2002 and eventually in 2006 iran became the first country to successfully apply this method in repairing spinal cord injuries. welcome back everyone, this is gaza under attack, my name is amina taylor and after over 120 days of the us israely genocidal war on palestinians, the carnage continues unabated. i'll introduce my esteemed guests shortly, but first let's remind ourselves of some of the latest. israel continues its bombing across... parts of of the gaza strip

that were once deemed safe zones by the occupation forces. gazans are on the move, sometimes with only what they're able to carry on their backs as relentless shelling pushes the trapped population closer to the raffa border. the usa's top diplomat is on his fifth tour of the region from saudi arabia to egypt and then onwards, as anthony blincon tries to prop up support for washington's post bombardment plans of the coastal enclave. meanwhile, the united nations has appointed an independent group to scrutinize the practices of onderfire unra. the un chief ordered a review after israeli accusations meant major donors withdrew support for the aid body, putting millions of palestinians at risk. at least 27,00 people have been killed and some 70,000 others wounded, and thousands more intomed under the rubble since the beginning of the us israeli genocidal campaign in gaza that began on

october the 7th, now helping us guide our way through the show today, ted koffe, the broadcaster and political analyst and joining us via skype from south africa is muhammad desai, he's the executive director of africa for palestine, gentlemen, good to see you both. ted, i it, it breaks my heart every of time we sit here to talk about how the situation has deteriorated, not got better. we've seen the bombing that's taken place in raffa, just break. me your thoughts, well it it it's extraordinary, because i mean everything seems to happen on on parallel lines, and parallel lines of course meet it to infinity, there's all this talk about finding solution for post bombarded gaza, but the carnage continues and the sats are horrific, 85% of the people um are homeless, 25% of the people is starving, 27,500 known body. is we don't know how many have been

entomed and the people are living in 33% of the space they were before, which was already tight. absolutely, it's horrific. mohammed, let me bring you in here, it it seems so heartbreaking, and before we get into kind of the african perspective on this one, just very briefly, your own thoughts since the last time we spoke on this issue. i think that whil's the carnage and the brutality and violence is evident for all to see or for those who choose to see, i think that there's of something else that has taken place in the last three months, i think that there is a reawakening of the of of the of of humanity is sense of empathy for other people, and so on the one hand, whilst it is devastating to see the kind of destruction taking place in the gaza strip, it is also quite quite inspiring to see that hundreds of thousand

millions of people across the globe are not forgetting the palestinian people, that they are not forgetting the crimes that are being committed by the israeli regime and that israel will be held accountable for its violations of international law as well as for its brutality being enacted against the palestinian people. now of course, i i love the fact that you've touched on there to you know people still being advocates of the palestinian cause, chief amongst them the namibian president whom we... lost recently, just bring some of our viewers who might not have been aware of his legacy and what it meant to the cause. we've lost a giant, we've lost a giant from the african continent, somebody who played not only a significant role in the anti-colonial movement, in the anti-occupation movement in namibia, but also somebody who shaped the policies of the african continent, dr. gangob was of course member of... a leading member of suapo, the

ruling party of namibia today, but also the political formation and political movement a that waged successful battle against germany. colonialism or the reminance of german colonialism as well as the occupation by apart south africa during the 70s and 80s. he was he was a significant figure, he was also fatherly figure in our brief encounters that we had with him as an organization, somebody who always motivated us to continue the struggle, somebody who was infused with the sense with a sense of internationalism. a gift and a and value that many of our elders within the african continent really did did display in every one of their interactions and his commitment to the palestinian people was really enormous. even in the last weeks

of before his death, he was somebody who who not only called out the attacks on gaza, the brutality and the massacers against... palestinian people, but he also made sure that his government put germany on the record in the buildup to the international court of justice case, germany of course did this really embarrassing move of trying to defend israel and israel's actions in the gaza strip and wanting to join the icj as a as member as as a as a supporting ' member and namibia issued a statement, the president as well as his partner were very vocal on social media, calling out germany's hypocrisy for remaining, they certainly did, mohammed, and just for this segment, i just wanted to bring tet in on the fact that you know we know what

south africa's position is, muhammad's made very eloquent um oology there for the namibian president, but just briefly where is the rest of africa on this? do we have similar figures? at the moment one has to say that the real kind of supporters for the palestinians in africa amount to algeria, sudan, tunisia, south africa and zibouti, and i think that the namibian president was one the backmarkers, it makes a huge difference when you have a leader who has lived experience of what he's talking about, and just as muhammed has just said, he was fatherly kind of a... encouraging figure to others behind him, sadly the other leaders that follow the namibian president are just not of the same ilk. now what is interesting is that people say that some african countries are neutral, but in this conflict,

the idea of neutrality is something of a non-saquita, it's something of an oximor, so even though technically egypt, kenya, ghana, morocco, senegal, and uganda claim themselves to be neutral from the standpoint of israel, it's a win for them because is your complicity, let's keep that thought right there, because we've heard about what's going on in the united nations, and we now know that the organization has named former french foreign minister, katherine kolonna to head up a review to scrutinize the methods and practices of the united nations relief and works agency for palestinians, more commonly. known as unra. the probe was ordered after israeli claims that several unra staffers were involved in operation alaxa flood and this resulted in the agency's largest donors pulling support, leaving palestinians at least for the time being at risk without urgent intervention. let's have listen in to

the un's chief spokesperson. this independent uh external review will take place in parallel with investigation currently underway. by uh the un uh office of internal oversight services, oios, uh, which is looking to the allegations of involvement of 12 unrawt personnel in the october 7th attack. the cooperation of the israeli authorities who made these allegations will be critical to the success of the investigation. the secretary general notes that these accusations come a time that unra, the largest un organization in the region is working under extremely challenging conditions to deliver life. giving assistance to close to 2 million men, women and children in gaza strip who depend on that aid for their survival emits one of the most the largest and most complex humanitarian crises in the world. stephan dejarak speaking there.

i want to bring muhammad back into the conversation and just give me a brief reaction if you will to what you heard there from the un chief spokesperson and will it actually make a blind bit of difference to nations who've already pressed the paws button on funding for this much relied on agency? i think that we must be honest, for those of us from the... african continent, we view the actions of those governments like the us and and others who decided to withdraw funding for unra as merely revenge for the african continent having gone to the international court of justice for the icj having pronounced the way in which it did, we do view these, we do view the allegations as utterly baseless, i think that various other media agencies have also come out saying that they have seen that they are read the dossier that israel has produced and there is no evidence in that dossier. i think that for

many of us that unfortunately the so-called investigation is simply and the so-called accusations are simply excuse for some of the superpowers to be to continue their complicity in the genocide against the palestinian people. they're being called the the axes of genocide for allowing this to continue. a time when it's needed more than ever, aids being used as beating stick, is it not? oh, absolutely. i mean, this is why i mentioned earlier about this idea of parallel lines, on on one plane, there is this, this make believe, this talk of uh, of being an honest broker and actually wanting to save palestinin lives, then on the other axis is series of actions, which are guaranteed to make things much, much worse. the problem with these institution. is that to pause aid is much much easier than reinstating aid and

it's 13 countries including the big ones, the united kingdom, sweden, america, germany, it's just, it it is, it's 70% of their budget from 2022, absolutely, and i think that what it does is alluding to what muhammad said before, is that it's showing the world very... clearly what has been done before, only this time the world is realizing that actually this thing, there's a lot of kidology in the international relations, and it's basically colonial powers supporting their frontmen and their their agents within the region, everybody seeing this. mhammed, speaking of front men and agents, um, anthony blincans in the region uh, his fifth visit in what since october, what's the? point of him coming, he knows what he could do to stop all this, doesn't he? for us, in many ways it's

about managing us relations, about manage managing us interests in the middle east, it's not about ending a genocide, it's not about ending a violence, and we have really thought that the united states had the option of being on the right side of history, it often has not been on the right side of history, for many of our struggles on the... african continent, including the struggle against a partide, the us government took the side of the oppresses, and we had really thought that during this period that the us would have found its sense of morality and its sense of humanity. unfortunately, it continues to politic, it continues to only have the interest of his empire at stake, and so blincon's visit in many ways is seen as part of this. indeed, we now know. that um the actors, many of them are in cairo hoping to kind of kickstart a ceasefire. before i

get back to you there, tet mohammed, just briefly, there's nothing left in gaza to bomb, right, except fleeing refugees, so sece fire now, are you optimistic? i think that while it is an absolutely tragic situation that that we still do continue to call, not only for the ending of... israeli strikes for the ending of israeli violence, but also importantly, as the sarafican president has always maintained that the root causes of this issue need to be addressed if there is never to be a repeat of the situation, and this root causes include not only a cease fire, but also the ending of israel's siege and occupation. tet: the world is being schooled as to how these relationships have been run for decades and decades. "we have now come to the end-game scenario, the futility of what mr. blincan is doing, he's

going through the motions, but now everybody in the world can see what's going on, might have been opake before, but now it's not opaque anymore, children have been killed, people are starving, human beings are being ground into the dust, and we're talking the minuti of the details." of a cease fire, frankly, they don't care, indeed, well, just reminder for you, this is, of course, gods are under attack, i'm amina taylor, your host, and here we try and take a deep. live into the news surrounding the us israely carnage in the gaza strip. now protests like the one held in london at the weekend really do help to raise awareness of the plight of the palestinians and this is what motivates people to keep attending them. a palestinian campaigner jamil khamin told press tv. i

think the protests in london particularly are really um the there are a great thing to happen. 'cuz it does raise awareness, you do get lot of people who aren't on the protests who do actually stop to ask questions and you can see them thinking and and mulling over why so many people are on the streets, i personally do attend all the protests and i've been um down to london on all the protests and i've seen that myself that people it does raise awareness, people do start to question and you can see them actually walking away and starting to think about the situation as a whole'. and also as well may i add that um i think it's really important for the palestinian people trapped in gaza as well, if anything that sends them home, it shows them that we haven't forgotten, that you know the people of the world aren't with their governments, um, that we do want to cease fire, that we disagree with our governments and and that our thoughts and hopes and prayers are with the

people of gaza and that they are not forgotten, more importantly, we will not forget them and we will continue to protest a cease fire is called. jamilia also said anger towards the labour party is also really visibly within the muslim voters in particular, which she thinks will see change happen. within the muslim community, i i think it will work. um, whether that'll have an overall impact on on the decision of the vote is yet to be seen. um, i think it's important that they vote tactically, and ' you know decide to to look for other parties to vote for simply because of their stance um they refuse to call for a cease fire uh they keep using the the same old rhetoric that you know all the other parties are using that it's a case of um hamas need to return the hostages um there's been a 1,200 israeli

people who have been abducted and killed um and all the while they're skirting around the fact that you know they do need to call for sease fire to advert any more um civilian deats in gaza. i am hopeful and i want to remain hopeful that there will be sease fire. i think there needs to be immediate seizfire before the the situation gets any worse than it already is in gaza. um there needs to be a cease fire there needs to be aid sent in and there also needs to be a strategy to to rebuild gaza quick. as well, um, at the moment i'm hopeful uh, but as each day passes and no seasfire is called, that that hope does weiin a little bit, i'm afraid. in heartbreaking news, palestinian warners bid farewell to their loved ones killed in an israeli strike on raffa on tuesday. at least four people were mattered, including a

three-year-old child. this is the injustice the israeli occupation. he was a child playing. this is his brain. look at how his brain came out. what did this child of three and a half years do? what did this child do to the cowerdly criminal enemy? three and a half years. what did he do? they have taken a piece of my heart. they've taken a piece of my heart. let's continue the conversation with. my guest in the studio ted koffe and mohammed desai, who joins us via skype from south africa in our final segment of the show. ted, it was, it was hard going watching that last uh vt there, i saw i saw your reaction, perhaps the same i had when i was trying to select the clip to remind people that the some of the real victims here are those martered children. see, context is

everything with these things, previously. "conflicts like this were kept in bubble, the people who were being filmed were objectivized. now series of events have taken place globally, which have made people more sensitive not only to their own fragility, but also by implication to the fragility of other people. it is this context, which makes scenes like this total tear jerkers, which makes people..." ordinary people in britain joined these marches in support of a cease fire in in in palestine and it will... will continue, actually the longer the sharad, which is what one has to call it, the longer the sharad goes on, the less the emperor's

clothes um become. mhammed, are we becoming desensitized to some of the images like the one you've just seen there? mean it has been over 120 days now, i think that way governmentts are. people are stepping in, i think that this is where we see the mass mobilization that that that continues, whether it's on the african continent, whether it's on the streets of dublin, whether it's the streets of london or elsewhere, i think that people are refusing to allow their governments to get away with the kind of statements and positions that were previously taken, so i think that if anything we as a global community have become in fact more sensitized. to the suffering of other people, i think that it's tragic that it would have taken 11 thousand children being killed for us to find this sense of interconnectedness. you are very quickly

there mentioned mohammed, i forgotten your introduction to mention your bds uh credentials in south africa, but we do know that the reports of mcdonald's, starbucks and others seeing that dipping revenue and blaming the gazan crisis. is people power working when it comes to boycotting companies that associate with the genocide? magnificently well, i think that it's not just reports that are coming out, but very hard factual economic evidence showing that the actions that are taken by families and by members of various communities across our countries and across the globe is having a collective effort and i think that this must be encouraged, i think that corporations will be forced just as how they were forced in in the 1980s to take a position against the party africa, likewise they are now being

forced to take a position against the israeli violence, genocide, occupation and a partid against the palestinian people, so tet even if we can't go out on march, even if we can't do much, you you cannot do something and still have an impact, yes oh absolutely, mean the uh the the... share price of uh mcdonald's dropped 4%, share price of starbucks dropped 2%, and this, the executives of these companies openly admitted in their last quarter numbers that this was on account of boycots being arranged against their businesses, what is crucial is that their expectation is that these boycots are going to continue and run off, and so it just goes... to show that whatever the governments think that they're doing, ordinary people have got their own perspective, and they are acting. one last thing in england with the

labour party, um, it enjoyed 86% of muslim support um, in 2019, that has plummeted to 60%. mr. starmer is going to start feeling the pain, they need those votes, and on account of... his position, the british government's position in gaza, people are taking a view and deciding that actually your values don't align with ours anymore, and this was something that it was anailed oncertainty that the labour party could count on muslim fight, not true, imagine throwing it all away on this tet, thank you so much for joining us and thanks to you of course for your company, gaza under attack will be back tomorrow with the latest. until then, continue to keep palestine in your hearts.

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addressing foreign dignitaries attending event to mark the anniversary of iran's islamic revolution, president abraham says the terrons managed to turn western threats and bans into opportunities. us is really genocidal war on gaza is now in its fifth month un warns against attacks on rafa in the southern gaza where half the population is seeking shelter and nicaragua is trying to take a number of european countries including the uk to the international court of justice over their complicity and us is really campaign of genocide palestinians.