Podcasts Other The Mike Hosking Breakfast Helen Clark: Former Prime Minister on Benjamin Netanyahu ignoring pleas for a ceasefire and continuing to prepare for a ground offensive into Rafah

Helen Clark: Former Prime Minister on Benjamin Netanyahu ignoring pleas for a ceasefire and continuing to prepare for a ground offensive into Rafah

Published: Feb. 15, 2024, 7:27 p.m.

Worried have been sparked that Israel's Prime Minister is ignoring pleas from other countries to not continue with a ground offensive into Rafah. \xa0

New Zealand, Australia, and Canada have issued a joint statement warning that a humanitarian ceasefire is urgently needed.\xa0

Former Prime Minister Helen Clark told Mike Hosking that Netanyahu isn't listening. \xa0

She said that even countries extremely close to Israel, such as the USA, are saying not to do this, but Netanyahu continues to say he is preparing the ground.\xa0

Around 1.5-million Palestinian refugees are sheltering there with nowhere else to go.\xa0

LISTEN ABOVE\xa0

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.