Keir Starmer steps up call for a ceasefire in Lebanon at UN

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Keir Starmer steps up call for a ceasefire in Lebanon at UN

Sir Keir Starmer has stepped up his call for an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon following an escalation in fighting between ******* and the armed group Hezbollah.

“Stop the *********. Step back from the brink,” the prime minister said in his maiden speech to the UN General Assembly, despite ******** ministers’ rejection of an international proposal for a temporary pause in fighting.

Sir Keir told world leaders a ceasefire would provide space for a diplomatic settlement to avoid a regional conflict in the Middle East.

Fears of an all-out war between ******* and Hezbollah are at a high, following the deadliest escalation of cross-border attacks in decades.

More than 600 people have been ******* by ******** airstrikes in Lebanon since Monday, including at least 92 people on Thursday, according to local authorities.

Hezbollah has responded by ******* hundreds of rockets into northern *******.

The soaring tensions prompted a 12-strong bloc – including the ***, US and other allies – to

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, which has been broadly rejected by ******** politicians.

******** Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the country’s military to

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as he landed in New York on Thursday.

Addressing the UN General Assembly there, Sir Keir said an immediate ceasefire was needed “to provide space for a diplomatic settlement”.

He warned that the conflict could spill over into a war “no-one can control and with consequences that none of us can foresee”.

Sir Keir also promised to return the *** to “responsible global leadership” by recommitting to “the UN, to internationalism, to the rule of law”.

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