And i dont want to break right now, because i want to keep pushing for the release of my mum and the release of my brother. Hello, im matthew amroliwala. Welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking israel has continued its campaign of air strikes on gaza for the fourth day. Un aid agencies have warned of the severe consequences of israels seizure on the territory. The World Health Organization has called for a humanitarian corridor to be opened into the area. The families of israelis taken hostage are speaking about their agony today, at least 123 Israeli Soldiers have been killed since saturday. Coming up in the next hour, well hear from our correspondents on the ground in ashkelon, on the humanitarian situation in gaza; and more on israels military strategy. But first, lets focus on the situation in ashkelon , our reporter anna foster is there. The sirens went immediately. Actually, i was just about to take you up upstairs and out of the shelter because we thought there was the
And i dont want to break right now, because i want to keep pushing for the release of my mum and the release of my brother. At least 11 us citizens the family of adrien netta was on the phone with her us citizens hone with her when she was taken. Her son nahal shares a little of their story. As this tragedy was unfolded on saturday morning, me and my other siblings were talking to my mum on the phone, trying to calm her down. Things were sort of calm when she heard a lot of gunfire outside of her shelter. We tried to calm her down. Thats when i dropped off the call. Both my brother and my sister were on the call with her as the terrorist barged into her home. We heard a little bit of screaming and that was our last contact with her. There was no shooting on the call and the neighbors downstairs also didnt hear any shooting. My mum used the little bit of arabic that she picked up working as a nurse in the hospitalfor 20 years to calm down the terrorists. And it is our hope, which is a l
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the palestinianians want peace in israeli. when you have amood abbas saying one thing in english which sounds very reasonable and very different story in arabic own people, and naming streets after people that they call martyrs and we call terrorists it says to me who is john kerry at this point this late in the game or any of this come out and say to the two parties involved this is what we would like you to do when neither of the two parties are interested? very interesting indeed. let s switch to domestic politics. i wanted to talk to you about this as well. harry reid, the outgoing senate democratic leader had some comments about the bench for democrats right now. looking ahead to 2020. and basically said that when you go through it appears we are going to have an old folks home. we have elizabeth warren she will be 7. biden will be 78. bernie will be 79. what in the world is going on with the democratic party when you have even harry reid saying we don t have a bench? a fail