Israel is "prosecuting a legitimate war of self-defence," says Oliver Dowden

Speaking on BBC Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg this morning, Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden said: "I think the starting point though for all of this, and you said at the top of this, and I think it's quite easy to forget, six months ago Israel was subject to the most appalling attack, we know all the details of that, but Israel is still facing this existential threat from Hamas, it's a nation in trauma and it is prosecuting a legitimate war of self-defence."

Also interviewed were David Lammy MP, Shadow Foreign Secretary, and Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary-General. 

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