{"id":48962,"date":"2025-05-20T22:06:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T19:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=48962"},"modified":"2025-05-20T22:06:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T19:06:42","slug":"uk-suspends-free-trade-talks-with-israel-and-announces-sanctions-over-west-bank-settlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/20\/uk-suspends-free-trade-talks-with-israel-and-announces-sanctions-over-west-bank-settlers\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Suspends Free Trade Talks with Israel and Announces Sanctions over West Bank Settlers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The British government on Tuesday suspended free trade talks with Israel and hit West Bank settlers with sanctions, hours after vowing &#8220;concrete actions&#8221; if Israel didn&#8217;t stop its new military offensive in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Pressure from close allies is mounting on Israel following a nearly three-month blockade of supplies into Gaza that led to famine warnings. Even the United States, a staunch ally, has voiced concerns over the hunger crisis.<\/p>\n<p>British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said the government couldn&#8217;t continue discussions on an existing trade agreement with an Israeli government pursuing what he called egregious policies in Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;History will judge them,&#8221; Lammy said. &#8220;Blocking aid. Expanding the war. Dismissing the concerns of your friends and partners. This is indefensible. And it must stop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lammy said the UK was imposing sanctions on a further &#8220;three individuals, two illegal settler outposts and two organizations supporting violence against the Palestinian community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said the illegal Israeli settlements were spreading across the West Bank &#8220;with the explicit support of this Israeli government.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British government on Tuesday suspended free trade talks with Israel and hit West Bank settlers with sanctions, hours after vowing &#8220;concrete actions&#8221; if Israel didn&#8217;t stop its new military offensive in Gaza. Pressure from close allies is mounting on Israel following a nearly three-month blockade of supplies into Gaza that led to famine warnings. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48968,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48962\/revisions\/48968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}