British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has said Israel’s pounding of Lebanon was “deeply damaging” and said that the conflict must end to prevent the US-Iran ceasefire from being destabilised, Reuters reports.

“We want to see Lebanon included in the ceasefire,” she told Times Radio/ “We want it extended to cover Lebanon, because otherwise that will destabilise the whole region.”

“That escalation that we saw from Israel yesterday was deeply damaging, and we want to see an end to hostilities.”