Labour MP warns Keir Starmer starvation in Gaza will 'be on us' if UK doesn't act

Pressure is mounting on Keir Starmer after senior Labour MPs called on him to tear up trade deals with .

The PM was urged to ramp up actions to force Benjamin Netanyahu's government to end a 10-week blockade. It came as more than 100 people were killed in the latest air strikes on the Gaza Strip, with at least 25 children said to be among the dead.

Yesterday(SUN) Emily Thornberry, who chairs the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee: said: "There are many things that the British government could do. We could stop selling arms. We should stop trading with Israel. We should."

She said the Government should be pushing the White House to persuade to take action. Ms Thornberry added: "Donald Trump and the Americans can see the appalling things that are happening in Gaza as much as anyone else can."

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Earlier MP Dr Rosena Allin-Khan - who has previously worked as a medic in the region - said the UK has a "moral responsibility" to act. She called for the Government to hit Israel with tough sanctions and revisit trade agreements between the two nations.

Dr Allin-Khan told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg: "Food is being used as a weapon of war. There are a million people facing starvation. We have children who have already died from having food withheld. We have a moral responsibility to act.

"And if we don't act immediately, this will be on us. No one can say that we didn't see this coming." Britain has repeatedly called on Israel to allow aid into Gaza.

Israel says it will allow this to happen if Hamas releases hostages seized in the October 7 attack in 2023. On Saturday the Israeli military launched a new offensive, Operation Gideon's Chariots with the deadliest wave of strikes in months.

More than 48 people were killed in airstrikes in and around the southern city of Khan Younis overnight on Saturday. Some bombs struck houses and tents sheltering displaced people, according to Nasser Hospital.

Among the dead were 18 children and 13 women, hospital spokesperson Weam Fares said. In northern Gaza, a strike on a home in the built-up Jabaliya refugee camp killed nine people from a single family, according to the Gaza health ministry's emergency services.

Another strike on a family's residence, also in Jabaliya, killed 10, including seven children and a woman, according to the civil defence, which operates under the Hamas-run government.

Last week UN Emergency Relief Coordinator call on leaders to do more to stop the blockade. He told the UN Security Council: “I can tell you from having visited what’s left of Gaza’s medical system that death on this scale has a sound and a smell that does not leave you. As one hospital worker described it, ‘children scream as we peel burnt fabric from their skin.’”