They havent gone in rafah yet. If theyre going to rafah, im not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with rafah, to deal with the cities, to deal with that problem. Were going to continue to make sure israel is secure in terms of iron dome and their ability to respond to attacks like came out of The Middle East recently. Lets ta ke lets take you to the scene, looking out at gaza. You can see in the distance there, a heavy plume of smoke, a reminder that the conflict continues on. And heavy shelling has been reported in rafah in the south of the gaza strip this morning. Our middle east correspondent, yolande knell, told me more from jerusalem. We still havent heard from the israeli Prime Ministers office. We do have some comments in the past hour or so from the Israeli Foreign minister obliquely referring to this. Hes written on x. Theres no war more just than this. And said israel will continue to fight until hamas s destruction. Weve also had, in a characteri
Respond to attacks like came out of The Middle East recently. Our middle east correspondent, yolande knell, is injerusalem. She told me more about the reaction, starting with that of israels foreign minister, israel katz. He has written on x that there is no more war just he has written on x that there is no more warjust than this and israel will continue to fight until hamas s destruction. We have also had in a characteristically quite shocking comment from the National Security minister, he has put on his x account. A mass heart biden. So there is a lot of upset here about these comments. From the us president , the us, of course, israels closest ally, and that will put pressure on this Israeli Coalition government as to what it does next, particularly with regard to rafah. And we know that there are also reports that from within the Israeli Defence establishment, a lot of concern there about what this means for such a critical relationship. And all of this as were Hearing Reports of