00:00The UK government announced it will be suspending free trade negotiations with Israel and announced
00:08new sanctions on settlements in the West Bank.
00:11The UK's Foreign Secretary David Lammy has criticised Israel's military actions in Gaza
00:17as well as violence by Israeli settlers.
00:20I'm announcing that we have suspended negotiations with this Israeli government on a new free
00:26trade agreement.
00:29We will be reviewing cooperation with them under the 2030 bilateral roadmap.
00:36The Netanyahu's government's actions have made this necessary.
00:41Yesterday Minister Smodrick even spoke of Israeli forces cleansing Gaza, destroying
00:52what's left of residents, Palestinians, being relocated, he said, to third countries.
01:01We must call this what it is.
01:04It is extremism.
01:08International pressure has been building on Israel following a nearly three-month blockade
01:13of supplies into Gaza that led to famine warnings.
01:15The United States has voiced concerns over the growing hunger crisis, and France and Canada
01:22mirrored the United Kingdom and threatened to sanction Israel if it does not halt its offensive
01:28and allow humanitarian aid into Gaza.
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