Danny danon injerusalem, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me again, stephen. Israel has a vital choice to make right now with regard to iran. Does it respond again, up the ante, escalate, or does it not . What do you believe the choice will be and should be . Frankly speaking, stephen, i dont think we have a dilemma here. We have to retaliate. The question is how we do it, when we do it, against whom. But i dont think we can sit idly by after the attack we saw two nights ago here in israel, 300 projectiles that came from iran directly into israel. Im not familiar with any other sovereign nation that will not retaliate after such an aggressive attack. And we have to make it very clear. Iran chose to send those rockets, missiles and uavs from iran. For many months and years, they use their proxies in the region. They built a very Massive Force around israel, but they decided to escalate. They decided to create a new equation by sending all of those rockets from iran into israel.
always positive sign somehow but yes, decided last week because it s not the case of the moment and he is here and is training and on the matches in a safe place of the team and everything is ok and he wants to be a us and he travels here. be with us and he travels here. the arsenal women s manager, jonas eidevall, has responded to claims he bullied the fourth official during their win over manchester city on sunday in the wsl. eidevall was adamant he did nothing he would be ashamed of after city boss gareth taylor s allegation. this is what he had to say. i got really disappointed with the comments because i think there s no personal truth in them. the wording that gareth used by third birds is borderline slander and either he is not very good with the truth or good with the language, but either way i don t think is acceptable. ben stokes delivered for england on wednesday, ensuring their disappointing cricket world cup didn t continue to go from bad to worse. looking in tro
hello, i m anna foster, this is bbc news life from jerusalem. live from jerusalem. the exit of foreign citizens from gaza has been stopped at least temporarily. no one has used the crossing so far today. we are hearing that border authorities will not permit foreign passport holders to cross into egypt until the injured people in gaza s hospitals are allowed to travel to rafah. hundreds of foreign citizens have escaped egypt through the crossing in the past few days. meanwhile, the diplomatic efforts to relieve the humanitarian crisis in gaza are stepping up again. the us secretary of state antony blinken is in amma meeting leaders from lebanon, qatar and jordan. mr blinken is pushing for pauses in the fighting in gaza. the regional leaders want an immediate ceasefire. but israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu insists there will be no temporary truce until all hostages are released. while in gaza, an official from the un agency for palestinian refugees warns there is
of the top leaders of the group earlier this week and received days of threats. now, hamas says armed groups are united in battle. azadeh moshiri, bbc news. let s talk now to hen mazzig, he is an israeli writer and senior fellow at the tel aviv institute, which aims to combat hate and violence againstjews and other communities. thank you very much for coming on the programme. thank you very much for coming on the programme- thank you very much for coming on the programme. thanks for having me. do ou the programme. thanks for having me. do you think the programme. thanks for having me. do you think the the programme. thanks for having me. do you think the air the programme. thanks for having me. do you think the air strikes the programme. thanks for having me. do you think the air strikes by - do you think the air strikes by israel was justified? do you think the air strikes by israel wasjustified? i do you think the air strikes by israel was justified? do you think the air str
that the nazi leader had jewish roots. sergei lavrov made the remarks on italian television, after he was asked how russia could claim to be trying to de nazify ukraine, when president zelensky isjewish. translation: he makes the argument, what kind iof nazification can ukraine have, i if he himself isjewish? i could be wrong, but hitler also had jewish blood. i it means absolutely nothing. wise jewish people say that the most ardent i anti semites are usually jews. israeli minister of foreign affairs yair lapid, the son of a holocaust survivor and the grandson of a holocaust victim, tweeted this. jews did not murder themselves in the holocaust. the lowest level of racism againstjews is to accusejews themselves of anti semitism. dani dayan, chairman of yad vashem, israel s memorial tojews killed in the holocaust also denounced lavrov. he is basically engaging