
Jeremy Bowen: Goodwill running out as UK, France and Canada demand Israel end Gaza offensive
created: May 20, 2025, 6:03 a.m. | updated: May 26, 2025, 6:13 a.m.
Jeremy Bowen: Goodwill running out as UK, France and Canada demand Israel end Gaza offensiveIsrael went to war after the Hamas attacks of 7 October 2023 armed with an arsenal of weapons mostly paid for, supplied and then resupplied by the United States.
Now it seems that Israel's credit has gone, at least as far as France, the United Kingdom and Canada are concerned.
They have issued their strongest condemnation yet of the way Israel is fighting the war in Gaza.
Israel, they say, must halt its new offensive, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says will destroy Hamas, rescue the remaining hostages and put all of Gaza under direct Israeli military control.
He insisted the war could end if Hamas returned hostages, laid down its arms, agreed for its leaders to go into exile and Gaza was demilitarised.
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