injerusalem. remember, earlier this week, israeli police raided the mosque after palestinians barricaded themselves inside, after the evening ramadan prayer. that led to palestinian militants firing rockets into israel from lebanon and gaza, and israel hitting back with airstrikes. the al aqsa mosque, the third holiest site in islam, is located on a hilltop complex known by muslims as al haram al sharif, and byjews as the temple mount. jews revere it as the location of two biblical temples and it is the holiest site injudaism. thousands of muslims and jews are gathering injerusalem with ramadan and passover overlapping this year. earlier, tens of thousands of people protesting against the israeli government s plans to gain more control over the judiciary, held a minute s silence for the victims of a wave of recent attacks on civilians. two british israeli sisters who were killed in a shooting in the occupied west bank yesterday have been named as maia and rina dee. their moth
jihad. hundreds of thousands of people taking to the streets, how frightening that must ve bean for jewish people living in our capital. the problem for keir starmer is why he has come down hard on andy mcdonald and disciplined him, there is clearly a revolt brewing in his party. around a quarter of labour mps have called for a ceasefire in some way, about half of his front bench have now openly called for a ceasefire as well is very important regional politicians like anas sarwar, sadiq khan and andy burnham. and the less that keir starmer is able to appear tough with members of his party on the issue, the more other members of the party. in fairness, sir keir has not deviated from his position in spite of the opposition on his shadow benches. he says, it is a complex situation. people who want a ceasefire would leave hostages in the hands of hamas with hamas still firing rockets at israel. he is under pressure to change the position and he has not. he is often criticised fo
speculate that its government forces or that its extreme religious forces that are somehow close to the government. the deputy minister of health, he was the first official to actually comment on this several months ago, and the one thing that he did say he didn t explain very clearly what was going on, but he said that there are people who want to see girls out of school, not attending school. but he didn t speculate, he didn t give more information. and actually, government officials have been reluctant to give any more information. they have skirted around the issue. they ve come up around the issue. they ve come up with multiple, multiple task forces charged with investigating, but they haven t given anyone a clear answer. no matter who s behind it, whether it s actually people associated directly the government in the state and the state or people who are supportive of the government who are religious extremist groups, what happens, the result of these attacks, is one in the
who may be behind these, and what could be the intention here? well, it s not clear exactly who was behind it, but there s a lot of speculation. many people speculate that its government forces or that it s extreme religious forces that are somehow close to the government. the deputy minister of health, he was the first official to actually comment on this several months ago. and the one thing that he did say he didn t explain very clearly what was going on, but he said that there are people who want to see girls out of school, not attending school. but he didn t speculate, he didn t give more information, and actually government officials have been reluctant to give any more information. they have skirted around the issue. they ve come up with multiple, multiple task forces charged with investigating, but they haven t given anyone a clear answer. no matter who s behind it, whether it s actually people