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tv   Gaza Under Attack67  PRESSTV  February 1, 2024 12:02am-12:31am IRST

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hello and welcome back to gaza under attack, i'm your host said pureza. we'll bring you our panel of guests in moment, but first a quick recap of some of the latest developments. hamas political leader ismail hania says they have received a gaza seespire proposal mediated by qatar and egypt. he says hamas is open to discussing any... serious
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and practical initiatives or ideas provided that they lead to a comprehensive cessation of aggression. iran's foreign minister hussein amir abdullahan says the united states knows very well that only a political solution can end israel's ongoing genocide against the gaza strip and the crisis gripping west asia. the un redoubles efforts to keep life-saving funds flowing to anrua, its agency for palestinian refugees after more than 10 countries. suspended their financial contributions to it. unrua provides crucial aid to over 2 million civilians in the gaza strip will be asking a palestinian journalist what a suspension of funds means for the palestinians in gaza and beyond. and here in the uk, anti-arms trade protesters target a weapons industry gathering a swanky london hotel, accusing the participants and the british government of complicity in the us-israeli genocidal war on gaza. so far, the
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carnage in gaza has killed nearly 27 thousand palestinians, among them more than 11,000 children. joining me on this edition, british palestinian journalist and political analyst, yusuf and alongside him, via skype is ali salam, the tehran-based editor and chief of basira press. gentlemen, thank you for both for being here. i'll start with you, yusuf, the blowback from the icj interrum ruling. continues to be felled, can i get a reaction from you as a palestinian who is still wearing that black shirt because you've lost family members, close family members to the genocide. yes, well israel still enjoys this impunity despite the icj ruling and israely officials, they just to brack and just you know lau loudly about the icgs, they say you can do whatever you want, we're going to continue our war in. gaza the suffering is
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ongoing and but at least it's a symbolic victory, we have never thought that israel would be broad to justice, i think this will mark the beginning of israel's, the beginning of the end of israel's impunity, at least israel was tried and was accused of genocide, and this should be a signal that the international community cannot take anymore israel's violations of international law, and israel defying this. ruling this inter ruling and provisional measures because it acts as a country above the international law as a state and they are not trying away from just saying okay do whatever you want we're going to continue our carnage and genocide in gaza. just to be clear according to the intern ruling um genocide has either occurred or could occur against the palestinians according to the icj. ali how do you explain?
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palestinians continuing to be killed inside gaza in the wake of that message that was sent to the israeli regime by the icj, because the message that was sent to the zionist regime by the icj was that they have to police their own behavior, what was called for was uh very toothless and it does it won't lead to anything because this is very psychopathic and wicked regime, if they can kill upwards of 5,000 children and justify it, these are people that are not going to stop when you write a strongly worded letter to them, that's why the only way to really the ones who are actually enforcing what was found within the icj ruling is the palestinian resistance factions, is hezballah, is the various is yemen and it's a very noble blockade and the iraqi resistance forces who are also putting the zinus. regime
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under pressure, through the language of self-defense and resistance by armed means and achieving a sense of military parity and with the with the zionist regime. um, speaking of the israel being a psychopathic uh regime, yusuf, is that the reason really that that they don't see um, what a lot of other countries, politicians, people around the world have been telling them that a political solution is the only way forward, violence is not the answer. i think israel wants to continue blackmailing and extorting the world for what happened during the holocaust, and it seems palestinians. are continuing to pay heavy price for what happened, um, i asked some some israelis um, you know, who continue to throw accusations and threats to us journalists, yeah, they are not willing even to consider themselves in our footstep steps, they are not willing to put themselves in our position, so this shows
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that they have kind of psychopathic, psychopathic, you know mentality, to reflect their kind of thinking that they didn't consider... as human beings, they consider us as demons, they continue to demonize us, dehumanize us, they continue to act as the as if they are the victims, they continue to shed tears about what's happened, but we are entering the fourth months now, and it seems that you know they continue to kill palestinians, destroy palestinian homes and they don't care about all the mass demonstrations and all the calls. to put an end to this genucide exactly, and you have to be psychopath if you send an undercover head squad into a hospital, as we saw really shocking, yeah, west bank, killing three people, one of them who had already been injured and been recuperating, one example of many others, um, ali, um, i want to bring
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iran into this, despite iran, having said all along, it had nothing to do, no role to play in the operational flood, "and that the moves that have been made by yemen, iraqi resistance forces, um, the lebanese resistance force, there are proziness elements out there in the us, elsewhere, all beating the drums of war against the islamic republic, how is that going down where you are? well, to be honest, the people here in iran, and as elsewhere in the region, fear nobody but god, and they're not going to be afraid ' the weakening and collapsing us empire and european liberal regimes and maybe part of it, i think many of the many of the zionist voices and chicken hawk american voices, they some of them know that they're lying, but some of them actually they they live such in a bubble where they see the
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world in this kind of paradigm of puppet master and puppet that anyone who's under them is is exists in a sort of dependent role that they kind of see any... everybody else is having the same role too, they can't imagine that iran's relationship with its various allies is not that of puppets or is not that of dependence. iran rather exports values of self-determination, of independence, of self-respect, of dignity and all these things, and they support them logistically, but they're not there to tell them what they should do once they achieve this level of self-reliance militarily and otherwise this level of self respect and... independence, so it it might be unfathemable for many of these zionis and neocons sitting in air conditioned think tank rooms in washington dc, that these organizations that are aligned with iran and maybe have their logistical capabilities built up by iran, but ultimately the decision to actually engage in
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these retaliatory operations against the israeli occupation and the american occupation is something that is done individually by each group, so they have a certain level of coordination, is a joint command center, but there there are also things that are just decided by each individual um faction within the greater resistance axis, and i think that's a very beautiful thing, and it shows that iran does not want to be the babysitter of these various groups in the region, they want people to take care of their own problems and that leads to a longer lasting change uh and more organic movement that way, so correctly, and they are as you say all the bubble, as you say, they're all operationally independent. now uh, we we mentioned the un at the top of the program, the un chief antonio guteresh is asking donors to continue funding the aid agencies serving palestinians in gaza known as andrua, following accusations by the israeli regime that
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several staffers and had participated in operational acs of fluid. the allegations triggered wave of funding cuts by major donors including the us, britain, and france, these donors account for some 70% of onrow's funding. his spokes person, stephand, says mr. guteresh is committed to ensuring investigation is done swiftly and as efficiently as possible. listen in. the secretary general is personally horrified by the accusations against employees of andwa, but his message to donors, especially those who have suspended their contribution, is to at least guarantee the continuity of andwa's operations, as we have tens of thousands of dedicated staff working throughout the region. the dire needs of the desperate population they serve must be met. at this. this point, the outlook for anna and the millions of people it serves, not only in gaza, but also east jerusalem, in the in the
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west bank, jordan, lebanon, and syria is very bleak. other organization than onoa has the infrastructure to do the work that they do, it's not as if anyone else can come in tomorrow and do the work that they do. mean i seen a lot of discussions that's just not feasible. any way, shape or form, we have a process of accountability that's that's going on, while that's going on, people need to survive, and we need to continued support for hono and all our humanitarian work. stephand, speaking there, you said, let me come to you, you've lived in the gaza strip, you have reported from the gaza strip and definitely have come across with uh staffers, explain to our viewers how important. their workers um in the gaz in the coastal onclave, especially
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at the time of an unfolding genocide? well, i said this incitement against unurwa, it's not something new, each israeli offensive on gaza, israel uh throws this card that onura uh does not take into consideration the employment of pro hamas supporters in gaza. i myself, i received education in the primary and elementary schools when i was a little kid. "and also i received healthcare from clinics and centred onora. onorua is the lifelline for almost 1.5 million palestinians and i think israel uh wants to uh prolong the suffering of gazas and it wants to because remember israel's main goal out of um from this um you in a revenge is to level gaza and make it unliberable now onarwa is the main uh international uh organization so when the fund coming to gaza this means..." palestinians will continue to receive the support from this international uh ngo. um
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there are other factors, the reason why israel wants to end the work of onura in gaza, i think it's to do with the refugees, because umerwa stands for united nations relief and works agency for palestini refugees which caters for almost 6 million palestinian refugees is scattered in the region in gaza strip, west bank including east jerusalem, libaron and syria and jordan uh so... wants to end um the terminology refugee because palestinians have been calling and demanding for the return of palestinian refugees, so as long as onura exists, this means palestinians will continue to call for the right of return, and this annoys israel. israel wants only to receive the fund for itself, it doesn't want palestinians to receive a recognition uh for the suffering. it's a very important point and also that the agency has said that the apart at israeli military has attacked its premises in the gaza strip at least 26. centers have been attack mind boggling. ali, this is clearly collective punishment. um, i
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have the the more than 10 nations now who have paused funding, do so at such a critical time, it came only hours after that icj ruling. it's another we weapon of war that they're using against the palestinian people. if they can't kill them with bombs, they want to try to kill them with star beat. and it just shows the complicity of these various nations in the genocide, as much as like they try to pretend like they're neutral, especially some of the european countries like france and the uk, which only after so much blood has been shed, then came out and issued these statements that there needs to be a ceasfire or or maybe they didn't call for a ceasfire, but they they they at least called for some kind. kind of restraint, it's it's hypocritical and it's forged, and it's
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it's going to lead to more suffering, especially on the economic level and level of sustainance for the aid that is even able to reach inside the gaza strip because the aid in many cases is being blocked from entering, so they're trying to pressure the gazons from all sides, but they're clearly losing the... zinis military has been practically defeated, they're talking about a withdrawal, they're making it sound like it's just normal routine thing rather than making it look like a resounding defeat, so they need to... try other weapons, soft weapons like starvation, and as we speak for the seventh day in a row, israelis, some of them apparently families of captives held in gaza are attempting to block humanitarian aid from getting into the gaza strip and to the people who really need that aid so urgently. just a quick reminder to our
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viewers that this is gaza under attack with misaid pruza where we shot. a spotlight on the ongoing us israeli carnage in the gaza strip. claims of antisemitism by israel and its cronies have always been used to silence anyone who questions the barbaric zionist ideology. according to muslim scholar sheikh muhammad yasdani, that doesn't make sense because jews like christians and muslims, all have a shared lineage through prophet noah, and are all like brothers and sisters. for us to... criticize one another is not antisemitism, it is the same family, yes we do belong to the same family, and it's very horrible zionist movements try to serp away a title and make it seem as if we the boss, we are the inheritors of the we the lord of the world, we been given a promise land from the
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river to the sea, and so this promise land belongs to us, there is no such thing at all, this... then and not now, and if this is the case, then in effect, in psychologically, if you reverse this, it's a terrible thing to say, what they are saying is, from the river to the sea, there will be no christians and no muslims and other religion, this is our promise lion, and no one else will come within this region and territory.dani also shared with us that criticism by politicians when people cast in western capitals is another form of distorting realities just as they do when they kill civilians and pretend to be defending themselves. it's disappointing that the government does not see that there is a clear distinction that those who are on the streets, those who are protesting are not protesting in favor of
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hamas, they are protesting and vouching in favor of... the sanctity of the life of civilians in gaza, the innocent in gaza who are not part an affiliated to, and if someone is affiliated, this is where the issue of surgical and targeted stripes are are you know absolutely, we we're blind to it, we we just, it's a bit like 10 pound, it's a paper, we're exchanging paper, but tangibly it's not... gold or silver and so we blindly accepting that israel has intelligence to be able to bomb someone, but the outcome is in order to bomb one individual hamas, if hypothetically suggesting and hypothetically we understand this, yet he, you know, the hamas is using for instance, you know,
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innocent civilians as a shield, this is you know a... terrible lie, it's a terrible, you know, um, deception that this is the case. first of all, prove your point, and how is it that you are acting mercifully on the people by allowing them, giving them leaflets, sending them text messages, for goodness sake, sending them text messages before bombing them, how is that striking hamas? wouldn't hamas be two steps ahead knowing that what? right, my neighbors got a text message, i better clear out over here, by the time who's going to clear out faster, the innocent civilian or hamas, who is going to you exit the building faster, so it's just illogical, and and this illogical behavior has has given us you know very clear
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understanding that the intention is not to defend, the intent. is now to use the opportunity or the 7th of october opportunity to now desecrate and to demolish the whole of this region and area which can do so well for them personally, it can bring them billions and billions personally. thousands of palestinians continue to flee from the southern gaza city of khanis as israeli occupation troops are... have look at this, my husband remains with the israeli army, they stopped us and allowed
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children and women to pass, but they kept some men with them, my son's belongings are with my husband, it's cold and all my child's clothes and diapers are with him, was continue the conversation with my guests, yusuf here in the studio and via skype, ali salam in the remainder of the... and we have yusuf, i just want to put this question quickly to you uh, and your take on the following, the fact that eurovision has said that it's not going to ban israel to the competition, whereas it did in 2022, 2022, russia over the ukraine war, and the uk foreign secretary saying the country is ready considering to um recognize palestine as a state, and then they're not canceling in the weapons, licenses to israel, nor are they kicking out israely weapons manufacturers and their cutting um uh funding to anna? i think um, the international community doesn't want to seem that they are criminalizing israel uh for distancing in from the eurovision, and
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also this reflects the stark reality of hypocrisy and international policy. uh, the whole world has seen israel conducting this geneside live streaming digitally online for the past four months and just shocking and outrage outrages that israel can get away with what it does. now regarding the... uk's position to recognize the palestinian state, this has has been should have been taken long time ago, it's a step that in the in the right direction, but i think um this conflicts and contradicts the uk's policy and stance, because you cannot recognize palestinians right to have a state, at the same time you are sending weapons to israel to bomb those people who are aspiring to have this independent state um... should play a major role to correct the the historical injustice that occurred 75 years ago and we are continuing to suffer as a result of bill for declaration. let me give this final
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opportunity to uh ali um to comment on the following: ali, first of all, there's no safe place in gaza, people are getting killed by the hour, but we heard at the start of the show that there has been a proposal for a cease fire uh media. by qatar and egypt in paris apparently as we wait the outcome of that, how do you think this genocide ending moving forward? the genocide will end when israel finally admits military defeat and they are being defeated quite badly in gaza, they're being defeated in the northern border with hisballah, with the secretary general of hisballah saying that the... 'the zionist military is greatly censoring the true level of casualties both dead and injured among their occupation soldiers, and then you have
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the yemini factor, you have the iraqi factor, and then you have the economic factor that their economy is bleeding day by day, as perhaps there were many factories in the illegal settlements that were located in these areas that are now ghost towns, they're practically liberated'. at least the the settlers don't exist, maybe the military installations exist, but the only hope for the end of this war is the admission of defeat militarily by design it's regime because of the military strength of the resistance access, there's no hope in the un, there's no hope in egypt or qatar, they're basically doing the bidding of the zionist regime, while pretending to be neutral, um, they're only just useful, i guess as a medium of... of exchanging negotiations since the um those who are occupied should not have to negotiate directly with their illegitimate occupiers so but other than that they're not
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really trustworthy so the the best hope is in the military parity that the resistance access has with a absolutely nuclear weapons absolutely right um thank you very much to both of you yusuf and ali salam for sharing your time and your insight with us and thank you for watching us. gaza under attack will be back tomorrow with the latest. until then, continue to keep palestine in your hearts. goodbye for now.
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the success of the islamic revolution in iran formulated new equations in all of west asia. no two people can argue about that, with resistance in lebanon and palestine posing a real terror to the israeli entity. the culture of resistance has spread beyond gaza and in all the lands of zinus israeli occupied palestine. so much so that the sense of anxiety with settlers is the roof and with most wanting to leave. the stance alongside the resistance has extended to iraq, yemen, and syria, indicating that the islamic revolution has laid the foundation, supported and participated in the growth and expansion of new powers in west asia. west asia revolution, this week on the medias stream.
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would say no, you're liar, in fact, iran must be judged as any other nation. not only would i attempt to visit the islamic republic, if i managed to get there, i would testify as a reporter to what i found.
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press tv headlines, the israely genocide in gaza continues raging, another mass grave is found in the northern part of the onclave including 30 blindfolded bodies. the united nations warning of humanitarian collapse in the gazo strip due to western donors cutting.
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