israel that we think a - israel that we think a full scale military invasion of rafah would have an enormously harmful effect on those civilians and would ultimately hurt israel opposing security so it is notjust a question of israel presenting a plan to us, we ve made clear to them that we ve made clear to them that we think there is a better way to achieve what is illegitimate goal which is to degrade and dismantle and defeat the hamas battalions at the silver mane and rafah. battalions at the silver mane and rafah- and rafah. displaced palestinians - and rafah. displaced| palestinians returned and rafah. displaced i palestinians returned to complete ruin in high newness on monday. ferret outcomes as the israeli military withdrew its troops from the area temporarily on sunday matthew carney is. lucy williamson reports. for months, khan younis was a city of targets, its apartment blocks and hospitals seen by israel as hiding places for hamas. residents returned today sea
i m victoria uwonkunda and i m a reporterfor the bbc. hello and welcome to newsday, here on the bbc world service with victoria uwonkunda. i was born in rwanda, but i ve lived most of my life in norway and the uk. my life was turned upside down on the 7th of april 1994. as a child, it was difficult to comprehend what was happening, but i was lucky enough to have my immediate family with me. as i am planning my first ever trip back home, i am reminded of how my sisters and i felt the day we escaped kigali. daniela and nelly were in the car with me. i remember when we stopped for food after so many hours in the car, and there was literally nothing. because everything was finished. and for me, that always sticks in my memory of that day when we were leaving kigali. her and i were in the trunk. yes, you were. i know it was a really long journey but, for me, like, it s so compressed into. ..this kind of really uncomfortable, hungry, thirsty, warm, scary emotion that ended when we
beeps i m victoria uwonkunda and i m a reporterfor the bbc. hello and welcome to newsday, here on the bbc world service with victoria uwonkunda. i was born in rwanda, but i ve lived most of my life in norway and the uk. my life was turned upside down on the 7th of april 1994. as a child, it was difficult to comprehend what was happening, but i was lucky enough to have my immediate family with me. as i am planning my first ever trip back home, i am reminded of how my sisters and i felt the day we escaped kigali. daniela and nelly were in the car with me. i remember when we stopped for food after so many hours in the car, and there was literally nothing. because everything was finished. and for me, that always sticks in my memory of that day when we were leaving kigali. her and i were in the trunk. yes, you were. i know it was a really long journey but, for me, like, it s so compressed into. ..this kind of really uncomfortable, hungry, thirsty, warm, scary emotion that ended wh
for as long as i can remember, i ve wanted to go back home. home to the place where i was born. a home i hadn t seen in 30 years. it s also 30 years since the genocide, which killed about 800,000 people. i was one of the lucky ones. my family and i got away, but many didn t. now i m returning to my home country to trace back my escape route when i was just 12 years old. there s no sound that fills me with so much joy as the sound of children in a classroom. as i am reunited with my family, i also want to uncover the country s journey to healing and reconciliation. this is one of the groups that carsa has, made by genocide survivors and the genocide former perpetrators. and i ll be hearing from those who had a role in the killings and their survivors. translation: to me, he was not only a murderer, but a monster. beeps. i m victoria uwonkunda and i m a reporterfor the bbc. hello and welcome to newsday, here on the bbc world service with victoria uwonkunda. i was born in rwan
he joined us earlier from the city of denver. i was at my first music festival, i was not expecting it to end with us driving by gun men and over corpses. when. what was the moment when you realised it was no longer a music festival? after the rockets began at 6:30, and they did not stop. i was worried that it was notjust rockets, and they went on for a while. the rockets began at 6:30. and we actually physically got to our car at about 7:51am, over one hour later, and the rockets had not stopped. and at that point i was growing increasingly more anxious and concerned about the situation. behind me, as i am speaking to you, i am at the site of the festival. there is now a sea of israeli flags and photographs of those who died here on that day. they may include some of your friends. would you like to tell us about the people who were with you on that day who did not escape? so i was with a group of eight others, total. myself, my cousin, mordecai, his now fiancee, tamara, and