‘The hardest day Israelis have ever experienced in their lifetimes’
The Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu has declared Israel is at war, after Hamas launched attacks on an unprecedented scale. It is the biggest escalation in the conflict since the Yom Kippur war 50 years ago, and Israel has already launched retaliatory strikes in the Gaza Strip. Israel’s ambassador to the UK Tzipi Hotovely described ‘terrorists going from one house to another and brutally targeting children’. Dozens of hostages have been taken, and one British citizen, Jake Marlowe, is missing after a Hamas attack on a music festival.
Starmer – ‘a terrorist attack, for which there is no justification’
When asked to comment on the conflict, the leader of the Labour Party was unequivocal in his condemnation of the Hamas attacks, calling them ‘an appalling act of terrorist’ which ‘needs to be called out across the world’. He also said that Hamas have deliberately ‘pushed back the prospect of peace agreements’.
‘I’ve had a lot worse thrown at me in my life’
As the Labour Party conference kicks off, Starmer was shown More in Common research showing what people think of him.
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