Keir Starmer will condemn Israel’s launch of airstrikes on Qatar in talks with the country’s president amid fears violence could spread across the region.

The Prime Minister will urge an end to fighting and the “intolerable” humanitarian crisis in Gaza when he meets with Israeli President, Isaac Herzog, in Downing Street.

Starmer will tell Herzog that Israel’s bombing of Hamas leaders in Doha , Qatar, risks escalating violence, The i Paper understands. New Feature

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He will put pressure on the President for his country to agree to a diplomatic route to peace negotiations.

Talks between Starmer and Herzog – part of a push to ramp up pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netenyahu – will go ahead despite the airstrikes.

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