The UK prime minister has arrived in Israel to meet leaders in the Middle East and call for any escalation of the conflict to be avoided. Rishi Sunak will hold talks with the country’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and president Isaac Herzog as he starts a two-day trip that is expected to take in a number of capitals in the region. Advertisement He will urge Middle East leaders to “avoid further dangerous escalation”, saying that “too many lives have been lost” already in the Israeli-Hamas war. Speaking to reporters after landing in Israel, Mr Sunak said: “You have suffered an...