The Israeli ambassador to the UK has called on Britain to stand with Israel against the “evil brutality” of Hamas, as the death toll from the weekend’s eruption of violence rose to more than 1,000.
Writing a highly personal plea from central Israel for The Independent, ambassador Tzipi Hotovely described the fear of her three-year-old daughter as the family hid in their bomb shelter, saying that her own “nightmares have become reality”.
