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In the past two months, more than 1,000 people seeking food have been killed, according to the UN Human Rights Office. While the figure has been disputed by Israel and the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation which was set up to distribute aid, 28 nations this week condemned the “horrifying” killing of…

The UK imposed sanctions Wednesday on more than two dozen people, groups and suppliers from the Balkans, the Middle East and China accused of helping migrants cross the Channel.

Pressure is ramping up on the UK Government to take action over Israel’s starvation of Gaza following a harrowing front page by the right-wing…

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said ‘starvation is knocking on every door’

Foreign Secretary David Lammy said the move was a ‘landmark moment’ in the Government’s bid to tackle organised immigration crime.

The Foreign Office has named the first 25 targets of its sanctions aimed at key figures who assist illegal migration across the English Channel

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Faced with human suffering on a now-apocalyptic scale, the British foreign secretary is right to raise the prospect of international humanitarian law having been violated. But if Israel is ever to end its war and the famine, the US president must be persuaded to apply some…

Measures to be announced on Wednesday but researchers say there is a ‘lack of high-quality evidence’ such schemes work