Gary Lineker breaks down in tears as he says 'I can't be silent'

BBC's Match of the Day host and Leicester City icon, Gary Lineker, has once again ignited discussion with his remarks on the Gaza situation, labelling it as "the worst thing I've seen in my life" and asserting, "I can't be silent about what's happening".

Despite BBC celebrities being subject to media rules established by the broadcaster last year following Lineker's controversial comparisons between UK asylum policy and 1930s Germany, the Match of the Day host did not mince words in his criticism of Israel's military actions in response to the October 7 terror attacks by Hamas, which resulted in an estimated 1,500 Israeli deaths.

Following these attacks, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's commands for bombings and ground operations in Gaza have led to over 34,800 Palestinian casualties, primarily women and children, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

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In a dialogue with Zeteo, the media platform founded by British-American journalist Mehdi Hasan, the former Tottenham Hotspur and England forward stated: "It's the worst thing I've seen in my life. I've got no skin in this game. I'm not Muslim, I'm not Jewish, I'm not Israeli, I'm not Palestinian," reports Leicestershire Live.

"So I see it, I think, purely from the outside as from a neutral perspective. And I can't think of anything that I've seen worse in my lifetime, the constant images of children losing their lives day in day out. Obviously, we all know October 7 happened and but the minute you raise your voice against what they're now doing you get accused of