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first to the headlines: on the 107th day of the us isrally genocide in gaza, the death pell rises to more than 25,000, predominantly comprising women and children, but pentagon acknowledges 140 attacks on us bases in iraq and syria resulting in injuries to at least 70 american troops with varying degrees of severity. and felal processions are underway in the syrian capital damascus for the marders of yesterday's israely terror attack targeting iranian military advisors.
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1:30 p.m. in ivan's capital tehran, this is press tv news, thanks for joining us. 107 days into the israely war on the gaza strip, of the regime continues with a steady carpet bombing campaign across the bessieg palestinian territory. according to new report published by the independent human rights watch group, euromed monitor, 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 have become shelters for displaced palestinians. hundreds of palestinian lives are lost to the indiscriminated strikes every day. the israeli onslot on gaza has so far left over 25,00 people dead, most of them women and children. more than 62 thousand palestinians have also been wounded. author and journalist robert fontina believes israel's targeting of palestinian educational centers. is attempt
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to eliminate the nation's history and culture as part of the regime's genocidal campaign. israel wants to eliminate all of god uh of palestine's cultural heritage, all of its educational abilities and opportunities. it these are not accidentaluh 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, uh... their their thousand year old background, it wants of 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 justice 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 of violations of international law, they are blatant uh war crimes and there are blatant aspects of
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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. israely forces have blown up the home of a palestinian in the occupied west bank city of khalil. the israel military also evacuated the residence of adjacent buildings. the house that was destroyed belonged to nasrollah al-kawasmi. he was one of the three palestinians who carried out a retaliatory shooting operation in the ramal settlement and occupied stacklets in november. at least three israelis were killed and eight others were injured in the operation. kawasmi and the other two palestinians were also killed. the hamos resistance movement claimed responsibility for the operation. describing
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it as natural response to unprecedented israeli crimes against palestinians in gaza and the west bank. these two us service personnel have been injured an attack a western iraq military base housing american forces. the us official has confirmed the inturies adding that initial reports indicate the antal base was hit by ballistic missiles. the islamic resistance in iraq has claimed the attack. resistance forces reportedly fired over 40 rockets at the base. in the biggest anti-ws operation by iraqi since israel began as onslot on gaza on october 7. the pentagon says american forces have come under over 140 attacks in iraq and syria since then and made backlash over washington's support for the israeli genocide in gaza. according to the pentagon, nearly 70 us personnel have been injured in the operations, some of them seriously. earlier christbaton baghdad muslim salim joined us with more details. about the iraki islamic
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resistance latest attack on american forces. well, just about an hour ago, the iraq resistance has carried out a large. missile attack on ain asad western baghdad now the 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 number said that there is number of casualty not let's say there is 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 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. yemen's prime minister says the u.s. and the
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uk, as creators of the science entity in west asia, seek to protect it by all means possible and destroy any group or country that stands against it. abdul aziz ben haptur was speaking an exclusive interview with prested. to elaborate on yemen's recent anti-israely operations in support of gaza and the western attacks on yemen. he said the u.s. and britain are not aggressive against yemen alone, but against all of humanity, and especially any country, they may seek liberation from western colonialism. the yemani prime minister said that his country started anti-israel operations in the red sea after arab regimes shuned their responsibility to protect the people of gaza. yemen's enemies try to distort the reality by claiming that yemen is a threat to the world, he said this will not discourage sana and it will continue with anti-israel operations until the aggression and blockade on gaza stops. pro palestine rallies have been held in various cities across the world. in some
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cases, the demonstrations turn violent with security forces trying to disperse the protesters. the global outrage against israeli regime's crimes in gaza have even spread among israelis, the mainstream media, however, covers israeli protests against the war in gaza. in the israeli city of hifa, the regime forces attacked anti-war demonstrators on saturday. the israely protesters held signs reading stop the genocide in gaza. elsewhere in italy's northern city of vissenza, a pro-palestine rally also turned into clashes between the police and protesters. police use
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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. 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 mars in
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spain's madrid and barcelona demaining to cease fire in gaza. the footage shows protesters holding a giant palestinian flag and chanting slogans such as free palestine and long live. the str struggle of the palestinian people. also, hundreds of pro-palestine demonstrators joined rally in paris in support of activist marching from the french capital to the european council in brussels to demand an end to the genocide in gaza. 10 years of chaos and war in syria, the ruins left in syria. who benefits from the... continuation of this war, what is the view of the west, particularly america towards war in syria and the support of many countries for creating chaos in syria? why syria, a different narrative?
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welcome back to the news here on press tv. the uk's west midland city of birmingham has been the scene of a massive pro-palestine demonstration, one of several held since the start of the us is really. in the cidal war in gaza comes in the face of continued uk government support for the israeli regime that has caused unprecedented public outrage, alienating the country's muslim community. said purisar reports. true to their word, they have done it again. thousands on foot or by bike have throng the streets of birmingham to say this. we are riding for palestine. we want to see fire now, people and children are being killed in gaza, which is completely unacceptable. stop murdering children and
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innocent people. in the run up to today's protest, activists glue shot a branch of london headquartered banking giant barkley's in birmingham for alligitly investing in israeli weapons manufacturers. i think a lot of people are now fed up by carrying out totally non-violent, none interrupt. and now they're taking a proactive step so that they get noticed and this is desperations and in a one way it's showing the great crisis that we face in this country that when the public wants the government to call for a cease fire, yet our politicians are not listening to the majority of the british public. britain's support for apartide israel takes many shapes, visiting tel aviv in mid october last year, british prime minister rishi sunak stood next to his israeli counterpart. benjamin netanyahu and said this, as your friend, we will stand with you in solidarity,
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we will stand with your people, and we also want you to win. prime minister, whatever a win might look like for apartied israel, sunak's conservative party and the opposition labor party, whose leader kier starmer has also backed netan yahoo's war, have both lost voters like karen, a lawyer. i feel like we've been massively let down by all governments of all parties across the board and i've completely lost all faith in all of them, one group that say the uk position on the us israeli genocide in gaza has completely alienated them, are british muslims who constitute nearly 7% of the population. we feel that the people that we have elected to represent us in the corridors of power have become a bunch of yes man, they are saying yes sir, yes sir, three bags food sir, maybe because they are afraid to lose their careers, this is how bad is... come, disappointed with the government and the political establishment, it is in the streets
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of britain where people see the future of pro-palestine solidarity in the uk as they hope for peace that couldn't come a minute too soon. said puruz press tv, birmingham. in the united states, supporters of palestine are often braving sub-zero temperatures to demand that washington end its support for israel's genocide in gaza. in chicago. protesters have led was called the car caravan protest to voice their support for palestine. winter has arrived with vengance across the united states, but that didn't stop pro-palestinians from protesting nationwide and in chicago, the home of the nation's largest palestinian community. with temperatures in the windy city feeling like minus 21°grees. or minus 5 degrees fahrenheit, palestinian supporters led a car caravan to remind commuters, passers by and
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those safe at home, that gaza is being destroyed with homicidal impunity and with american bombs, guns and diplomatic cover. you are people back home are going through lot worse um than just you know being cold and so we we can definitely you can live through it. we we have to keep the new putting pressures uh, it's in these winter uh months and... winter days it's you know we've we've gotten more creative with our actions, that's why we have sometimes we have caravans, caravans will still make some noise, you're still you know making some disruptions to the city, the flow of the city, the flow of the traffic, so yeah, you know, we we have to continue, we don't have a choice. in just over three and a half months, israel has killed some 25,000 palestinians, 70% of them women and children, and wounded over 60,00 people. stunning 60% of gaza's buildings have been destroyed or damaged, and israel is formally facing charges of genocide in the international court of justice at the
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hague, the propaganda machine is is starting to die, so um, i think the the you know the u.s. propaganda machine, the israeli propaganda machine, they're losing the the language war, the propaganda war, whatever it is, because the youth are seeing everything happen in real time, as you know, the genocide that's happening in gaza right now is being documented, everything is being filmed. united states president joe biden has now repeatedly bombed yemen without getting prior approval from the united nations or his own congress, but there seems to be almost no concern in washington about the illegality of the strikes, it says a lot when people in those conditions are willing to do whatever it takes to the genocide while we have billions of dollars going to the state of israel and continuing to support them regardless, like it says a lot in regards to how serious the people of yemen take it and how impactful it is and how our relationship
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as you know muslim and arab communities are are across the country and across the world activist say that neither. washington nor tel aviv seem to understand that nothing can stop the palestinians and their supporters around the world, not murder, bombs, theft, lies, and certainly not cold weather. robin mazaherri, press tv, chicago. people in the syrian capital damascus have held a funeral ceremony for the victims of the israely terror attack on saturday. the ceremony was held in saida zenab shrine. the israely attack targeted a residential building in the meza neighborhood. where several diplomatic missions are also located, at least five members of iran's islamic revolution guards core and number of syrian forces were killed in the attack. the argency members were serving a military advisory role upon the inventation of the syrian government. this really terror strike came just days after the irgc targeted musad espianage base in the iraqi kurdistan region over the regime's
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anti-iran terror plots. once again there is. 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, 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
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of advisers to combat terrorism just like any other country in the world. at least seven bodies were retrieved from under the rubble 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. 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
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they are present, but they will not succeed because the access of resistance is resilient. i was less... 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 sayida zeinab shrine south 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. the apartide regime. press tv, damascus. people throughout pakistan are increasingly joining a campaign to boycott israeli and american products response to the ongoing attacks on the besieg gaza streb. as part of that movement, an exhibition has been set up in the port city of karache, to showcase local brands and to encourage support for products that are not associated with israel or with
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the us. president noster kazmi has more. in response to israel genocidal campaign in gaza which has resulted in the death of thousands of innocent palestinians. businesses perceived to have ties with israel and the united states are experiencing significant public descontent and backlash in pakistan. seeking to diminish the influence of pro us and pro israeli companies inside the country, the religious political party jamaat islami has partnered with prominent business entity. to organize a two-day exhibition in the port city of karachi. the exhibition aims to showcase over 200 local brands as a strategic move in support of pakistani businesses. the exhibition serves as demonstration of solidarity with the marginalized population of palestine, advocating for the bicott of products associated with the united states
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and israel. simultaneously it seeks to promote the utilization of local pakistani brands. the proceeds and funds granted from the sale of these indigenous products will be dedicated to supporting the people of ghazza. the exhibition showcases a wide range of local products across different sectors including. food, consumer goods and various essential commodities. the main objective of the exhibition is to motivate consumers to prioritize local products over those associated with countries facing public censure. by doing so, the exhibition aims to promote growth and support of local industries within pakistan. by cotting the imported scrubs especially made by the oppressors who are doing the... genocide in gaza will help the people of gaza, because financially, as i i have come to know that many of the organizations are badly affected
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financially after the boycott by the muslims the world. in the pakistani capital of islamabad, the call for boycotting western brands resonated among the protesters who strongly condemned the israeli atrocities in gaza. the relies served as a plan. platform to urge the masses to buycot israeli products, symbolizing their solidarity with the people of gaza. the aim is to use economic pressure as means of expressing their support and standing against crimes perpetuated against palestinians. i have started using many of the local products and this is something that so many people have been talking from so long that we should start using our local products that are very good alternative to the to the international ones. in pakistan, there has been a significant. public movement to buycot businesses perceived as pro israeli and pro us. notable brands like mcdonald's, kfc, coke
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and pepsi have faced intense public bicots resulting in substantial financial losses. these actions have been in response to israel's recent campaign in gaza. the boycots demonstrate the strong public outcry and the impact they can have on businesses associated with countries face. the people of pakistan are showing their solidarity with the palestinians in the gaza strape by actively participating an advocacy campaign that promotes the bycott of pro israeli products and encouraging the use of locally sourced alternatives. nasik azme press tv islamabad. a russian registered plane with six people on board has disappeared from radar screens over afghanistan. russian aviation. authorities say that the airplane was a charter ambulance flight traveling from india via uzbekistan to moscow. they say the plane was a french-made dessault falcon 10 jet. afghan officials say
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that they have received reports of a plane crash in a mountainous region in the northern badukshan province. meanwile, india's civil aviation authority said that the plane was not a scheduled commercial flight or an indian chartered aircraft. what's deputy foreign minister. announced nato's upcoming military drills as an irrevocable return of the us-lit alliance to cold warm methods. alexander grushov pointed to the scale of the exercises, saying that the drills are another element of the west hybrid war against russia. around 90 thousand personnel will participate in the alliance's biggest war game since the cold war. nato says the drills will rehearse the execution of his regional military plans on the eastern flank. the world games dubbed steadfast defender 24 are expected to last until the end of may since the start of russia's. ukraine in 2022, the alliance has provided kiev with military and financial support. moscow says the support will only prolong the war. and with that we
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comes an end for this additional news. thanks for being with us, i'll be back at the top of the hour with a review of the top stories. it's bye-bye. when palestinian journalist shirin abu aghale was killed by niswedy sniper on may 11, 2022, the israelis meant to get across a clear message, that they don't want any narrative other than their own and the decades old occupation of palestiny. lands and their aggression. it wasn't the first time israeli sought to put gag on the alternative narrative, and every time it has failed.
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watch the history of the israeli measures and palestinian counter measures in this documentary. more than 500 the children were killed during the conflict. what have they done wrong? being born in gaza is not the crime. more than year after the war was waged by the israeli regime on the gaza strip, and approximately year after the cairo donors conference was held for rebuilding gaza, the reconstruction project is still teetering between the cruelty of the siege and the procrastination of the israeli regime. what we are doing here is to keep people surviving, we are not talking about quality of life in gaza, if you lock deeply
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in what is going on. in gaza, you will find out big slogan that there is no tomorrow, all agree that the slowdown in the reconstruction is due to the slow process of transferring funds pledged by the donor countries of the cairo conference where the unwer received only $270 million while the required budget is much more.
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pentagon says 140 attacks have been carried out on us bases in iraq and syria since israel began as onslot on gaza on october 7. nearly 70 us personnel have been injured in the attacks, two us personnel were injured in the latest such attack in iraq. people in the
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syrian capital damascus have held a funel. ceremony for the victims of the israeli terror attack on saturday. the ceremony was held in saida zenab shrine, at least five irani military advisors and number of syrian forces were killed in the israeli attack. the iraning foreign ministry strongly condemned the israely attack in syria that led to the martydom of several people. foreign ministry spokesman nasar kanani said iranian advisors in syria have a leading role in the fight against terrorism. kanani said techman. reserves rights to respond to israel's organized crimes and yemen's prime minister says the us and the uk seek to protect israel by all means possible and destroy any group or country that stands against it. abdullah he's bin haptur also told press tv that yemen will continue its anti-israel operations until the israeli onslot on gaza stops.