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of your headlines for press tv iran's islamic revolution gars course says five of his military advisors have been assassinated an israely terror attack and syrian capital damascus. iran says it reserves the right to respond to israel's organized terrorism, which proves the regime's profound ties with terrorist groups in the region, including thaish. and worldwide rallies are held in solidarity with palestinians in gaza, as israeli protesters call for an end to the regime's massacre in the causal territory.

hello everyone, you're watching press tv live from the studios in teren. thank you for joining us. now today's top story, the israel regime launched a fresh attack on saturday against syria, hitting a building within a residential area in the capital damascus, where iranian military advisors and syrian citizens were residing. more details from corresponded in damascus, ibrahim wadi. once again, the israeli regime launched aerial attack against syria, targeting a residential area in the syrian capital, damascus. several syrian troops and at least five iranian military advisers were martered, according to an irgc statement. military experts say that these acts are clear evidence of israel's failure in gaza. the repeated attacks by the zionist entity on residential areas.

indicates that this entity is internally troubled due to its failure to control the gaza strip. therefore, the occupation regime is attempting to export its crises to the region and drag it into a regional war. today's aggression on the capital, damascus and the targeting of iranian figures violates international laws and norms because they are present in syria at the official request of the sovereign syrian government. it is within the rights of the syrian government. to seek the assistance of advisers to combat terrorism, just like any other country in the world. at least seven bodies were retrieved from under the rubble of the three-story residential building, which was within a street full of diplomatic missions. syrian civilians, political figures and popular media have all denounced this criminal aggression that demonstrates the savage nature of the zionist regime. they said that such terrorist acts would not intimidate the resistance front. this is very ugly, worse

than you can imagine. i live here nearby. i heard huge explosions in my neighbor's building. a lot of glass was broken, vehicles were destroyed, and when i went outside to see what had happened, i found..." a three-story building completely destroyed, this has frightened all the residents in this street. children were crying in fear and women were screaming. my neighbor is sick and didn't know what to do. israelis have failed in gaza, so they have gone crazy and are firing in any direction to make it clear that they are present, but they will not succeed because the access of resistance is resilient. i was less than 100 meters away when the explosion occurred. may god bless the souls of the marters. late last month, the israeli regime assassinated a senior iranian advisor, general sayid rasi musavi in a missile strike that targeted his house in the vicinity of saida zenab shrin south of damascus. the israeli regime is trying to intimidate the peoples of the region and is

pushing escalation through assassinations and terrorist attacks in the region, but people insist that they will never be afraid of the apartite regime. ibrahim wahdi, press tv, damascus. now reactions are pouring in following an israeli air strike in syria that led to the martydum of several people. iran strongly condemn the attack as a clear violation of siria's sovereignty and territorial integrity. foreign ministry spokesman naser khanani said iran reserves the right to respond to israel's organized terrorism, which proves the profound ties between the regime and various terrorist groups in the region, including daesh. iran's president ibrahim raisi has also condemned the attack sa that the islamic republic will not leave israel's crime unanswered. the palestinian resistance move in hamas also slammed the terrorist attack saying such actions by the zinest regime will never stop the resistance movements from continuing to support the palestinian people. the palestinian islamic jihad strongly condemned

the attack, saying the assault was part of israel's efforts to make up first defeat. it also said the regime is seeking to expand the god's onslaught to the entire region. now to talk more on this, we are joined by mr. ray mcgoven, former cia analyst from rally, north carolina. mr. mcgovern, uh, welcome to press tv. now, mr. mcgovern, when talking about these recent assassinations by the us, uh, the israel regime and their terrorist proxies. what is mostly mentioned is, which i wanted you to elaborate on, is that these assaults are part of israel's efforts to make up first defeat in gaza, and also the regime seeking to expand the war to the entire. region: i think is both, actually, these are both provocations and diversionary tactics. what israel is lusting after is a reason to draw the united states in big time

militarily. that's what this is all about. so your president isi has already said this attack will not go unanswered. "we can understand that, five revolutionary guards officers killed, we can understand that. the question is, how will iran answer this, and israel and the neocons running washington would like nothing more than to have the kind of attack that they can blame on iran to widen the war. last thought here:" "if the iranians keep being rather circumspect and avoid giving that kind of pretext to the us and to israel, then in my view israel is quite capable of doing it for iran. in other

words, i would look for false flag attack lamed on iran to drag to mouse trap the united states." in with both feet detract detract attention from the the losing cause in gaza and finally give the neocons their their reason, their pretext to go directly, or as lindsay senator says, go after iran and get them, so this is a dangerous game, it really all depends on how clever, how circumspect uh your government in iran, will choose to be. now mr. mccoren, like you mentioned earlier, it seems so it seems that uh the widening the war is one of the things the regime is pushing for, so uh, but the question is why, what is it trying to gain? analysts are saying that the regime is already stuck in gaza and also the cross

border battle with lebanon's hezbollah, let's say the regime gets the other parties involved in the war, we have yemen, iran, syria, uh, sorry, iraq, syria, and also them wanting iran directly involved as well. and then what happens get the us to back them up again uh like once someone said it's like the us's spoiled child gets into a fight and then asks daddy for help. "well, you put your finger on it, all these other things are very important, but the name of the game is to get the united states involved openly, militarily, they're like peas in a pod right now, israel and the united states, joe biden says he is a convinced zionist, and i have to believe that that's true, so what will happen? well, israel will lose in gaza, will lose against hezbollah, will lose..." the whole deal if it cannot mouse trap the united

states in full bore, that's what this is all about, i'm convinced, not only today's event that the five revolutionary guards officers killed, less, well last month you had a general, general musavi was killed, there were two others killed, they're doing this repeatedly hoping, hoping that they can they can get some kind of. so the united states will not be able to avoid protecting israel and jumping in full bore, this does not exclude the kind of provocation that could happen within our country, within the united states, they're already saying the security forces are saying and others iranian guarded, iranian supported, they have agents to the united, they might blow something up here even, well be aware, can be very, very mischivous. that's right, mr. mccoven. mr. mccavan, before we let you go, just one more

thing, uh, the us backed isis and al-qaeda and announced it publicly, and now with these new assassinations, you mentioned mr. sayad musavi and and also the hamas official, mr. aruri, and the recent terror attack on the fourth anniversary of martidom anniversary of general lieutenant general hasim sulaymani, which killed around 100 civilians. in kermon which daesh claim responsibility for now, however analysts are saying that considering the timing of the attack, it's indicated that the us and the zanis regime orchestrated the attack or at least had a helping hand in it, so with you being a former cia analyst, do you think that is the case and the proof of it? well, i would speculate and i don't have any concrete evidence of this, that they're all birds of the same feather, what do you have? us supported in the past daish or you have mech or you have any number of balki

terrorist groups, they've done it before, they could do it again, so when dash claimed responsibility or credit for this thing, i was always bemused because you can't really differentiate always between musad, dash, neck and the rest of these terrorist groups. mr. mcgoven, thank you for your time, sir. there you have it, mr. ray mccoven, former cia analyst from rally north carolina. thank you, sir. now, continuing with the rest of the news, iraq's islamic resistance says it has launched a barrage of missiles at the us run anal assad base in western iraq. a us official says american personnel suffered minor injuries in the attack. the official said initial reports indicated that the base was hit by ballistic missiles. iraqi media reports say over 40 rockets were fired in the... biggest anti-us operation by irakis since october the 7th. over the past months,

iraqi resistance forces have carried out attacks on american basis both in iraq and neighboring syria on an almost daily basis. iraq's islamic resistance says the attacks are in response to washington's support for the israeli regime emit the gaza genocide. now earlier, our correspondent in baghdad, muslim salem joined us with more details about the evakiers. resistance latest attack on american forces, listen, just about an hour ago, the iraq resistance has carried out a large, attack asad western baghdad, now this significance of this attack that out of these 57 attacks that was let's say carried out by iraq resistance in the country, this is the largest in number of rockets, initial numbers said that there is number of casualty. not let's say there's nothing specific yet, but the attack was was very large when it comes to the number of rockets,

like i said, it's the largest attack on the on the on an american base in iraq ever since the operation has started, so let's say there is only one way to go from now, the the resistance are intensifying their attack as their promise, an israely drone strike in southern lebanon has left four people dead, one of the victims was member of... hisbollah resistance movement, the strike targeted a car near the city of tyrei. the israel attack came amid strikes by fighters from lebanon's resistance movement hezballah against israely military positions in. response to israel's ongoing genocidal campaign in the besieged gaza strip. our lebanon correspondent mariam salh joined us earlier to give us her account the situation in southern lebanon. let's see what she had to say. we do have an official statement from hizballah saying that ali hudruj has uh passed away and he was one of

the members of hazballah. he actually just recently actually debated his. in his phd and so this is very uh someone who was well known in his town in his hometown in berori which is where the attack took place uh and he was of course uh it was basically a shock for many people he is someone who is more civilian than he is a military but he is still a member of hizbullah of course this comes also a time when hizbullah has continued with its resistance operations and we can see today that the operations all of the if not all uh most of them have been those of targeting soldiers, we have it seems to surpassed uh the phase when they're only targeting post or devices here now we're talking about the fact that it seems to be now a confrontation when hizbullah targets soldiers directly and the israelies are targeting uh members of the resistance and even civilians in some cases um even if they

were with the the members of hazbillah and south lebanon uh but we we do know that hizballah even uh in one instance for example used rockets directly at soldiers in near the barracks of hunin, but we also have inz and dhaira where hazbullah said in statements that they targeted soldiers and so therefore there could there's definitely high number of losses and casualties among the israelis as well, the israeli shelling of course it has not today is not uh stopped at all, we have huge number of of shelling and examples we have from tanks for example, 106 days into the israeli war on the gaza strip and the regime continues with this carpet bombing campaign across the besieged palestinian territory. the gaza health ministry says 165 palestinians have been killed and 280 others wounded in the past 24 hours. the overall death toll from the regime's war has risen to

nearly 25,000. more than 62,00 others have been wounded and thousands are still under the rubble of their homes. israel keeps bombing residential buildings and refugee camps in areas it had said that would be safe. hospitals are overwhelmed across the beseest territory with people literally waiting on the floor for medical staff to intervene and save them. the deadly rates are being conducted while the coastal territory is under near total communications blackout imposed by tel aviv. "this is my land and my country. it is not only the 1948 or 1967 borders from the sea to the river. i am not ready to let go of a centimeter. israel is here like any for by the support of the europe, by the support of the united states.

that's why they separate the..." well, i was at the babel shams protest last week and uh, i myself had a my head banged against a bus by soldier. illegally on illegal stollen land and they are arresting us, the palestinians. this is historical palestine. welcome back, an appalling video has been released showing the aftermath of a summary execution of 15 palestinian men by israeli soldiers in gaza. the horrific event took place on december 19th when israely soldiers raided a building in gaza city. according i-witness accounts,

the israeli soldiers shot 15 palestinian men in the back after stripping and torturing them. and forcing them to lay face down on the ground. the atrocity took place before the eyes of female members of the family who sayid the incident has left a permanent score on their minds. the israel army subsequently shelled a building that killed a three-year-old girl. israely savagery in gaza has continued unabated for more than three months with full support of western governments, especially the united states. an outraged israely mother is accused. israeli army of deliberately gassing her son to death while he was being held in a tunnel in gaza, the mother of ron sherman, one of the soldiers held captive by hamas, said her son was killed in a premeditated murder by army, she slammed the cabinet of prime minister benjamin netanyahu as well as israeli military officials. her son's body alongside two of the soldiers was recovered from a tunnel in gaza in december. the killing

follows a pattern of israely military attacks on captives in gaza that has so far led to the deaths of dozens of them. pro palestan rallies have been held in various cities. across the world, in some cases the demonstrations turn violent with security forces trying to disperse the protesters. in the israeli city of hefer, the regime forces attacked anti-war demonstrators and

saw to confiscate their placards. the israely protesters hell signs reading stopped the genocide in gaza. elsewhere in italy, a pro-palestine rally in the northern city of vichenza turned into clashes between police and protesters. the police used water cannon to despace the demonstrators outside a trade exhibition. in some major european cities, protesters demanded immediate and permanent cease fire in the gaza strip. i'm 74 today and we are going to march today to say stop to the impunity of the... criminal state of israel, this is a european march. in palestine, we are paying for the crimes committed in europe, stop the impunity the criminal state of israel, yes to

immediate cease fire and a complete end to the occupation in palestine. we are asking them to stop bombing palestine and to stop killing palestinians and let them have a state of their own. thousands of protesters marched in. spain's madrid and barcelona demanding a ceasefire in gaza. the footage shows protesters holding a giant palestinian flag and chanting slogans such as free palestine and long live the struggle of the palestinian people. also, hundreds of pro-palestine demonstrators joined rally in paris in support of activists marching from the french capital to the european council in brussels to demand an end to the genocide in gaza. people around the world have... rallies to express solidarity with palestinians in the besieg gaza strip people in the uk city of birmingham also are no exception with ralliers calling for immediate end to the us

israeli genocide in gaza. our correspondent sipurad tells us more. what i'm seeing cover is a large crowd of brumies, people in birmingham who have come together today. of course, people have also traveled. from the capital london and other cities around the uk to be here today, at the top of their demand is a permanent cease fire followed of course by an end to the decades long military occupation of palestinians by the israeli regime, but they're also calling for is an end to arming, the arming of the israeli military by the uk, but the fact remains that people here are outraged and angry and... angry and outrage and heartbroken at the sheer scale of the brutality and humanity of the ongoing unfolding genocide in the gaza

strip and disappointed with the political leadership here, both the conservative party that is in power as well as the other major political party in the uk being labor, and lot of them are telling us that come next general election, which will be happening in the next couple of months. they're not going to be voting for either of those major big political parties here, because as in their wars they don't represent them that they are doing the bidding of the israeli regime, that their vote is going to go to some independent candidate, perhaps in the next general election that will decide who will be taking the case to number 10 downing straight, and with that we come to the end of this bulletin, thank you for being with. i'll be back with a recap of the news in around four minutes time, take care for now.

news in brief for this hour, israel carries out another terrorist attack in the syrian capital, damascus, assassinating number of people, including five iranian military advice. the attack targeted a three-story residential building in the city's nezza neighborhood, which houses several diplomatic missions. iraq's islamic resistance says it has launched a barrage of missiles at the un. run inal assad base in western iraq reports say this is the biggest anti-us operation by iraqi resistance since october the 7th. there have been no immediate reports of casualties.