of the headlines, palestinian officials say the death tour from relentless israeli bombings in the gaza strip is nearing 24,800. mexico and chile refer israel's war on gaza to the icc over escalating violence against palestinian civilians. the mma army says it is targeted an american ship in the gulf of veden with appropriate naval missiles and response to usa air strikes on the country.

hello and welcome everybody, it's 7:30 p.m. here in the iranian capital tehran, 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 be sieged palestinian territory, in the latest such attacks, at least five people were killed in an israeli air strike on a residential building in hannuness in southern gaza. another 12 lost their lives in a strike it an apartment near el shifa hospital in gaza city. the latest casualties bring to more than 180 the number of palestinians killed in israeli raids across gaz over the past 24 hours. the raids were conducted under the cover of near total communications blackout. the overall death toll from the regime's war has passed 24, 760. meanwhile, the un rights expert has said what israel is doing in. as violation of international law

and is highly illegal. south african politician and youth activist muhammad khalid saied has talked to us about the israeli genocide in gaza. he also explains why the regime is imposing a communications black out there. this is a genocide, the pictures are here. the death toll 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 access giving support to the suffering people of gaza and the resistance in gaza will not be possible. the aim of the israeli regime in carrying out this particular blackout 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 terms of their own interest, yes, the interest is to obliterate, to flatter. 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 in clash. with palestinian resistance

fighters in the gaza strip, the military says an israeli trooper died of wounds, he sustained in battle in southern gaz on wednesday, three reserves 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 death tool is much higher as israel hides the real number of its military losses, in the meantime the military wing of... hamas resistance movement has said that their fighters targeted a markava tank with three soldiers aboard. the uh algasam brigades also detonated the mouth of a tunnel in aghaza city neighborhood 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 in gaza, 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 demanded the icj order emergency suspension the regime's military campaign there. a large number of countries have backed south africa's move. and like many countries around the world, austrians have also held rallies to express solidarity with palestinians in gaza people took to the streets defying a ban on such demonstration.

situation in a gas 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 it's a bit uh bias yeah uh also uh the mens where you can in nowadays where you can find the truth is through social media because uh now 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 major the decision uh take in un also that are hiding for people highlight for people and you can

see it uh uh through social media yeah this is the this is my opinion there some uh uh how can i say some uh major have uh a hide agenda, yeah, some of them, not all of them, yeah, was my fault is, i miss the media coverage of 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. israel's perspective. i do not want to defend violence, but there is a reason why this all happened. if you constantly maltreat someone, then of course you have to expect the 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. israel and hasula resistance movements continue to exchange fire along levanon's southern border. in the latest clashes, israeli occupation forces have conducted new strikes on several of southern levise towns. in response has fired a barage of missiles at upper galilei. in the northern occupied territories. israeli media say a drone was also launched from lebanon and reached hifa bay, the two sides have been engaged in intense fighting since israel launched its genocidal war on gaza early october. the lebanese movement says that attacks on israel

will not will stop rather only if the regime ends its onslot on palestinians. press tvs mariam salah is joining us now from the lebanese capital bayroot with uh the latest on the exchange of firelong lebanon's southern border between uh hisbollah resistance moving and the occupying israeli forces mariam what do you have to share with us? well we do know that the resistance has declared in a statement that they targeted uh movement of israeli soldiers between two of the israeli posts in the occupied chaba farms uh it's between ramtha and that area seen there was movement for soldiers has they attacked them with the use of a burkan rocket, they also used the burkan rocket in, this is another post for the israelis but not in occupied lebanese territory, it's in occupied palestinian territory and it's they

also used burkan in that instance as well, it seems has been using the burcon rocket more often in the latest round of confrontations, but we also have uh other uh operations where they uh conducted also other resistance operations in certain areas we do know from the israeli media uh that they have shot down as they say a drone uh which flew from lebanese territory, hazbillah has not denied or claimed any responsibility on that, but they said that it was flying close to area which was in haifa, it could have been a husballah, it could be, it could have been from hizballah to towards a strategic area, and hifa could have also been something from the iraki resistance, since we know that they are quite active in that arena as well, we know that there was an explosion recently and near the uh oil refineries and in haifa which which was attacked, of course the israelis

denied that it was anything security, of course the rocky resistance said that they did launch an operation towards that area, but of course there was no documentation and so therefore uh we cannot verify, the israelis have continued their shelling as you mentioned on all the occupied um excuse me the towns that are bordering the um occupied palestinian territory, it seemed also that in some areas where they're trying to cause fires, they use pipelines in order to bring in more gas and pump in fuel in order to cause more flames, they did not succeed in that one since the lebanese army was able to stop that and and stop all the fires, so what they're doing now is basically causing very wide and deep craters and holes in areas, especially in the natural reserves in areas near ramya. and itashab uh which was heavily bombarded today with the use of the f-16

fighter jets and we can see it clearly in the skies of south lebanon. of course these confrontation continue and we also have more widening and escalation, but it seems as sources are saying it could either descalate or it could become heavier in the days to come, this all depends on sort of deal that could take place whether the united states is ready to basically go for deal that would end the political life basically in the future of the israeli regime's prime minister benjamin netanyahu in order to bring about some sort of a truth or seizfire uh and try to basically say face in the international community by trying to say that they stopped the war in gaza and at the same time created this stop and cease fire and deescalation in the entire region, or the opposite could

happen, and we might see even more israeli shelling throughout south lebanon, even further off, further than the areas which are close to the border as well. excuse me, thanks lot, mariam press tvs, mariam sula joining us from the lebanese capital bay region. a plot hatched by zinis to occupy, to disintegrate and to plunder palestine. this documentary tells in five parts how the israeli regime kickstarted its sinister project in palestinian lands through the gradual strategy of settling the... welcome

back the yemini army says it is targeted an american ship in the gulf of aiden in response to us uk strikes on the arab country. the neval forces of the yemani armed forces carried out the targeting operation against an american ship came ranger in the... described as inevitable yemen's retaliation for the aggression by the us and the uk, he added that any new strike on yemen won't go unanswered and unpunished. the us has confirmed the attack its ship, the pentagon says it was a third attack by the emines this week on us own vessels in and around the red sea, that's a crucial... for international trade where tensions have been spiking over the last two months. yemen has

been attacking israeli link ships in retaliation for the regimes genocide and gaza, the tensions in the red sea have escalated further in the past week after the us and uk began air strikes on yemen siting what they called threats to international shipping. the united states has launched a new wave of attacks in yemen. the fresh missile sava 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 assaulted the provinces of adeda, tas, damar, albaida, and sada. the aggression was accompanied by the presence of surveillance aircraft over the western part of yemen. this aggression will not change anything in the stands 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 antarala movement as a terrorist organization. the answera resistance movement has described the us move to redesignate the movements as a terrorist organization as quote a badge of honor. designation of the united states doesn't, i mean in here in yemen they don't care about that, but they are honored to to to have that... resisten as a terrorist organization because we know and as said abdul malik have said united state is just the face of the crime. united states is one of the country that have destroyed uh, i mean the have destruction wherever they go, so we are honored uh to be designated as terrorist because as always they say one man terrorist is another man freedom fighter.

answer spokesman muhammad abdul salam added that the move also proves the impact of yemen's anti-israely operations. as part of their support for palestinians and popular resistance movement have over the past month targeted several ships owned by the israel regime or bound for ports in the occupied territories in the strategic after multiple warnings. earlier in january, the u.s. along with the uk attacked yemen in a theatrical show of support for the israeli regime. the issue that america and britain have joined the war directly and that we are now. confrontation with the americans, british and israelis 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 yemani people, a siige 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? this reflect, it reflects violation of sovereignty, further injustice towards people. since mid november, yemani 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 medicine and food into the territory. the enemy armed forces have also made it clear that their red sea operations will continue until those goals were 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, pruel, dehumanization and extreme barbarism in occupied palestine. it's obvious who is on the side of genocide, britain,

france, canada, the netherlands and others and germany especially and on the side of right on the side of morality is world public opinion, the yemeny government. the western hijamonic powers and their zionist alli have faced the disgraceful defeat in gaza in the face of the resilience and steadfastness of hamas and other palestinian resistance groups. germany 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. respond. 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, yemy military's efforts have been noted for being highly sophisticated and precise. the yemeny 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 ilat 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 and succumbed to the resistance demands.

uh, well, this just in, um, reports are indicating that the iraqi resistance forces have attacked a us military base in uh, syria's, um, al-omar oil field, we're going to keep you posted on the details of that story in. much more as we get few right here on press tv, elsewhere thousands of people have taken to the streets of yemen's capital, santa, to voice support for palestinians amit israel's genocidal war on gaza. the demonstrators waved palestining and yemy flags chanting anti-us slogans. earlier people gathered in the city of sauda to condemn israel's onslot on gaza. yemeny protesters denounced washington's unequivocal support for israel and its recent air strikes

against yemen. the protesters also slammed to the us move to designate uh yamenson movement as a terrorist group, calling washington quote, the mother of terrorism. jordanians also demonstrated near the us embassy in ammon in show of their support. palestinians, they ask their government and other arab states not to normalize their relations with israel. our message is very clear, no to the american military bases on jordanian and arab lands, no to all the treaties and agreements that are signed with the zionist entity. after 100 days of resilience and resistance, what is needed is practical steps to... support the palestinian people and to support the resistance, to defeat the hostile alliance which is led by the united states.

we call on our jordanian government to take better stances than the ones it is currently taking. there's no doubt that these steps are being taken, but we're asking for more positive ones, especially regarding those related to design enemy, to stop these relations with this enemy and to focus on hostilities with this enemy. political analyst hakim sai bedia says the demonstrators demonstrations rather held by yemanies reiterate their support for their country's anti-israel operations that sano says will continue until the genocide in gaza stops. the very us government that is committing this uh you know round of violence against yemen just because yemen is doing its part in trying to basically end the genocide that is going on in gaza, what the yemeninow forces, the huti forces want is sease fire in

gaza, if that happens everything is going to stop, and of course the united states government is not ready to do anything for that to happen, for the ending of the violence and the genocide is happening in gaza, so the people of yemen are showing to the... what everyone has to do and of course we are seeing you know similar scenes around the world in different you know countries especially in western countries people have the same opinion that this you know corrupt and this unjust world order has to come to an end you know when there is other way to put an end to an ongoing genocide, what should governments do? should people do, and this is what we are seeing in yemen, that thehi, you know, forces are doing their part, and the people of yemen are doing their part in the

streets, you know, giving their full support to, you know, their representatives and showing to the world that they are still steadfast, even though they have been under so much pressure, as i said, for the last 10 years having their own human. humanitarian crisis and having their own you know rounds of attacks uh by outside forces facked by the us government. well that's a wrap for now but stick around i'll be back on the top of the news and brief see you in a bit. crisis devastating wars, terrorism. the

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i want you to look in the mirror and ask, where was i when gaza was going through a genocide? south africa is: here before this court in the peace palace, it has done what it could, it is doing what it can by initiating these proceedings, by seeking interim measures against itself as well as against israel. south africa now respectfully and humbly calls on this honorable court to do what is in its power to do, to indicate

the provisional measures. that are so urgently required to prevent further irreparable harm to the palestinian people in gaza whose hopes, including for their very survival are now vested in this court. thank you, so free, free, palestine, from the river to the sea, bellist time, will be free. thank you, south africa. thank you, sir.

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