Middle East

In Gaza at least 28 Palestinians have been killed and dozens of others injured after an Israeli strike on a school being used as a shelter, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent.

We speak to our Foreign Affairs Correspondent Secunder Kermani.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, says many of the strikes on Lebanon have violated international humanitarian law.

In Beirut, air strikes and huge explosions lit up the skyline through the night, and again in the last hour, as Israel targeted the southern suburbs.

We spoke to Gavin Kelleher from the Norwegian Refugee Council.

Israel is a country braced for more war. Iran has already grounded overnight flights from all its airports. It follows an intense night in both Gaza and Beirut, as Israel stepped up its offensives against the Iran-backed groups Hamas and Hezbollah.

In the UK, tens of thousands of protesters have marched through central London, demanding a ceasefire in Gaza and an end to the violence in Lebanon.

We spoke to the shadow Security Minister Tom Tugendhat, one of the four remaining Conservative leadership contenders.

We spoke to Miri Eisin, who’s a retired colonel from the Israel Defence Forces.

We speak to our Foreign Affairs Correspondent Secunder Kermani, who’s just returned to Beirut from Tyre in southern Lebanon.

Israel has expanded its bombardment of Lebanon, striking new areas as it targets members of both Hezbollah and Hamas.

We spoke to the Foreign Office Minister responsible for the Middle East and North Africa, Conservative MP James Cleverly. We started by asking whether the reported foreign aid cuts to Syria would be reconsidered.

The Lebanese president has rejected calls for an international investigation into the port explosion which has killed at least 154 and left thousands more injured.

They are under siege. They are under constant bombardment. Now shocking new pictures reveal the agony of life in the Damascus suburb of east Ghouta, under government blockade, where activists say 19 civilians died in a wave of attacks by Syrian forces yesterday. Rebels fired several mortars into a Damascus neighbourhood in response.

More than 400 people have been killed and thousands more injured after the deadliest earthquake this year struck on the border of Iran and Iraq. Rescue workers have been frantically trying to find hundreds of people still thought to be trapped under the rubble.