The Rt Hon Keir Starmer MP

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

10 Downing Street

London
SW1A 2AA

The Rt Hon David Lammy MP

Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs

King Charles Street

London
SW1A 2AH

Dear Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary,

We are writing as Israeli citizens living in the UK, many of whom hold British citizenship. We are watching in horror the images coming from Gaza of malnourished babies and children. Since the 2nd of March 2025, Israel's hard-right government has banned all aid from entering the Gaza Strip. For more than two months now, no food has been allowed in. This hermetic siege is by far the longest and harshest ever to be imposed on the Strip.

The World Food Programme, which helped feed half of Gaza's population, ran out of food on the 25th of April. UNICEF warned that humanitarian aid which has provided the only lifeline for children, "is now close to running out." With farmlands destroyed by Israel, the 2+ million population is almost entirely dependent on food coming from the outside. Medications are also running out, and clean water is in short supply.

In a joint statement on the 23rd of April, the foreign ministers of the UK, France and Germany, stated that "Palestinian civilians - including one million children – face an acute risk of starvation, epidemic disease and death." They called Netanyahu's policies "intolerable" and "unacceptable."

Netanyahu's government, the most extreme in Israel's history, is determined to pursue the war indefinitely - against the wishes of the Israeli public. A clear majority in Israel supports a ceasefire and the return of the hostages. We know, from testimonies of released hostages, that famine in Gaza affects also the Israeli hostages there. That has not deterred the extremists in power from pursuing the most punitive blockade.

As the Israeli cabinet voted yesterday to renew its assault on the Strip, it approved tentative plans to allow in limited humanitarian aid under Israeli control yet stated this would only become operationalised "if necessary." The UN warned that even were this plan to be implemented, it would mean “large parts of Gaza … will continue to go without supplies.” All this suggests that without urgent international intervention, the Israeli cabinet is determined to continue using starvation as a weapon of war.

Pleading with Netanyahu's rogue government will not do. The prospect of mass starvation in Gaza is imminent and intolerable. The UK must take immediate and concrete measures to stop this catastrophe before it gets any worse. Now is the time to go beyond rhetoric, and take unprecedented measures, before starvation kills hundreds and thousands. We call on the UK to suspend the Trade and Partnership Agreement (TPA) with Israel until it allows food and medicine into Gaza in significant quantities.

We call on the UK government not to be complicit in criminal mass starvation. We cannot stand silently and watch this unfold, without taking actual and concrete steps to end it.

The assault on Gaza must end; the hostages must be released.

Signatures:

Lia Na'ama ten Brink
Yair Wallach
Uri Agnon
Shira Keshet
Boaz Rotem
Michal Huss
Maya Mukamel
Hagar Kotef
Ron Cohen
Ayelet McKyton
Yoav Galai
Idit Nathan
Neta Rudich
Samuele Tofano
Omer Adulam
Yael Arbell
Keren Amiran
Moshe Behar
Alon Isac
Maya Stavisky
Alona Ferber
Diana Dolev
Einav Ben Yehuda
Moriel Ram
Sharon Livne
Maya Reggev
Daphna Baram
Tal Ben Amar
Mollie Gerver
Athena Kugblenu
Juliet Meyers
Rachel Azgad
Judith Suissa
Jeremy Ginges
Dorit Aniran
Yael Witkon
Tamar Portnoy
Tal Jakubowiczova
Yohai Hakak
Ron Amiran
Zeev Feigis
Yonathan Goldtzvik
Yair Perry
Magen Inon
Lewis Bousfield
Omri Kochavi
Matan Einav
David Lee
Yael Biran
Gali Gold
Michal Sapir
Igor Kviatkovski
Sivan Halevi
Alon Zivony
Joseph Brand
Nira Yuval-Davis
Ben Halevi
Mark Klein
Tamir Halevi
Miri Weingarten
Orna Dale-Eliashiv
Nir Cohen
Rami Gudovitch
Anat Pick
Miranda Pinch
Inbar Tamari
Shaul Mitelpunkt
Eytan Zweig
Naomi Wayne
Joe Haddad
Gabriella Braun
Shira Wachsmann
Maayan Halevi
Ophira Gamliel
Gabriela Schutz
Guy Keshet
Anureet Randhawa
Dina Hecht
Gilli Erez
Noa Man
Orit Sarfatti
Orly Kritzman
Marybeth Ali
Daniel Flexer
Yael Yadlin
Danielle Ronen
Yaar Dagan
Adi Vitonski
Noa Bazak
Noga Shatz
Rotem Yanai
Gideon Ferber
Irit Katz
Gil Mualem-Doron
Noam Yadin Evron
Eytan Zweig
Ruthie Meiri
Ariel Yahav
Tal Nahari
Jordan Cohen
Neve Gordon
Doron Levene
Amitai Netser
Lesley Levane
Sharri Plonski
Julie De Young
Danoush Lachman
Michal Yahav
Aviel Lewis
Kevin Gildea
Gillian Hundt
Rajmil Fischman
Anat Messing Marcus
Aviv Yaron
Avi Shlaim
Chris Wade-Evans
Yaarit Mechany
M Marshall-Howe
Amir Marmor
Maya Silvan
Jo Weir
Yossi Nehushtan
Amnon Ferber
Shoshi Asheri
Zohar Silvan
Ella Benami
Tamar
Yonat Nitzan-Green
Gil Alexandrowicz
Smadar Dreyfus
Oren Ben-Dor
Eden Lumerman
Ehud Sivosh
Rachel Algazi
Moshe Machover
Ahuvia Kahane
Dylan Behr
Sigal Spigel
Yonatan Shemmer
Avi Bram
Julian Brown
Ilana Machover
Tal Machover
Amit Portnoy
Sona Grigoryan
Miriam Ish-Horowicz
Ultán Murray
Lindsay Sharman
Torr Fischman
Yoav Koko
Laura Jacobs
Tali Silver
Judit Druks
Lior Suchoy
Adam Nuhi
Shiri Shalmy
David Borabeck
Dorit Argo
Uri Baruchin
Yael Bitton
Anat Rosenwaks
Tirza Waisel
Uri Cohen
Idit Arad
Kate Mawby
Toni Baum
Leanne Kehoe
Gidi Morris
Tamar Sarfatti
מיכל פונדק שגיא
Keren Weitzberg
Paul Barnett
Mai Omer
Guy Buky
Eran Yuval
Maayan Geva
Rinat Koren
Carrie Supple
Osnat Sandalon
Annabel I. Elad
Moran Mandelbaum
Maayan Madar
Davi Farbey
Ruth Novaczek
Joel Cahen
Ilya Gindin
Adi Lerer
Gilat Levy
Lia Suissa
Ofra Ben Porat-Ram
Omer Raz
Akiva Azriel
Alex Fisher
Elizabeth Harris
Orna Meir-Stacey
Catherine Aman
Maytaal Angel
Rosemary White
Shally Shefer
Justin Harrison
Ola Rabinovich
Sallyann Fellowes
Nina Amdur
Daniel Mann
Rony Hacohen
Shibboleth Shechter
Keren Weitzberg
Alma Toiber Kent
Daniel Haimovich
Uri Horesh
Nogah Ofer
Rubia Siddiqui
Leah Ofer
Itamar Isaak
Avner Ofer
Fergus C McLachlan
Merav Amir
Marwan Ramsey
Yasmin Rehman
Asya Natapov
Michele Barrett
Carmel Kent
Hagit Borer
João Tosin
Lirona Rosenthal
Marion Bryans
Lala Bel
Eleanor Astley
Itamar Kastner
Jonathan Ben Artzi
Jonathan Shamir
Jo Woolf
Assaf Givati
Adi Berkovits
Gimenne Zwama
Leeya Mor
Michal Lewis
David Aviram
Gilat Fisher
Inbal Ringel
Adam Duncan
Megan Redmond
Nika Dubrovsky
Gal Rubin
Anupal Biswas
Oreet Ashery
Anna Wood
Irit Rogoff
Liz Hobbs Rhandi
Naama Farjoun
Tali Lernau
Itai Bercovier
Maya Laiwand
Noam Harris
Nathalie Dobrzan
Aya Vandenbussche
Gon Alon
Elinor Carmi
Gabi Goldenberg
Shimrit Elisar
Anna Shlonsky
James Lynes
Haim Yacobi
Euijen Dessaix
Katherine Behl
Maxine Everist
Naomi Eilan
Ali Britton
David Noakes
Jane Davies
Judith Taylor
Susan Hodges
Richard Forrest
Barbara Mella
Anna Speedman
Reem Khaldi
Sarah Holmes
Rhiannon Rees
Serge Chabert
Usama Kadri
Carole Green
Tamar Bassan
Lacie Hampe
Marion Canessa
Dylan G
Miriam Agat
rachel dye
Lorna Matthews
Lauren Hall-Lew
Joanne Rosenthal
Cristiana Joy
Ann Ryan
Julie Donnelly
Enzo Kann
Keren Amiran
Margareta Han
Jackie Henson
Keti Jovanovski
Goran Jovanovski
Manca Novak
Janez Novak
Leah Burton
Yael Padan