Sir Keir Starmer is set to press Trump to resume ceasefire talks in Gaza after Israeli military announced aid airdrops will begin in the war-torn enclave and humanitarian corridors will be established for United Nations convoys.
The Prime Minister will meet the US president at his golf course in Turnberry, South Ayrshire, during his visit to Scotland on Monday amid mounting global anger over the humanitarian conditions in Gaza.
Starmer is expected to ask Trump, who praised him upon his arrival to the UK last week, to revisit negotiations talks with partners in Qatar and Egypt following US withdrawal, with the President accusing Hamas of not 'want[ing] to make a deal'.
The previous US-led peace talks included a 60-day ceasefire, increased aid supplies as well as the phased release of Hamas hostages in exchange for Palestinians incarcerated by Israel.
A No 10 source said: '[Starmer] will discuss further with [Trump] what more can be done to secure the ceasefire urgently, bring an end to the unspeakable suffering and starvation in Gaza and free the hostages who have been held so cruelly for so long.'
The two world leaders will also talk about the recently agreed US-UK trade deal as well as the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Israel have yet to outline when the humanitarian corridors for U.N. convoys would open, or where. It also said the military is prepared to implement humanitarian pauses in densely populated areas.
Gaza's population of more than two million people is facing severe shortages of food and other essentials after some 21 months of war - particularly after Israel enacted a more than two-month-long blockade of the embattled Strip from March until May.
Palestinians gather to receive food in Khan Yunis, Gaza amid shortages of aid
Keir Starmer is set to press Donald Trump about ceasfire talks amid mounting global anger over the humanitarian conditions in the war-torn enclave
Previously, the UN condemned Israel's 'weaponisation of food' in Gaza, labelling it a war crime, and on Monday the UK, France and more than twenty other Western-aligned countries issued labelling Israel's operations 'unacceptable'.
The UN's human rights office reported Israeli forces had killed more than 1,000 Palestinians trying to get food at aid distribution points since the US - and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) started its operations in late May.
GHF rejected the UN statistics, describing them as 'false and exaggerated statistics' while an anonymous Israeli security official claimed Hamas were responsible for fabricating 'cynical' reports of mass starvation in Gaza to The Times of Israel.
Earlier today, Starmer confirmed in a call with French and German counterparts that the UK is working with Jordan on plans to air drop aid into Gaza and evacuate children needing medical assistance.
In emergency talks held with Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz on Saturday, amid mounting global anger at the humanitarian conditions in Gaza, the leaders agreed it would be 'vital' to ensure 'robust plans' for an 'urgently-needed ceasefire'.
'The Prime Minister set out how the UK will also be taking forward plans to work with partners such as Jordan to air drop aid and evacuate children requiring medical assistance,' a Downing Street spokesperson said.
However, the head of the UN's Palestinian refugee agency warned airdrops were 'a distraction and screensmoke' that would fail to reverse deepening starvation in Gaza, and could in some cases harm civilians.
UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said: 'A man-made hunger can only be addressed by political will. Lift the siege, open the gates and guarantee safe movements and dignified access to people in need.'
Smoke rises over Khan Yunis after an Israeli attack on southern Gaza, on July 22, 2025
Palestinian boy Mosab Al-Debs, 14, who is malnourished according to medics, lies on a bed at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, July 22, 2025
Charities operating in Gaza have said Israel's blockade and ongoing military offensive are pushing people there towards starvation, warning that they are seeing their own workers and Palestinians 'waste away'.
Mr Lazzarini added that airdrops can be dangerous as they can fall on civilians, and that being able to drive aid through is more effective and safer.
'Airdrops will not reverse the deepening starvation. They are expensive, inefficient and can even kill starving civilians,' he said. 'It is a distraction and screensmoke.'
No.10 said the leaders had committed to 'work closely together on a plan' to 'pave the way to a long-term solution and security in the region', and that once proposals had been 'worked up', they will seek to advance them with other key partners.
However Downing Street's recent statement made no mention of the issue of Palestinian statehood, after French President Mr Macron confirmed his country would do so in September.
The Prime Minister has faced calls to immediately recognise Palestine's sovereignty, with around 221 MPs from across the political spectrum signing a letter pressuring the Government to follow suit at a UN meeting next week.
It comes as Israeli airstrikes and gunshots killed at least 53 people last night into Saturday, with most shot dead while seeking aid, according to Palestinian health officials and the local ambulance service.
Israeli gunfire was reported twice within hours close to the Zikim crossing, and at least a dozen people were killed while waiting for aid trucks in the first incident, staff at a Shifa hospital said.
Palestinians wait to receive food from a charity kitchen, amid a hunger crisis, in Gaza City, July 23, 2025
Injured Palestinian kids are being moved to safe places after Israeli airstrike in Gaza Strip on July 25
Thousands of Palestinians struggling with hunger in Gaza flock to the Zakim area in the north of the region to receive aid in Gaza on July 22, 2025
Israel's military said it fired warning shots to distance a crowd 'in response to an immediate threat' and it was not aware of any casualties.
A witness, Sherif Abu Aisha, said people started running when they saw a light that they thought was from aid trucks.
However as they neared, they realised it was Israel's tanks - and the army began to open fire, killing several people including his Uncle.
'We went because there is no food... and nothing was distributed,' he said.
Israeli forces also killed at least 11 people and wounded 120 others when they fired toward crowds who tried to get food from an entering U.N. convoy on Saturday evening.
'We are expecting the numbers to surge in the next few hours,' Dr. Mohamed Abu Selmiyah, director of Shifa hospital said. There was no immediate Israeli military comment.
Elsewhere, those killed in strikes included four people in an apartment building in Gaza City, according to hospital staff and the ambulance service.
Smoke rises after an explosion in Gaza, as seen from the Israeli side of the Israel-Gaza border, July 22, 2025
The United Nations has estimated nearly 100,000 women and children in Gaza are approaching malnutrition
Palestinians carrying pans, gather to receive hot meals, distributed by a charity organization in Gaza City, where residents are struggling to access food due to the ongoing Israeli blockade and attacks in Gaza City, Gaza on July 23, 2025
Another Israeli strike killed at least eight, including four children, in a crowded tent camp of Muwasi in the southern city of Khan Younis, according to the Nasser hospital.
Israeli forces also opened fire and killed at least nine people trying to get aid entering Gaza through the Morag corridor, according to the hospital's morgue records. There was no immediate comment from Israel's military.
Earlier this week, 111 aid agencies, including including Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and Oxfam signed an open letter warning of 'mass starvation' spreading in Gaza, as the population was 'wasting away'.
'With supplies now totally depleted, humanitarian organisations are witnessing their own colleagues and partners waste away before their eyes.
'The government of Israel's restrictions, delays, and fragmentation under its total siege have created chaos, starvation, and death,' it read.
The UN as well as experts have said Palestinians in Gaza are at risk of famine as children with no preexisting conditions have begun to starve to death.
'We only want enough food to end our hunger,' said Wael Shaaban at a charity kitchen in Gaza City as he tried to feed his family of six.
The Israeli military says its allowing aid into the enclave with no limit on the trucks entering, however the UN claims it has been hindered by military restrictions on movements as well as criminal looting.
Harrowing scenes among crowds at aid points have shown desperate women and children pleading for food
A child eats as Palestinians gather to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen, amid Israel-Hamas conflict, near the ruins of houses destroyed during the Israeli offensive, in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip August 26, 2024
Palestinian woman Warda Mattar feeds her newborn dates, instead of milk, amidst food scarcity and lack of milk, at a school where they shelter in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip February 25, 2024
More than 100 international aid organisations and human rights groups issued a joint letter blaming Israel for the deteriorating situation
The Gaza police force had previously provided security for aid delivery, but it has been unable to operate after months of Israeli airstrikes.
On Saturday, Israel said over 250 trucks carrying aid from the U.N. and other organizations entered Gaza this week, with around 600 trucks entered per day during the latest ceasefire that Israel, which ended in March.
'Stand for Gaza, for silence is a crime, and indifference is a betrayal of humanity,' said Father Issa Thaljieh, a Greek Orthodox priest at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, as religious figures and the mayor called for prayers to end the war.
More than 59,700 Palestinians have been killed during the war, according the health ministry in Gaza.
Its count doesn't distinguish between militants and civilians, but the ministry says that more than half of the dead are women and children.
Israel does not provide figures for civilians deaths in Gaza, and hasn't challenged any names on casualty lists provided by the local health ministry.
According to the BBC, the UN relies on figures from the Hamas-run ministry, over figures from the also Hamas-run Government Media Office (GMO).
