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The UK has reaffirmed its support for a comprehensive and impartial process to examine allegations of genocide in Gaza, BBC reported.

British Foreign Minister Ed Miliband highlighted the high number of fatalities and noted that most of Gaza's population has been displaced.

He emphasised that international humanitarian law sets clear obligations, including ensuring civilians have access to food, medical care, and other essential supplies.

Addressing claims of genocide, Miliband said the UK's position remains that such allegations should be assessed through established legal procedures, with the courts leading the process. He added that the government continues to support the ongoing case before the International Court of Justice and will respect the court's eventual ruling.

Britain on Tuesday announced a trade ban on goods made in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank in coordination with France and Canada, the latest sanctions to target Israel as it faces growing diplomatic isolation.

British Foreign Minister Ed Miliband said Britain could no longer simply "call out" injustice and suffering, but told the House of Commons that the country now had to "act" to oppose the expansion of settlements.

"Today we refuse to be bystanders to further suffering and to the destruction of the two-state solution," Miliband said, referring to Britain's long-held support for the two-state idea, which Israel opposes.

Miliband said on Tuesday that Britain, France, and Canada were joining the Netherlands, Ireland, Belgium, Spain, and Norway in banning goods or planning to ban goods from the West Bank.

Britain's government was set Tuesday to announce sanctions on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, a minister indicated, in a move likely to anger Israel and the United States.

The decision would signal a toughening of the UK's stance on Israel under new Labour Prime Minister Andy Burnham, who entered Downing Street in July after Keir Starmer stepped down.

Government minister Pat McFadden said Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband would make a statement to parliament laying out "measures specifically targeted at the expansion of these settlements, which are illegal under international law in the West Bank".

He told Sky News that the changes, on which he provided no further detail, would be motivated by "the idea of keeping alive this possibility of seeing a Palestinian state alongside Israel".

"I think it's also important to say that Israel is an important trading partner for the UK. This isn't intended to be a boycott of all Israeli goods."

Germany asked the International Court of Justice on Monday to throw out a case brought by Nicaragua which accuses Berlin of violating the 1948 Genocide Convention because it supplies arms to Israel.

Berlin suspended weapons exports to Israel for a few months in 2025 but they have since resumed. A US-backed ceasefire that took effect in October 2025 halted large-scale fighting that had devastated Gaza, but it has not ended Israeli strikes.

Nicaragua and Germany are both signatories of the Genocide Convention which includes an obligation on states to act to prevent possible genocides — but it is unusual for the court to hear cases where neither party is directly involved in the conflict at the heart of it.

Israel on Monday threatened a "full-scale war" against the Palestinian Authority if it prepared an attack against Israeli forces or settlements similar to the one launched from Gaza on October 7, 2023.

"If... the Palestinian Authority's security mechanisms and related bodies initiate an attack in the style of October 7 against IDF forces and Jewish settlements — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and I have instructed the IDF to prepare for the opening of a full-scale war," Defence Minister Israel Katz said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the evacuation of some West Bank settlements deemed illegal under Israeli law, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said Sunday.

"To my knowledge, Netanyahu has given the instruction to evacuate" certain settlements, Smotrich said, adding that he did not approve of the measure.

While all Israeli settlements in the West Bank are considered illegal under international law, some established without government approval — often consisting of just a few prefabricated homes — are also considered illegal by Israel.

Pakistan and seven other Muslim nations condemned Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz's statements regarding the forced displacement of the Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.

The foreign ministers of Pakistan, Egypt, Turkiye, Indonesia, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates strongly reject and condemn of any attempts or plans aimed at displacing the Palestinian people under any pretext, the Foreign Office said in a statement.

The inflammatory statements and proposals by the Israeli ministers flagrantly violate principles of international law, including international humanitarian law, and pose a direct threat to the legitimate and inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, it added.

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Saturday met with Palestinian Americans, including relatives of US citizens killed by Israeli settlers, in a Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank that has been the target of settler attacks.

The visit comes as settler violence, and what is widely perceived as the Israeli government's inaction, has increasingly drawn international condemnation, including from US allies.

The Israeli government has condemned settler violence, though perpetrators are rarely arrested and even less frequently prosecuted.

Washington has not criticised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government over the violence, though it has called for perpetrators to be prosecuted, with Huckabee labelling them as terrorists.

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Saturday said there was no plan to force Palestinians to leave Gaza after two Israeli ministers this week floated proposals for the mass removal of Palestinians from the coastal territory.

"I can tell you categorically there is no plan of the Israelis to displace people out of Gaza against their will," Huckabee told reporters in Turmus Ayya, a Palestinian town in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

"There is an open-mindedness (that) if people wish to leave that they should have the right to leave. To incarcerate them in a place they don't want to be should be an absolute, I think, just disgrace," Huckabee said.

"Nobody is suggesting that there will be forced displacement. The Israelis are not. The Americans are certainly not. I know of no one who supports that."

US Vice President JD Vance told reporters on Thursday that the United States does not plan to hold talks with Iran unless Tehran stops attacking commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.

"They've got to stop. It's that simple," he said.