tv Gaza Under Attack : PRESSTV December 12, 2023 12:02am-12:29am IRST
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well you say that actually, i'm going to argue more so now than before, we are seeing it, there is no corn that they are hiding, that they can hide, any longer the act atrocities, the acts of of murder and and um violation of human rights and war crimes against humanity, one the image that we're about to see now um speaks of such heinous situation, but one that occurs all too often um unfortunately, i'd like to read it out, um someone said that my mom spoke to... in gaz yesterday and her nice said that my uncle was fleeing with his seven uh children on foot and israeli army called out him hey you did come over here many israelies speak arabic fluently so they interrogated him in arabic he said that he's been walking for many kilometers and he's just trying to get his family safety the israeli sold just smiled and said here take this so you don't be tired it was a bullet to his forehead wow um in front of his family while his family watched um he had seven children and they had been
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walking tielessly um as you mentioned before we started talking about this particular story that uh israel is kind of stuff that they have been accusing the palestine resistance of of committing of doing the die style execution yes that we just saw excellent point for sure um my my point was that um israel is under a great amount of pressure keep up the lie that they are victims and that they are simply defending themselves when these kind of stories are emerging that narrative those lies they have to... um have to be even greater and so they will exaggerate even more the atrocities that they are claiming that hamas or the palestinian resistance are committing against the israel, one such one against the recently marted may god rest his dr the writer and academic yesterday it was an precision pardon a me it was an attack that was... and his
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family um and that he had died uh uh that he was killed pardon me um and one of the lies why he became so prominent in in this discussion and why i brought him up is because there was one such incident where uh lies were against the palestinian resistance said that they were cooking babies and opens and his response was oh you know with or without baking powder you know what's the recipe to make light of the to exaggerate um further the lies that that are trying to be pedal by designist entity, exactly, but clearly he was giving me too much prominence in in the message that you was uh sharing with the world about the palestine causes and speaking of children, this war is having the most impact on the most vulnerable, the children who have lost limb and legs other their lives, the trauma that they will be wearing for the rest of their lives. what is your next story as far as that? um, let's have look at the image. that that we've
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prepared, my next story has to do with the of fact that we are looking at generations that are having to bury their own siblings, children children, i i've never seen this in any um history lesson, i've never witnessed this in any genocide or attack against the people, this this is this is new level of horror that humanity is having to witness um and it reminds me very much again to bring up the late doctor, he he wrote poem, which i think is so beautiful and something very much related to the hope that these children had again, okay, and something that these adults in gazza wanted desperately um to still in their dying moments in the work leading up to their inevitable death and their inevitable martidom by design estate, they wanted to leave legacy, and i believe this poem is going to be one of the legacies briefly if you can. 'if must die, you must live, to tell
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my story, to sell my things, to buy a piece of cloth and some strings, make it white with a long tail, so that a child somewhere in gazza while looking, while looking heaven in the eye, awaiting his dad who left in a blaze, and bid no one farewell, not even to his flesh, not even to himself, sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up above, and thinks for moment, an angel is there, bringing back love, if i must die, let it'. bring hope, let it be a tale, and it has become a tale that will be shared by millions around the world to keep this alive until the of palestinians. thanks for now, latifa will be back with more next week. now school and university students converged outside the uk prime minister's office this week to advocate for seaspire in gaza. they were also there to protest against. king's college in london
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ostricizing those who spoke against israel, one question they asked was why freedom of speech is selective in the uk. university and kings to reinstate the students that were um let let go due to their support of palestine, we are demanding them to cutize with the israeli universities and to invest the money in spreading peace and helping the palestins, i don't want to say anything about him, but he he says our people and uk is with israel, but we're not with israel are we listen to your people, that's what it is, our government is social contract, you listen to your people and we keep you in power, listen to your people, we don't want complete seasfire. "we are addressing the british government, more specifically rusi sunak, we want to call for seizfire, a permanent seizfire and just a temporary one in order to end this suffering. there's a lot of support amongst the students, i know for sure, do know that lot of people are scared to speak um in the university, um, i have do politics
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i have seminars, only one really we've spoken about it, the other ones that trying to keep quiet about it, and one of the reasons we're here today as well that um king's college student union, the office has been suspended because they'. up about um palestinian rights and we're trying to say no, they represent us and we believe in palestinian rights our country is giving israel more weapons to fight, you know the weapons are not going to bring the peace, to bring the peace we need to talk and and listen to them what they feel, the their children the both of the parents are lost, the parents got kill children are just on the street looking for the parents then cry, how come you like we ignoring all of this? not nice, every child doesn't matter what the color, background or you the religion, we are all human being after all, and as human being we should feel sympathy for them, we should have empathy for them, they say israeling themselves, but they they're bombing that and they're saying they're protecting themselves and it's not
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called protecting and they've killed at least, i think 300 children, the fact that is crackdown on freedom of speech is probably my motivation to actually come here, i think if 'if someone stops me from singing, i'm just going to speak even louder, if brav man, if they tell me to stop talking holding the palestinian flag, i'll i'll talk louder, i will scream and i will and i will rate that flag even higher, children our age are being killed, so we have to protest for them because if you were in palestine if this, this was this is this um is going to be happened to you because children in gaza are being killed like that'. adult and children every like every single type is in killed and there's so many international laws that say this isn't allowed but everyone's ignoring it and they don't care about it. our message is to all the corporations that profit of the massac of best bank children and to our
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political leaders who have like supported from who are the descendants of the people colonize my people colonize all all african people caribbian people and all the political leaders wh benefit of this who are silent, they are siding with your with your presses and our we are against all the arab students have been particularly targeted for showing solidarity with the palestinian cause, we spoke to students to have been on the receiving end of islamophobia, as someone who one of those people has been threatened by my university as an arab student at this time, um... message is that you know this is not a victim less crime, this is not any type of neutrality, this is not um, there's no support for our students and our student body and they cannot sass us anymore and they cannot away with their financing of these war crimes, we demand uh transparency on where
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our tuition fees are going, we demand support from our universities that we're investing in and we demand our curriculums to represent us as well, think in terms of student body there is... poor, there is a voice for palestine on campus, but we are actively being silenced by institutional policy, by institutional and against palestinian solidarity. we've been dehumanized, we've been institutionally, systemically, legally dehumanized for decades throughout so many conflicts in the region, and that's what have permitted all of the atrocities now and it cannot continue today i came to the peaceful protest. in uh downing street and as i was peacefully protesting for palestine a white woman came up to me and racially abused me saying that i'm a terrorist and she called my juba address as i approached and asked her to uh say sorry she said no go to your country and obviously i came here to do a peaceful protest for
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palestine as you know so many people have been killed up to 2000 people have been killed by the israeli force so obviously i asked her to say sorry but as we were sp speaking to the police officers she said she said nothing so obviously police officers in the uk treated us differently, but if i put it in your perspective and i came up to a jewish person and told him i will get arrested and given fire, so why can't the police treat me and like? same as everyone else, but i just came here for a peaceful protest, so i forgive that old woman, you've tuned into gaza under attack, my guest are still with me, and let me start with you, sheikh, want to pick up a couple of things that we heard those young men and women say out there is we want to see more transparency in terms of our tax money goes, for example the uk is hosting elbit systems that is the producer. weapons a lot of which are used again, the double standards as far as freedom of speech, it comes to ukraine, it's a whole
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different story, you get, you're running the risk of getting rest if you speak for palestinians, your thoughts on that, because we said earlier that i think the palestinian cause has now become a litmous test for many people in the country, that means that the litmous test extends to politicians, it also extends to the ways in which the people see me from their own community reacting for a long time uh people who are activists or of that nature have always been sort of um sidelined or bil you was sort of the image of the tree hogger or you know in in the wake of the the environmental crisis those people were gluing themselves to the road activism is now becoming part and parcel of people's identity in this country and you can see that they're manifesting that either through the way in which they are speaking social media uh the way the whole weekend is based upon the the causes yeah or participating boycott and sanctions movement, so the my my reaction
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is that this has has created a spirit within people that are now thinking differently, 17, massacred individuals, marters shouldn't have to be the price for that awakening within civilization, but we've seen that as civilization has changed and grown over centuries and millenia, sadly it's taken causes like this to be able to do that, it could in the ending of... could have been the the civil rights movements and we've seen that these have been moments where it has thrusted these causes and taken humanity at large to the next pedestal of its consciousness. i feel like this is the sort of we we are living within this moment if we continue it or they may end the genocidal movement the united states may say you been found out and stop the bombing in a permanent cease fire what will change on the ground ask you that how do we if this is the tipping how do we exactly, this this is the question that needs to be raised in ourselves, because if
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tomorrow a permanent cease fire is raised, you've got a humanitarian crisis, you've got a health crisis, a rebuilding crisis and you also got the crisis of people that are going to be traumatized for generations to come, as well as the spector of the occupation continuing, what's changed, can't go back to that, we can't go back to that, so actually this needs to be the the booster movement, we actually say: fine, we've achieved this phase the movement, which might be a fire, whatever you want to call it, but that should be the the liftoff to the next phase, which is to remove the occupation and actually to dismantle the occupying state all together and put it in dustbin of history, and this is what conversation needs to be as well, in all platforms, so be it sermons, be it in academia, be it on the streets, that's the next phase of the conversation, the next phase indeed, now two israeli air strikes that kill the... videographer and wounded six journalists in south lebanon nearly two months ago were apparent deliberate and
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direct attack on civilians, which two international human rights groups have said must be investigated as a war crime. the investigation by amnesty international and human rights watch was released simultaneously with similar investigations by reuters and france's international news agency agence press which said two strikes that were 37 seconds apart target the journalistts working for international media outlets near the village of alma al-shab, on october 13th, have look. our months long investigation into the two israeli strikes a group of journalists on 13 october in south lebanon indicated that it was likely the strikes were likely a direct attack on civilians and must therefore be investigated as a war crime. all the evidence that we collected shows that the israeli military either knew or should have known that the group of journalists were civilians. amnesty international no indication that there were any fighters or military. inity of the journalists and once again back with the
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sequel, the first stint making the coverage the gaz genocide fahim starting with how holocaust guilt is believed to be the reason why the german police and government are clamping down um palestine solidarity yes it's great that it's highlighted by um iris heffets who's antis jew um israely psychoanalyst so her video highlights the specific sort of incident in where she was actually holding up a placard and she was also questioned and threatened to be arrested, let's hear what she has to say is acting according to the primitive part of guilt of having. they try to substitute us with new jews and the new jews are the germans, they will tell us what is antisemitism, there will be new sinagos, they are not jews in there, so they are trying, we call it in german, undo, this is the primitive way of of dealing with guilt, to undo something and to say, okay, these are
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the muslims, these are the palestinians, they are the bad guys, we we are clean, we know how it is, yes, yeah, i mean guilt for the holicast in the past, but also taken over to blame the muslims in the palestines and another sort of genocide as well, i would say we to more in the um conscientious objectors in israel, people who don't want to join in with israel's genocidal campaign, yes we heard students saying they don't want to participate in um this kind of like government system that they are already living in israel and we've also got the um antis. jewish prisoners now uh because they're refusing to join the army, so they're brutally handled as well, and video will show you when they are actually protesting against this. you have to understand this clear
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distinction in between the religion, the state, the agenda, and i think that's where you lot of people. in the mainstream media calling anti-semitism and we need to see more of this. speaking of media, if you're a western uh journalist, no matter how good you are, how high profile you are, if you speak for palestinians, if you push back against an israeli narrative, you might lose your job. yes, he just doing his job to try and be impartial and push back in question, an israel spokes person we've seen several times, he was fired for questioning him in this way, control all the images coming out of gaza, have you seen one
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ability and accountability and even when the evidence is there, not just for journalists, but people reporting on in gaza, this is what the response is, so it's really you know, and even also talking about what was alleged that was which was this uh calendar that was just there and they made it out to be some sort of military sort like assignment or something like that, so even that question is like no, we haven't got evidence for that, we haven't seen that, and that's the response and it's acceptable. all right, thank, thank you, you're welcome, continue conversation with my guests in the studio and on skype uh, next question to olga, lot of people are saying, rightly so, i guess, that this is benjamin netanyahu's war on the palestinians, he was used to be called mr. security, he is fighting for his political future, how long do you think netanyahu will drag this war out to get what his supposed aim are? uh, you
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know that he's been... already charged within israel by his citizens that in fact what he is waging is is neverending war, of course it not actually be never ending, but what they mean is that is hoping to that this war will get till at least november 2024 when there are the next... american elections and is hoping that having trump again as a united states president, he will be able to do something analogos concerning gaza that he did in 2018 when i am sure that if it wasn't
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for donald trump it wouldn't be easy for him. to make the so-called united jerusalem the israel's capital, to draw out the basic law that makes the state of israel a state only for jewish citizens and not for anybody else, he wouldn't be able to make ansl with the syrian golan heights and the only things were the american put and... had stopped him was when he announced that i if i remember correctly on july 1st 2019 he would join one third of the west bank to israel, that's only where it stop, because you know that there is
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very serious talking concerning new nakba, the israel agricultural minister, although already said that today we are in the 20023 nakba and this is how things will finish. and of course are arguing the second is already happening because millions have been moved from the north of gaza been forced while still being bomb uh to to move to the south lot of them on foot. i'm going to squeeze one last question to to the sheikh and that is your vocal, you have been speaking up about what's happening there, but correct me if i'm wrong, but your appears in the uk, not the exact boss personness on their part. why do you think that is? i think there is an environment of fear. as to how their views will be taken, as you said earlier on, journal target, teachers who facilitate conversations, they are targeted, people in
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universities are targeted, um, it's like i think wackamo was saying actually earlier off screen where someone raises their head, they're whacked and that's the end of them, in in most cases, lot of the scholars are also fearing this sort of reaction as well, that it might be the charity commission that comes after them, or it will be the police that comes after them, 'often the mosks or the churches or the synagogues that are employing these individuals crack down on them out of fear of losing their license or whatever freedom they have been given. so the the the outcome of this is been in many cases, not only the scholars quiet, but as a result even their congregations don't know how to be able to raise their voice in the right way. where do i think this goes next? i think that scholars can show the way if actually people can give the example of'. how to um either, if you want to remain within the framework of the law, or if you feel like now there's s where you see people being massacred, 17,00 of them, no longer can we
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just sit quietly and only give sermons, there has to be next step, what is that next step? i think these are also conversations that are being had behind doors as well, because the scholars are very frustrated that not all of them are able to speak the way in which they want to be able to speak, and it's important for that leadership to be there, young people are looking to their leaders for direction, otherwise those people they no longer have value if they supposed to be leaders and others are looking to them and they're quiet during genide, where is your value as a leader? exactly, we're going to have to leave it there. um, with those comments we're going to wrap it up one more time, many thanks again to my guests for their contributions, gaz under attack will definitely be back next week with more. until then, continue to keep palestine in your hearts. goodbye.
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