Overview

• More than 300 actors, musicians and activists—including Dua Lipa, Gary Lineker and Benedict Cumberbatch—signed an open letter led by charity Choose Love urging Prime Minister Keir Starmer to suspend all UK arms sales to Israel.
• Signatories demand an immediate and permanent Gaza ceasefire and insist the UK guarantee full humanitarian access for experienced aid agencies.
• UK ministers have already suspended about 30 export licences for military equipment to Israel, but campaigners say this falls short of a total ban on critical items such as F-35 jet components.
• Sir Keir has condemned Israel’s military operations as “intolerable” and joined French and Canadian leaders in warning of possible “concrete actions” if hostilities continue.
• UN agencies report that Gaza’s 2.1 million residents face severe hunger and that 290,000 children teeter on the brink of starvation amid a death toll exceeding 54,000.