The United Kingdom’s nursing union has severed ties with an Israeli pharmaceutical company over its support for the occupying regime’s military.

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN), which is reportedly the largest nursing union in the world, representing more than 500,000 nursing staff in the UK, terminated its commercial partnership with Israeli drugmaker Teva, citing its links with the regime’s military.

The Royal College of Nursing said in a statement on Friday that RCN had ended its commercial partnership with Teva over the Israeli pharmaceutical company’s support for the Israeli regime’s genocidal war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

In the statement, it cited Teva’s record of sanctions and public scrutiny as the reason for ending the company’s sponsorship.

The RCN leadership said it found the Israeli drugmaker incompatible with the ethical standards of the nursing profession.

The decision to cut ties with the Israeli drug company followed pressure from pro-Palestinian healthcare groups, demanding that UK healthcare institutions end complicity with corporate actors linked to Israeli apartheid and violations of international law.

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Teva UK, the British arm of Israeli pharmaceutical giant Teva Pharmaceuticals, was also stripped ot its sponsorship of the upcoming RCNi Nursing Leadership Summit.

Carmel O’Boyle, chair of the RCN Council, confirmed to the group that Teva UK has been stripped of its sponsorship of the upcoming RCNi Nursing Leadership Summit scheduled for October 30.

O’Boyle announced the decision via a letter to the RCN on September 23, Nurses 4 Palestine said in a statement published on Instagram.

The humanitarian crisis caused by the Israeli regime's genocidal war on Palestinians in Gaza has resulted in a profound challenge to the global medical community.

Few healthcare groups worldwide have taken action against what one of the world's oldest and most authoritative academic journals, The Lancet, has dubbed "Gaza's healthocide."

Official reports estimate that the Israeli forces in Gaza inflicted life-changing injuries to the limbs, spinal cord, or brain of tens of thousands of Palestinians, many of them children.