UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has denounced remarks by Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who said “all of Lebanon must burn” after four Israeli soldiers were killed in a Hezbollah attack in southern Lebanon, AlJazeera reports.

“Calling for ‘all of Lebanon to burn’ is a horrendous and abhorrent statement from an Israeli Minister who has rightly been sanctioned by the UK Government,” Cooper wrote on X.