West Bank

The strike hit an apartment in the Jaffa residential tower in the Nuseirat refugee camp.

Such a move would effectively end Hamas’s rule and could help advance ceasefire talks with Israel.

Lord Cameron disclosed he had been working on a plan to sanction finance minister Bezalel Smotrich and national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.

Middle East minister Hamish Falconer said the annexation of the West Bank would be illegal and undermine any prospects for peace.

They agreed on the need to support a political solution to ‘end the bloodshed’ in Lebanon.

A strike late on Monday on the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya killed at least 20 people.

Abbas Araghchi held talks with his Egyptian counterpart Badr Abdelatty and Egyptian president Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi in Cairo on Thursday.

The UK, along with France and Algeria, called an urgent UN Security Council meeting to discuss the lack of aid entering northern Gaza.

The former prime minister urged the new Government to ‘look again’ at sanctioning ‘extremist’ Israeli ministers.

On the anniversary of the October 7 attacks, Anne Hailes speaks to those in Northern Ireland affected by the war in Gaza over the past 12 months