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

From Houthi rebels attacking ships in the Red Sea to attacks on the Lebanon-Israel border.

As if the conflict in Gaza wasn鈥檛 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鈥檚 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, 大象传媒鈥檚 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鈥檚 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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29 minutes

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  • Thu 11 Jan 2024 20:00
  • Fri 12 Jan 2024 11:00

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