Rishi Sunak and James Cleverly will call for any escalation of violence to be avoided amid growing concerns about conflict in the Middle East.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is in Israel for a two-day trip in a bid to help quell the escalating violence in the Israel-Hamas conflict
As part of a trip, he will urge Middle East leaders to “avoid further dangerous escalation”, saying that “too many lives have been lost” already in the Israeli-Hamas conflict. Hamas blamed Israel for the strike, while Tel Aviv pointed the finger at a rocket misfire by Islamic Jihad, another militant group operating in Gaza. Islamic Jihad has dismissed the claim.
“It now appears that that was at best speculation and at worst propaganda by a terrorist organisation.” A Downing Street official said he will share his condolences for the “terrible loss of life in Israel and Gaza in the last two weeks as a result of Hamas’s brutal terrorist attacks”. The 2,200-mile trip means Mr Sunak will not be in the UK when the results of Thursday’s Tamworth and Mid Bedfordshire by-election contests are announced in the early hours of Friday, with the Conservatives battling to hold on to what were once regarded as safe seats.
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