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Sky News AU
12 hours ago
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‘Just destruction': Israelis are ‘resilient' amid constant Iranian bombardment
News Corp Europe Correspondent Sophie Elsworth says Israelis have managed to stay resilient despite constant bombardment from Iranian missile strikes. 'I've been to quite a few scenes of these attacks around Tel Aviv, and it's just destruction,' Ms Elsworth told Sky News Senior Reporter Caroline Marcus. 'It's chaos … people are just, sort of, in shock, I think, but also they're very resilient here.'
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12 hours ago
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‘Traumatised': Repeated sirens cause Israelis immense anxiety
News Corp Europe Correspondent Sophie Elsworth says a lot of Israelis are traumatised by the recent Iranian strikes in Israel. 'There's a lot of people here who are very traumatised,' Ms Elsworth told Sky News Senior Reporter Caroline Marcus. 'Every time they hear, sort of, a loud bang or some sort of siren going off, they're, sort of, looking around and thinking 'what is that?' There's just this state of anxiety.'
Sky News AU
a day ago
- Politics
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Australians in Israel ‘annoyed' by DFAT's ‘absolutely disgraceful' evacuation efforts and lack of communication
Australians in Israel are 'annoyed' by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) for its 'absolutely disgraceful' evacuation efforts and lack of communication. On Thursday, DFAT said 1,200 Aussies are stranded in Israel, with 1,500 others in Iran. It said officials are 'moving quickly' when it is safe to get Australians to safety and is assessing other options for assisted departure. On Wednesday the Australian government facilitated the movement of a group of Australians from Tel Aviv to Amman, Jordan, by bus. Another bus is planned for Thursday (local time). 'There was an opportunity to safely move a group of Australians, and we took it,' DFAT told on Thursday. DFAT said the security situation was 'fluid and rapidly changing' and that the bus arrangements were a 'continuation' of their evacuation efforts. On Friday morning, Sky News contributor Sophie Elsworth told Sky News that Australians on the ground in Israel had been 'left in the dark' by DFAT with the evacuation process being 'absolutely disgracefully handled'. 'Yesterday, Australians were only given 55 minutes notice to get to the InterContinental David Hotel in central Tel Aviv, to get on a bus to leave Israel to go to the Jordanian border. At 55 minutes they were just saying it's just completely unrealistic,' Elsworth said. 'People are just rolling up at the hotel each day, they have a bus leaving the second day today at 11.30 this morning, a bus with about 40 Australians left, but they said they don't know if they're going to get a seat on the bus. 'There's been very little correspondence and they're also told today they could only take one carry-on bag.' Elsworth said Australians were 'really annoyed' about the lack of conversation with DFAT, which added extra stress amid an already 'incredibly tense situation'. At the time of the correspondence, Elsworth said it was 'very calm' in Tel Aviv just hours after a missile strike from Iran sent tens of thousands into bomb shelters. Elsworth said despite the calmness, there was 'always that nervousness' as people waited for the next alert to pop up on their mobile phones. 'You're waiting to run downstairs of your hotel or to the nearest bomb shelter. There's a lot of unease, a lot of very nervous people. We've seen a lot attacks in recent days, many people injured, some killed,' she said.
Sky News AU
a day ago
- Politics
- Sky News AU
‘Heck of a mess': DFAT's ‘shambolic' handling of Israel evacuations
News Corp Europe Correspondent Sophie Elsworth discusses the evacuation efforts going on within Tel Aviv and DFAT's handling of it. Ms Elsworth told Sky News host Peta Credlin that it has been a 'heck of a mess' evacuating Israelis. 'The handling of this by DFAT has been completely shambolic.'
Sky News AU
05-06-2025
- Politics
- Sky News AU
‘Embarrassing' backflip after Australian High Commission's media ban
News Corp Europe Correspondent Sophie Elsworth discusses the "embarrassing' backflip by the Australian High Commission in London – reversing its ban on Australian media reporting on a swanky cricket event. 'There was this media event last night, or this function should I say, at Australia House which ... the taxpayers pay for and the Australian media were only invited eight hours before the event,' Ms Elsworth said. 'We were told by the High Commission that we could not report from this event – this was extraordinary.'
