Secunder Kermani is an award-winning journalist and a Foreign Affairs Correspondent for Channel 4 News.
He is one of the few foreign journalists to have reported inside rebel-held territory in Myanmar, where a brutal civil war is raging, and also recently interviewed former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan after his release from jail.
Since joining Channel 4 News last year, he has covered major stories in Brazil, Israel and the Palestinian Territories and Japan. Secunder was previously the BBC’s Pakistan and Afghanistan Correspondent where he played a leading role in covering the rise to power of the Taliban.
Reports from Gaza say at least 72 people have been killed in Israeli attacks across the territory since Thursday night.
People in Gaza are continuing to flee an Israeli offensive in the north, which has left the few remaining hospitals on the brink of collapse, and forced emergency responders to suspend their operations.
The Turkish president, Recep Erdoğan is one of the world leaders at the BRICS summit hosted by President Putin in Russia. His attempt, perhaps, to reshape perceptions of the world order in a counterpoint to the Western alliance.
Foreign Affairs Correspondent Secunder Kermani is in Beirut.
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in a confident mood tonight – declaring that Hezbollah is now “weaker than it has been for many many years” – and calling on Lebanese citizens to “take back your country”.
It’s been another night and day of bombardment in Beirut – as Israel claimed it was carrying out “targeted strikes” in the southern suburbs where Hezbollah’s leader and top echelons have been killed.
We speak to our Foreign Affairs Correspondent Secunder Kermani.
We speak to our Foreign Affairs Correspondent Secunder Kermani, who’s just returned to Beirut from Tyre in southern Lebanon.
The toll on civilians in Lebanon is “totally unacceptable”, the United Nations warned tonight – as Israeli airstrikes continued to pound the country – while almost 200 rockets were fired into Northern Israel, with no reports of major damage.
Israel warned residents of more villages and towns in southern Lebanon to evacuate to areas over 30 miles north of the border.
The Israeli invasion of Southern Lebanon has already met strong resistance with eight Israeli soldiers killed as Hezbollah fighters used their network of tunnels and rocket launchers to fight back.
Grief and pain in Lebanon as families bury dead after Israel strikes
Israel’s Prime Minister has warned Iran that nowhere in the Middle East is beyond its reach.
Israel’s war is wreaking a terrible toll on Gaza’s children and it’s not just bombs and bullets killing and scarring them. Forced to flee their homes, living in squalor, disease is now rampant amongst the population, including painful skin infections.
Israeli missiles have again hit a crowded tent camp for displaced Palestinians in southern Gaza.