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As if the conflict in Gaza wasn\u2019t 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\u2019s 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:\nFrank Gardner, BBC\u2019s Security Correspondent.\nDr Elisabeth Kendall, Arabist & Middle East specialist and also The Mistress of Girton College at the University of Cambridge.\nJane Kinninmont, Policy & Impact Director at the European Leadership Network.\nScott Lucas, Professor of International Politics at University College Dublin\u2019s Clinton Institute.

Production team: Nick Holland, Kirsteen Knight and Charlotte McDonald\nProduction Co-ordinators: Sophie Hill\nSound: Neil Churchill\nEditor: Richard Vadon