Hello and welcome. Im sarah campbell. Americas top diplomat, Antony Blinken, has arrived in israel in the past hour, as the us and other nations try to prevent a wider Conflict Erupting in the middle east. Theres also growing diplomatic pressure to get Essential Supplies into gaza which has been sealed off after hamas launched attacks into israel. Here are some of the latest developments. The United Nations says more than 338,000 people have now been forced to flee their homes in gaza and food, fuel and water are urgently needed. Ahead of a possible incursion into gaza, the israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has established a National Emergency unity government with Opposition Leader, benny gantz. Israel has continued its mobilisation of troops. Hundreds of thousands are on the southern boundary with gaza. President biden says hes told mr netanyahu that israel must abide by the rules of war, in its fight against hamas. All this as israeli air strikes on gaza continue. The Pale
Continue this fox news breaking coverage of the war that is unfolding in israel. We have seen chaos and terror throughout the course of the last 48 hours after hamas militants launched a coordinated series of attacks that took the lives of hundreds there are estimates into the thousands as well as you can well understand. It is such a chaotic, fastmoving situation as we start to see really the second tier of what is going on both on defense and offense in this war that is now emerging in the middle east. This is live look at gaza city right now as israel and hamas trade rocket fire. We have seen massive plumes of smoke after israel fired retaliatory rockets toward gaza. More than 800 is the low end estimate of this point but it is very difficult to confirm the numbers of those dead. Women and children killed in israel. At least nine americans are among those who have been killed in this war so far. This is an urgent, urgent All Hands On Deck moment as the u. S. State department tries t
Prime minister kaja kallas, welcome to hardtalk. Of all the voices of support for ukraine in europe, yours has perhaps been the staunchest, the strongest, the loudest over the last 18 months. Is that because, for you, this isntjust about european security, about geopolitics, it also seems very personal . Well, it is personal, i guess, for, for every estonian. I mean, we are here in the state elder s room and the pictures you see on those walls are of our state elders, so who built our country in 1920s. And if you look at their dates of death, then they all were killed or died in captivity when the occupation started. So for us. They were killed in the soviet union . Yes. So. So this is what we see in ukraine, is our history reliving itself because of the russian aggression. And your family history. If im right, i think your mother was deported along with her mother when she was a baby. Yes, my mother was six months old baby when she was deported to siberia, together with my grandmother
Prime minister kaja kallas, welcome to hardtalk. Of all the voices of support for ukraine in europe, yours has perhaps been the staunchest, the strongest, the loudest over the last 18 months. Is that because, for you, this isntjust about european security, about geopolitics, it also seems very personal . Well, it is personal, i guess, for, for every estonian. I mean, we are here in the state elder s room and the pictures you see on those walls are of our state elders, so who built our country in 1920s. And if you look at their dates of death, then they all were killed or died in captivity when the occupation started. So for us. They were killed in the soviet union . Yes, so this is what we see in ukraine, is our history reliving itself because of the russian aggression. And yourfamily history, if im right, i think your mother was deported, along with her mother when she was a baby. Yes, my mother was six months old baby when she was deported to siberia, together with my grandmother and
Of all the voices of support for ukraine in europe, yours has perhaps been the staunchest, the strongest, the loudest over the last 18 months. Is that because, for you, this isntjust about european security, about geopolitics, it also seems very personal . Well, it is personal, i guess, for, for every estonian. I mean, we are here in the state elder s room and the pictures you see on those walls are of our state elders, so who built our country in 1920s. And if you look at their dates of death, then they all were killed or died in captivity when the occupation started. So for us. They were killed in the soviet union . Yes. So. So this is what we see in ukraine, is our history reliving itself because of the russian aggression. And your family history. If im right, i think your mother was deported along with her mother when she was a baby. Yes, my mother was six months old baby when she was deported to siberia, together with my grandmother and my great grandmother. So they were deported