the headlines, over dozen palestinians are killed in new israeli attacks on gaza, where the death tool has already passed 24,700. mexico and chile refer israel's war on gaza to the icc over escalating violence against palestinian civilians and also on our headlines zamini army says it is targeted an american ship in the gulf of aiden with appropriate naval missiles in response to the us let air strikes on their country.

hello and welcome everybody, it's 3:30 p.m. here in the iranian capital tehron, you're watching press tv's world news. our top story for this half hour 105 days into the israeli war on the gaza strip, the regime continues with its carpet bombing campaign across the vesieged palestinian territory. in the latest such attacks, at least five people were killed in an israeli air strike on a residential build. southern gaza, another 12, lost their lives in a strike it an apartment near alshifa hospital in gaza city. the latest casualties bring to more than 180 number of palestinians killed in israeli raids across gaza. over the past 24 hours, the raids were conducted under the cover of near total communications blackout. the overall death tool from the regime's war has passed 24,760, meanwhile a un rights expert of has said what is. israel is doing in gaza is

violation of international law and is highly illegal. south african politician and youth of activist muhammad khalid sayid has talked to us about the israeli genocide in gaza. he also explains why the regime is imposing a communications blackout there. buse this is a genocide the pictures are here the death. speaks to it, but even within that context, the people of gaza and the resistance and hamas in particular have put up a brave fight and they continue to resist, and we want to commend them for that. without iran, this particular axis giving support to the suffering people of gaza, the resistance in gaza will not be possible. the aim of the israeli regime in carrying out this particular. back up is so that they can

suppress the information coming out of gaza, so that their crimes, their atrocities, their genocide cannot be sent out to the rest of the world, but still the information is at our disposal, so that's their objective, but also you know um crazy regimes like the israeli regime, especially the one led by benjamin netanyahu does not always even think rationally, even in... their own interest, yes, the interest is to obliterate, to flatten gaza, to kill each and every palestinian living in gaza, but the blocking out of communication, they see it as part of that, but they do not understand that this is simply backfiring, it's making the israeli regime yet again look like a regime that wants to close out each and every communication. israel confirms new military

losses and clashes with palestinian resistance fighters in the gaza strip. the military says an israeli trooper died of wounds he sustained in battle in southern gaza on wednesday. three reservists were also wounded seriously in the north and center of the strip. according to the israeli military, total of 191 soldiers have been killed in the ground invasion of gaza. palestinian resistance groups however say the toll is much higher as israel hides the real number of its military losses. in the meantime, the military wing of palestine's hamas resistance moven has said that their fighters uh targeted a markava tank with three soldiers aboard. the algasan brigades also detonated the mouth of a tunnel in a gaza city neighbord as a group of israeli infantries were there. mexico and chile have referred israel's war on gaza to the international criminal court. the two countries say the referral is because of escalating violence against. civilians and gaz, especially

children, the palestinian foreign ministry has welcomed the move by mexico and chile. the ministry said the referral confirms the icc's need to fulfill its mandate by deterring and prosecuting the most. serious crimes. last week, south africa also presented a case at the international court of justice over the gaza war. the case said israel is committing genocide in gaza it demanded the icj order and emergency suspension of the regime's military campaign there a large number of countries backed south africa's move. well, like many countries around the world, austrians have also held rallies to express solidator with palestinians in gaza. people took. the streets defying a ban on such demonstrations, our correspondent in viena has asked some austrians about media bias and the lack of coverage of the pro- palestine voice, let's take a listen selber eigentlich since i am mainly influence by austrian television, think it is very onesited. read lot of

international newspapers and the reporting there is entirely different than on austrian television, namely it is not as onesited. in austria there is... much reporting from israel's perspective and the situation in a gaza strip is only featured in very few media outlets, above all there is hardly any information about what the civilian population in gaza is doing, when you come in maybe austria uh is is a bit uh bias yeah uh also uh the the mensos where you can in nowadays where you can find the truth is through social media because uh now uh you have access to to information uh from there also and people uh say the truth and you can see uh the murder of the child uh the children in gaza what you cannot see in the media the decision uh take in un also that uh

hiding for people hiding for people and you can see it uh uh through social media yeah that's is the this is my opinion there's some uh uh how can i say some uh major have a high agenda, yeah, some of them, not all of them, yeah, was my fail, i miss the media coverage the background to the conflict, the history, the connections, horrible images are shown enough, but not enough information is given to the people about what led to the war and the attacks, i can hardly manage to watch all the hardship and atrocities in the reports about the war, overall i am very skeptical about the media coverage, i have the feeling... that the reporting is very one-sided, only presenting israel's perspective. i do not want to defend violence, but there is a reason why this all happen. if you constantly maltreat someone, then of course you have to expect a backlash at some point. the way israel is reacting here with such exaggeration is nothing other

than genocide. i admire south africans who have the courage to call out israel. in austria, the media does not have the courage to do this. i feel like... the news in the west is too pro israel, there is also a lot of fake news on next and twitter, to better understand the situation, people should see more of the gruesome images of violence and suffering in gaza. i am edward said, i was born in 1935 into a christian family. most of my family left jerusalem because they had to, and it was an area that... fell to the haganah in i think february of 1948. the idea of being a fugiative is just like being affected by leprosy. all palestinians feel the same sense of exile. the charge which

created outrage when it was first raised, i think um, they tried to dub as racist thing, but you see unfortunately, i think there is something in it. so for him, the writing of... tourism was actually shaped by his engagement with the question of palestine. our homeland was lost in history and right in front of people's eyes. welcome back, the yemini army says it is targeted an american ship in the gulf of aiden in response to us-uk strikes in the arab country. the naval forces of the yemani armed forces carried out the targeting operation against an american ship came ranger in the gulf of eden with several appropriate naval missiles resulting in direct hits. described as inevitable

yemen's retaliation for the aggression by the us and uk. he added that any new strike on yemen won't go unanswered and unpunished. its ship, the pentagon says it was the third attack by the emines this week on us own vessels in and around the red sea, that's a crucial lane for international trade where tensions have been spiking over the... last two months, yemen has been attacking israeli linked ships in retaliation for the regime's genocide in gaza, the tensions in the red sea have escalated further in the past week after the us and uk began air strikes on yemen, sitting what they called threats to international shipping. the united states has launched a new wave of attacks in yemen, the fresh missile salva was fired from us navy ships stationed in the red sea and targeted sites that were allegedly prepared to launch

attacks. over dozen locations were set to have been hit in the strikes. the eminisaba news agency reported that the areal assault at the provinces of odeda, tas, damar, albida, and sada. the aggression was accompany by the presence of surveillance aircraft over the western part of yemen. this aggression will not change anything in the stance of our people and his spiritual obligation in supporting the palestinian people and the residence of gaza as well as the continuous targeting of ships linked to israel, and this is clear in our continuous operations, germany armed forces have said that they will not hesitate to target all sources of threat in the arabian and red seats within the country's legitimate right of self-defense. they've also warned that any aggression against yemen by the us or the uk will not go unanswered and unpunished, the washington designated ansara movement as a terrorist organization. the entra resistance movement has described the us move to redesignate the movements as a terrorist organization. position as quote a badge of honor designation of the united states does,

i mean here in yemen, they don't care about that, but they are honored to to to have that realistin as a terrorist organization, because we know and as said abdul malik have said, united state is just the face of the crime, united state is one of the country that have destroyed, i mean the have destruction wherever they go, so we are honored to be designated as terrorist because as always they say one man terrorist is another man freedom uh fighter. entreral spokesman muhammad abdul salam added that the move also proves the impact of yemen's anti-israely operations in the red sea. as part of their support for palestinians, the yemen armed forces and antarla popular resistance movement have over the past month targeted several ships owned by the israeli regime or bound for ports in the occupied territories. in the strategic we say after multiple warnings earlier in january the us along with the uk attack. the issue that

america and britain have joined the war directly and that we are now in direct confrontation with the americans, british and israelies does not scare us at all. the aggression towards our country and our people will enhance the development of our military capabilities. this was a brutal aggression, violation of our sovereignty. i mean after 10 years of... war on the yemini people as siege on land, air and sea, and to add to that, they are targeting us with new aggression. this is new stage of the conflict. what does this reflect? it reflects violation of sovereignty, further injustice towards people. since mid-november, yemy armed forces have carried out operations against israeli link ships in the red sea. they say the operations are aimed at forcing the israeli regime to stop its war on gaza and allow med. and food into the territory, the any armed forces have also made it clear that their red sea operations will continue until those

goals are achieved. washington and london have supplied money, weapons and diplomatic cover for the zinus occupation of palestine. they are actively promoting genocide, ethnic cleansing, racism, parthide, pural, dehumanization, and extreme barbarism in occupied palestine. it's obvious who is on. side of genocide, britain, france, canada, the netherlands and others, and germany, especially, and on the side of right and the side of morality is world public opinion, the yemani government. the western hijamonic powers and the zionist alli have faced the disgraceful defeat in gaza in the face of the resilience and steadfastness of hamas and other palestinian resistance groups. yemani military has single-handedly posed the biggest threat to the economic functioning of the israeli occupation. by forcing it out of the red sea and further promising to stop the movement of ships to the occupied territories

if the aggression against gaza continues. in response to the yemini military's actions, the us formed so-called multinational coalition in the red sea under the guys of protecting international trade, which in reality was attempt to protect the status quo and regional waters that have traditionally been in the service of western interests. yemini military's efforts have been noted for being highly sophisticated and precise. the... many attacks have been extraordinarily effective, first of all, shipping costs are rising, have risen, insurance for ships is going up. uh and this will this will only uh get worse, so israel is taking a a pretty significant economic hit. major shipping companies have had to halt operations in the red sea and to take new longer routes and the us has been scrambling to pressure the saudis to avoid a peace deal with yemen. yemen's retaliatory strikes has also halted all

commercial activities in the port of vilat in the occupied territories. yemen has in fact set new equation with global consequences and has pushed the us from a position of dominance to one of defense, having to react as succumbed to the resistance demands. thousands of people have hit the streets of yemen's northern city of saada to voice support for palestinians in the wake of israel's. sidal war on gaza. the demonstrators waved palestinian and yemeny flags chanting the us is the mother of terrorism. the slogan is a reminder of washington's unequivocal support for israel

as well as its aggression against yemen. the protesters also slamed the us's move to redesignate yeman movement. as a terrorist group. for weeks, yemenes have been holding nationwide rallies every friday in a show of support for the people of gaza. as just mentioned, the united states has relisted yemen's anstal movement has a global terrorist group over attacks against israeli linked ships in the red sea. yemen citizens have spoken about the us move as well as the ongoing strikes by washington and against their country, they can hit as much as they want, we are ready to support the palestinian cuz until the last breath, we, along with the generations after us, will continue to confront them, their repeated attacks will never deter us, america has been striking us for a long time, the aggression against us is

veiled under the name of the saudi and emirati aggression, but america has been bombing us for a long time. type: this decision is a political move to cover up israel's crimes, claiming that we are a terrorist group is to justify the air strikes on yemen and palestine. this decision is not new, it's not an objective decision and is not based any real evidence, because this decision was made before. this classification was approved during the era of former us president trump, then the hutis were removed from the terror list. this proves that it was decision that was not based. on practical reality, rather, this indicates that the us makes these decisions to blackmail people and to use the decision like sword against anyone who stands against american and israeli interests. these classification on the list of terrorism is under our feet, we don't care about it. we have fought wars for nine years and from the first day we have been attacked

by the us, israel and britain and this is not counting their agents from the arab. we say to them, if answer allah are classified as a terrorist group, then what about israel, what about the us that kills innocent palestinian children and that destroys homes above their residence, what do we say about them, are they not our arab brothers and is palestine, not arab like us, isn't it our right to stand up and defend our palestinian people with all we've got. palestinians are our brothers and we will not be silent about them and we will not let them down. the iranian military has launched uh day two of air defense drills marked by a variety of exercises and maneuvers featured operations using air defense systems to counter electronic and cyber attacks. participating troops practice shooting down targets and low altitude using for the first time domestically developed short-range air defense system called uh the

ninth of day. the units involved in the drills also use drones to electronically disrupt radars as well as air reconnaissance systems. the moduers also involved intelligent satellites, unmanned aerial vehicles and air defense radars, intelligence gathering systems were used as well to spot and take out mock enemy targets, the drills are carried out jointly by the iranian army and iran's islamic revolution guards core, the irgc. iran's intelligence ministry says it has identified and arrested more people and action with the terrorist attack in the southeastern city of caramon earlier this month. the ministry says those arrested include ring leaders and operatives of the daesh terrorist group which claimed the january 3rd attack. it says they are nationals from several countries and are being investigated, weapons and ammunitions have been confiscated from them as well. the iranian intelligence ministry says one of those arrested at planned a terrorist attack near the holy city of mashad. meanwhile, two

terrorists have been killed in an exchange of fire with security forces. they had entered iran several days after the caraman attack that killed 94 people including women and children. the intelligence ministry says a daish ring leader known as adel panshidi has entered a western tehran neighbor. and remains at large. iran is criticized the arab league for condemning a strike earlier this week by the islamic revolution guards core in iraq's kurdistan region. foreign ministry spokesman naser katini expressed regret over the statement issued by arab league foreign ministers. he said the statement's provisions are rejected. cananani said the strike was carried out based on iran's legitimate right to confront terroris affiliated. to the israeli regime in the iraqi city of airbel, he added that those terrorists had posted threats against iran's national security, and it's citizens a spokesman said, respecting

the sovereignty and territorial integrity of iraq is fixed principle of tehran's policy toward baghdad. can i however noted that the islamic republic won't hesitate to deter sources of threats and punish those who commit crimes against the country on wednesday, the 22 member arab league called the irgc's operation a flagrant violation of iraq's sovereignty. earlier this week, iran's islamic revolution guards core fired a barage of missiles at an espinage center of the israeli spy agency mossad in the iraqi kurdistan region. one of those killed in the operation, was the kurdish multi-millionaire oil tycoon peshro majid a now photos obtained by press tv establish his mossad connections and how he was vital. in the israeli spy agencies operations in iraqi kurdistan mainly against iran. one of the photos shows the daihu had close ties with mosad with a

zionist rabbi at event help to celebrate the jewish festival of yum kipur. another photo shows him besides mosat agent ilan nasim as well as hosin yazdon, the commander of an anti-iran terrorist group. according to informed sources, ilan was a kimosad. officer who coordinated the agency's operations in iran and iraqi kurdistan, the sources say ilan was also killed in the irgc attack along with four other members of his espianage team. disai had made a fortune from illegal export of iraqi oil to the tel aviv regime. he also headed the falcon group conglomerate with business interests in security, oil, gas construction and agriculture. in the united states election season is already here, but with far more dread than hope, many believe there will be even more turmoil this november then back in 2020 with widespread concerns

about election related violence. rami mazori has more on the story. the united states election campaign has just officially begun 10 months before going to the voting booth. in iowa, ex-president donald trump easily won the... republican party's kickoff to primary season, but he's still as controversial as ever. many openly claim that his return to the white house would produce civil war, retribution tribunals, dictatorship, and even worse. in new hampshire, a revolt against the democratic national committee means local democrats will soon hold a primary which has been stripped of its delegates. that helps reflect the deep dissatisfaction. within the party towards president joe biden. many wonder if the previous elections unprecedented political activism and months of chaos will return. yeah, 2020 was crazy. i

hope it's not as intense as that. i think 2024 is going to look like 1968. the parallels are uncanning, chicago convention, etc., etc., i think very good chance biden will pull out in the first quarter of this year. and not be the nominee, so i think anything, anything and everything will happen. with both candidates having such high disapprooval ratings, and amid such economic, political, and military disaster, it's widely expected that both candidates will run extremely negative campaigns. i'm expecting a brutal campaign, they they're all garbage in in some way or another, and uh, hope for the best uh for the country. i mean, how i end up... voting, i guess is my own particular decision when the time comes, but uh, certainly don't like where the country's at today. biden's support for israel's latest

war on gaza has deeply angered his. critical base of young voters, many muslim and arab americans have vowed to not cast vote for biden. either group could tip the balance in what poles expect to be the fourth consecutive presidential election to be decided by less than four and a half points. i think that's that's the crip tonight for joe biden, he's he's screwed up that that uh situation so badly that, the younger generations turned against him, and i don't see if he continues with... his stance on on gaza, i don't see like the younger generation uh coming back for his his support. the war against gaza will also drastically shaped congressional elections. a recent nationwide poll found that voters prefer candidates who support a ceasefire in gaza to those who don't by a whopping two to one margin. ramin mazahari, press tv, chicago. well, that's a rap for now, but stick around, i'll be back

on the top of the news in brief. bye. now this is the world's singlemost. documented genocide in modern history, and yet world leaders not only are standing by, but the united states is actively arming israel and providing the diplomatic cover for israel to continue carrying out this genocide. every day, every hour, every minute, there is new video that comes out of gaza documenting this genocide in a way that we've never seen before. genocide is legal term, it comes out

the rome statute and the... convention المراه مطخه.

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at some. press tv's news and brief 17 palestinians have been killed in the latest israeli air strikes on gaza, five lost their lives and strike a residential building in khanes, the other 12 were killed in an airid near a shifa hospital in gaza city. the overall death tool in gaza tops 24,760. israel confirms new military losses in clashes with palestinian resistance fighters in the gaza strip. the military says a trooper died of wounds, he sustained in battle in southern gaza on wednesday. it says 191 soldiers have so far been killed.