Israel risks becoming ‘pariah state’ over Gaza, says opposition leader

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The leader of the left opposition party in Israel has warned that the renewed attack in the country in Gaza is risked by turning it into a “outcast country” with an international condemnation of its campaign in the pocket.

The United Kingdom, France and Canada said on Monday that it will take “concrete measures” against Israel if it does not stop the restrictions of the attack and lift the assistance that the United Nations Committee said last week that nearly half a million Palestinians are facing hunger.

French Foreign Minister Jean -Noel Barrot said on Tuesday that France will support the review of the European Union Association’s agreement with Israel in response to its renewed attack. His comments were followed by some of the harshest criticisms so far from the UK Prime Minister, Kiir Starmer, who said it was “horrific from escalation from Israel.”

Yair Golan, the leader of the Israeli Democrats Party, told Israeli Radio on Tuesday that the remote government of Benjamin Netanyahu “was” exposed “to the presence of the country through its behavior of the war against Hamas, which raised fears even within the administration of US President Donald Trump.

Golan said: “Israel is on its way to become a pariah state, like South Africa, if we do not return to act as a rational state,” Golan said.

“Do not fight the sane country against civilians, nor kill children as a hobby, nor give himself the goal of expelling the population.”

The Golan’s statements were extracted from an angry response from Netanyahu, who accused the former general of “wild incitement”.

Netanyahu said: “While we are launching a multi -effort war and the leadership of complex diplomatic efforts to liberate our hostages and the defeat of Hamas, the Golan and his friends on the radical left are repeating the most anti -nominal forms of blood against the Israeli Defense Army and the State of Israel,” Netanyahu said.

Israel has presented its widespread attack in Gaza in recent days, expanding its ground operations in the pocket and carrying out air strikes across the lands that killed hundreds of Palestinians.

Until Monday, no food, assistance, medicines, or fuel was also allowed to enter Gaza for more than two months, which exacerbates a humanitarian catastrophe for the people of 2.2 million pounds, prompting a senior United Nations official to warn the “collective genocide” waving on the horizon in Gaza.

Israel refused the accusation, and insisted that its restrictions on the entry of aid entering Gaza were designed to prevent it from being transferred to Hamas.

However, her approach-including a new plan to allow an unknown institution to provide aid to the Palestinians in a handful of distribution points expected to focus in southern Gaza-has attracted increasing international criticism, including some of its strong alliance.

Netanyahu said on Monday that the decision to allow the least amount of aid in Gaza was a response to the pressure of “friends” of Israel all over the world and in the US congress, who warned the Israeli Prime Minister that “we will not accept the pictures of collective hunger. We will not be able to support you” in the war effort.

Many countries have intensified their criticism of Israel’s behavior in Gaza on Tuesday, where Starmer said that the international community could not allow Gazans to starve.

“The innocent children who are bombed again are completely unbearable,” he told the United Kingdom. “The last announcement that Israel will allow” basic “food” in Gaza – a basic amount – completely insufficient. “

The Qatari Prime Minister, Sheikh Muhammad bin Abdul Rahman, criticized the second Israeli siege, saying: “It should not be acceptable to the international community. However, we see, unfortunately, that the Israeli government is implementing it without punishment.”

Barrot said on Tuesday that France is “designed” to get to know a Palestinian state, without developing a tangible time frame for such a step.

The UK Foreign Minister, David Lami, said earlier this month that the United Kingdom was also holding talks with France and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on whether a Palestinian state should be recognized at a United Nations conference to be held in New York in June.

However, he stressed that the United Kingdom wanted to be part of the moves towards a two -state solution to the Israeli -Palestinian crisis, rather than a symbolic act.

The Israeli attack in Gaza has killed more than 53,000 people, according to Palestinian officials. During the Hamas attack on October 7, the gunmen killed 1,200 people, according to Israeli officials, and took 250 hostages.

Participated in additional reports from Chloe Corniche and David Shepard