Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused Labour of undermining Israel as a second wave of booby-traps rocked the Middle East.
In an interview with the Mail, he attacked Sir Keir Starmer‘s ‘misguided’ administration.
WHAT KEIR STARMER SAID
And he accused the Prime Minister of ‘sending a horrible message’ to Hamas after the UK Government suspended a raft of arms licences to Israel.
The Jewish State’s longest serving leader also slammed looming arrest warrants from the International Criminal Court (ICC) as ‘preposterous’ in his first British newspaper interview since the October 7 attack.
His responses were given days before thousands of Hezbollah fighters were maimed when hand-held pagers exploded in Syria and Lebanon on Tuesday.
Yesterday another 14 people were killed and 450 injured when walkie-talkies used by the terror group detonated across Lebanon.
Israel has not yet commented on either attack – although it is widely believed they were orchestrated by the country’s spy agency Mossad.
WHAT NETANYAHU SAID
In an astonishing broadside at Sir Keir, Mr Netanyahu told the Mail: ‘After the October 7 Hamas massacre, the previous British government was clear in its support. Unfortunately, the current government is sending mixed messages.
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‘They say that Israel has the right to defend itself, but they undermine our ability to exercise that right both by reversing Britain’s position on the absurd allegations made by the ICC prosecutor against Israel and by blocking weapons sales to Israel as we fight against the genocidal terrorist organisation that carried out the October 7 massacre.’
Sir Keir told Parliament at the time that the ‘difficult issue’ of a partial arms embargo was ‘a legal decision not a policy decision’.
He said the decision was taken following a review by the Foreign Office into Israel’s conduct in the war against Hamas. But the timing of the partial arms embargo was criticised – coming days after Hamas executed six Israeli hostages.
