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tv   Gaza Under Attack 28  PRESSTV  December 5, 2023 12:02pm-12:31pm IRST

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water, electricity and um the palestinian resistance made sure to provide her with that um with that medical attention that she needed, um, even though they went without and their people were dying without and there was children dying you, without that same uh treatment, so not only are you seeing these testimonials you know live, there's also the background story, um, ahad tamimi gave many uh interviews, not just the one that we've just seen, and she spoke about the sexual harassment and the sexual assaults, you know that the horrific. um situations that the women and the men in prisons have faced um and and they threaten her to hurt her father good who is still in israeli prison yes they said that you know if if you speak out please remember we have your dad and he will die um so uh and and you can't see this because she's hidden it well but she has a large bruise over the top of her eye um and she was you know i've met ahead i know her not so well but i know her enough to know that she is a proud, proud palestinian, she refuses to
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leave her land, um, she came here a visit and i remember telling her, why don't you stay? she goes, why, why would i come here, i have nothing here, my land, my land is is precious to me, i would never leave it, and i know that she has too much pride to walk around showing off her bruises, um, that that she would prefer to show the world that she came out of that prison strong, but remember she is still a young woman who was who would have suffered beatings in that um in in that prison cell um as well as inhumane treatment of torture and uh deprivation of food and water and and other human rights and basics. as the war resumes we're going to see more people die, especially children, and we're going to see more kids being pulled from under the rubble, dead or alive. it's it's going to happen right? the the truth is now over and uh for some reason the world thinks that you know let's it's okay to return to few more thousand people dying, why not? what's what's the problem? palestinian life.
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عمرها اسبوعين اجت سابع سابع يوم الحرب صحيح سابع يوم الحرب صلاتك يا نبي الله ثلاث ساعات تحت الانقاص ايش اسمها اسمها سلام سلام سلام يا الله شفتوا شفت طلعت عايشه بعد ثلاث ساعات تحت الانقاص يا الله شفت يا الله كيف الله اقسم بالله الملائكه اللي كانت تحميها ولدها الوالد عندها استشهد وكانت في حظن الوالد اللهم صل على سيدنا محمد اللهم صل على سيدنا محمد الله الدكتور لها ثلاث ساعات تحت الانقاش ما شاء الله صلاتك يا نبي اللهم صل على سيدنا محمد يا رب عائشه. 'yeah, no one gets left behind, and
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it's um, you know, every life is precious, um, and every life saved is victory, absolutely, um, and this is, this is what will happen again, we are going to start seeing thousands of children dying again, and every life that we save, will be victory for us and we will celebrate it, and we will find strength in god.'. um and we will find strength each other um the last video that i want to show everyone is um is very symbolic of that you know the palestinians are not um we're not deluding ourselves we know that this is not going to end well for the vast majority of the people in gazza and other places in occupied palestine but because of the strength of the palestinians and their faith in god um they find a way to bear through it and continue to do their duty towards their breathren. بس بس عشان اموت وانا
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مرتاح عشان ما ترعش وانا بموت والله شكله اخر كاسه عصير نشربها في حياتنا غزه اباد يا جماعه اللي شفناه في الحررب هذه في الحررب العالميه الثانيه ما حدا شافه انا ان شاء الله يا رب نشوفكم بالجنه ان شاء الله سامحونا سامحونا اذا قصرنا في حدث ambulance and they are saying each other you know that they're making light of of of their situation said you you can't defeat that you can't break amazing people like that. and and it brings us a little bit
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of relief too to know that um in their greatest tragedy and in in the moment of of their greatest weakness, they are actually stronger than any. any people on earth, and that's because you know, i think faith is one important factor in here, absolutely. lativa for now, thank you very much. latima, we'll be back in the hot seed with more next week. now, as the bombardment of gaza resumes, ordinary people who never paid much attention to the palestinian flight before, are turning to activism. earlier we spoke to shafana. mirage, mother of four from london who runs a badminton academy, who said the onslot on gaza this time has been a lightbalt moment for her, i was, i was just very uninformed about everything that was happening, so i then decided to you know do like youtube research and it was quite obvious that
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whatever videos were coming on on youtube were all kind of dubbed and they looked really fake, i'm like, this doesn't look right, and then i started watching the news and basically things started unfold. holding at that time and that was life moment for me because i realized that i actually i actually didn't know anything about this conflict right? didn't know anything that was happening that led to this and that was really scary because i felt like you know why have been living under in this bubble that have and have allowed myself not to be exposed to what's happening around the world and i guess that was the time when i felt like okay i need to know more, i need to really understand what's happening and why this is happened. we're actually busy in in doing the daily day to day things, trying to make and meet, trying to just get from point to point b, you know, it's it's challenging
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enough to like for me to be able to manage my work, you know, my children, you know, all the extra other things that do, and then to cook and to put food on the table, and then make sure that you we're we're just running fine as family, that itself is is challenging and every day that goes by, you think like, okay, fine, alhamdulillah, day one, gone, day two, you know, so with that, i feel like we are so occupied within our own bubble that we don't get a chance to actually sit back and reflect on on what's happening in the outside world, but i think it's important and i'll tell you why it's important, i think we don't realize how how how much? change and effect we can bring um to the outside world just by being more aware, by being more conscious, and it's in it's it's quite of surprising because since all this has started and i become more involved, the time has just made space, you know, like there's just been time
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for me to look into it, there has been time for me to actually sit down and and watch the news and you know get myself educated about this, so i think sometimes we kind of just um roll over. into excuses and say, this is important, this is important, but this is equally important. shafana further said, she has been forced to turn into an activist after realizing that she has the power to influence change, as her voice matters, recently there was you, the the parliament voting and everybody, you know, we had our mps, whether they voted for sease fire or not, now these are the very members of parliament that... we have voted for, okay, i would have voted for one of them. okay, um, and and that itself shows that my vote, my voice has power, so whatever do as an individual makes a difference, so it's very important that we don't just don't go about
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our days and just do things without realizing the implications or the effects it has on you, a bigger picture, we need to understand that we need to stop kind of just... trusting everybody 100% and just go by what everyone says and and this brings brings me to the point where you know where holy prophet has always said that educate yourself this is so important we need to educate ourselves um so i so i think this this this is really important and you ask me about what i have been doing so i've been i've been doing exactly that i've been trying to educate myself i've gone into different platforms i've been watching i've been watching al-jazera like throughout i don't i don't even remember the last time i started watching netflix now i just i just haven't i cannot bring myself to sit on the sofa and watch a movie when all this is happening in the background it's i just find that utterly sick if i if i if do that i've been attending
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all the you know i've been trying to attend all the the the campaigns the marches the protests the vigils i've tried to get my children involved and i've been reading more about about everything that's happening, because honestly the documentaries that have been coming up, they're horrifying, you know, for for for people to have no food, no water, no electricity, for people to have lived in occupation. for so long, in this day and age, you know when the whole world talks about freedom of speech, the whole world talks about, you know, justice and equal rights and humanity, and then you've got this happening in in the corner of the world, and you're thinking, really, what are we fooling, you know, i mean, the jokes on us, really, shafana miraj there, let's continue the conversation with my guests, julius baluto, and here in the studio, antonia mansour on sky. uh, you are of course watching gaza under attack. tanya, i want to continue with
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you, um, you heard what benjamin netanyahu, the israel the prime minister had to say earlier, how much of the the resumption or the ongoing, unfolding genocide in the gaza strip, but of course the incursions in the west bank have to do with israel's internal politics, netanyahu's own political future, and also the humiliation that the israeli military suffered at the hands of hamas on october 7th. sorry, i can't hear you very well, you're breaking up a little bit, um, i can go again, no problem, my question to you was that given what we heard from the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu earlier, what do you think, how much of the decision to resume these hostilities in the unfolding genocide um in the ghaza strip have to do with israeli internal politics, netanyahu's own political future as well as the humiliation that the israeli mili suffered on october 7th at the hands of hamas resistance forces. there's been this backlash, this
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unexpective criticism of israel, how did you allow this to happen, this is your fault, what kind of military have you got, and so there is that pressure that look, we're going to execute this, in a great way, we're going to finish this off, but i mean, don't forget that the the the leaders within the military, the president, they are saying, i mean, i think it was ben saying that the israelion military. must return and crush gaza with all our might? i mean, what does that mean? because that's not hamas, we're talking about civilians, we're talking about 15,000 deaths that have taken place, and 12,00, i've seen elsewhere that they say were hamas targets, so 12 or 15,000 they're saying or hamas, well that's absolute nonsense, they are civilians, the majority women and children, yeah, a see spire has to stop now, this is ridiculous, and i'm not interested in what how israel starting to look to america, um, are they doing as they should to please you know their
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allies? this is ridiculous, humanitarian a law should be invoked, and where is it? because only few days ago, i think some arab leader leaders came together, and there was announcement that we don't want just a temporary si, we need a permanent season, we need to lift the siege of gaza, and now what two days, two, three days later, they just continue and they're saying things like this that we're going to just destroy gaza, how is this allowed, i mean what is the purpose of? un, what is the purpose of humanitarian law if it cannot be respected? you raised very good questions, but julius, you're a media person, you're the host of a of a show and a radio channel. um, how do you see things happening on the media front in terms of the battle for their hearts and minds, comparing what the israelis have been doing and what the palestinians have been doing during the past few weeks? well. back we used to do very interesting course known as ethics of communication and we found out how media
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tends to be controlled during wartime, for example, invasion of iraq, every cnn journalists are to go with a soldier as minder, yeah, and that was to control the narrative, so when they tell us scott missiles are so smart, if you throw it here targeting you, not me, it to come pick you up and leave me alone, but they ended up being very funny smart, throw them in marketplace, they don't choose they clear everyone, so when you talk about the war that is happening now and control media is crazy, come to uk, for example, not long ago, bbc itself, journalist is not allowed to go and express our opinions on protests on the street by proper protesters who are palestine in their own person exactly, so definitely being controlled what to say - the time you see we hear um israel is doing things that may seem
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okay, but it's a media narrative controlled by governments that are involved, the truth is if you were to stand on the ground and speak your truth as a journist, you call out ev for whatever it is, see for number one, you say it doesn't matter whether gaza, whether israel, each human being has a right to life, right to life is the most fundamental of all right. that anyone can have, and when you think from that perspective, you realize every life, whether israel or ghaza has to be protected and should be respected, not just protected, but als respected respected, so you go there to gaza, we see lot of media narrative and the journalists themselves they are in trouble, because if you find a a codon from military telling you don't go beyond because he don't want you to film the truth for people the world to see, they will take you on, that's why we have almost over 50 genelists killed in gaza conflict, 57, the same thing will
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happen with the israel, because why? because war is fought and worn through the media, yeah? yeah, it's about propaganda, it's about projecting, it sure is, and it's very important, the role of the media in war is a contested place by governments of the world, so to get the truth, you ask yourself, who is speaking the truth, is always tricky to, no, it, it definitely is tricky, a quick pause to to bring everybody this, to underscore the global significance of any escalation of violence, yemeny armed forces have placed to resume their... operations against targets deep inside the 1948 israeli occupied territories, noting that they will stop attacks, as soon as the israeli aggression against palestinians in the gaza strip comes to a quote complete halt, the statement was released just hours ahead of the resumption of israel's gaza assault, military spokesperson, brigidier yahya saari made the comments in a recorded speech, yemeny armed
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forces afirm the following, it's full ready. preparedness to resume its military operations against the israeli enemy if it decides to resume its aggression against. yemeni armed forces will not hesitate to expand their military operations against the israeli entity to include unexpected targets on land or at sea. the yemeny armed forces will continue preventing israeli ships from the red sea and will take more procedures to guarantee the full implementation of this decision. and now fahim muhammad is back with the follow-up to her first offering of palestine in the media, faham, what has caught your eye in this segment? this was an amazing video, which is quite long, but we're going to just sort of see a bit of it, which is palestinian representative nada abush, at the un in geneva, speaking, so let's hear her a little bit and then i'll paraphrase. of course. thank you, mr. chair. given that number of states have spoken about palestine
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directly, we have prepared three replies, which we will read one after the other, and we kindly ask for your... we will first respond to israel's statement. mr. chair, at the outset, let us remind israel that our name is not the palestinian authority, but the state of palestine. sure, your finance minister said at event in paris earlier this year, there is no such thing as a palestinian people, and your prime minister on the 24th of september held up map. at the general assembly entitled the new middle east, in which palestine was deleted and replaced entirely with israel, but if your government is annexationist and racist, this body is not, and we ask you to kindly adhere to un protocol and nomenclature and to show respect to all states, she basically addresses
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everything that we all speaking about, the fact that you know the palestinians are not recognized, the state is not recognized, the people. calling all people of razza terrorists, eradicating it from the map, the no sense of morality and legality, the carpet bombing does not fly, she says, and people are not going to be fooled by the propaganda, the fact that you know everyone's asked to believe israel only and even ministers, un and everyone that speaks of the you know the war criminal, that activity that's happening, she addresses so many points that we are all speaking about, and does it so calmly, we definitely need to hear what she has to say, but at the end of the day, unfortunately, again it is, you know, just a voice that's speaking in this sort of scenario, but not actually getting the results that we want to hear and see, and another thing that we've been discussing of course over the past half hour or so, was the way people around the
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world are waking up to israel lives, absolutely, absolutely, and also the palestinians themselves, she said this not been happening since the september, i mean october the 7th, this has been going on for so many years and the palestinians will not go away like you plan, she was she was very, very strong in her, absolutely, absolutely, and then we have very much so another story, which is anthony herndell who was actually speaking on sky news, speaking of his son who was actually killed by an israeli sniper who was a photographer, wow many... years ago, but as they investigated trying to come to terms of what actually happened, he kind of says that you know we cannot rely on the israeli you know sort of accounts of things and misrepresent a lot, so we'll hear him. hello again, um, ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you to anthony herndall, um, he's british lawyer. your son was killed - by the
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israeli defense force back in 2003, that's right, yes, what happened? um, he was out there as a young father journalist and was covering the ism, which is a protest movement, and he was rescuing some children or trying to help rescue children from sniper fire from an israel watch her and he was shot by one of their soldiers and that led to quite a long investigation to find out what was what was happening and i think one of the lessons that we learned from that was that you can't place any reliance on on israeli accounts of events and i think that's why absolutely another journalist so many years ago same story same narrative and the fact that they continuously um with his investigation as well say that you know the israelis give this excuse of you know the civilians that they kill are military and then they go with that excuse in order to cover up the reasons for their sniper and um
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the immediate aftermath of this resumption of hostilities of course one of the groups that will bear the brunt of it all is the most vulnerable children absolutely this video just says it all it's not even been few hours and like the numbers have more than you know quadruple to the norm i think it's now counting 50 or more when i've just recently looked and it's only been a few hours where it's mainly children that have been killed, wounded and severely um sort of like you know displaced as well and again with hardly anything to um you know help them medically or even with people around them to actually give them the sort of necessities, not even the necessities at this moment in time. all right,
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that's every minute of every day for the millions of gazans who live in the territory, absolutely, and it's just now going to continue and we just pray that they do come with some sort of resolution. right, thanks very much. more from you tomorrow, well thanks very much vahema, let's continue the conversation here, um, my next question to tanya, how do you think israel's international reputation, if it had any, has faired in light of the recent hostilities, they've always played the victim card, do you think this still can weaponize their victimhood? i think it's very difficult, mean the mainstream media within within. uk and many western governments really do push the same argument that they try to put forward, but too many people are wise now and social media has been really empowering for the for
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spreading the real truth and everybody knows somebody who knows the truth and that message is becoming more and more spread that momentum is building and people are asking why why are uh why are people constantly going into protests and not stopping and they start to learn, they start to learn the level of... and the imbalance within the media, um, the journalism needs an overhaul, it's just not acceptable that you can only show one side and of an argument, so how how mean it started with these so call beheaded babies, which was entirely farsical and was on pretty much every newspaper, this goes into the hearts and minds of people and it just it just makes people switch off that will they deserve what they get. they don't want to be involved and they don't want to know, but those who really question that is this really going on and how how how are palestine being supported after this, they are the ones that
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have learned, they have the ones that realize this was all lies, but do you see those lies on the front page? no, so they have started to learn that they need to take the steps to learn for themselves, they need to be aware for themselves and the first time in the possibly in their lives they're realizing the the human humanitarian requirement as human being to know what is true in order to do justice for everyone. okay, we're going to have to leave it there with those comments, we're going to have to wrap this show up. many thanks again to my guests, julius baluto and tania manzuur for their contributions. gaza under attack will be back next week with more, until then continue to keep palestine in your hearts. thank you.
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oslo accords were supposed to bring prosperity to palestinians. however, in gross violations of the accord, israel permanently enforced these west bank divisions. economic benefits of area sea? well of course area sea is the big problem because that's where israel maintains total control, it also sets up legal settlements and generally acts in whatever way it wishes. meanwhile, israel is facing a massive labor shortage, palestinian workers, which are about 25% of our human
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resources. in the sector are not coming, are not changing to us, they're not permitted to work in israel, this is what the fate of palestinians hangs in the balance, people in israel mark prim as a holiday to commemorate the saving of the jewish people from annihilation. at the hands of the kemenite empire in persia, as it is recounted in the book of esther. they've been using the occasion to play the victim, but what is the reality and is there truth in it? watch this documentary to gain some insight.
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rest of the headline, 60 days into the israel on the ghaza strip, the regime kills dozens more palestinians in strikes, including a hold told people to take shelter. the united nations human rights chief says israel must stop quote blatant disregard for basic humanity. also on the headlines iran's president warrans the genocide of palestinian women and children will push israel to its end.