welcome back to gaza under attack coming to you from the british capital london. as the israeli regime's genocidal campaign in the besieged gaza strip entered its fourth month, here is a quick look at the latest developments in the region. the us europe of backed israeli regime's military continues to pound central and southern gaza. according to gaza's health ministry, at least 73 people of have been killed. in the past 24 hours alone,

the world health organization calls for medical facilities in the gaza strip to be better protected against israeli attacks even as doctors without borders is forced to leave alaksa hospital located in central gaza and overwhelmed with the sheer number of casualties arriving its doors. the secretary of state of the us, israel's stunchest backer is in the region where he is called for deescalation and better protection of civilians in g occupation forces have carried out series of overnight raid in the occupied west bank cities of napolis and ramala, abducting more than dozen palestinians. the israeli regime has killed nearly 23,00 palestinians and wounded more than 58 thousand others in the past three months. my guest for this program in the studio, dr. said, academic, consultant and lecturer with the department of politics and international relations at the... university of

westminster, joining us from new york, united states, caleb moppin a journalist and political analyst with the center for political innovation. thank you both for being here, i'll start with you, um, dr. mar, um, three months now, four months into, we've just entered four months into this unfolding genocide, where do you think things stand as far as that is concerned? most um interesting thing to note at the minute is how the ripple effects are being created across the region now with regards to this ongoing conflict um i mean we can see at the minute um how you know there have been targeted assassinations taking place um just across the border uh in the south part of lebanon um and that has created a lot of you know uh ripple effects.

with regards to where is this going to end or is it ever going to end or how long is it going to continue um and now the international pressure um also you know in lot uh parts the western media is um trying to um have a sort of an opinion about how this uh genocide is actually taking place but then again you know many promises are always made uh but none of them is you taken care of and i think with regards to um how this is unfolding at the minute um there needs to be very much a stronger pressure and the pressure on the united states in particular because as long as united states is not going to uh take note on this uh whole situation their unwavoring support for israel in terms of military their iron dome their financial aid until and unless that doesn't stop um you know they won't to be any, we don't seem to

see any solution coming out, let me bring caleb into this, since you mentioned the united states, the secretary of state, anthony blincon is in the region as we speak, caleb, last month we saw the biden administration approving hundreds of millions of dollars worth of munitions, they bypass congress for israel, and it was the second time in just last month, while at the same time anthony blincon is calling for increase in military. uh humanitarian aid into the gaza strip and uh and end to mass civilian deaths. um, are we to take the us seriously? should the international community, the world take the us seriously? while it helps the uh israeli regime with diplomatic and military uh aid, it is at the same time calling for an end to mass civilian casualties. well, what this crisis? and the past four months since

october 7th have revealed is how beholding the united states really is to israel uh because the entire world is filled with nothing but out. rage and disgust at the israeli atrocities that are taking place, but yet uh the us government officials, not the us public mind you, but the us government officials continue to approve the bombing and destruction and do everything they can to enable israel to carry out its atrocities, at the united nations security council, the united states has behaved as basically israel's protector, making sure that no un resolution would... criticize what they're doing to the palestinians, us aid to israel continues to flow, the biden administration is asking for even more money at this point, and the us public and even those within the biden administration itself uh can see what's going on, are in opposition, we see members

of biden's own staff coming out against it, we see uh people within the democratic party raising outrage, the us public is not where the biden administration is at uh, but yet these atrocities continue, and it really reveals to many of us here in the united states how blatantly our government is not democratic and elected on behalf of our population, that there are powerful interests that are very much tied up with israel that have a grip over our political, economic uh and military uh system in the united states, and that you know certain forces have power and are able to overrule the popular will, i will come back to that, caleb, i will ask... you about um who has leverage over whom? uh, i will ask you about apac, the pro uh israel lobby in the us, but let me put this next question to uh dr. wagar, the the fears of this uh whole thing um turning into a regional conflageration. um, anthony blincan

himself has said over the past couple of days, the the the has spoken of the thread of it metastasizing, you mention uh... the assassinations that have taken place um in beirot, in in damascus, um, the bombings in iran, um, how do you interpret these things in light of these latest developments? yes, um, the point really here to see is how is uh benjamin netanyahu playing, politically in his own country, um, as you aware since october 7th, with whatever has been happening in the conflict, especially uh with the palestinians, the the sheer number of innocent children that have been killed, the sheer number of um all these, you know, working groups that have been especially the united nation working agency relief group that have actually have major people who have

been killed who have been working there in gaza, it shows kind of somewat a sort of the popularity that is becoming quite low when it comes to... the within the israel political you know situation, the their own state, and the reason for that is perhaps the how it was all handled, but for netanyahu to be able to get somewhere politically, have a political achievement, because for at the minute it seems like uh there is a bit of heew and cry even within the israeli circle, yeah um, this was a massive military achievement for them because... what it will give them is sort of a medal, you know, they still have to negotiate a certain amount of deal with hamas with regards to the hostages, there is a massive huw and cry even in israel at the minute coming from the families whose you

know uh people have been kidnapped by hamas, so i think it's a very interesting development to see that how he is playing, you know um getting this milit. achievement, how he wants to show to his people that actually, you know, this is our enemy, and that's why we are prolonging this war, and for him, this is the the thing, he is going to prolong the war as much as he can, because the minute he stops, there will be lot of discrepancies within their political leaderships within israel, and they will ask him to have election otherwise, so it is a problem for him, and that's why he's prolonging it, that's how i see. they've also been talking about post um the post gaza landscape uh senior israeli officials are facing blowback for revealing the regime's post bombardment plans which included the uh relocation, expelling of gazins as well as israeli occupation forces remaining in some

capacity to maintain quote security inside the devastated coastal enclave. the future of gaza has been the central theme of address by german foreign minister annalena berback. a separate session to reporters, us secretary of state anthony blincan has addressed the issue of post conflict gaza as well as the deteriorating humanitarian conditions whilst on his l this whistle stop troop tour of the middle east. let's hear what they both had to say, starting with the u.s. secretary of state, speaking on doha, qatar. to many palestine civilians are suffering from insufficient access to food, to water, to medicine, to other essential supplies. children, most of all. we continue to raise with israel the need to do everything possible to facilitate the provision of humanitarian aid to gaza, and i will do so again when i'm there. later this week, they cannot, they must not be pressed to leave gaza. these statements are irresponsible,

they're inflamatory, and they only make it harder to secure a future. gaza belongs to the palestinians, they must not be driven out of gaza. there must be no renewed israeli occupation or colonization of gaza. a reformed autonomous authority is the alternative to hamas. without financial resources, however, the pa cannot fulfill its task. therefore, the funds that are due to the pa must now be transferred in full. this is essential for the stability of the west bank and therefore, also for israel. mr. kaleb, you heard those statements there. they seem at odds with both the us and the uh and europe's, the eu, the uk's actions and

political pastering, their financial backing for tel aviv, providing political cover as we touched up on earlier, um, even preventing sease fire, those vedoing of the un security council resolutions, um, it it just doesn't add up, they the voice humanitarian concern, but yet they cont green light israel's actions uh, they seem to uh have no problem approving of what israel continues to do, but they also want to virtue signal performatively that they care about the palestinians. well, if you care about the palestinians, you would stop the bombardment, you would join with the global call for a cease fire. you would pass resolutions in the un security council that criticize israel and rally the world and reflect global opinion that is strongly in opposition. to what israel is doing, and the united states, britain, germany, they're not doing that,

they are simply not doing that, but i must say uh, that there are some interesting signs, the fact that the united states was not able to rally and build the coalition that they had planned to build, to go into the red sea, to secure the red sea for israeli ships and israeli transportation, that is very telling, when the united states was not able to rally many of its traditional allies to go in and fight the... to uh oppose the naval blockade that they have created heroically in solidarity uh with gaza and solidarity with the palestinians uh and it seems like behind the scenes there are many world leaders that are skeptical at this point. it looks like the netannyahu faction in israel is determined to turn this current crisis into a full-on war with iran and nothing less than that will satisfy the assassinations uh the escalation they want to have a full-on war with iran. but if you look at the balance of forces, iran is not isolated in the region. now what obama tried

to do, polarizing the arab world, sunni versus shia, that's long history uh, now that iran is friendly with saudi arabia, now that the entire muslim world is supporting the palestinians in light of these israeli atrocities, uh, at this point uh, you know, uh, escalating to a war with iran uh, would not have the same effect, and iran is not isolated as it was during the obama years, uh, so uh, in this situation uh, you have to... wonder if netanyahu is really thinking that the only way he can survive politically in israel uh is to launch an all-out confrontation and he's willing to put the entire world at risk of of third world war in order to stabilize his political career, and so far iran hasn't risen to the bait, but the threat of this blowing and up into something bigger is still there. um, dr. wagar, both of the four ministers there mentioned in various parts of their statements. about israel's security uh and gaza without the resistance fighters there, there's what is missing from

those statements is the occupation that has been going on for 70 odd years, completely decontextualizing what's happening there? this is uh where the double standards really come in when it comes to um them coming and actually giving these um statements, because at one point there are so much concerned about seem to be concerned about the humanitarian issue at hand in gaza, but at the same time they're unwilling to talk about the israel's, the massive genocide that israel is committing, and at the same time, it's not, it's not, starting from october 7, of course, like you mentioned earlier, it's been going on for decades and decades, it's a very, it has very long history, so it's it's, i do feel that there seems to be added pressure for them to come and make these statements and somehow um, somehow show to the world that yes we are very much concerned uh about you know what is happening,

especially in in the gaza strip, but at the same time not willing... to mention about um israel's um you know um war crimes and we know that south africa at the minute has taken uh israel to icj, the only country in the world that is willing to actually take uh them to icj um and you will see that not most the western media is actually talking about it so i do seem that there's this dichotomy there uh that they're willing to talk about it because of the international pressure. coming from all these countries, but at the same time they are very much ediment about israel's security and being the iron t like to discuss the western media coverage of it as well if we get the chance, but no promises there, but just a quick reminder, this is gaza under attack with me saiza where we take a deep dive into the news of and around the israeli atrocities against palestinians. now

much as the genocide taking place in gaza is not a religious war. relations between muslims and jews have in... variably been impacted. earlier we spoke to fatim patel, nurse from leads in the north of england who lives in a traditionally jewish area and asked what her experience has been post october 7th. we live an area and we've also got our mosque in a in a very jewish area, and the mosk and the synagogue are pretty much across the road from each other, and we've we've had really good interfaight relationships with the community. i got a lot of friends who are jewish um but since the war um the relationships have been strained so there is um a little bit of um tension i would say and um i guess it's from probably fear from both communities people having really strong feelings on both sides so there's definitely um some difference of

opinion and we can feel that there is a difference um in how people might not be very... yes, how they react with each other, but there's definitely strain relationships. i know this is a test obviously from the lord for the people of gaza, but it's also a test for the rest of us, for the world, for the humanity, about you, what we can do in our little ways about sharing the the message, the standing in sol solidarity, and you asking for seasfire, writing to our in peace, and so i think as well as feeling... sadness, hopelessness, sometimes it does give you um strength to kind of do something in in in our power, which which sometimes doesn't feel a lot um, but you know that's that's i guess that's what we can do, but yes um really really sad and um feel that that's something that you know is very difficult to um to to

coop with some days, but you know we can't let our sadness and stop us from um from spreading the message and continue to stand with our brothers and sisters in gaza and palestine as a whole. fatim also told us that shed lost some close jewish friends since israel launched its genocidal war on gaza. i think on the whole like everywhere else there's there's group of people that um are probably have more strong views than others, so clearly when i've been on protest for palestinian protest. in leads city center, there have been many jewish people um obviously standing in solidarity with everybody else against the genocide that's being committed in gaza in palestine and feel that that's not the standard they take, but then there are other jewish who are finding it um quite difficult and feel that this is a

war against jewish people so um they are finding that quite difficult and it it does feel like for say for some people that is a war between muslims and jewish people, and for me personally, um, it's quite sad that i have got a lot of jewish friends and since the war, some of the my very close jewish friends who have known me for many years and we've been really good friends, have um decided to um cut me out and have just not wanting to speak to me and without any discussions, any dialogue, they just... um stopped talking to me uh or stopped um um having any contact with me um because of my stand um for speaking up um for palestine. "and obviously this is something that's not um anything about jewish people, it's about humanity, it's about the injustice that's being going on in gaza, and with hundreds and

thousands of people and children and women being killed every single day, i as human being um first then muslim feel that that's something that i feel strongly about and i would - if i didn't make a stand on that that would be against my values, so um..." have had to accept that some of these friendships have had to end, but um, it is, it is a is very sad situation. health professionals in the blockated coastal enclave are pleading with the international community to prevent a catastrophe by protecting the remaining medical workers dealing with an avalanche of cases. in a news conference organized outside the alaqsa hospital in central gaza, members the hospital's team, world health organization staff. and observers from the united nations have shared their observations. let's listen inside this hospital we have children who've just been

hit by shrap, we children who've just been hit by gunfire, we've had woman inside who had to wait six days in order to access treatment because the fighting around her was so severe, so the reason we're here today is first to call the protection of alaxa hospital which has to be protected. that the staff inside of this hospital are heroes who are doing everything they can without sleep, without food, without knowing if their own families are safe in order to save the lives of others in all right, two uh quick questions for this segment, i will start with caleb in new york, come back to kalev in terms of who has leverage over whom, i'm packed here on the one hand has leverage over because of its military aidlomatic uh cover for the regime and then you hear the power of the pro israel lobby in the us uh in the form

of apac spending millions now um trying to get pro israel candidates elected into power in other words prevent progressive pro-palestine ones from getting elected um how how does that work who has really leverage over whom well i think the... of word that we all