Starmer steps up call for ceasefire in Lebanon

Sir Keir Starmer has stepped up his telephone for an contiguous ceasefire successful Lebanon pursuing an escalation successful warring betwixt Israel and the equipped radical Hezbollah.

"Stop the violence. Step backmost from the brink," the premier curate said successful his maiden code to the UN General Assembly, contempt Israeli ministers’ rejection of an planetary connection for a impermanent intermission successful fighting.

Sir Keir told satellite leaders a ceasefire would supply abstraction for a diplomatic colony to debar a determination struggle successful the Middle East.

Fears of an all-out warfare betwixt Israel and Hezbollah are astatine a high, pursuing the deadliest escalation of cross-border attacks successful decades.

More than 600 radical person been killed by Israeli airstrikes successful Lebanon since Monday, including astatine slightest 92 radical connected Thursday, according to section authorities.

Hezbollah has responded by firing hundreds of rockets into bluish Israel.

The soaring tensions prompted a 12-strong bloc - including the UK, US and different allies - to propose a three-week ceasefire, which has been broadly rejected by Israeli politicians.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the country's subject to continue warring against Hezbollah with "full force" arsenic helium landed successful New York connected Thursday.

Addressing the UN General Assembly there, Sir Keir said an contiguous ceasefire was needed "to supply abstraction for a diplomatic settlement".

He warned that the struggle could spill implicit into a warfare "no-one tin power and with consequences that nary of america tin foresee".

Sir Keir besides promised to instrumentality the UK to “responsible planetary leadership” by recommitting to “the UN, to internationalism, to the regularisation of law”.