The Briefing Room

Israel-Gaza: Is it turning into a regional conflict?


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As if the conflict in Gaza wasn’t bad enough, the fighting has ignited old and new tensions elsewhere across the region. Since the surprise attack by Hamas on 7th October, clashes on the Lebanon-Israel border have restarted, attacks on US troops stationed in Syria and Iraq have escalated and a group of Houthi armed rebels from Yemen has started firing rockets at cargo ships trying to access the Suez Canal from the Red Sea. So in this week’s programme David Aaronovitch asks how close the war in Gaza is to becoming a wider conflict across the Middle East.

David is joined by the following experts:

Frank Gardner, BBC’s Security Correspondent.
Dr Elisabeth Kendall, Arabist & Middle East specialist and also The Mistress of Girton College at the University of Cambridge.
Jane Kinninmont, Policy & Impact Director at the European Leadership Network.
Scott Lucas, Professor of International Politics at University College Dublin’s Clinton Institute.

Production team: Nick Holland, Kirsteen Knight and Charlotte McDonald

Production Co-ordinators: Sophie Hill
Sound: Neil Churchill
Editor: Richard Vadon

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