One individual advised Sky News in a voice notice: “There are still people missing… and the number of injured, it’s a lot. It’s really hard, it’s really miserable”. His daughter in Cairo stated she can not cease watching the information for info.

More than per week for the reason that Hamas assault in Israel, hundreds of Palestinians caught up within the battle stay caught in Gaza at its southern border with Egypt – as the specter of an Israeli floor invasion into northern Gaza looms.

On the Sky News Daily podcast, Sally Lockwood speaks to former Gaza correspondent Nicole Johnston about who controls the Rafah crossing and the folks inside Gaza she’s in touch with, as we hear voice notes from two of them.

Speaking to Sky News, Samy Zyara, who’s now within the south of Gaza, stated: “There are still people missing… and the number of injured, it’s a lot. It’s really hard, it’s really miserable”.

His daughter, Asil Zyara, who’s in Cairo, stated: “I text most of my friends but most of them – they don’t have internet.”

Nicole, who’s now based mostly in Sydney, advised the Sky News Daily Podcast: “In the first few days they said they had enough food, and they had enough water, and people were stockpiling what they had – now though they’re saying it’s getting much more difficult.

“Huge strains of individuals queueing as much as try to get water, however with out electrical energy you may’t all the time function the pumps you must pump the water… it is completely determined.”

Samy told her: “This battle is completely totally different than the opposite. The different really, no one known as it a battle, they known as it a confrontation.

“But this time, it is a war. I can assure you it’s a war.”

Asil stated: “It’s 4am now and I couldn’t sleep. I’m just focussing on the news. I just lost my family through my mother’s side – we actually lost four.

“I’m simply specializing in the information, and I’m not sleeping – specializing in it.”

Elsewhere in the Sky News Daily Podcast, security and defence editor Deborah Haynes talks about ongoing diplomatic efforts as Britons are among the 199 people taken hostage by Hamas.

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