Britain’s Labour Party government is quietly separating parts of its diplomacy, along with trade and security policies, from the Trump administration.

Sen. John Fetterman, (D-PA) talks with reporters after the Senate luncheons in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, March 11, 2025.

By The Associated Press Aid groups have collected humanitarian aid carried by about 90 trucks, out of a total of nearly 200 that have entered Gaza since Israel began allowing limited goods in

Britain suspended trade negotiations and the E.U. pledged to review ties as Israel’s siege of Gaza tested the limits of some of its closest European partners.

Britain, France and Canada called the Israeli plans for escalation “disproportionate” and “egregious” at a time when the U.N. is warning the population is at risk of famine.

Israel's military operation in Gaza is focused on dismantling Hamas’ military capabilities, said Kobbi Shoshani, Consul General of Israel to Midwest India, in an interview with CNBC-TV18. He reiterated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s position that disarmament is essential to ending the ongoing conflict.

Three days after Israel said it would relax its blockade of humanitarian aid to Gaza, little, if any, of the urgently needed food, fuel and medicine appeared to have reached Palestinians.