Inside the country. Uk Prime Minister rishi sunak has used a Telephone Call with Israels Benjamin Netanyahu to appeal for calm heads, after irans missile and drone attack over the weekend. While he emphasised the uks support for israels security, mr sunak said a significant escalation in tensions was in no one s interests. Lucy williamson reports from jerusalem. Israels Prime Minister is weighing up the risks of another war before hes finished the existing one. Today, he told new army recruits that operations in gaza were just one part of a wider conflict. Translation its part of a bigger system. You can see it. Iran stands behind hamas, behind hezbollah, behind others. But we are determined to win there and defend ourselves in all arenas. New footage released by the army shows the moment the military focus here changed. The first interceptions of iranian missiles ordered from this control room. Israels ongoing conflicts with iranian backed groups have been pushed into the shadows by a
Though some officials expect it to be a limited strike inside the country. Tuesday morning the air drop Missions Continue in gaza this time carried out by the us central command. For now, the United Nations has voiced concerns, about escalating violence in the occupied west bank. It comes after a wave of attacks, sparked by the killing of an israeli teenager. The un accused Israeli Security forces of active participation in attacks on palestinians byjewish settlers. The vast majority of the International Community considers the settlements in the west bank as illegal under international law. Israel disputes this. Uk Prime Minister rishi sunak has used a Telephone Call with Israels Benjamin Netanyahu to appeal for calm heads, after irans missile and drone attack over the weekend. While he emphasised the uks support for israels security, mr sunak said a significant escalation in tensions was in no one s interests. Lucy williamson reports from jerusalem. Israels Prime Minister is weighing
On bbc london. Reaction as a Muslim Student on newsnight at 10 30pm. It seems the Prime Minister will get his smoking and vape ban, but only because the opposition rode to the rescue. What does it tell us that a senior cabinet minister, five other ministers and two tory former Prime Ministers refused to support rishi sunak . The vote in the commons was overwelming and never destined to be a close run thing, with labour backing the governments plans to ban anyone born after 2009 from buying cigarettes. 57 conservative mps did vote against the bill, including the business secretary kemi badenoch, arguing it was an attack on personal freedoms. But the Health Secretary Victoria Atkins said, theres no liberty in addiction. In a moment, hugh pym will look at the implications of any new law for the nhs, but first, chris mason is at westminster. Good evening. This is a place normally associated with tribal and noisy Party Politics but there was less of that today because there was widespread a
close quarter combat has seen fierce fighting with gunmen as they target outposts, headquarters and other hamas infrastructure. with the fighting intensifying there s been strongly worded criticism of the humanitarian situation emerging from the united nations. seven human rights experts have said that they believe that the palestinian people in gaza are at grave risk of genocide , and that time is running out to prevent this. israel accused them of repeating hamas propaganda. meanwhile the us secretary of state, antony blinken, is back in israel for his second visit to the region since the war began. he plans to talk to israeli officials about how to pursue their military and security goals in gaza while limiting civilian casualties. and people across the region are waiting to hear from the leader of the lebanese islamist group, hezbollah. his speech in the comming hours will be closely watched, and could have huge consiquences for the conflict. our gaza correspondent rushdi