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In an unprecedented move, United Kingdom, France and Canada have threatened Israel of 'concrete actions' if it does not stop it aggression against Palestinians in Gaza and allow aid into the besieged enclave

Tuesday May 20, 2025 12:12 PM, News Desk

In an unprecedented move, United Kingdom, France and Canada have threatened Israel of “concrete actions” if it does not stop it aggression against Palestinians in Gaza and allow aid into the besieged enclave.

In a joint statement released Monday, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney slammed Israel's expansion of its war and called conditions in Gaza "intolerable", and threatened a "concrete" response if Israel's campaign continues.

“The Israeli Government’s denial of essential humanitarian assistance to the civilian population is unacceptable and risks breaching International Humanitarian Law,” the leaders said in the statement released by the UK government said.

“We oppose any attempt to expand settlements in the West Bank… We will not hesitate to take further action, including targeted sanctions", they said.

The latest warning to Israel by UK, France and Canada came days after Benjamin Netanyahu announced to launch a "renewed military operation" in Gaza to gain "full control" of the Palestinian territory.

Israeli blockade of Gaza

Israel has imposed a total blockade of aid into Gaza when the first phase of its ceasefire with Hamas ended on March 18, 2025.

More than two million Palestinians in Gaza are currently facing starvation, with many surviving on one and insufficient meal per day. Women and children are worst affected as besides necessary food medical aid has also been blocked by the far right Zionist regime of Netanyahu.

Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 53,475 Palestinians and wounded 121,398 since October 7, 2023, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

The Government Media Office updated the death toll to more than 61,700, saying thousands of people missing under the rubble are presumed dead.

The Israeli occupation forces have killed around 200 Palestinians, majority of them women and children, in the last two days.

"Outrageous, Morally Reprehensible"

Meanwhile, the Amnesty International, a prominent human rights group, lambasted the Israeli allies saying, “It is outrageous and morally reprehensible” that it took the world nearly 80 days of starvation in Gaza to exert "pressure" on Israel to let some aid in.

"And still, letting in a handful of aid trucks – a drop in the ocean, while simultaneously intensifying military operations, is a cynical attempt to sugarcoat Israel’s ongoing genocide,” the group said in a post on X.

“World leaders must not be fooled,” it added.

“Nothing short of a full lifting of Israel’s siege on the occupied Gaza Strip and an immediate, enduring ceasefire will help to alleviate the catastrophic suffering Palestinians in Gaza are being forced to endure under the watch of Israel’s allies.”

"Manufactured Famine"

Earlier, some 761 aid groups and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) across the globe have signed an appeal urging the world to halt the “manufactured famine” in Gaza by breaking the Israeli siege on the enclave and sending in a diplomatic humanitarian convoy through the Rafah crossing.

“We urge states to join the humanitarian convoy by dispatching official diplomatic missions – at the highest possible level – to accompany the aid trucks already waiting at the Rafah crossing, and to enter Gaza alongside them,” the online petition launched by Palestinian civil society groups on May 12, said.

“This act is grounded in states’ legal obligations, moral courage, and human solidarity", they said.

In a related development, as many as 22 countries, European Union, demanded complete resumption of aid into Gaza. The foreign ministers of the 22 countries in their statement outrightly rejected “Netanyahu’s new model of aid distribution”.

The foreign ministers said this is completely unacceptable because humanitarian aid should never be politicized, and should be equal and accessible for everyone.

The foreign ministers’ stand vis-à-vis the humanitarian crisis in Gaza came ahead of their meeting in Brussels where the EU will discuss its position on Gaza.

[With inputs from Al Jazeera and Agencies]

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