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Starmer condemns Iran’s attack on Israel ‘in the strongest terms’

The Labour leader spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu this afternoon.

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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Sir Keir Starmer at 10 Downing (Photo by Henry Nicholls - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Ghost town: an IDF soldier amid the devastation at Kfar Azar (Photo: Gianluca Cecere)

There is no ‘recovery story’ for Kfar Aza – it’s still a bullet-riddled ghost town

By Nicole Lampert

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Smoke rises from the site of Israeli airstrikes on September 29 in Beirut (Getty Images)

Hamas did get Hezbollah involved – but not as it hoped

By Seth J. Frantzman

3 min read

Former Hamas leader in Lebanon Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin (circled) at an undated UNRWA event. Source: UN Watch.

I did not know our employee was Hamas commander, says Unwra chief

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People gather outside an apartment building hit by an Israeli air strike in Beirut's Cola district, 30 September, 2024. Two people were killed in an Israeli strike on Beirut on September 30, a Lebanese security source said, the first strike on the city itself since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel last year. (Photo by Fadel ITANI / AFP) (Photo by FADEL ITANI/AFP via Getty Images)

Israeli strike in south Lebanon killed Hamas leader, terror group says

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 26: UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer addresses world leaders at the UN General Assembly on September 26, 2024 in New York, New York. The 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly addresses the urgent need for enhanced international cooperation to deal with pressing global challenges such as climate change, poverty and inequality while tackling the impacts of ongoing conflicts and global health crises. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Sir Keir Starmer

‘Step back from the brink’, Starmer urges Israel and Hezbollah at the UN

By Lorin Bell-Cross

1 min read

The launch of the Labour Foreign Policy Group's Middle East and North Africa Forum. Right to Left: Saudi Ambassador to the UK Khalid bin Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al–Saud, Defence Minister Alistair Carns, Labour Foreign Policy Group co-founder Cllr Peymana Assad and former Pentagon adviser Jasmine El-Gamal. Credit: Labour Foreign Policy Group

UN has been on our side, not Israel’s, claims Saudi envoy when discussing Yemen war in which 377,000 died

By Lorin Bell-Cross

3 min read

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By Bernard-Henri Lévy

Oppressed lovers of freedom everywhere are secretly rooting for Israel to win

The war with Hamas is existential for all of Western civilisation

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September 25, 2024 09:07

October 7 was not just a tragedy for Israel, but emblematic of an attack to the Global West, Bernard-Henri Lévy argues in "Israel Alone" (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

Yaakov Katz

Israel must not forget Gaza and the hostages as it fights Hezbollah

Fighting on two fronts is no easy feat, but it is essential if we are to free the remaining hostages

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September 25, 2024 08:42

Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike on the eastern areas of Baalbeck in the Bekaa valley on September 23, 2024. Israeli air strikes killed 274 people, including 21 children, in south Lebanon on September 23, the Lebanese health minister said, in by far the deadliest cross-border escalation since war erupted in Gaza on October 7. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

Did Sinwar die in an airstrike? IDF refuses to confirm or deny Israeli reports

Several Israeli news outlets said on Sunday that the terror chief may have been killed

By Imogen Garfinkel

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September 23, 2024 12:25

The IDF cannot "confirm or deny" whether Yahya Sinwar, Hamas' political chief in Gaza, was killed or injured in an Israeli airstrike (Getty Images)

Haniyeh rejected billions and a Palestinian state, son reveals

In 2021 Gaza had more beauty than many Arab countries, Abd Al-Salam Haniyeh also says in interview

By Jane Prinsley

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September 20, 2024 10:22

Abd Al-Salam Haniyeh told SamaQuds about the beauty of Gaza in recent years (Photo: Memri TV)

Netanyahu: Labour’s ‘absurd’ arms block sent terrible message to Hamas

He also attacked the government’s removal of objections to ICC arrest warrants against Israeli leaders

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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September 19, 2024 10:50

Netanyahu insisted on Sunday that 'anyone who hurts us will pay a very heavy price' (Photo: Getty Images)

Hostage families meet over half of Lib Dem MPs in effort to keep loved ones at the forefront of politicians’ minds

A vigil was held in Brighton as well as rally organised by Liberal Democrat Friends of Israel

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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September 16, 2024 14:59

Michael Levy (left) holding up an image of his brother Or, who is held hostage by Hamas, alongside Liberal Democrat Friends of Israel Honorary Chair, Gavin Stollar OBE (right)

Hamas tunnel complex found next to hospital in West Bank, IDF says

The Israeli military said it would investigate the under-construction underground system and destroy it

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September 16, 2024 11:11

Israeli troops during counterterrorism activity in the West Bank city of Tulkarem, September 2024 (Credit: IDF/Jewish News Syndicate)

Three hostages likely killed by Israeli airstrike, IDF probe concludes

Captives probably met their deaths as a ‘by-product’ of the strike that killed Hamas commander Ahmed Ghandour, says IDF

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September 16, 2024 09:08

Family and friends mourn at the funeral of Israel Defense Forces Sgt. Ron Sherman, December 15, 2023 (Photo by Flash90/Jewish News Syndicate)

Hezbollah is heading in the same direction as Hamas, says Gallant

Israel will dismantle the Lebanese terror group, the defence minister told US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin

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September 16, 2024 09:00

Mourners and Hezbollah supporters carry signs and banners of Hezbollah commander Fouad Shukr through the streets of Dahiyeh in south Beirut during his funeral in Lebanon. (Photo by Oliver Marsden / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP) (Photo by OLIVER MARSDEN/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

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