But some of Israel's allies, like France, like

the United States, are starting to express concern

about the extent of the response.

Do you think Israel has gone too far in

its response to the horror of what happened?

President Macron even said it should stop.

There should be a ceasefire.

Does the UK believe that

Israel is acting proportionately?

The UK believes strongly that Israel

must act within international humanity.

Not my question, law.

And secondly, I've seen and actually read on the

BBC in particular very detailed accounts of how Israel

military leaders have called up people and asked for

their assistance in ensuring that civilians in Gaza are

moved before they go after Hamas terrorists.

I think it's kind of, we sort of forgotten

that in war, very sadly, people lose their lives.

When Britain bombed Dresden, 35,000

people apparently lost their lives.

People die in war.

When you have an organization like Hamas

hiding and shielding themselves with and under

the civilian population, it's a sad fact

that some people will lose their lives.

See, though, that some of Israel's allies,

like the US, like France, are uneasy

with the scale of that response.

That's not to say no civilians are

going to be caught up in this.

That is the sad reality of what people see

happening right now that do you believe, I ask

again, what Israel is doing is proportionate.

I think Israel obviously is in a difficult

place because when they go after the terrorists,

some civilians are getting caught up.

No one wants to see a civilian life.

It doesn't matter if it's an

Israeli or somebody from Gaza taken.

However, if Britain had been subject to an

attack of terrorists coming in, murdering 1400 people,

cutting off heads, we would not.

And we knew where those terrorists had gone.

No one would be saying to Britain, just stop going

after them, even though you know, those tunnels, those, those

caves that they operate from, where all of those tens

of thousands of rockets are being stored, how can we

ask Israel not to go and destroy those bunkers?

And unfortunately, in war, you end up in a

situation where other people get caught up in it.

The answer is for Hamas to stop using those people

as human shields and by the way, release the over

200 hostages they have, some of whom are Brits.

And so we should absolutely be on the side of.

Right, and Wright in this case is going after Hamas.

Can you tell us anything about

the British hostages you mentioned there?

Only that we are working our socks off to

try to get them released, working very closely in

ways I can't go into on TV.

And I'm arranging to speak to the families

of some of the British hostages as well.

And our thoughts are with those who are being held.

Well over 200 every single day.

They've been, I think, in some

ways forgotten in this conflict.

It's where it started.

And the wrong is entire on Hams's side

for keeping them hostage at this time.