The Sky News Australia 8pm Monday to Thursday program Sharri will be coming live from Israel this week.
Award-winning journalist Sharri Markson (pictured) will broadcast her primetime program live from Israel on Monday 7 October to Thursday 10 October at 8pm AEDT.
One year since the Hamas-led terrorist attack on Israel, Markson is on the ground reporting on the war providing real-time coverage and in-depth analysis of the ongoing situation in the region.
Ahead of her first program tonight from the Middle East, Markson was a guest on Paul Murray Live on Sunday night.
Sharri Markson on air with Paul Murray on Sunday this week
Posting about the content of her program on Monday, Markson wrote:
Grandmother Aviva Siegel was in her pyjamas when terrorists kidnapped her and her husband, Keith, from their home on the kibbutz, Kfar Azar.
She shares her powerful story with me on my program tonight at 8pm.
She tells how when she was taken into Gaza, there were celebrations. Families cheering on the street, rejoicing at the sight of her and the other terrified hostages.
Aviva retells with vivid detail of her time in the dark tunnels; she was thrust into a space so small there wasn’t enough oxygen to breathe.
Sexual violence and rape by Hamas terrorists was common, she recalls tearfully.
Aviva was released after 51 days in a negotiated ceasefire deal but her husband, Keith, remains in Gaza to this day.
She wants the world to act for the hostages. Watch her gripping story – 8pm tonight.
Markson at the site of the Nova music festival, where 400 young Israelis were murdered
Writing for Sky News Australia about the importance of the October 7 anniversary today, Markson said:
There were more than 1,200 Israelis massacred on October 7 in a true genocide committed by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Among them, 38 children were murdered. Twenty children lost both parents and 96 children lost one parent.
There are 15 children still have parents being held hostage in Gaza. We’ve all seen the shocking photographs of blood-soaked baby’s cots.
After all this time, it’s still impossible to comprehend how such cruelty and inhumanity exists in this world.
How could any human murder innocent babies, simply because they’re Israeli?
Harder to comprehend is how this depravity has been celebrated by both Muslim Australians and hard-left Greens activists.
Reflecting on the sheer savagery of October 7 makes it all the more confusing as to why, in the immediate aftermath of these attacks and on the one-year anniversary, we see an eruption of pro-Palestinian rallies around the world.
Sharri in Israel
Monday 7 October – Thursday 10 October 8pm AEDT on Sky News Australia
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