news in brief for this hour, at least 178 people have been killed and 293 injured in israely attacks on gaza in the past 24 hours, this raised the death toll there since october the 7th, above 25,000. more than 62,600 people have also been injured since of the beginning of the israely onslaughts on gaza. the palestinian resistance movement hamas says the alaksa flood operation was necessary step and normal response to israel's plots against palestinians. the group said in a statement that alxa flood was meant to confront israel's plans to judaiz of palestinian territories and rule over the alaxa mosque. member of the lebanese

resistance movement hezbollah has been killed in an israeli drone attack targeting a car in southern lebanon. a high-ranking official from the resistance group is said to have survived the strike. the strike. the attack also hit another car injuring seven civilians. the us has confirmed that base hosting his forces in iraq was targeted by ballistic missiles. the white house says is taking the attack extremely seriously. the islamic resistance in iraq. claim the attack, he says the us is to blame for the israel genocide in gaza. a people in the syrian capital, damascus have held a funeral ceremony for the victims of the israeli terror attack on saturday. the ceremony was held in sayyadiyah shrine. at least five iranian military advisors and number of syrian forces were killed in the israeli attack.

of hello and welcome to press tv spotlight, i'm marsia hashimi, thanks so much for being with us. zianist barbarity continues in the gaza strip and beyond, leaders of the israeli regime are not only allowed to make genocidal statements without repercussions, but the regime continues its genocide against palestinians in gaza in real time. the occupied west bank as a war zone as a zianist entity has increased. its killings and

overall terror, and the regime is continuing its assassinations of resistance leaders in both syria and in lebanon, and despite all of this, israel has failed to achieve its objectives. us and israeli assessments show hamas still has enough munitions to continue fighting israeli forces and the war in gaza will likely last throughout this year. now this is a glimpse of a regime totally out of control and reaking havoc in the region. stay with us as we take a look at all of this on the spotlight. i like to welcome my guest to the program. brett junker is a historian and journalist out of belgium and tony goslin, historian and investigative journalists out of bristol. thank you both for being with me. of well, let's started off with the you brett after more than three months now since the israeli regime started it's. genicide and the

palestinian resistance is still firing rockets, how is it possible after regime forces have been on the ground in gaza for almost three months that they have not even been able to stop the rockets from the resistance being fired? well, this is quite simply because of the fact that the design entity is completely incapable of actually confronting the palestinian resistance um in any meaningful way, they... they have resorted to doing the only thing that they have always been doing, which is the shock and odd tactics and strategies that we've also seen in every word that the united states has been waging for the past half century, the the strategy of chaos, the strategy of mad murder and the strategy of trying to demoralize people by sheer brutality. the problem of course for from a zionist perspective is that this this strategy is completely ineffective, they know and we all of course that the the the

resistance in gaza, whether that be from hamas or the palestinian islamic jihad or any of the other organizations is largely of conducted in highly secret. bases, including underground tunnel systems, comparable, if you want to compare it to a similar to sort of similar word that the americans have fought being the one in vietnam, so you can't simply bomb resistance like that out of existence, so designists know that the only way they can actually fight this war and win this war is if they were to send in mass ground invasion troops and they won't be able to do this because they know they cannot win a conflict like that man, man, because this would be, this would cost an excessive amount of manpower, and the casualties for designus entity would be completely unverable, um, if only for the fact that they they will be fighting of course, a war of aggression, a war of expansion, in which every life that is

fallen, every life that is lost is life lost meaninglessly and needlessly, whereas the palestinians fight for their very survival and on their own nation, and they know from palestinian perspective, from a gazan perspective, gaza is the last piece of land that they still have after everything they have lost in 1948 and 1967, and every life lost on the gazan on the palestinian side is life lost for the preservation of their people, and that is why despite all the sheer brutality and the terror that israel has released on the palestinians, hamas is still fighting back, the pij is still fighting back, the pflp is still fighting back, the the entire entirety of the palestinian resistance. well tony, what do you think the regime wants to up the anti with the axes of resistance when already it cannot really handle uh the palestinian resistance in gaza? well, it's trying to spread a wider war with neighboring countries precisely because it's

losing the war with hamas. this is a basically total failed policy in order to destroy hamas, which is what netanyahu keeps repeating. let me also say that it's a failed policy to bring back the hostages, because what's happening is one by one those hostages have been killed by israeli bombs, so the what we've learned today, marcio is this amazing fact that only around about 20% of those hamas fighters so far after three months or more have actually been killed, and what that doesn't tell you is is in a way more interesting because there has been a massive recruitment campaign to get more fighters and because of the genocide, many more young men have been joining hamas. i mean, obviously it's not just hamas, there are other organizations too, but the actual strategic aim of netanyahu uh, and i think many of us said this right from the start, it's now obvious as total failure, that's why he's trying to uh widen this war to

neighboring countries by carrying out acts of war uh in countries like syria in lebanon etc. and these are this... are really symptoms of totally failed policy um, so yeah, so with so many more people joining hamas, what he's doing is is acting as a recruiting sergeant for a potential wider war, and it seems to me that that may be deliberate attempt to get this war bigger and bigger as possible uh in order to drag in other countries, because i think that there's such total political failure uh in in israel, let's not forget that netanyahu has been... criticized today directly by the british defense secretary, grant shaps uh saying that that that there can't be just a one-state solution, there needs to be two-state solution, obviously the palestinians do under international law deserve their own state, they obviously need their own here, tony, we are seeing actually more statements correct

um from various western leaders, at the end the day is it going to make a difference, is it just basically trying to appease uh perhaps some of their own populist at this point in time because "we have seen more and more people um participating in in demonstrations and all and also calling for a cease fire. do you really think it makes a difference? it makes a massive difference, and look, let me tell you, it's not, i mean, netanyahu's whole policy is total failure, the guy should be in prison anyway, as we know for the last couple of years with these fraud trials and even his own people are turning against him in hfer, we've seen the first palestinian zionist joint demonstrations, i mean i'm not criticizing." now anymore because around about a quarter of the zionists in israel are totally against this war and against netanyahu uh so i think we we've got to be realistic about looking at uh this this is a sort of medieval king trying to survive and failing all of these

policies failing let me tell you there's a group in britain here called palestine action and they have been shutting down factories around the country in fact in leicester in this country few weeks ago a demonstration there so... much sympathy for the palestinians that the people of leicester actually came out and they shut this israeli arms factory here in britain down and much of this is being ignored in the western media but palestine action is taking peaceful. non-violent direct action against israel's factories here and being incredibly successful, so don't just look at the big demonstrations, there's these little quiet actions taking place and many of these people are being acquitted when it comes to the british courts too, sure, sure. well, brett, uh, what about that? i mean, of course tony said also there are some zionists also joining in. i would think there are more jews perhaps joining in than the zionis themselves who believe in that settler entity, but but do you think that zionist leaders themselves? really believe that by assassinating leaders the resistance that it can actually stop the

resistance or or what do you see, how do you assess what they're doing right now? well, i think from the perspective of of netanyahu, it is the fact that his power base is slipping away and his his political future and even potentially his future as a free man within designity of israel has been in doubt for quite a few years already, after all after he... he uh was removed from power or stepped down from power the couple years ago after the elections that he actually lost um that there was already quite a lot of talk indeed about these trials and these these these fraud and corruption cases that now that he is back in power of course have been uh his situation is slightly more secure but he knows for the fact that he can't you know cling to this power forever so what to do in such case uh especially in a in a place that entity is looking for an enemy abroad, and of course with design is there always are enemies abroad because they are squatting by

definition on occupied land, and so the this this escalation that he is trying to achieve by by involving wider conflict against lebanon, wider conflict against syria, it it plays into the cards of netanyahu in a way in to preserve his own position and position of his cronies, but i don't, i have... serious doubt if they themselves believe in the possibility of a short-term solution, because as indeed has been said and has been shown so many times for every palestinian who dies 10 more rise up to to take the to carry on the flag for every iranian military advisor who gets killed in in iraq or in syria and of course the often the many dozens of civilians who also die as quote and quote collateral damage this only further increases the result the iraqi people and syrian people in for the driving out designus entity and their

american backers from the region, so what their plan is, i don't think their plan is to let's say to demoralize or to get the resistance to surrender, we know what the plan is in regards to gaza, because they're openly saying it, the plan for gaza is nagba 2.0, the plan is the total ethnic lensing of the gazan population, the driving them out to ' to europe or to other places and starting with driving them out to senai, um, either driving them out or killing them, and completely colonizing this land as part of the greater israel project. um, whether this is feasible or not in my opinion is absolutely ridiculous for them even have any hope of a chance to achieving the zionist victory, but zionists are not necessarily the most logical orrational people, so they might actually believe that they might pull this off in the end. well, tony, do you think that uh uh time is running out for the regime as

resistance closes in on the entity? i mean, we've seen yemen and it's cutting off ships from coming or going to the regime, we see iraqi resistance and hitting american occupation forces in both iraq and in syria, and of course and there's hezbollah uh emptying the northern border towns of the occupied areas due to their increased attacks. um, your assessment of the regime being able endure pressure. in this way, well look, ancient warrior once said, never upset your enemy or stop your enemy when they're making a mistake, and as i've said, the israeli government, the israeli defense forces are making several massive strategic errors in what they're doing, so i think, obviously will be wonderful to stop the killing in gaza, but the israelis as they continue with these strategies are bringing... in all sorts of other states around the world against them and if the entire world is mean in a way what n is

trying to do is one of the sort of massacres like gengis khan did uh back many many hundreds of years ago uh but the trouble is for him uh we've now got 24-hour rolling news channels around the world and we've got this thing called social media where if we want to we can look at some of the atrocities directly that have been going on when the internet is not being cut off. uh in gaza itself and so whereas gengis khan could get away with this kind of thing, i'm afraid netanyahu can't uh, because everyone is watching what he's doing, they know what he's doing, they know it's genocide. and they know uh that this is going to uh basically that that israel is going to become a parier state as a result and various of the methods that the israelis have tried to use in order to bring themselves into as a credible force in the world are over this is finished uh and one of the other things that frustrates me marcia is the way that he uses these kind of

biblical analogies like talking about from the book of samuel about uh the amalochites we must destroy the... well sorry, but the amalochites actually were very close to the cananites who uh did practice child sacrifice, what he's doing himself is mass child sacrifice, there's thousands of children that he's been killing in gaza, innocent children he's been killing, so really he's accusing them of what he is doing, and if you actually go back to the torah, his own book, it talks about in leviticus 25:25, it talks about the land and it says: that the land must not be sold permanently, that's what they not, not to you, netanyahu, for the land is mine, says yahwe, that's god, the land is mine and you are my tenants, so god is saying to people like netanyahu that it's not your land, it's my land, and this and this is basically uh why he's he's going down this route of a land grab, he thinks the land is his, he hasn't

read his own bible, yeah, well i mean of course that's why so many of the jews. to really follow the tora actually are against design is to begin with, because they say they're not supposed to actually have their own country based on the tour text, well uh brett uh, the regime has now killed several of iran's islamic republic guard core members and does it really want a direct confrontation with iran? well, i think there might be a certain thought going around in the heads of netanyahu and his is his military and and and political elite. that a wider conflict could be the one thing that they need in order to save themselves, so um the the idea of assassinating iranian revolutionary guards, commanders and and and military advisors abroad and thereby of course violating directly the national sovereignty again of countries like syria, lebanon and iraq, i think they are hoping in

a way that iran would do what is normally the logical response in such case and... that is attacking the country or in this case the entity that has been attacking you. uh, of course, if iran were then to immediately directly attack the zionist entity within its own borders to with their own weapons directly, that could uh of course then be used to pull in the united states as a sort of quote and quote defense. of course it doesn't make sense because designs have started the war, but we know from fact that you know the the zionists and the americans will try to twist this in a way that this would uh... triger some sort of defensive alliance or something and would therefore involve the united states and probably the united kingdom and other european powers in a direct war, open war against the islamic republic of iran, which then again would probably trigger other very interesting consequences in regards to the shanghai cooperation organization and the like, which

could potentially involve countries like china and russia, of course that's all speculation at this point, now what we have seen of course very much to the shagron sometimes of uh of people who are sympathetic to the islamic resistance, keep on saying, keep on asking why isn't iran doing anything, quote and quote, and i think the reason why iran is not directly yet at this moment targeting designus entities exactly in order to try to avoid being pulled in such a third world war scenario, but what iran has been doing um and very efficiently is targeting and destroying the outreach of like let's say the... the tentacles of design is abroad, they have destroyed an extremely important base in in erbil, in iraq of course, they have destroyed the zionist influenced terrorist organizations such as they existed in in pakistan, we know that there have been very efficient destructions going on of uh designist back terrorist groups in in in

edlip in in syria as well, so basically they're cutting off designist entity from their outreach with their with their agents abroad beyond their borders and if you cut down designist entity only exclusively to its borders, this is a pretty small piece of land that they're occupying with only about six million uh zionist settlers, six se million zionist settlers who actually live there, so in that in that way what what they think iran is doing is cutting down the outreach of the cienist entity to make sure being able to boost up its power abroad, because at the end the day of course the liberation of palestine. will have to be done by the palestinian people itself, we know it's not going to come uh as we have seen in the past from any pan arab coalitions and it's not going to come of course from a from a syrian

or an iraqi or an iranian force that comes marching in from abroad, of course this this support from iran is extremely important, but in the end the liberation of palestine will happen by the palestinians themselves, and i think it is as as aggravating as it may be to have to need to have patience. "i think i understand and and the reason why iran does let does not let itself be roped into direct military confrontation with the idf at this point. what about the other side of things, tony, do you think the united states wants an expansion of this war or is there a difference of opinion right now between washington and tel aviv? how do you see it? well, look, i mean, united states has got one the weakest president in its history, the real people in charge of the united states of the deep state, that is very..." close to wall street and the arms industry, now of course the arms industry love a war, i mean most of us human beings that sit down in cafes and drink coffee and chat, we don't

want a war, but these people make a tremendous amount of money out of it, and so there is that always that pressure i think coming from the united states and also the u.s. of course is very expansionist uh, but i think we need to, we need to look at what is the solution here, what is actually going to most help the palestinians? right now and and i'm convinced that what the hoothies are doing by denying israeli vessels coming into the red sea is an extremely good tactic, they haven't actually been killing anybody, what they've been doing again, it's a form of non-violent direct action, they've been hitting the israelis in the pocket, very useful and successful, and this group palestine action here in the uk uh, they they have tactic, which i don't know if you've been covering it, i'm absolutely inspired to see it, what they do in the middle of the... they turn up at one of these israeli arms factories based here in britain and they cover the thing in red paint from top to bottom right uh they quite often break the

windows at the very top uh and things like that to let water in when it rains, but the idea of of of covering these in blood has has been an extremely effective tactic here so that is sending message not only to these this individual lbit company but also to other british companies for example their landlords, they are getting hit with this red paint job, and and i think this is one of the most effective ways to to actually help the palestinians directly, which is to force british companies that are helping in this genocide, and of course we know people like david cameron in our government are need to be targeted too, what what they're doing is they're forcing them to actually divest from these israeli firms to say, well i'm sorry we can't allow you to be uh our tenant. anymore because it's causing us too much of financial difficulty, so this non-violent direct action mass here, i think uh is is going to turn, we're going to see the corner turn partly due

to that, whether it's the hoothies or palestine action here in the uk and these massive marches, another one of a half million people in london the other week, and what they're doing is they're having one week every saturday there's a march here in all the major cities, tony i am so sorry, so sorry to interrupt, but we're out of time, appreciate both. thank you, and thank you viewers for being with us on another spotlight, i'm marsia hashim, we hope to see you right here next time, goodbye.

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 land, but i was at the babel shams protest last week, and i myself had a my head banged against a bus by soldier, illegally on illegal stolen land and they are arresting us, the palestinian. this is historical palestine.

you adlines on press tv on the 108th day of the us israely genocide in gaza the death toll rises to more than 25,000 mostly comprising women and children. the palestinian resistance move in hamas. says operation alaxa flood was necessary step and normal response to israel's plots against palestinians and palestinian resistance fighters carry out retalatory strikes against israeli forces in gaza destroying their vehicles and killing invading troops.