that took down three three stories building in western maz neighborhood, which is a complete civilian residential area, no military paces, no military presence of any type in the scene, it caused multiple injuries and deaths, unfortunately so far the civil defense teams and rescue teams are still searching for survivors, they retrieved five marters at the moment, there's searching for more, but as i said, it's because of very narrow space, as you can see behind me, the the street is very, very, very narrow, so it's really difficult for them, we've heard that say, the representative of islamic jihad, israel claimed that they targeted one of the islamic jihad leaders, which is which is false, completely false, because the representative of the islamic jihad, sandawi said loud and clear that no, of our caders or

our teams or our offices were targeted, this is a complete violation of international laws, this is a crime because it targeted a complete civilian area. okay, and right now, have there been any reactions as of yet from the syrian government or media to address uh this explosion? "the syrian syrian media are just covering the explosion as we are, but the syrian government, however will take some time, mostly like maybe in one hour or two, you there will be a statement uh from the ministry of defense and also the uh ministry of foreign affairs, the ministry of defense will as usual just uh state the the the statistics, the casualties, the uh the the type of the israel attack. uh probably, it's

just guess now, probably it's uh surface to surface miles were launched from joland, after the maroon, after the after that the resistance, the lebanese resistance attacked meron controls control base, the israelis obviously lost some of their ability to attack, we haven't seen any attacks since then, i think after they deployed their airport command and control center uh in the jolan yesterday it was spotted over the upper a jalilidi and jolan and today we've seen the attack seems like so this is also connected and seems like we have more news coming in right now ibrahim as you are speaking we have a breaking news that apparently uh sources have told press tv in fact there are two irgc military advisers killed in this explosion,

the building you're talking about, the three-story building you're close to that was leveled by the israeli regime, it's resulted in the deaths of two irgc military advisors in fact, we heard that, this is yeah we've heard that, but there's so far no confirmation, we've heard that right, and we have sources and we have sources that have told press tv and we're we're waiting ourselves for further confirmation, but sources have notified us that - in those those five people and i know we heard other. information like that uh earlier too, but we're still waiting for complete confirmation, but so far sources have uh told the the our network that two irgc military advisors are among the five people that have been martured in that building in the meza neighborhood there of damascus, this attack ibrahim, what does it have does it bear similarities to the attack that uh resulted in the marturdum of a general said razi musabi obviously yeah on it has similarities,

the only difference that we have at the moment is that we don't have a full confirmation that these there are irgc marters at the moment, if there is, if we have the confirmation then it's not just similar, it's typical, it's the same, but in from many aspects yes, it's similar, very similar, it's because the first my first reaction when i heard this i thought yeah this is an assassination because um it's repeated the same the same battle right, but but the uh just to show how far the israeli regime carries out these attacks across syrian soil, this is the capital damascus where we know the israelis have carried out dozens of attacks, but uh sayid musabi, general say musabi's marturdom was at the zenab shrine which is nowhere near where you're at right now, correct? exactly, yes, exactly, that one, this isn't... the first

attack in this area by the way, um, there were two two to three, two to three years ago israel also assassinated someone in this area. it was a tried to assassinate a palestinian uh fraction leader uh they couldn't kill him but his son was martered unfortunately may rest in peace uh it happened the same area so this isn't the first time no even in damascus even damaskus okay um we're gonna leave it there we're going to uh stay very close to you and keep contact with you and come back buse trying to find out as much as you can this helping story and we're very eager to find out what we can and if you can try to confirm some of the information that's been trickling in abraham keep us informed pal thanks for your work there on the ground uh this is our press tv correspondent abraham white joining us from the syrian capital there's been an explosion a building and let me give you a

quick recap there according to our um sources here an explosion has leveled a three-story building in damascus uh syria the capital there of syria. carried out by the israeli regime which has resulted in at least of five fatalities, two of those sources have told press tv, you can see on the bottom of your screen, there have been advisors of the um irgc, um, that's the iran's revolutionary guard core advisors there a syrian sol at the invitation of the syrian government there um have been martered we're going to get all the confirmations out to you accordingly soon as we can, but our reporter also mentioned that they cannot get too near, to the side, but the building, this three-story building has been completely leveled uh, we don't know exactly how many people have been injured, but we are so far reporting five fatalities including two irgc members there in the syrian um capital and a highly populated civilian area, the meza neighborhood of

damascus, as soon as we find out more we're going to get you updated and get back to you here on press tv, stay tuned and bye-bye for now. welcome to spotlight. for more than 100 days every day, hundreds of lives are being taken by israel in the gaza strip. it's more than 100 days at every day. numerous massacres are being committed against palestinians. it's... more than 100 days at every day, thousands of people in gaza lose their mothers, fathers, their brothers, their sisters, and lose their children, nearly 25, it may just be number to some, but to palestinians, they were loved ones whom they will never see again. what is

this uh that humanity cannot stop? this textbook example of genocide, we're going to try to figure that out in tonight spotlight. attorney activist and political analysis zakir ahmed mayet is joining us from johannesburg and also radio host and journalists at cpr news, don debar is joining us from awesoning, new york. gentlemen, welcome to the program. let's start off with mr. ahmed mit in johannesburg, now the overall death tool for israel is 105. of incessant bombing and attacks has passed 24, over 62,00 people have also been injured, schools, churches, hospitals, mosks, ambulances, they've been frequent target of the strikes which have left only a handful of medical facilities partially operational, gazens are literally waiting on the floor for

medical staff to intervene and save them. please share with us your perspective on the horrors that gazens have been enduring during this genocide as the world watches on. "i think the south african perspective has been reflected by the application before the icj brought about by the republic of south africa and i think it truly encapsulates what is happening within the gaza strip at the moment, this is purely a genocide. in the 84 page document that was compiled by the state, what was very clear is that this is a systematic process and..." a planned destruction of a portion of the palestinian people, everything that has been done by the zinus entity, from the destruction of medical facilities to the denial of basic things such as food, water, power, fuel and other sorts

of items that are necessary for the basic survival of human beings and should be guaranteed in terms of the laws of armed conflict have been stopped and therefore it can only be viewed as one one thing and that the palestinian people are the target of the zianist entity and that it is subject to the zinus entities rage, the only thing that we can draw from this is that israel has exposed itself, the mask has fallen and it's exposed itself as a genocidal state that practices apart and is a colonial outpost and it comes as no surprise that former colonial powers have rushed to their aid to try and protect them to allow them the card launch to continue their massacre and fortunately the access of resistance has created equalizer that has changed the battle. field as we see today. don dabar, since the beginning of the israeli on gaza, the israeli regime has

sought to dismantle the resistance groups in gaza, however, after 105 days of lethal and deadly attacks by the israelis, the palestinian resistance groups are fighting back strong both inside and outside of gaza. according to the israeli military a total of 191 soldiers have been killed in the ground invasion of gaza, palestinian resistance groups. however, there is saying that the deaththoll is much higher. as israel is hiding the real number of its military losses, israely settlements continue to be targeted as well, so that means that the israelis have not achieved their military objectives, even israelis are admitting to that, so other than becoming record holders for murdering children, what have the israelis achieved? they've managed to alienate whatever friends they had on the ground in most parts of the world, and they've managed to completely... uh dispell the myth of israeli democracy and pluralism.

israel is an apartide state, the israel is expelling and land cleansing the palestinians from palestine, and there is no objective observer that can deny this any longer. that's one thing that they've achieved. another thing that they've achieved is that uh, in essence they've been able to isolate the united states. among the world um in a way that even the incompetent mororons in the white house and around president biden have been unable to do and as previous morons like george bush were unable to do uh there are now not only the cuba sanctions where the us is one of two or three voices against the entire global community at the general assembly but there are resolutions including genocidal resolutions uh where the... us stands with israel, ukraine, and maybe palao or marshall islands depending on what day it

is. that is also achievement of israel, it's remarkable achievement to tell the truth. the united states, the most powerful military on the planet, so at least by dollars spent, um, and uh, with one of the largest economies, if not the largest, depending on your measurement, stands alone in front of the world that's siding with genocide, and unabashedly. the recent israeli raids mostly in the south of gaza, which was supposed to be safe zone, were conducted under the cover of near total communications blackout. now, a un rights expert has also said that what israel is doing in gaza is violation of international and is highly illegal, why is the regime imposing a communications blackout? think there are three objectives, the first objective is the most obvious one, and that is to blind the... international world's eyes hoping that the massacers would

not be documented, the massacers would not be reported and it would not be live streamed. one of the defining characteristics of this particular war is that the massacres, the attacks have been documented, it becomes impossible for israel to distance itself from the large scale force and disproportion force being utilized against the civilian population and can... only be determined that this is means of terrorizing the population. the second reason is to hamstring aid capabilities, and this has been documented by the united nations, by numerous aid agencies that it becomes impossible to coordinate delivery of aid and other important functions such as medical extractions etc. or to dispatch civilian defense crews to rescue people from bomb buildings, if these no communication, the final aspect, and this is a feebal attempt by the israeli regime to try

and hamstring the resistance capabilities in the hope that because there would be some sort of digital blackout, whether it's electronic warfare or destruction of infrastructure, telecommunications infrastructure, they would be able to disrupt the capabilities of the resistance to conduct the operations. what has been demonstrated is that the resistance works. two to three men crews, they continue autonomously and they have been incredibly successful on the ground, and israel's plans to in all three phases or rather all these fears have failed, the world knows what they are doing, the gazan people remain resilient despite their suffering, and the resistance is destroying the zionist entity a daily basis, it's a complete loss for israel despite their driconian tactics. tondabar, mexico and chile have referred israel's war on gaza to the icc, that's the international criminal court.

last week south africa also presented a case at the icj, the international court of justice. is over the gaza war, that case said israel is committing genocide in gaza. what kind of outcome are you expecting from these international tribunals? in addition to that, benyamin netanyahu in a defiant message recently said that, quote, nobody can stop us, not the hag, and not anybody else. that sounds just like what a bloodthirsty war cronal would say, doesn't it? yeah, it's exactly what a bloodthirsty war criminal did say as matter of fact, his name is george w. bush. uh. when there were grumblings at uh in the public sphere about uh going to the icc about us behavior in afghanistan and iraq uh he said in essence that if any of our and they they passed the legislation uh certainly executive order i remember made it through the congress but there was law made um or declared that uh if any enforcement of you

know arm of the icc attempted to mettle with any american military. personnell that the united states would defend them, including they call it, i forget the uh, bomb the hague act or something, some very aggressive language, including military options against the icc, so uh, this is exactly what a bloodthirsty world criminal would say, because that's what a bloodthirsty world criminal did say, but between the two, you have the icj, international court of justice, which is a direct construct is part of the un charter, uh, which has is charged with dealing with disputes. between states, that's why the parties are here bringing the case, particularly south africa, it's a nation state, and so they have the, they have standing to do this, the icc uh, they basically they're looking at criminal activity, not by states, although that that can be that, but by individuals, so we're looking at cases that are being brought against israel, and i haven't seen the cases

yet at the icc, they just filed yesterday, but i assume netanyahu and other officials are going to be named, now what happen? at the moment at the icj, they're seeking injunctive relief, in other words, not, we'll settle the case later as we can litigate it, but right now we want you to stop them from blowing up gaza, and that is what's before the court, if south africa prevails, a judgment comes out of the icj, then the question of of that is, okay, we have to go to the security council to get authority to have military action taken to enforce this, if israel refuses to do it like, 'who says he will, well, the us vetos it, or they have britain or france veto it at the security council, it's a dead end there, if anyone were to actually militarily intervene after that, they would be in violation of the un charter, and realistically speaking, if the us is standing with israel now, whoever is going to challenge that, no matter what comes out of these courts, is taking a war with the

united states and they're making it clear while they're bombing yemen saying this has nothing to do with israel, but in the midst of this genocide. mr. ahmed miet, um, how important has the unified response been from the resistance in the region in retaliation for the war on gaza. there's lebanon's hezbulah, yemen's ansolah resistance moving and the armed forces of the country, resistance groups in syria and iraq, were the israelis in washington not considering the repercussions of a coordinated and unified response from all resistance fronts in the region. "i think they did, i think they did take this into consideration and part of the calculus, because the united states was compelled to send two aircraft carrier battle groups to the region to try and threaten the resistance access into sitting on the sidelines and watching their brothern being slaughted in ghazza, this did not go

according to plan, it was impossible for the united states to exercise any form of deterrance, and what we are seeing now..." is a complete changing of the table, ansar allah in yemen have imposed the naval blockade on all ships heading towards the zinus port of alat, they have targeted us ships as well, despite the heavy presence of us warships within the region and within striking distance of yemen, they have shown fearlessness on the northern front, hazballah has achieved its goal, it was twofold, one was to some of the best israeli forces up towards the north and keep them occupied there in a war not only of attrition but also keep them in a state of uncertainty therefore it would be impossible for them to relieve the pressure on the north and going assist the slaughter in gaza, therefore it kept the

israeli military force particularly depleted in the gaza strip, the second part was to impose economic suffering on the zionist entity by forcing approximaty, the figures are fluctuating, but between 90 to 100 thousand settlers in the north had to be evacuated out of the reach of hazballah armaments, so when you look at these two factors combining, hizballah has achieved its goals, we have now new indication that is coming out from the eastern side, and that is both through syria as well as the brothers of hashd shabi, that they have attacked both naval assets as well as seen ballistic missile. and cruise missiles through to places like hifa, they've hit a lot few times and this has been another dimension. if this continues escalate, it's very clear that the

resistance will continue to escalate. there have been questions about the resistance access, how are they at the moment, what is the condition, and they are in brilliant state at the moment, they continue to work tandem with each other, and the only party that is losing on the ground today is that of the united. it's israel and its colonial backers and it's very clear, the evidence is written on the wall that the resistance access has succeeded. don debar, do you believe that the israelis are seeking to expand their ensaut on gaza into a wider regional conflicts so they can get the us um more directly involved, and if so are these actions producing the results that tel aviv and washington were seeking, or are they in the words of hezbollah's hasan nasrollah? further igniting the resistance front, if you recall, hesbolah just recently said it remains fully ready to go to war against israel? well, first of all, their onslaught

on gaza has always been a wider regional conflict, they've been bombing syria regularly for years and they've done hits uh in iran also and and elsewhere uh, and certainly now, i mean, netanyahu says that he's making war on iran publicly. um and of course we're looking at at at the activity that has been taking place across the border from israel into in a number of other places, the u.s. is already directly involved, they're bombing yemen as we speak, you know that they're also providing a-wax and other support for every bombing raid that israel takes takes part in, are they producing the results that israel in the us seek, first of all the us seeks, israel does what the us seeks, israel has its own independence of most... regionally, the strategic vision is that of the united states, because without the united states there is no israel, and so the us is pursuing right now, what it thinks

may be, especially listening to folks in europe, the last couple of days, it's last chance foreign policy wise to express the neocons desire to take out russia and to establish israel as the dominant power in the middle east, they're going for it, and we're seeing it, in both. battlefields if you want to consider them separate um and so uh the results that they want uh are you know conquest in essence of iran and of saudi arabia who's been acting up a little bit lately uh of egypt everyone falling into line and being heavily reliant on israel as proxy for the united states um the that is of course an existential threat everyone else in the region even for even the people and places like saudi arabia where perhaps the governments may not consider it that way, and so all it does is stoke resistance, people see that the vision that the us has for their

area, they've seen it expressed long enough over the past century really uh, they've had it about enough and their backs are against the wall, particularly watching what's happening to the people in gaza, so of course they're going for it uh from the west side, and of course the resistance is is amping up to meet that challenge and we're going to see how... plays out right now zakiram mayet um the amani army says that it's targeted an american ship in the gulf of aiden in response to the us-uk strikes on the arab country, the pentagon says it was a third attack by the emines this week on us own vessels in and around the red sea. now sano had said that the retaliation for the aggression by the us and the uk was inevitable. tell us more about the defiant message that the yemenes are sending to the us and its allies as they... clear that these attacks will persist until israel ends its crimes against gazans? i think there are few things that have happened with regards to the

brother. in yemen, they've exposed the united states as supporters of genocide, and that has a specific legal implication as well, when you place it in the context of the icj case that south africa has raised, there has been reports within the media that south africa will be pursuing cases against the united states and the united kingdom as well for supporting the genocide against the palestinian people, so that is significant and actions have exposed. the united states as supporters of the genocide and that they are prepared to take military action to ensure that israel's blockade or the blockade that has been imposed on israel comes to an end so that it may have the latitude to continue with its massacre of the palestinian people. the second thing that the yemenis have demonstrated is the capabilities to challenge both the united states and israel,

there are ships from around the world, the united states, israel's warships are there, the united kingdom, there are french vessels as well, they are indian vessels there, and yet they are capable of hitting targets, with great degrees of accuracy, and in instances where they have not, they have sent a very clear message, so they have demonstrated the capabilities of the resistance access, and then when we look at the third point, what has transpired is that when yemen was hit by the united states and the united kingdom, the response both from within palestine as well as the resistance access, we talking about lebanon, we're talking about syria and iraq, all have sent messages and made public statements that if the aggression continues against their brothers in yemen, they will ramp up the attacks and it will lead to a regional explosion. at the moment we have grades of escalation, we have ledd of

escalation that is being followed. through by the resistance, what the united states is doing is that they are trying to distract the entire international community from the failures in gaza, they are trying to quietly withdraw israeli forces and try and impose new regime to govern in gaza, that is the aim, it's a distraction to move everyone away from the failure of the empire. one last question for you, mr. don debar, the attacks uh... on yemen, were they even more of a revelation that the us is fully supporting and fully green lighting the israeli massacre in gaza? absolutely uh, and and in fact amplifying that, the statements from, you want to call them statements uh from biden, when asked uh, if um, first of all, if this has anything to do with the war in israel, and he denied it, um, and then asked if he

thought that the bombings would stop the... uh assaults or interdiction or interference or whatever with ships going to israel, he said no, and then he said, but they're going to continue anyway, so there's no doubt, there's other purpose that these things serve other than as an integral part of the war that israel is conducting, they're denying it, because as your other guess pointed out, in essence if they're coordinating military activity and one party is committing genocide, "the other side is is also culpable, but it's in essence, what you calling contract law, jointing several liability, they're both doing it if one is doing it and they're working together. all right, thanks lot, gentlemen, zakir ah, to turny activist and political analyst joining us from johannesburg and radio host and journalists at cpr news, don debar joining us from austining new york, and also thanks to you our viewers for staying with us on tonight's spotlight, it's good night for now and see you next time."

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