London (Quds News Network)- British Foreign Minister David Lammy announced that the UK has suspended new free trade negotiations with Israel in response to the expansion of its Gaza assault and aid blockade. He also stated that the Israeli ambassador had been summoned. In the Commons, Lammy said: “We have suspended negotiations with this Israeli government on a new free trade agreement.” Lammy said the UK’s existing trade agreement is still in effect, but new discussions cannot be undertaken with an Israeli government pursuing “egregious policies” in Gaza and the West Bank. He also said the UK is reviewing its cooperation with the Israeli administration, adding: “The Netanyahu government’s actions have made this necessary.” “This is abominable. Civilians in Gaza are facing starvation, homelessness, trauma, desperate for this war to end now confront renewed bombardment, new displacement and new suffering.” David Lammy told MPs that he thinks all of them “should be able to utterly condemn the Israeli government’s denial of food to hungry children,” as he described Israel’s actions as “morally wrong” and “unjustifiable.” Lammy specifically quotes Israeli far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich using the word “cleanse” in relation to the population in Gaza. He told parliament that “we must call this what it is. It is extremism. It is dangerous. It is repellent. It is monstrous, and I condemn it in the strongest possible terms.” He said, “It’s morally unjustifiable. It’s disproportionate, it’s utterly, utterly counterproductive. Whatever Israeli ministers claim, this is not the way to bring the hostages safely home.” He said Israel’s tactics would not eliminate Hamas, but leave “a generation orphaned and traumatized.” Lammy added sanctions are being imposed on “a further three individuals and four entities involved in the settler movement” in the occupied West Bank. “New sanctions target three individuals, two illegal settler outposts and two organisations supporting violence against Palestinian communities in the West Bank. Today’s measures include financial restrictions and travel bans, including on high-profile extremist settler leader Daniella Weiss.” Israeli ambassador to the UK Tzipi Hotovely has also been summoned to the Foreign Office, where Middle East minister Hamish Falconer said he would tell her “the 11-week block on aid to Gaza has been cruel and indefensible.” The SNP leader in Westminster, Stephen Flynn, has called for a vote in parliament on recognising the Palestinian state. Addressing foreign secretary David Lammy, he said, “To see the foreign secretary finally find some fire in his belly on this issue was certainly most appreciated, but long overdue, but ultimately, as has been mentioned earlier, the government is still a block to action.” In response, Lammy said the UK parliament has always led the calls for the international court architecture that there is, and has always supported it. Zarah Sultana, currently independent MP for Coventry South, said,” Children are starving. Families have been wiped out. Hospitals destroyed. Yet the government in court claims that there is no evidence Israel targets civilians. The foreign secretary is personally responsible and refuses to ban all arms sales to this genocidal state. So like many across Britain, I have to ask the foreign secretary, how do you sleep at night?”