week.

Rami noted that the United Nations plans to prepare for large-scale assistance and has more than 9,000 trucks at the border. He called on Netanyahu to end the lockdown immediately and allow aid.

Sanctions were also imposed on Liby Construction and Infrastructure Ltd., the farm posts of Harrell Liby and Coco, and the farm post basis in Neria, including “people living in outposts, involved in persons who violate human rights rights”. Earlier, Keir Starmer said the UK “can’t let the Gaza people starve to death” and that the level of suffering there was “totally intolerable”.

"The recent announcement that Israel will allow basic food into Gaza is totally inadequate," he told MPs.

"So we have to coordinate our response because this war has lasted too long. We cannot let the people of Gaza starve to death."