Former Prime ministers Scott Morrison and Boris Johnson tour Israeli community destroyed in war
The former Australian Prime minister Scott Morrison has visited Israel to meet with political leaders and soldiers. Mr Morrison and former British Prime minister Boris Johnson toured a community on the Gaza border that was attacked by Hamas.
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00:00 We are right on the Gaza border in one of the first communities that was attacked on
00:06 October the 7th.
00:07 You can see where Hamas terrorists came in and started destroying this place, which used
00:11 to be home to hundreds of people.
00:14 This was an agricultural community, a communal place called a kibbutz, but from here there
00:19 were 57 people killed, 17 kidnapped and one is still missing.
00:25 The damage is shocking.
00:27 Not only are there these burnt out homes, these were residential units, you can also
00:31 see other units over there where the people's possessions have been thrown out into the
00:37 walkways and that is, the Israeli military says, the result of looters that followed
00:42 the Hamas terrorists out from Gaza and ran through these houses.
00:46 And it's these kind of scenes that the Israeli government wants you to remember when you're
00:50 looking at and judging its campaign in Gaza.
00:53 That's why they've brought former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and former UK
00:57 Prime Minister Boris Johnson here.
00:58 Both of those said the world needs to remember this place and what happened here.
01:03 I think it is incredibly important that people should be reminded of the full tragedy and
01:09 horror and sadism of what happened.
01:13 You can't help but be overwhelmed by the sense of what we're standing on was once, a month
01:17 ago, a place of innocence and now has been desecrated beyond comprehension.
01:25 And as Boris just said, what we're seeing now, a month on, is exactly what I think Hamas
01:31 and the terrorists wanted to see.
01:33 That Israel could be potentially isolated and that cannot be.
01:38 All around this section of the community you can see the damage that was wreaked when Hamas
01:44 came here on October 7th and it is truly shocking to think about what people living here would
01:50 have gone through.
01:52 And that is what the Israeli government wants you to consider.
01:54 That's what the Israeli military wants you to remember.
01:57 That's why they've brought political leaders here and that's why they're trying to say
02:01 to the world, look what happened to us and judge us by our need to prevent this from
02:07 ever happening again.
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