G7 leaders warn against ‘uncontrollable escalation’ after Iran attack on Israel

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Countries including the UK and US said they ‘stand ready to take further measures now and in response to further destabilising initiatives’.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak confirmed on Sunday that British RAF jets shot down a number of Iranian drones

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak earlier confirmed that British RAF jets shot down a number of Iranian drones after the country announced it had launched retaliatory action against its long-standing enemy. The leaders of the Group of Seven advanced economies also referred to Gaza, where an Israeli offensive, sparked by Hamas’s October 7 attack that claimed the lives of 1,200 people, has caused widespread devastation and killed more than 33,000 Palestinians.

The assault came in response to a strike widely blamed on Israel on an Iranian consular building in Syria earlier this month, which killed two Iranian generals. Speaking to journalists in Downing Street on Sunday morning, the PM described the strikes as “dangerous and unnecessary”, warning that the fallout in regional stability would have been “hard to overstate” if they had been successful.Foreign Secretary Lord David Cameron later summoned the charge d’affaires of the Iranian embassy to the Foreign Office and “formally condemned” the attack in a call with his Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.

Rescuers said a seven-year-old girl was seriously wounded in southern Israel, apparently in a strike, although they said police were still investigating the circumstances of her injuries.

 

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