The prime minister called on the UK to to keep supporting Israel’s Gaza counter-offensive.
JERUSALEM: Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday the Hamas attack on Israel was aimed at preventing the expansion of peace in the Middle East, and called on British prime minister Rishi Sunak to keep supporting Israel’s Gaza counter-offensive.
Sunak encouraged the crown prince to use Saudi’s leadership in the region to support both current and long-term stability, and the pair underscored the need to prevent any escalation in the conflict, the British prime minister’s office said.Netanyahu said the attack from Gaza by Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, which killed 1,400 people in Israel, was aimed at derailing attempts to establish a wider peace in the region.
Sunak met Netanyahu after holding talks with Israeli president Isaac Herzog. He welcomed the decision to allow aid into Gaza, saying he knew Israel was “taking every precaution to avoid harming civilians in direct contrast to the terrorists of Hamas”. “We will stand with you in solidarity with your people and your right to defend yourself, to bring security back to your country, to your people, to ensure the safe return of the hostages that have been taken,” Sunak said in a televised part of the meeting with Herzog.
In Israel, Sunak met the families of two of the missing, who are believed to have been taken hostage and held in Gaza.
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