UK calls for immediate Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire

The UK, alongside other European nations and the US, called for an "immediate" ceasefire between Lebanon's Hezbollah and Israel, warning that the region is in a moment of maximum danger of the conflict "exploding into full-scale war".

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In a statement at a Security Council meeting during the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, Foreign Secretary David Lammy condemned Hezbollah's attacks on Israel over the last 11 months and reiterated that there was no justification for the assaults which have brought misery to ordinary people in Lebanon and Israel.

In a message to Iran, Lammy said nothing justified supplying weapons to terror groups in defiance of the UN and called on Tehran to use its influence with Hezbollah to agree a ceasefire.