An iranian strike on israel could come at any moment. As concerns mount, heres what the us president had to say. Reporter mr president , what is your message to iran in this moment . Dont. We are devoted to the defence of israel. We will support israel, we will help defend israel and iran will not succeed. Thank you very much. So why is the us putting out such strong warnings about a possible attack . And how are those warnings being felt in israel . Our Diplomatic Correspondent James Landale has this analysis, from jerusalem. President biden has said that he expects an attack against israel from iran sooner rather than later, and unnamed us officials are saying that attack could involve hundreds of drones and missiles against military targets here in israel. Now, that may be a prediction of the future based on hard intelligence, but it may also be the United States trying to deter iran to try and minimize any kind of response by talking up the threat right now. It also could be an att
On israel could come at any moment. As concerns mount, heres what the us president had to say. Reporter mr president , what is your message to iran in this moment . Dont. We are devoted to the defence of israel. We Will Support Israel, we will help defend israel and iran will not succeed. Thank you very much. So why is the us putting out such strong warnings about a possible attack . And how are those warnings being felt in israel . Our Diplomatic Correspondent James Landale has this analysis, from jerusalem President Biden has said that he expects an attack against israel from iran sooner rather than later, and unnamed us officials are saying that attack could involve hundreds of drones and missiles against military targets here in israel. Now, that may be a prediction of the future based on hard intelligence, but it may also be the United States trying to deter iran to try and minimize any kind of response by talking up the threat right now. It also could be an attempt to try and sha
As concerns mount, joe biden is speaking out take a listen. No, we are devoted to the defense of israel. We will support israel. We will defend help defend israel and iran will not succeed. Thank you. So why is the us putting out such strong warnings about a possible attack . And how are those warnings being felt in israel . James landale has this analysis, from jerusalem. President biden has said that he expects an attack against israel from iran sooner rather than later and unnamed us officials are saying that attack could involve hundreds of drones and missiles against military targets here in israel. Now, that may be a prediction of the future based on hard intelligence. But it may also be the United States trying to deter iran to try and minimise any kind of response by talking up the threat right now. It also could be an attempt to try and shape expectations so that if and when iran does respond, its seen as less escalatory. Now, from irans point of view, it has promised that it
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 humanity at that time. and you had lost your wife to leukaemia just. four months before. ..a few months before. so i
my guest is a palestinian doctor, izzeldin abuelaish, whose three daughters and niece were killed in an israeli tank strike on his home in the gaza strip in 2009. at the time, he said he felt no bitterness. and, soon after, he published his award winning autobiography called i shall not hate. now, he has lost 22 more family members in these current bombings. is he still preaching his message of forgiveness and peace? 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