dr izzeldin abuelaish, welcome to hardtalk. now, nearly 15 years ago, you lost three of your eight children when an israeli shell fell on your home in gaza. please do relate to us what happened. 16th january 2009. ..were what we called a war. and what is war? war is not the soldier who is going to kill and to be killed. it s about innocent human being, in particular, women and the children. during the 21 days of the war, with my children at my home, expecting the worst, who will be killed? i used to let three of my children to sleep beside each wall, in case any shell to come, not all of them to be killed. then, 16th january, 4.45pm, i didn t believe it, because shelling, bombing was from everywhere around us. then it was my daughters and my niece that on that time. and now history repeats itself. i don t want anyone on earth to see what did i see. where is bessan? where is mayar? where is nour? where is aya? they become parts, drowning in their blood. mayar was decapitated.
discussion seen whether that is part of the discussion next year when we are having discussion next year when we are having our discussion next year when we are having our general election, but it is certainly having our general election, but it is certainly the case there is a lot of debate is certainly the case there is a lot of debate about how we translate national of debate about how we translate national commitments to tackle climate national commitments to tackle climate change into concrete action, so we climate change into concrete action, so we are climate change into concrete action, so we are seeing the public are on board so we are seeing the public are on board with so we are seeing the public are on board with a lot of the changes, actually. board with a lot of the changes, actually, that we need to make to our lifestyles around travel, diet, consumption. these are the things which consumption. these are the things which people are actua
now, nearly 15 years ago, you lost three of your eight children when an israeli shell fell on your home in gaza. please do relate to us what happened. 16th january 2009. ..were what we called a war. and what is war? war is not the soldier who is going to kill and to be killed. it s about innocent human being, in particular, women and the children. during the 21 days of the war, with my children at my home, expecting the worst, who will be killed? i used to let three of my children to sleep beside each wall, in case any shell to come, not all of them to be killed. then, 16th january, 4.45pm, i didn t believe it, because shelling, bombing was from everywhere around us. then it was my daughters and my niece that on that time. and now history repeats itself. i don t want anyone on earth to see what did i see. where is bessan? where is mayar? where is nour? where is aya? they become parts, drowning in their blood. mayar was decapitated. i can t recognise them. i lost faith in huma
was kidnapped by hamas at the nova music festival on 7th october. we decided to go on this march because we wanted to meet up with the government to see them. and most importantly, we wanted to show them, we wanted to show the world that all of the people in israel are thinking about our hostages and this is what is the most important thing right now for everyone over here, is to get all of the 238 people being held hostage by hamas back to their houses. and by doing this march, we are going through the cities, we can see the people. they are waving the flag. they re chanting with us. they re going to every meet up every big street, every big crossraods we are going through in order to show us that they support us and they are part of our cause. we could see some pictures just there of your cousin on the screen. can you tell us about him? yeah. he is my younger cousin. he lives right across the street from my parents home where i grew up. he is is an amazing musician. he pla