of your headlines on press tv: iran's islamic revolution gause course says. of his military advisers have been assassinated an israeli terror attack in the syrian capital damascus. a new report says israel has killed hundreds of university professors and teachers in gaza as death told from the regime's genocide nears 25 thousand. worldwide values are held in solidarity with palestinians in gaza as the israeli protesters call for an end to the regime's genocide in the coastal territory.

hello everyone, you're watching press tv live from the studios in tehan, thank you for joining us, now in today's top story, the israel regime has 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 our correspondent in damascus, ibrahim wadi. once again, the israeli regime launched of aerial attack against syria, targeting a residential area in the syrian capital, damascus. several syrian troops and at least of 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 crisis 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. 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. 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, lot of glass was broken, vehicles were destroyed, and what 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 rasim musavi in a missile strike that targeted his house in the vicinity of sayida zainab shirin. of

damascus: the israel 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 artid regime. ibrahim wahdi, press tv, damascus. now reactions are pouring in of following an israeli air strike in syria that led to the martidum of several people. iran strongly condemned the attack as a clear of violation of syria's sovereignty and territory. real integrity. for ministry spokesman naser khanani said ivan 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 racey has also condemned the attack saying that the islamic republic will not leave israel's crime unanswered. the palestinian resistance move in hamas also slammed the terrorist act saying such actions by the zarnes regime will never stop the resistance movements. from continuing to

support the palestinian people, the palestinian islamic jihad also strongly condemned the attack, saying the assault was part of israel's efforts to make up first defeat, and it also said the regime is seeking to expand the gaza onslaught to the entire region. 107 days into the israely war on the gaza'srape and the regime continues with this deadly carpet bombing campaign across the beseeged palestinian territory. according to new report published by an independent human rights watch, israel has killed nearly 100 university professors along with hundreds of teachers. israel has destroyed literally every university in the gaza strip and has targeted schools that had become shelters for displaced palestinians. hundreds of palestinin lives are lost to the indiscriminate strikes every day. the israel onslot on gaza has so far left nearly 25,000 people dead, most of them women and children.

more than 62,000 palestinians have also been wounded. now to talk more on this, we are joined by mr. robert fontina, author and journalist from krishna, ontario. mr. fantino, welcome to uh press tv. now uh, mr. fantino, we've seen the israeli regime bombing hospitals and medical facilities, and also schools that uh become shelters for the shelters for the displaced palestinians, but we don't hear much about israel uh destroying literally every university in the gaza strip. they killed uh nearly 100 university professors along. with hundreds of teachers, according to the palestinian ministry of education, at least 4,300 students and more than 200 teachers have also been killed, so is it right to say that the regime not only destroys the structure of the university, but also the future of all students. yes, very

much accurate to say, the apart regime is looking to destroy palestinians everywhere, currently focusing in in this genocidal on... on the gaza strip, but by destroying every university, by killing the professors and the teachers, they're depriving the people of gaza, the opportunity for education, which is of course what israel wants, it doesn't want an educated population, it doesn't want a population that will be able to to resist it through knowledge of its of its crimes, its international war crimes and its crimes against humanity, which these all are, so this is all part of its genocidal activities to... destroying uh places of of higher education, killing the professors, killing the people provide that education and killing the people who are the recipients that education. these are all part of uh israel's plan to to destroy all of the people of palestine, starting currently with the gaza

strip. mr. flentina, according to euromed monitor, the israeli army has targeted academic, scientific and intellectual figures in the strip in deliberate. and specific air rates on their homes without prior notice. now the rights group also added that given the systematic and wide spread destruction by the israely forces of cultural buildings, including institutions of great historical significance also it is, it is highly likely that israel is intentionally targeting every aspect of life in gaza. yes, that's certainly true. israel wants to eliminate all of of palestine's cultural her. all of its educational abilities and opportunities, these are not accidental bombings, these are are targeted and with a purpose, and the purpose is part of genocide which is to destroy everything about palestine, their their history, their culture, their their

thousand year old background, it wants to destroy everything, this is this is intentional, and this is why one of the many reasons why the that israel has been brought to the international court of just... to to finally be held accountable for these crimes, we'll see what the international court says hopefully in the next couple of weeks, but these things are blatant violations of international law, they are blatant war crimes and they are blatent aspects of genocide, and this is what israel is involved in doing, and it's savagery, and the people of gaza are suffering horribly because of it, and will for decades in the future, because of israel's actions today. they have a mr fun. senior author and journalist from krishna ontario. fantina, thank you for being with us sir. now, continuing with the rest of the news, an appoling video has been released showing the aftermath of a summary execution of 15 palestinian men by israel soldiers in gaza. the horrific event took place on

december 19th when israely soldiers raided a building in gaza city. according ewitness accounts, the israely 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 said the incident has left a permanent score on their minds. the israel army subsequently shelled the building that. killed a three-year-old girl. israeli savagery in gaza has continued unabated for more than three months with the full support of western governments, especially the united states. an outraged israeli mother is accused the israeli army of deliberately gassing his son to death while he was being held in a tunnel in gaza. the mother of ront sherman, one of the soldiers held captive by hamas said their son was killed in a premeditated murder by the army. she slammed the cabinet of prime minister benjamin netanyahu as well as israeli military officials, his son's body

alongside two other soldiers was recovered from a tunnel in gaza in december. now, the killing follows a pattern of israely military attacks on captives in gaza that are so far led to the deaths of dozens of them. hatched by zinus 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 so-called jewish colonies. now mr.

morsa nagvi, human rights activist from houston, texas is joining us, mr. nahvi, now we see mother of the soldier coming out and accusing the israeli army of deliberately gassing his son to death. one of the objectives of the zanist regime is to retrieve. the captives, but from what we've seen so far, uh, they're killing them instead of freeing them, it's like they say they care, but reality shows a different story, a different picture, if i if i'm not mistaken, they've killed around 100 of their on so far, yes, absolutely, there's the reports that are coming out now, it is showing that the claims that the idf made when hamas carried out the operation on october the 7th, it is quite

clear that brigaria general av rosenfeld who was the commander of that base in is in the arries crossing, he called out an air strike on his own positions, and so the claim that children were beheaded and that hammas was responsible for the killing of israeli citizens, that is not true, hamas has been very clear. in um in their goals of capturing israeli prisoners in exchange for their own political prisoners who are who have been illegally imprisoned in the thousands in israeli jails. now the reason why the idf um is able to kill its own people is because they believe in the doctrine of hannibal directive, in the hannibal directive, the

idea of leadership, the top tier leadership, the saying goes that dead soldier, dead idea of soldier is better than an imprisoned soldier or captive soldier, and the reason that they say this is because it becomes national issue, we've seen in the past that hizbullah. hamas in the past have exchanged hundred hundreds of their political prisoners and exchange for one israeli soldier and so we we're seeing that there is this increase of resentment towards the idf by the families the idf and by the idf soldiers themselves that these soldiers who are so called risking their lives and fighting in the name of their their illegitimate country are being are are basically sitting d' at the beheast of their own leadership, this is violation of international law um, because a right to life

of every citizen is a fundamental right, even if you are being captured by a different state, so again, even as far as the zience regime's own citizens are concerned, they are, they have failed even provide them with the with basic fundamental rights. so to expect the designist entity to use equity and fairness towards the innocent people in gaza um and in west bank, it's it's... not likely that something like this can be expected from the zionist regime. now mr. there were many calls by hamas for the exchange of palestinian prisoners in return for the israeli captives, although many are calling the palestinian prisoners as hostages by the israel regime, many are held in israeli jails without charge, like you said just before, not forgetting some of them are under the age

of 18. we are seeing a weekly basis demonstrations in tel aviv as well for the release of... captives by the by the families, so why did or does the regime reject the calls? well, the rejecting the cause for many reasons. first of all, with the exchange of prisoners, with the release of palestinian prisoners, one, hamas is popularity in palestine, so there obviously a popular movement in in gaza, but then their popularity is increasing in the west bank and throughout the... arab world with these victories, one, the reason why the october 7th mission was organized by hammas was was fundamentally to release their their prisoners, and so by by agreeing to a prisoner exchange, the the israeli regime is giving in to one of the main objectives of

hamas, so it is a failure on part of netan yahoo, quote and quote, if he if there is a prisoner exchange, that's one. secondly, um, a prisoner exchange, also what a prisoner exchange does is that it weakens the position the netan yahoo government as well, so as long as netan yahoo is in war with hamas, he can still try and gather some popularity within the zionist regime, because as soon as this war finishes, he will be held, he will be held trial for the crimes against humanity that he has committed within his own country as well, so this is another way of netan yahoo to kind of save face. another point that i would like to point out is that at one hand we see the zionist regime implementing the hannibal directive intensively,

especially in this recent conflict after october 7th, we see the zionist regime, implementing the hanimal directive, but on the other hand we've seen that in the resistance front, the leadership of the resistance front, mean we've seen sayd nasrullah who whose own son say nasrullah was murdered by the zinast regime, we see that imad mugnia who was in who was himself a leader, one of the founding members of hizbullah, he attains martterdom, not just him but his own son jihad muk marridom, his his brothers attain martidom, his cousin shaheed baduddin attains martidom, so we see that in the resistance front, not only resistance leaders are on the forefront fighting, but also their family members are being martered because they are on the front lines and on the contrary when we see a directives like the animal directive being implemented, this is this is an upper tier,

this is not a written policy, you can't find the animal directive being written. anywhere it is israeli leadership, idea of leadership that is implementing, which also comes as a shock to idea of soldiers on ground, because it is, it is not something that is easily acceptable by by the citizens of israel, because in its the animal directive in its very essence is illegal and is uh, it goes against fundamental rights, mr. would this affect the regime in the future, mean with this soldiers knowing now that if they are held captive uh the the backers won't uh abs they won't back them they won't they won't go for their release they rather see them get killed we see we see a reluctance we will see we are already seeing a reluctance within the idea of soldiers um confronting hamas that's

why not only is it that hamas's strategies are so are so perfectly draft. but we see a reluctance and a sense of failure on part of israeli soldiers because they don't have that motivation, how are you? it is very tough to be motivated to fight for cause that is unjust, but also to find out that your own leadership can kill you as per matter of policy is definitely a factor that that is demotivating for his own soldiers. secondly, it is, it is mandatory upon israeli citizens to join. the army, so what will what i think will happen in the future is that we will see mass immigrations from the zianist regime, not only because the security reasons, but also because of israeli policies towards their... towards their their military forces, so when we when we see a shift in motivation and a shift and enthusiasm by the idea, not

only just because of policy, but also because the fact that they themselves are aware that they are unjust and they are killing innocent men, women and children, it will demotivate their forces, it will encourage their own citizens to leave palestine and migrate to different countries, because israel do have those options, so in in essence we will see that the unnatural existence of the zionist regime will deturiate, and we already seeing it, but it is massacres like these, it is these genocidal policies that the z regime has against its own, that will also contribute towards the further weakening of the zinist regime. on that note, i would like to thank mr. human rights activist from houston, texas. thank you sir. now continuing with the rest of the news, pro- palestine rallies have been held in various cities across the world, in some cases the demonstrations tend violent with security forces trying to disperse the protesters.

the global outrage against the israel regime's crimes in gaza have even spread amongst israelis. the mainstream media however really cover israeli protests against the war on gaza. in the israeli city of haifa, the regime forces attacked anti-war demonstrators on saturday. the israely protesters hell signs, reading stopped. the genocide in gaza, elsewhere in italy's northern city of vichenza, a paul palestine rally also turned into clashes between the police and protesters. the police used water

cannon to disperse the demonstrators. in some major european cities, protesters demanded immediate and permanent ceasefire in the gaza strip. i'm 74 today and we are going to march today to say stop to the impunity of the criminal regime of israel. this is a european march. in palestine, we are paying for the crimes committed in europe, stop the impunity of the criminal regime of israel, yes to immediate cease fire and a complete end to the occupation in palestine. them to stop boming 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 sease fire 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 propalestan demonstrators joined the rally in paris in support of activists. from the french capital to the european council in brussels to demand an end to the genocide in gaza. that's it for this our was bulletin. thank you for being with us. i'll be back with a recap of the top stories on press tv in around four minutes time. take care for now.

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 there's liberate the land. well, i was at the babbo sham's protest last week and i myself had my head banged against a bus by soldier. illegally on illegal stolen land and they are arresting us the palestinians. this is

historical palestine.

israel's genocide on the people of palestine in gaza and the occupied west bank has caused thousands of lives. it has also caused a massive labor shortage. we're talking about, i think here primarily about uh cross-border workers, that is to say, workers who live in. um the west bank and commute to work in israel, that's that's quite a large economic volume, particularly locally around five and a half billion usd per year. these are some the factors plaging the occupied west bank, so israel see these uh this shortage of workers uh that they've created, shortage of

palestinian workers, is only a temporary. measure.

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are the... voice of the voiceless, we are press tv. news in brief for this hour, israel carries out another terror attack in the syrian capital, damascus, assassinating number of people, including five iranian military advisers. the attack targeted a three-story residential building in the city. his mesa neighborhood which houses several diplomatic missions. the death toll from israely onslaut on the gaza strip is nearing 25,000 as the regime continues with this deadly carpet bombing campaign. according to new report, published by an independent human rights watch, israel has killed hundreds of university professors and teachers.