She was taken from her home in southern israel, beaten up and transported by motorbike into gaza. Her daughter translated her story just hours after her release, at the hospital in tel aviv where shes being treated. My mum is saying that she was taken on the back of a motorbike with her body, with her legs on one side and her hide on another side. She was taken through the ploughed fields with the men in front on one side and a man behind her. And that whilst she was being taken, she was hit with sticks by shabaab . Yes, shabaab people. Until they reached the tunnels. There. There, they walked for a few kilometres on the wet ground. There are huge network of tunnels underneath, it looks like a spider web. Ms lifschitz also described clean conditions and guards who treated her well and took care of every detail. This video, released by hamas, shows the moment she was released, and shook hands with one of the gunmen, saying in hebrew peace peace. Ms lifshitz was released alongside 79 yea
So welcome, lyse. A relatively easy question to kick off with. Can you give us a sense of the size and location of gaza in relation to israel . Who lives there . Whos in charge . And who are its neighbours . Well, thats a sort of a wikipedia of the gaza strip. The gaza strip is a coastal strip of land on the mediterranean. Once on one side, its on the mediterranean. The other side, the southern side, its connecting to egypt. And then its other neighbour is israel. It is described as one of the most densely populated places on earth. Some 2. 3 million palestinians live there and they live with great frustration because they feel they dont really have control over their lives. Even though israel pulled out its troops in 2005, it controls the airspace. It controls the sea. It also controls all of the land crossings into gaza, except the one which goes to egypt, which is called the Rafah Crossing. Weve tried to use various measures to say how big it is for british viewers. Its about as big
This is gps, the Global Public square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world. Im Fareed Zakaria coming to you live from new york. Today on the program, a week and a day after hamas terror attack, israel continues to strike gaza and rockets continue to hit israel. As the world watches for a Ground Invasion to begin. Lets get the latest live from israel and then we will talk to Richard Haass about the Global Politics at play, the influence of american, saudi arabia and iran and others in this conflict. Then, historian Rasheed Halle will join me to talk about the rest of the arab world. Also just how did israels much lauded intelligence apparatus miss the signs of an imminent enormous hamas attack. I will talk to the israel why i investigator ronen burgman. Finally how the Islamist Group was able to pull off last weeks attacks. Well explore with an expert. But first here is my take. Hamass brutal and inhuman attack on israel took the world by surprise. Most impor
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Hello. Israel says it is monitoring the flight of Palestinian People from Northern Gaza. The flight of Palestinian People the Un Relief Agency, unrwa, says hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced in the past 12 hours alone. And nearly a million, thats almost half the territorys population, in the past week. Israel says those still in the north should leave as soon as possible, and its specified two roads it says are safe for people heading south. People were told on friday to relocate before an expected ground offensive. Israels Prime Minister, benjamin netanyahu, has said his countrys bombardment of gaza is just the beginning. More rockets have been fired into israel, and israeli airstrikes are continuing across gaza. Military sources in israel say a senior hamas commander you is among those killed. Israeli forces are continuing their build up near the boundary with gaza. In the north, israeli troops killed several people they identified as terrorists, who were trying to c