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tv   Gaza Under Attack  : PRESSTV  December 21, 2023 12:02am-12:31am IRST

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leg wish she could be taken some to some other country for a prosthetic leg exactly only to be killed in that attack and this is the room in which she was staying in um and the the little girl who is recording uh this segment and she's reporting on on the incidents that happened she say she was showing us a clip of the roof and how the missile kind of came in and she was literally just giving you a breakdown of the incident and of course this is the room in which this um ampu t was and there a victim of the genocide. now the thing that i want to raise is that how number one, how incredible is it that these young people are filling this void in um in the the international community is failing them and they are rising to the occasion and that is something to be so incredibly proud of. however, it is so incredibly sad as a parent and and as as someone who works with children to see them having to put themselves in that pressure pot
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and and and to take roles that are meant for adults, not just adults, trained professionals in their fields, so it is moment of acknowledging the palestinian spirit and the palestinian resistance, and it is moment of great sadness where we have to see our children grow up far too soon, and not being in schools and then doing having to do that. um, all of this, the christian world is gearing up to celebrate christ. the birth of jesus christ and some are taking seasing this opportunity to call for peace for a cease fire in song for now we've you know big news has occurred where the pope has now made a statement claiming that the attacks that are occurring in palestine specifically what's unfortunately um befell the christian community as terrorism but the christian community we know around the world um where some have remained silent there have been u
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extreme um allies, as i would call them, um, allies who have gone out of their way to demonstrate uh their support for for palestine, but also their demand for a cease fire, and what a beautiful way to do it then to encompass or to use the christian spirit of caroling um, while demonstrating their political demands. let's have listen. of
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christians, i wonder if there all are, but using this opportunity to call for peace in in the birthplace of of the christian prophet, jesus christ. i think this happened in minneapolis if not mistaken, i think i saw of it somewhere um one of the social media, i i've seen many um many forms of activism like this, and i and i hope to see more. i actually um, speaking of this type of form of activism, there has been a lot of criticism. upon people in the uk, groups that are left in charge of organizing mass mobilizations that have not called for any until mid-january um so it would be a month before the last mass mobilization and the next um and this uh is because apparently the police have uh told them that they are not allowed to rally and call however obviously the grassroots movements are uh mobilizing and that they are calling for a mass disruption.
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on december the 23rd and i pray and i hope that we have more carolas out um singing just that that beautiful um song that just gave me guys bomps listening to it you the most beautiful form of solidarity really um well we're it's only matter of time we we're we're yet to see that um of all the protests that we've been to at almost all of them you would see lot of young faces the socal millennials not just here in the uk that i've been to um of but everywhere around the world. a big difference between um the older generation in terms of their support for israel or palestine and the younger generation, people in the ages between 18 and 34. um, it's definitely the case that the younger generation are more skeptical of the government and more skeptical of of the information that they're reading, they have access to um to social media and that they are the ones who are creating content, they they understand you know that there's no longer this um gatekeeping of information.
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that used to exist, which is why the older generation have traditionally been um siding with the government or listening to what the government have to say the official sources of information, but what's beautiful now is... that we're seeing young people take to the streets and actually respond to the calls for boycott, and we need to remember that students, this is their place, their place is to be politically active in their place, considering that they don't have mortgages to pay at the moment, they don't have jobs to lose, they're the ones who should be out in the streets and these people do it justice. it's important, but we feel that this issue is more important, matts can wait, you know, the idea that there's true sides to this and that there's any sort of complication, for us it isn't really a complicated issue, for me at least, it's genocide. innocent kids, innocent muslim kids everywhere in palestine, gaza, they're getting killed and it's not right, and it's not, it's not just muslims as all, it's christians, it's all those people in palestine, and this should happen, and obviously we need to do something about it, so we're coming together to protest for the people, no matter religion, culture, we're here today, and we're skipping school to show the government that we hate what they're
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doing and we want them to call for a size fire immediately, just to throw in a quick statistic there, um, according to poll which predates october um in... britain, 18 to 34 year olds are far more supportive of the palestinians than the israelis and i'm sure that number has surged, oh absolutely much, i would completely agree with you, and just - to leave that here, um, with the future and hands of young people like this, palestine will definitely be free within our lifetime, it's guaranteed, that is the hope, um, let's see, thanks for now. all right, palestinian children have born the brunt of the war on gaza more than any other group, but the suffering of children is spread far and wide as a result of the massacre in gaza. earlier we spoke to canadian teacher miliha elias, whose school organized healing circle for
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their students to have an outlet for their pain. on on december the 14th, my school board had organized a healing circle. for our palestinian students and and for those of us who have been affected by all that is taking place in palestine right now, um, it was this healing circle was organized by trained mental health professionals where our students were given safe space to vent, to talk, to express their feelings about all that is taking place in... palestine um without the fear of being reprimanded because their support for palestine alhamdulillah and school board has also organized another heating circle for our muslim students where
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they can talk about you know issues of islamophobia and how some muslims unfortunately are not feeling heard so alhamdulillah alhamdulillah my school board is being is taking good care of its muslim and palestinian students. the students alhamdulillah they were very very very appreciative they - the feedback that i got directly from my students was that madam we finally feel heard we finally feel like we belong this is the first time ever they're finally paying attention to us - so it was really really really well. received and um they i would say that they actually after the after they went to the healing circle they they came out feeling very refresh and as of as if they were very proud of their um identities as muslims and as and as
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palestinians. mali has said lot of muslim and arab students are struggling with their western identities given the lack of. when i started my job at my current school which is which has a predominantly population, my kids on the very first day they they you know they came to me ask me madam do you know what is happening in palestine even ask me madam do you know where is? palestine you know and then sharing how their family have how their families have left palestine and not just my palestinian students but also my lebanese students you know sharing with me how their villages in the south of lebanon are
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currently being bombed but their families are safe in beirot and how they really miss home um and even the mental health i would say you know there is... "there is this energy of this atmosphere of frustration as to when is this going to stop, why isn't the world doing anything about this?" " i definitely feel that among my students. i will actually share this with this with you folks, one of my students, they were venting the other day saying that how they do not want to stand up for oh canada in the morning anymore because of canada's negligence towards. and how they they feel like their identity does not matter
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here and that all these talks about inclusiveness and equity and whatever that there are just talks and no actions so i definitely feel like given all that is happening and unfortunately you know even seeing canada silence in certain situations um that that makes you question your canadianness. for sure, for sure. you're watching gaza under attack. let's continue the conversation on the israeli genocidal campaign in the gaza strip. and of course it's ongoing raids in the west bank with my guests, professor rosenhed in the studio with me, and on skype in sheffield, pablo navaratte. now, pablo, i want to come to you, and thanks for sticking around. um, we made a mention of the hoothies earlier on on the program, um, we heard the... american defense secretary uh lloyd austin talking about a 10 nation naval force um to prevent further
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attacks on the different ships whether israeli flagged or bound for israel, do you think that's going to make a difference uh in terms of how this um ongoing onslot will pan out? i mean sure i mean if the us were to interven there i'm sure... it would affect how how how things develop uh, i'm not, i'm not an expert, it's a fast moving situation, i know, um, but i know that certainly that the actions of the hooties have been heroic in many ways to showing the world what direct action uh to try and stop this genocide looks like and and sort of bringing it back home. i think when when you asked me earlier whether i was hopeful that there would be sort justice in the future for the crimes, but the genocide i think. what gives me hope is the direct action we're seeing in the uk from groups like palestine action uh who have
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increased who have been you know i've interviewed who have been active for many years now but who have increasingly you know come to the f. i know there's a a day of global action now against elbit systems the largest israeli arms manufacturer who have many um sort of spaces in the uk on thursday the 21st of december and there is increasing as earlier young people are joining and i think that the political and media class, and i think that's something that's really important to stress, that the western media class also sacrificed, i think a large part their legitimacy in front of their domestic populations by aiding and abeting uh the genocide uh in gaza, so i think direct action is is increasing, and i think the young people are not waiting anymore uh for their political leaders and not believing the misreporting of of the main. stream uh media with regards, and i think that's hopeful and that's and that should be welcomed. yeah, let
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me uh, since you brother up, let me put the same question to um professor rosenhet, as we heard from our correspondent there, about the um makeup of these protests where we saw lots of young people, again the the gen z, the so-called millennials, um, your kind, your thoughts on that, why do you think we've seen that? one very encouraging aspect that i've seen, i'm i've been going on demonstrations about palestine for dozen years or more, probably more, and uh, there's been an organized jewish presence there, we called it the jewish block, but it was actually quite small, 20, 30 people, roughly, usually my sort of age, um, what's happened is that's been transformed during this occasion on one the marches, probably the biggest one, we had about a thousand people in the jewish black marching with banners from different organizations and now we are in touch with
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and they're younger um by 20 30 sometimes 40 years and we're now in touch with them we have a vestidual organization we meet we talk what do you what do you chalk it up to what why do you think more young people think the israeli government has finally gone too far and people are not willing to take it anymore it's all beyond the pale people are talking and for many jewish people, knowing that israel claims to be doing this for the jewish people around the world are saying, not in my name you're not, and they want they need to come out and say that loud and clear. and pablo, you mentioned earlier uh this being the case of the tail wagging the dog, it's quite clear to lot of people that the israeli regime, the netanyahu government is trying to make um gaza unliveable, uninhabitable, yet the us continues to to support what is happening, is it to do with the israeli
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lobby, the so-called apact in the united states ahead of the elections there, what is it that? that drives the us to continue uh backing what's going on there? i don't really have answer that i feel is is like i can give you, i think, as i said earlier, think i think what's happen when we saw biden travel to to to meet with netanhu, when we saw richy sunak travel, you know in the days of you know the bombs dropped, we saw images of of hundreds of... thousands of people dying and the absolute horror that they were living through, um, and and these people go there and meet, and hug and and embrace, this war criminal netanyahu, it's really hard then to sort of really unpick who is in charge of who. um, is it obviously it's clear that
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israel serves the geopolitical interest of the us in the region, in the same way that colombia historically did uh... for the us in latin america before the change of government um, but when you see when you see something to that degree, you do wonder what kind of power the israel lobby and israel has over us politics and uh maybe the you know the weapons manufacturing and the testing of weapons uh is is there is something there that means that they have in fact higher level of influence than one might imagine and and so yeah i'm not an expert but i think there's a lot there to. "and of course there is in addition to that a sizable jewish community in the united states of course uh not all of whom by the way support um what netanyahu and and his government are doing uh to the palestinians um so overnight israeli air strikes have killed at least 28 people in gaza's southern city of rafa including women
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and children. most of the dead were from the zugrup family, but among them were also displaced people sheltering. there, the house belong to local journalist, have look, we heard a strong hit that shook homes, we ran outside and found people under the house, there were 20 people inside it, and around it were houses of displaced people from gaza, living with one of our relatives, the journalist, adel, 100 people from gaza were residing with him, 10 people among them were killed and dozens injured, approximately. 15 people are still under the rubble, including elderly, young women and children. we found children scattered far from the site. may god be sufficient. nine people were killed in adelle's house, and adelle, the journalist was the tenth. only in adelle's house, my cousin was sleeping in his home, and his 10-day old baby was killed, and two-year-old daughter died too. they have passed away.
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fahim muhammad is back with her second batch of stories on the media coverage of the... garzan genocide: we heard about latifa talking about uh young people reporting and we mentioned the 12-year-old girl dunia, and i think we need to acknowledge her, you know, before she passed away after losing her entire family and being wounded, she was trying to recover in the hospital and she was still able to speak, and i think it's really important that we do hear her. سطوره لانه كان في دم وما كانش ما كانش في الي رجل لو كنت احركها ما كانتش تتحرك طبعا الاستشهد اللي هم ماما بابا اخوي محمد واختي داليا حدا يطلعني برا اللي هو يسافرني برا اي دوله she is no
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longer. uh, she said, i feel injustice, when i grow up, i will become a lawyer, so i can enjoy my rights, all children, i'm afraid she won't be around to do that, no, and finally, let's try and quantify the genocide, 74 days since it all began, yeah, these statistics, as you see will come up, will show um the actual events from 7th of october till the 17th of december, day 72 by then, um, showing how many have been displaced. how many million close to a couple of million have been displaced? the fact that if we have the the footage coming up you'll see the number of um the infographic putting all the numbers. is targeted, schools damaged, press headquarters, mosks, um, journalists, yep, again, journalists and and also continuing
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day by day, so we seeing it unfold and unravel, and obviously the the the numbers a little bit more because it's actually taken to account some of those presume dead under the rubble as well, so this is more of a realistic number than what we are even hearing, and it could obviously inc. from the things that we have seen unfold and continuously unfolding, unfortunately mention the worsening humanitarian catastrop absolutely. all right, fahim muhammad, thank you very much, you're welcome. all right, um, quick final questions, um, i'll start with pablo, uh, you were probably asked this question before, un just under three months into the war, put your prediction had on, and and tell me, how do you think uh, things will pan out moving forward from here, um, you know, i can only think about the immediate
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desperate need for israel to to sort of finally really stop bombing, stop the killing, um, as to the geopolitic maneuvers, what, what will happen to what extent, palestinians will ever be able to return to gaza, i really don't feel. place to really make accurate prediction, i just seeing those images of of the young of the young um the girl who was killed after having her parents murdered and her siblings murdered uh is just so heartbreaking and i think you know it just goes, i'm not the only one, i've spoken to many friends who just feel that you know going along with daily life, especially in a country like britain - knowing that my government is aiding and abeting the the the murder, side taking place in palestine is such affront to to myself, but it's it's an affront to humanity, so yeah, i haven't answered the question as to where i think
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this will end, i just, you know, i just think that there's a desperate need that every ever they can to stop uh the bombing, the same question to you professor, just under 20 seconds, where you think things will be going, i'm going to squeeze in an extra thing, which is your statistics didn't mention universities destroyed, alatha. islamic uh university destroyed completely, carpet bomb. in terms of what will happen next, things are not going to be the same. this is a breakpoint. we don't know, we can't see the future, but we know it will not be the past. we're going to have to leave it there. thank you. um, those comments are going to wrap the show up for us. one more time, thanks to my guests for their contributions. gaza under attack will definitely be back tomorrow with more. until then, continue to keep palestine in your hearts. thank you.
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الى 41 كيانا على اسس دينيه، طائفيه، قوميه، اثنيه لغويه، مناطقيه، جغرافيه، فئويه الى اخره. وكل بلد من هذه البلدان يحتاج الى ان يقسم الى عدد من الاقسام، في العراق اخترعوا فكره الثلاثيه، شيعه، سنه اكراد. ليس التقسيم
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على اساس قومي اكراد وعرب او مسلمين وغير مسلمين او مسلمين شيعه ومسلمين سنه ولكن اخترعوها ثلاثيه غير متجانسه الاكراد قوميه في حين الشيعه والسنه هم عرب وهم قوميه واحده لغه واحده وتاريخ واحد مشترك ومصالح مشتركه ولكن يراد للتقسيم ان يكون على وفقا.
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lines is really work machine claims lives of more palestinians in gaza and the occupy. at west bank with palestinian death tool standing at around 20,000. and while the israely prime minister rejects any truce and gaza and threatens to continue with the genocidal war until hamas is eliminated. and yemen warns us a harsh response if it takes any military action against the arab country.