Foreign secretary David Lammy

David Lammy has warned the “risks of a full-scale regional war are rising” in the Middle East.

Writing in The Observer with his his French counterpart Stephane Sejourne, the foreign secretary discussed the ongoing efforts to negotiate a lasting ceasefire between Hamas and Israel before Iran strikes out, and possibly pulls the whole region into a wider conflict.

Tehran has warned it may retaliate against Israel after two senior militia figures – one in Hamas and one in Hezbollah – were assassinated in recent weeks.

Israel also launched an airstrike into the south of Lebanon on Saturday, killing at least 10 Syrian nationals. Israel claimed it was targeting a Hezbollah weapons depot.

Iran chooses to escalate and hit out at Israel, its allied militia in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria and Yemen could join in.

In a piece published on Saturday evening, Lammy and Sejourne wrote: “Fighting between Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah has........

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