Hamas said on Saturday it would send a delegation to Egypt for a new round of mediated talks, with possibility of Israeli delegation also attending
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Britain is not giving the IDF “carte blanche”, the UK’s deputy prime minister, Oliver Dowden, has said.
Dowden told Sky News:
We are not giving carte blanche and we have robust conversations with Israel. Indeed both our prime minister had conversations with prime minister (Benjamin) Netanyahu and the foreign secretary had conversations with his opposite number…
The manner in which some people are seizing on this issue and trying to hold Israel to incredibly high standards, of course it is right that we hold Israel to high standards, but I just think there is a bit of relish from some people about the way in which they are pushing this case against Israel.
