00:00Therefore today I'm announcing that we have suspended negotiations with this
00:05Israeli government on a new trade free trade agreement. We will be reviewing
00:12cooperation with them under the 2030 bilateral roadmap. The Netanyahu's
00:19government's actions have made this necessary, Madam Deputy Speaker. Today my
00:25Honourable Friend, the Minister for the Middle East, is summoning the Israeli
00:30Ambassador to the Foreign Office to convey this message. I say now to the
00:36people of Israel, we want, I want, a strong friendship with you based on shared
00:45values, with flourishing ties between our people and societies. We are unwavering in
00:53our commitment to your security and to your future, to countering the very real
00:57threat from Iran, the scourge of terrorism and the evils of anti-Semitism. But the
01:04conduct of the war in Gaza is damaging our relationship with your government. Our
01:10message is clear. There is a UN plan ready to deliver aid at scale, needed with
01:20mitigations against aid diversion. There are brave humanitarians ready to do their
01:27jobs. There are over 9,000 trucks at the border. Prime Minister Netanyahu, end this
01:39blockade now and let the aid in. We must call this what it is. It is extremism. It is dangerous. It is
01:51repellent. It is monstrous. And I condemn it in the strongest possible terms. The UN and the
01:59World Health Organisation have issued stark warnings of the threat of starvation hanging over hundreds of
02:07thousands of civilians. Madam Deputy Speaker, this is abominable. Civilians in Gaza, facing starvation,
02:19homelessness, trauma, desperate for this war to end, now confront renewed bombardment, new
02:29displacement and new suffering. And the remaining hostages, kept apart from their loved ones by her
02:37mass for almost 600 days, are now at heightened risk from the war around them.
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