harry farley, our reliuious attack. on israel. harry farley, our religious affairs _ attack.correspondent, thank you very much. let's return to events in the middle east. hugo bachega is our middle east correspondent and is in southern lebanon. he explained the situation there. this morning, we had an announcement from the israeli authorities saying that they would be evacuating villages in northern israel next to the border with lebanon, 28 communities to be evacuated. we don't know whether this is a mandatory or a voluntary evacuation. but the reality is that most of the residents have already left some of those communities. my colleague anna foster has been to some of those communities in recent days and she said that most people have left because of the violence happening in that part of the country. and one of those communities is the community of chouba where, yesterday, a man was killed, the first israeli civilian to die as a result of an attack carried out in southern lebanon by hezbollah. this came after a day of the exchange of intense fire between militants in leba

the archbishop of canterbury there. 0ur faith and ethics reporter, harry farley, was at lambeth palaced just a few moments ago from justin welby, the archbishop of canterbury. sheikh ibrahim mogra, who's an imam from leicester. and rabbi jonathan wittenberg, who's a senior rabbi in masorti judaism, uk. they spoke of their shared concern for the situation in israel and in gaza, and they spoke also for their communities here. and they said they stand together against any form of hatred or violence againstjewish people or any other community here. rabbi jonathan wittenberg and sheikh ibrahim mogra spoke of their personal friendship and spoke of their many connections between the muslim and thejewish communities here in the uk. they did acknowledge that they sometimes stand on opposite sides and they sometimes disagree with each other. but they called for an end to any kind of hatred or violence against their communities here in the uk. the context, of course, of all this, ben, and the reason these faith leaders felt they needed to come out and make this statement is there has been a signi

here's a little of what they said. 0ur faith and ethics reporter, harry farley, was at lambeth palaceard just a few moments ago from justin welby, the archbishop of canterbury. sheikh ibrahim mogra, who's an imam from leicester. and rabbi jonathan wittenberg, who's a senior rabbi in masorti judaism, uk. they spoke of their shared concern for the situation in israel and in gaza, and they spoke also for their communities here. and they said they stand together against any form of hatred or violence againstjewish people or any other community here. rabbi jonathan wittenberg and sheikh ibrahim mogra spoke of their personal friendship and spoke of their many connections between the muslim and thejewish communities here in the uk. they did acknowledge that they sometimes stand on opposite sides and they sometimes disagree with each other. but they called for an end to any kind of hatred or violence against their communities here in the uk. the context, of course, of all this, ben, and the reason these faith leaders felt they needed to come out and make this statement is there has been a sig

the bbc�*s harry farley is following developments from rome.hat happened last night, as louisa mentioned in her report then, several children we know are among the dead, including a baby, according to italian emergency services. the italian prime minister, julia moloney, said that she's following developments closely and she expressed her profound, profound condolences with the families of the victims and the mayor of venice, luigi bruno, he said that he was speechless at what had happened. but there are questions for the authorities. the cause of the crash at this stage remains unclear. one possible line of inquiry is whether the 40—year—old italian driver became ill shortly before the crash. that'sjust one line of inquiry at the moment. that's not confirmed to be the cause — the cause at the moment is unclear. but there are questions over how this could have happened. italy has suffered a number of deadly bus crashes in recent years. in 2017,16 people died in a bus crash in the northern city of verona. in 2013, 40 people died when another bus

let us speak to now with our faith and ethics reporter harry farley.ce againstjewish people or any other community here. the rabbi and the sheikh spoke of their personalfriendship and and the sheikh spoke of their personal friendship and connections between the muslim and jewish communities here in the uk acknowledging that they sometimes stand on opposite sides and disagree with each other but they called for an end to any kind of hatred or violence against their communities here in the uk in the context of course of all this and the reason these faith leaders felt they had to come out and make the statement is there has been a significant rise in anti—semitic incidents in particular since those attacks by hamas at the weekend before last and the metropolitan police telling us that in the week since those attacks there was 175 anti—semitic incidents and a similar number of offences in london compared to 14 and 12 last year and the metropolitan police also said there had been a rise in the number of islamophobic incidents although not such a significan