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Iran has warned it could be forced to take ‘pre-emptive action’ against Israel in the ‘coming hours’ as the Jewish nation prepares for a ground offensive on the Gaza strip.

Tehran has repeatedly warned that an invasion of Gaza would be met with a response from other fronts – after a day where Israel also faced threats from Lebanon in the north.

The declarations of intent have rapidly heightened tensions in the fraught Middle East, sparking fears of a wider conflict in the coming days.

It comes as the United States have told 2,000 troops to be prepared to deploy to the war-torn corner of the world and moved a second aircraft carrier to the eastern Mediterranean.

Iran’s foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian – referring to his meeting with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Saturday – said: ‘The possibility of pre-emptive action by the resistance axis is expected in the coming hours.’

Tehran has repeatedly warned that an invasion of Gaza would be met with a response from other fronts – after a day where Israel also faced threats from Lebanon in the north. Pictured: An injured Palestinian boy sits on the ground at the emergency room of the al-Shifa hospital

The declarations of intent have rapidly heightened tensions in the fraught Middle East, sparking fears of a wider conflict in the coming days. Pictured: Wounded Palestinians arrive at al-Shifa hospital,

Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi also warned that time was running out to reach a political solution and warned against the expansion of the Israel-Hamas war to other fronts. Pictured: Injured Palestinians arrive to the al-Shifa Hospital

European governments have warned the nations to take all necessary measures to avert war. Pictured: Smoke billows after an Israeli air strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip

He said that ‘the resistance leaders’ will not allow Israel ‘to do whatever it wants in Gaza’. 

Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi also warned that time was running out to reach a political solution and warned against the expansion of the Israel-Hamas war to other fronts.

But European governments have warned the nations to take all necessary measures to avert war.

France’s Foreign Finister Catherine Colonna – speaking from Beirut – said: ‘Lebanese officials have a responsibility… to do everything possible to prevent Lebanon from being dragged into a spiral.’

Repeated fire in recent days has claimed lives on both sides of the UN-patrolled border between Lebanon and Israel, which remain technically at war.

If Israel does invade the Palestinian enclave of Gaza in its war on Hamas, Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah movement has warned it may escalate its military involvement.

And Germany warned Iran not to ‘pour oil on the fire’ of the Israel-Hamas war, after the country’s foreign minister met with high-ranking Hamas officials.

‘Anyone who wants to play with fire in this situation and pour oil on the fire or ignite it in any other way should really think twice because we are facing a potentially major regional conflict,’ foreign ministry spokesman Sebastian Fischer said.

But – in a day fraught with tension – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Iran and Lebanon’s terror group Hezbollah not to ‘test us’ in the north.

Repeated fire in recent days has claimed lives on both sides of the UN-patrolled border between Lebanon and Israel, which remain technically at war. Pictured: An injured Palestinian child is taken to Al-Aqsa Hospital

If Israel does invade the Palestinian enclave of Gaza in its war on Hamas, Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah movement has warned it may escalate its military involvement. Pictured: An injured Palestinian child is taken to Al-Aqsa Hospital

Germany warned Iran not to ‘pour oil on the fire’ of the Israel-Hamas war, after the country’s foreign minister met with high-ranking Hamas officials. Pictured: An injured Palestinian child is taken to Al-Aqsa Hospital

In a day fraught with tension – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Iran and Lebanon’s terror group Hezbollah not to ‘test us’ in the north. Pictured: Bodies of people killed in the attack by Hamas on southern Israel await identification

Speaking to the Israeli Knesset today, Netanyahu warned Iran and Hezbollah, ‘Don’t test us in the north. Don’t make the mistake of the past. Today, the price you will pay will be far heavier,’ referring to Israel’s 2006 war with Hezbollah.

He also called on the world to unite as it did ‘to defeat the Nazis and ISIS’, and admtitted that there are ‘many questions surrounding’ last week’s disaster.

After Hamas terrorists stormed into Israel on October 7 and killed more than 1,400 people, Israel has unleashed a relentless bombing campaign of the Gaza Strip that flattened neighbourhoods and killed at least 2,750 people, mainly civilians.

Addressing parliament, Rishi Sunak condemned the Hamas ‘Pogrom’ as he said six Brits are confirmed dead and 10 more missing.

The PM insisted Britain will ‘stand by’ Israel as he insisted the country had the right to respond – although he stressed the need to avoid ‘broader regional instability’ and take ‘every possible precaution to avoid harming civilians’. 

Updating MPs after the Commons returned for the first time since the bloody attacks, Mr Sunak addressed Jewish community members in the gallery, saying: ‘We stand with you, we stand with Israel.’ 

‘The attacks in Israel last weekend shocked the world. Over 1,400 people murdered one by one, over 3,500 wounded, almost 200 taken hostage,’ Mr Sunak said.

He went on: ‘We should call it by its name: it was a Pogrom.

‘The families of some of the missing are in the public gallery today. We call for the immediate release of all hostages and I say to them: we stand with you. We stand with Israel.’

After Hamas terrorists stormed into Israel on October 7 and killed more than 1,400 people, Israel has unleashed a relentless bombing campaign of the Gaza Strip that flattened neighbourhoods and killed at least 2,750 people, mainly civilians. Pictured: An injured Palestinian woman is taken to Al-Aqsa Hospital

The PM insisted Britain will ‘stand by’ Israel as he insisted the country had the right to respond Pictured: Shells from Israeli artillery explode over Dhayra village, near the Lebanese-Israeli border, Lebanon

Rishi Sunak stressed the need to avoid ‘broader regional instability’ and take ‘every possible precaution to avoid harming civilians’. Pictured: Smoke rises from Israeli artillery shelling in Dhayra village, near the Lebanese-Israeli border

Mr Sunak (pictured) said the ‘terrible nature of these attacks means it is proving difficult to identify many of the deceased’

Mr Sunak said the ‘terrible nature of these attacks means it is proving difficult to identify many of the deceased’.

‘But with a heavy heart I can inform the House that at least six British citizens were killed,’ he said.

‘A further 10 are missing, some of whom are feared to be among the dead.’

The government’s stance was backed by Labour leader Keir Starmer, who said that Parliament must speak with ‘one voice’. 

But despite the looming threat a defiant Hamas has said the threat of invasion ‘doesn’t scare us and we are ready for it.’

In a televised statement, Abu Obeideh, the spokesman of Hamas’s military wing, also revealed Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades were holding 200 people captive since a massive onslaught on Israel’s south on October 7, with about 50 others held by other ‘resistance factions and in other places’.

Army spokesman Daniel Hagari said earlier Monday Israel had been able to confirm and notify the relatives of 199 people held captives in Gaza.

According to Abu Obeideh, ‘we will release the foreign prisoners when conditions are ripe’.

More than a million Palestinians have fled their homes ahead of an expected invasion of Gaza by Israeli troops. Pictured: Injured Palestinians arrive to the al-Shifa Hospital

Desperate families were seen carrying mattresses on their backs as they heeded Israel’s warning of further retaliatory military action. Pictured: Smoke rises as Israeli attacks continue during the 10th day of clashes near the Gaza border in Sderot, Israel

Air strikes have cost more than 2,750 lives and rendered half the population of Gaza refugees. Pictured: Smoke rises from various areas as Israeli attacks continue during the 10th day of clashes near the Gaza border in Sderot, Israel

He said at least 22 hostages taken from Israel had been killed in Israeli air strikes on Gaza.

The European Union has said that it will launch an humanitarian ‘air bridge’ to Gaza with the first flights this week, to provide ‘help and aid’ to millions of Palestinians trapped in the heavily bombarded enclave, President Ursula von der Leyen announced.

And Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joined calls for a humanitarian corridor to be opened into Gaza, saying urgent help was needed to address an increasingly dire situation in the enclave of 2.3 million.

President Joe Biden will travel to Israel on Wednesday to show support for the U.S. ally as concerns increase that the raging Israel-Hamas war could expand into a larger regional conflict.

Biden is looking to send the strongest message yet that the U.S. is behind Israel. His Democratic administration has pledged military support, sending U.S. carriers and aid to the region. 

Officials have said they would ask Congress for upward of $2 billion in additional aid for both Israel and Ukraine, which is fighting Russia’s invasion.

More than a million Palestinians have fled their homes ahead of an expected invasion of Gaza by Israeli troops. 

Desperate families were seen carrying mattresses on their backs as they heeded Israel’s warning of further retaliatory military action. 

1,000 remain missing, feared trapped beneath the rubble of ruined homes and offices. Pictured: Palestinians search for victims and survivors in the rubble of Al-Naqeeb family house leveled in an Israeli airstrike

Yesterday 600,000 displaced persons were reported to have reached the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis. Pictured: Palestinian children injured during Israeli raids in the southern Gaza Strip arrive in Khan Yunis

Around 400,000 are sheltering in facilities run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. Pictured: Displaced Palestinians reside at an UNRWA-run school in Khan Yunis

Air strikes have cost more than 2,750 lives and rendered half the population of Gaza refugees. 

A further 1,000 remain missing, feared trapped beneath the rubble of ruined homes and offices. 

Yesterday 600,000 displaced persons were reported to have reached the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis. 

Around 400,000 are sheltering in facilities run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. 

UN officials warned of an unprecedented catastrophe with hospitals expected to run out of fuel within a day, endangering the lives of thousands of sick and wounded people. 

The World Health Organisation has described Israel’s instruction to move patients, irrespective of their conditions, as ‘a death sentence’. Israel said Hamas uses vulnerable civilians as ‘human shields’. 

In a bid to avert further bloodshed, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Israeli officials yesterday to discuss the crisis. 

But before it will facilitate the distribution of aid Israel has demanded the release of its citizens captured when Hamas infiltrated the country just over a week ago. 

Gunmen killed more than 1,400 men, women and children in the most barbaric circumstances. 

In a bid to avert further bloodshed, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (pictured) met Israeli officials yesterday to discuss the crisis

Since the attack, Israel has pledged to destroy Hamas. But a former UK senior army officer warned that no Israeli incursion into Gaza would eliminate the Iranian-backed paramilitary organisation. Pictured: Military mobility of Israeli security forces continues in Sderot, Israel

The UK Foreign Office said it was working with the Egyptian authorities to arrange the safe passage of UK citizens. Pictured: A picture taken from the Israeli city of Sderot shows a salvo of rockets fired towards Israel from the Gaza Strip

Since then, Israel has pledged to destroy Hamas. But a former UK senior army officer warned that no Israeli incursion into Gaza would eliminate the Iranian-backed paramilitary organisation. 

Major General Charlie Herbert, an Afghanistan veteran, suggested rescuing the 199 hostages by military means would also prove extremely difficult. 

He said: ‘I can’t foresee a successful military solution to this objective. Diplomacy is better. The second objective is to capture or kill Hamas’s political and military leadership. This is a given, but, again, this won’t be easy in an operation of limited duration.’ 

Hopes were raised only to be dashed when a reported agreement to open the Rafah border crossing collapsed. 

The move would have let thousands of dual nationals, including Britons, leave Gaza and for desperately needed humanitarian supplies to arrive from Egypt. 

The UK Foreign Office said it was working with the Egyptian authorities to arrange the safe passage of UK citizens. However, the crossing remained closed yesterday. 

This meant trucks loaded with 150,000 litres of fuel to run water and sewage pumping stations in Gaza remained stranded. 

The charity Save The Children said that water was ‘running out’ in Gaza, with huge numbers of displaced civilians being rationed to one litre each per day. 

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced late Saturday that the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower strike group was on its way to the eastern Mediterranean to ‘deter’ any escalation

Israeli army Puma armoured personnel carrierss (APCs) move in a column near the Gaza border in southern Israel on October 14, 2023

The UN said it was ‘deep in negotiations’ with Israel and Hamas in a bid to reach an agreement over aid and to establish humanitarian corridors. 

About 400,000 Israeli troops have continued their preparations for an assault on Palestinian territory.

Russia also called for an ‘immediate ceasefire’, with President Vladimir Putin calling for the violence to end while making no mention of his on-going invasion of Ukraine that has resulted in the deaths of thousands of civilians.

As the west prepares for Israel’s ground assault, the Pentagon has reportedly selected about 2,000 troops to prepare for a deployment to help Israel as a second carrier strike group steams for the eastern Mediterranean.

Officials said the troops will not serve in a combat role but would be tasked with medical support or advisory duties. 

Details emerged after the Department of Defense said the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower strike group, which deployed from Norfolk, Virginia, on Friday, is on its way. 

She will join the USS Gerald R. Ford, which arrived off the coast of Israel last week.

The presence of two of the Navy’s most powerful warships will send a clear signal to Iran and its regional proxies, such as Hezbollah, not to escalate the conflict.

Overall, more than 2,750 people have been killed in Israeli strikes on the narrow Palestinian enclave since October 7, according to Hamas officials.

Police spokeswoman Ilse Vande Keere said officers arrived soon at the scene in Brussels, and sealed off the immediate neighbourhood

And in a devastating day for Europe, the conflict spiraled out of the Middle East as two were killed by a ‘terrorist’ gun rampage in Brussels.

The Belgian capital was brought to a standstill after two people were killed when a gunman claiming to be a member of ISIS went on a rampage and opened fire on a group of Swedish football fans.

The gunman is said to have begun shooting at the men as they passed through Boulevard d’Ypres just a few minutes north of the city’s famous Grand Plaza. 

The Swedes were wearing their team’s jerseys and were believed to be on their way to a match at King Baudouin Stadium, where Sweden were playing Belgium. A third person is said to be seriously injured. 

The alleged attacker, named by local media as Abdesalem Lassoued, used the name ‘Slayem Slouma’ to boast about the two murders on Facebook, adding he sought to avenge the killing of a six-year-old US-Palestinian boy.

Speaking in Arabic, he celebrated the slaughter, and said he committed them in the name of ISIS.

The shooter remains at large. Police confirmed that the man in the video – wearing an orange jacket, black scarf, yellow baseball hat and heavy black beard – was the one they were searching for in relation to the attack.

The city’s terror alert has been raised to a level 4 – its highest, with the spokesman for the Belgian federal prosecutor telling people to ‘Go home and stay at home as long as the threat has not been eradicated’.

Many Sweden fans at King Baudouin Stadium were tearful and clung to each other for support, while others checked their mobile phones for the latest information

The shooting took place in  Boulevard d’Ypres just a few minutes north of the city’s famous Grand Plaza

He is reported to have said he was avenging the stabbing of six-year-old US-Palestinian boy Wadea Al-Fayoume, who was knifed to death in Plainfield, Illinois, on Saturday morning.

Wadea was stabbed 26 times and his mother, Hanaan Shahin, was stabbed over a dozen times, by a man allegedly screaming ‘You Muslims must die!’

Joseph Czuba, 71, is charged with murdering the boy.

In shocking scenes in north London, a vandal as caught walking up to a Jewish girls school and hurling paint over the property, in what is being investigated as an anti-Semitic attack.

The school of target – Vishnitz Girls’ school in Hackney – has 446 students and was attacked last Thursday, despite the Met Police’s promise to step up patrols in amid a surge of anti-Semitic incidents.

A vandal, suspected to be a woman, wearing a mask and a hooded coat while carrying an umbrella, can be seen on closed circuit TV footage smearing the school just before 6am.

Paint was thrown over four parts of the school building, including the front door, before the vandal walked away.

the offence is now is to be treated as a ‘hate crime’ by the Met Police.

A vandal hurled red paint over Beis Chinuch Lebonos Girls’ School in Hackney, which police are investigating as a ‘hate crime’

Paint was thrown over four parts of the school building, including the front door, before the vandal walked away

As the impact of the war spreads across the world, the BBC came under increased pressure to call Hamas ‘terrorists’.

Hundreds of protestors gathered outside central London’s BBC Broadcasting House as the National Jewish Assembly hosted the rally alongside the UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI), the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) and the European Jewish Association.

Protesters placed posters of kidnapped Israelis on a wall opposite the iconic building while others chanted, prayed and waved Israeli flags for around 90 minutes. 

Gideon Falter, speaking on the behalf of the CAA, told crowds: ‘When it comes down to it, the BBC has used the word ‘terrorists’.

‘I’m sure you can all remember where you were in 2005 during the London bombings. Do you know what the BBC called that, a ‘terrorist atrocity’.

‘What do you call it when Hamas terrorists cross into Israel and gun people down at a music festival?’

He added: ‘It is not impartial to call a terrorist a militant. It is excusing the terrorist.’

At one stage, the rally was paused briefly to pray after hearing there had been warnings of rockets in Tel Aviv before chanting broke out again.

Hundreds of protestors gathered outside central London’s BBC Broadcasting House as the National Jewish Assembly hosted the rally alongside the UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI), the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) and the European Jewish Association

As the impact of the war spreads across the world, the BBC came under increased pressure to call Hamas ‘terrorists’

Protesters placed posters of kidnapped Israelis on a wall opposite the iconic building while others chanted, prayed and waved Israeli flags for around 90 minutes

A BBC spokesperson said: ‘We always take our use of language very seriously. Anyone watching or listening to our coverage will hear the word ‘terrorist’ used many times – we attribute it to those who are using it, for example, the UK Government.

‘This is an approach that has been used for decades, and is in line with that of other broadcasters.

‘The BBC is an editorially independent broadcaster whose job is to explain precisely what is happening ‘on the ground’ so our audiences can make their own judgment.’

The corporation also came under fire as it risked being dragged into a new impartiality row after Dragon’s Den star Touker Suleyman suggested countries that support Israel ‘will have blood on their hands.’

Suleyman posted: ‘Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.’

Beneath his post Suleyman wrote: ‘Politicians or leaders that give order to kill civilians, and try to justify it should be tried for war crimes. Some countries and politicians and leaders think they are untouchable.

‘Countries who support these leaders and politicians and countries will have blood on their hands. Countries of the free world, is there any of you strong enough to stand by what is international law?’

Suleyman, 70, who was born in Famagusta, a Turkish Cypriot city and moved to the UK when he was five, is a clothing entrepreneur who is said to be worth £200m. He has been a judge on Dragon’s Den since 2015.

Suleyman, 70, who was born in Famagusta, a Turkish Cypriot city and moved to the UK when he was five, is a clothing entrepreneur who is said to be worth £200m. He has been a judge on Dragon’s Den since 2015

In the caption beneath his post Suleyman suggested that countries and leaders who support Israel will ‘have blood on their hands’

Screengrabs published by the Guido Fawkes website appeared to show posts from Fadzai Madzingira’s (pictured) account describing Israel as an ‘apartheid state’

A spokesman for the Campaign Against Antisemitism said: ‘It would be nice to hear some words of support from Touker Suleyman who does not otherwise appear to have vocalised any support or sympathy explicitly for the Israeli citizens, including babies, children and the elderly who were victims of unspeakably brutal attacks by the genocidal terrorist group Hamas.’

In a further blow media watchdog Ofcom’s online safety supervision director was suspended after anti-Israel comments were posted on her private Instagram account.

Screengrabs published by the Guido Fawkes website appeared to show posts from Fadzai Madzingira’s account describing Israel as an ‘apartheid state’.

She is also claimed to have liked a post criticising Israel and the UK for forming a ‘vile colonial alliance’. 

An Ofcom spokesperson said: ‘Having reviewed these comments we’ve suspended this colleague, pending further investigation.’ 

In a day fraught with tensions, the head of Israel’s Shin Bet domestic intelligence agency took responsibility for failing to prevent Hamas from carrying out its deadly rampage through Israeli towns ten days after the surprise attack.

‘Despite a series of actions we carried out, unfortunately, on Saturday we were unable to generate sufficient warning that would allow the attack to be thwarted,’ Shin Bet director Ronen Bar said in a statement.

‘As the one who heads the organization, the responsibility for this is on me. There will be time for investigations. Now we fight.’

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