On Thursday, May 29, 2025, peace activists and U.S. military veterans began a 40-day hunger strike in front of the U.S. Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York in solidarity with Gaza.

The British newspaper Financial Times revealed on Monday, May 26, 2025, that the Irish government intends to introduce a bill to ban trade with Israeli companies operating in the occupied Palestinian territories.

More than 800 lawyers and academics, including senior retired judges in the United Kingdom—among them former Supreme Court justices—have called on the British government to impose sanctions on the Israeli government and its ministers, and to consider suspending Israel’s membership in the United Nations, in accordance with the UK’s “fundamental international legal obligations.”

Thousands gathered on the evening of Friday, May 23, 2025, in front of the British Prime Minister's residence on Downing Street, in an emergency protest under the slogan "Stop Arming Israel – Words Are Not Enough," calling for an immediate halt to British arms exports to the Israeli occupation.

On Monday, May 19, 2025, the French President and the Prime Ministers of the UK and Canada warned that they would not “stand idly by” in the face of the “disgraceful actions” of the Israeli occupation government, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, in Gaza. They hinted at taking “concrete measures” if Israel does not halt its military operation and allow the entry of humanitarian aid.

The Israeli Occupation Targets Freedom Flotilla Ship in International Waters