Britain’s prime minister says the UK stands with Israel in its “darkest hour” as he met his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu.

Rishi Sunak arrived within the nation a day after US President Joe Biden apparently gave his backing privately for an Israeli floor invasion into Gaza in response to the lethal Hamas assaults on 7 October.

On the Sky News Daily, Belle Donati explores what that might be like with former royal marine Rob Taylor, who runs an organization coaching British and American troopers in shut fight, and former British navy intelligence colonel Philip Ingram.

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