Ambassador Riyad Mansour at the un in new york, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Its a pleasure to have you on the programme. Ambassador, do you have any hope left that talks can achieve a stop or at least a suspension to the war in gaza . I still have hope. And thats what drives me to work harder with all of my colleagues, to succeed in putting an end to this war, to have a ceasefire, and to be able to send humanitarian assistance up to the needs of the people in the gaza strip and to prevent a forced Mass Transfer to egypt. I mean, nobody would doubt that, for the two million and more palestinians who live in gaza and of course the 100 or so hostages who are being held in the tunnels in gaza as well, every day is a day of extreme suffering. The problem is, if one looks at the talks and what is being said about the talks, there appears to be very little ground for optimism. For example, the israelis say no way will they even countenance a stop to their Military
Thank you. Thank you for having me. Its a pleasure to have you on the programme. Ambassador, do you have any hope left that talks can achieve a stop or at least a suspension to the war in gaza . I still have hope. And thats what drives me to work harder with all of my colleagues, to succeed in putting an end to this war, to have a ceasefire, and to be able to send humanitarian assistance up to the needs of the people in the gaza strip and to prevent a forced Mass Transfer to egypt. I mean, nobody would doubt that, for the 2 million and more palestinians who live in gaza and of course the 100 or so hostages who are being held in the tunnels in gaza as well, every day is a day of extreme suffering. The problem is, if one looks at the talks and what is being said about the talks, there appears to be very little ground for optimism. For example, the israelis say no way will they even countenance a stop to their Military Operations until hamas provides a full list of those hostages who are
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After they were urged to do so by israel, ahead of its Ground Offensive in retaliation for last weeks cross border attacks by hamas. Earlier the un warned that it was impossible to move more than a Million People across a densely populated warzone with no food, water, oraccommodation. The Israeli Army Says its already launched raids inside gaza. Israeli media say the troops have recovered the bodies of some of the hostages seized by Hamas In Israel a week ago. Health officials in gaza say the number of palestinians killed in israeli airstrikes has risen to more than 1900. This is the scene live in gaza where it hasjust gone midday, and as we said, an israeli deadline for palestinians to leave the northern half of gaza ahead of an expected Ground Offensive has passed. And we can show you these live pictures of Israeli Military forces near the gaza border as you see, there are several tanks in the area. The Palestinian Authoritys representative at the un compared the Current Situation to