hello and welcome to press tv spotlight, i'm marizia hashimi, thanks so much for being with us, as designist genocide continues on the gaza strip, the newest dimension to the mass murder is a... ground invasion of rafa. regime officials say that they will send troops into rafa and civilian should leave the area which had been labeled as safe zone by the regime. rafa is a city which had a pre-october seventh population of 280,000 people, and now has a 1.3 million displaced people. there is no safe place for them to go, and there is no place safe. in gaza. i

like to welcome my guests to the program. said shath author and uh expert on west asia and jahangir mohammed, director of center for muslim affairs out of manchester. thank you both for being with us. i like to start off. with sab, shath and in belfast, is it that israel wants to prove to the world that it can do whatever it was, even promising to invade an overpopulated civilian area, and no one and no entity will touch it. you see, this zinist killing war machine, which uh waging uh that's military uh genocidal campaign, the international court of justice itself. has deemed uh that campaign to be a

plausible genocide uh and still we can see uh wisring countries uh till now entrenched in supporting the zianist entity in its own campaign against the people of of palestine especially now the the rafah region and and there we heard last friday netanyahu coming out and and saying to his people, he gna extract a total victory over the palestinian resistance and the total victory, which is the when you think of it, the zinis army which is recruiting more reservis today for that campaign, have the open doors arsenals for it from the united states of america, from the west, all of it, you know, reconnaissance aeroplanes on the skies are british and french. uh the germans in total

supplies and support against ell equipped resistance who was manufacturing their own weapons with their hands, but they are equipped with the very high will, iron will to defend their land and their people. this is to the west, when they cannot netanyahu after 129 days cannot achieve victory and think by going to rafak to achieve genocide and to kill more innocent people that he can market there is kind of victory for the zionist thirsty blood thirsty population and western elites. i can't believe that is still they talking about going into rafah. rafah, if you want to put it in a scale of small tiny rooms which tents or buildings in each individual room there is roughly 25 people in

inside and as we witness this early morning and smaller attack and killed so many and injured so many and devastated. the whole area of rafa, so the intention is genocidal, the intention is ethnic cleansing of rafa, would they succeed with that? i don't know, but but the resistance putting huge fight encountering that, and they didn't achieve anything yet, they destroyed khanyunis, destroyed the gaza, but on the ground there is no military achieve achievement, what they doing is targeting civilians, killing innocent people, all right, stay with me, sab, but let me get jahang on this uh discussion. jahangir, what you say the level of arrogance by the israeli regime has not been seen in recent history, usually entities which go against international law, deny doing so, and usually they do not admit their own guilt, but israel announces its genocide

or crimes against humanity and then commits them. your thoughts? well, yes, this is we are seeing. this um really live for the first time uh on our screens, on our mobile phones, we're seeing the horrors and mass slaughter, total total destruction of all way of life of the palestinian people, and you know the strange thing is that or the most horrific thing is that not only that do they talk about what they're going to... do they do it and then we have images of idf soldiers uh photographing their crimes themselves and displaying it to the world and showing children and others them and destruction of

homes and boasting about it and and actually enjoying it and telling the world they're going to do lot more uh worse than what they're doing so... "we've never seen anything like this, you know, usually even soldiers are disciplined or they may commit some excesses, or some uh uh will enjoy it, but here we have um not only uh soldiers doing these crimes, but seem to be enjoying it, and the the media in israel and the population from all the surveys uh also seems to be displaying the same uh..." support for what's going on and uh even you know they want even more harsher treatment right uh so it's it's it's unique really it's absolutely mindboggling well sab uh more than 28,300 palestinians have been killed in just over

four months western countries and international organizations say the ground invasion rafa shouldn't happen and that it would be catastrophic uh actions speak louder than words how? ever so why don't they stop it from happening? exactly, this is very good question, you can see the streets of the uk, france, of united states of america itself, of ireland, all the west filled with people, amazing people and calling and crying to stop the genocide, and it still the the the united states of america only issuing bathetic. encouraging the zist entity to to attack, but at the same time to take care not to inflect that much harm on the civilians. how can a military machine a trained to kill and designed to ethnically cleanse the

palestinians? from 1948 till today, we seen their action, we seen their massacres and as your guest said rightly, it's lives on social media, all their massacres. "and you telling them to be careful, you instruct them them the western ruling elite is party to the genocide, and that's why they don't want to call a straightawway the spad spad as they say, they just issuing pathetic double standard statement, because at the end of the day the defeat of the designist entity, they see it is their own defeat, and this is this genocidal satanic state called this" entity which have a population of 75% in a pole couple of weeks ago asking the army to inflict more pain in the palestinian and more destruction. what can you call a state like that which is own population want to see more blood and more killing and more destruction?

what is left in gaza to destroy more? when when even the the netanyahu orders in in a friday saying to his military and today... calling for the united nation and and its agencies to help them in moving the population from rafah to help them in limiting the the casualties among them to. where to go to where? there is nothing left in the, there is no homes for those displaced people to go to, there is no schools, no hospitals, no, no roads, nothing left, they destroyed everything, you never seen that kind of viciousness and a criminal act anywhere in the world before, right? well, jahanganger, massacre after massacre has taken place against palestinians, water, food and electricity have been cut off or severely limited by the regime, gaza and bombings and targeting - targeted killings by zinanist

snipers against civilians is the norm. in your opinion, which one of these isn't a crime against humanity? well, they are all crimes against humanity and they are collective punishment of people uh with the goal of um ethnically cleansing them, you know the the real issue is that... israel doesn't want a one-state solution, it doesn't want two-state solution, so that leaves them with two options, liquidation of the palestinian people or push them into another land, cleansing them, and their goal right from the beginning, in fact since last december when this new government came, they made it clear that they believe that the whole of the the land occupied territories belong to them, this is god's ' 'you know the god has given them this, this is their right for jews all around the world, and so they

are driven by a messianic and jewish supremacist ideology, which is driving their insanity, which shows no remorse for any human beings, they are totally driven by this, and their goal has been to push ' the palestinian people in gaza into the sinai and if it wasn't for the resistance of the uh palestinian people, the determination to stay on their homeland uh this would have already happened uh and and now they told them to go to the south and now they are bombing the south so they hope they will uh leave, it will be impossible for them to live and they will go into raffa or egypt will see. desperation or other people and they will take the palestinians, so this is a clear,

it's clear goal, it's not a uh, you know, agenda, something that's just crazy, they have a clear mission and goal, which they are doing through these mass horrors, the icj told them to give more humanitarian aid, and in fact they've to stop some of these things and they've actually uh done the... total opposite and of course this is being done with the blessing of the west uh intelligence of of western nations right, well sab, one out of every 100 kids in gaza, i will repeat that, one out of every 100 kids in gaza has been killed since october the 7th or over 10,000 kids, i mean uh... it's just so difficult even take in and to imagine, how is this happening in 2024, sir? it's happening

because the masks fell off, we see the ruling elite in the west, how they rushed the to support the ziist entity, given the greenland, green light and card blanch to attack the palestinian people and have no... limits, no borders whatsoever, all this hypocritical sounds came just this couple of days worrying since the international court of justice i said ablausible genocide in the they worried to be implicated, they are immerers in it, not even implicated, the problem is the the designist entity eliminate a whole generation in palestine in gaza strip mainly and targeting the young, always the young and when you look at the number of the casualties and the death in there, you'll

find the the the shooting number of the children and then women and after that the adults, mean adults, this is is direct indication to who is their target, and we seen some of the t-shirts, designist entity war machine criminal even more army is marketing among themselves and where and uh one bullet for two where is a pregnant palestinian woman in there and the bullet so it kills the women and the fetus, this a criminal entity, they brag about this, they brag about how they torture the... they brag about how they destroy them, they brag about how dehumanizing them, but the problem is we have here a hypocritical west led by genocidal jew in in the white house insist in killing and punishing the palestinian for one reason only, they stood their ground, they refused to be put pushed away and they stand

to liberate their land and they are trying to tell the whole world, this is a... imperialist colonialist project brought the the the these zianist maniacs from all over europe to destroy palestinian to keep it as a controlling or area for the west asia, the palestinian the are entrenched in defeating them and trust me you can hear the kids of palestine and the elderly of palestine all insist in standing their ground and resist to the day they liberate g to liberate palestine and they will, but the problem the palestinians are... facing with apart of from the west, their own arabs and muslims surrounding them, none of them helping except the resistance camp, that's all, you can see supplies coming from the emirates through saudi arabia through jordan going to the zinest entities, okay, stay with me, i want to touch on that a little bit later, but uh, jahanganger, um, as time passes and more

palestinians are killed, ironically, zianist settlers are complaining that they are under pressure, and these... difficult times for them, settlers have had to evacuate both the southern and northern parts of the occupied territories, hamas and the south and hezbulah in the north have threatened the security of settlers in those areas. your thoughts about that? well, i think uh, you know the the um european um or western uh invaders, i don't want to call them settlers because they are taking somebody else's land ' and property, these uh colonial invaders are expelling, expelled the native population uh, and of course they, you know, they thought it was all peaceful and normal, they used to normal lives, uh, you know, western lives, um, with

uh, you know, big homes or their, you know, comfortable homes, in in in the west uh their lifestyle is normal, they're not used to uh, you know, even though it's a fraction of what the palestinians are going through, they're not used to this kind of uh uh trouble, so they uh, and they have other passports, they can simply take their passports and go back to their other homes in europe, the palestinians don't have that option, um, so... um the you know the the um uh the actions in the north and by the the the hoothies um this is causing some discomfort to them and they've decided uh that even that uh that discomfort uh you know is too much yet they don't reflect on what the the they

they are putting the palestinians through uh the palestinian people uh so uh but you you just mentioned, let me just jump in here, you just mentioned something very interesting, it's amazing that disconnect, just what you just said that they may be going through what they call discomfort, they don't realize or they ignore the genocide that they too are part of that are perpetrating against the palestiny, what do you think that is the case, jaangier that there seems to be such a disconnect from reality, um the disconnect is is is is there because the as i say uh zinanism has now become an ideology of uh of um of jewish supremacy, racial supremacy, and that has dehumanized the palestinian people, um, that dehumanization takes place in their media uh, in their schools and in western media as well, unfortunately, the palestinians are the most dehumanized people

on the planet, uh, they are subhumans and they don't... 'um the you know they don't have or they're not seen as members of the human race like anybody else and that's what uh ideologies of of racial supremacy do okay and and it's shameful really because the jewish people should know better they've been through that process in in nazi germany and they should understand uh that and they should be able to uh you know - but they don't because let me get back in on this stay with me more than 500 thousand israel said uh they have that option uh would to they have other nationalities, but do you think this is just the beginning that we're seeing the beginning of these uh individuals leaving

because there's increase in security and also major economic pressure, will we see the zionists returning to their homes? i want to follow from what jihan was saying rightly, biden in 1986 he said said in the congress, he the israel is the best investment they ever made for three billion a dollar, if there was no israel, they have to invent an israel, which is summarize this colonial outpost which servicing the interest of the united nation empire, united states empire and the west, and that's why as 1917 when the british bullford declaration and they establish their entity starting their... was around 25 years before the holocaust even, so the project was in there to cleanse the with anti-semitic policies of the west and bring the jews in palestine to serve as the

soldiers for the this empire project. when in 7 october attack happened, you see the western leader rushed to palestine to the des entity, which is rightly is palestine, and bad to sure them up that united states is there and the... the foreign ministry of the entity issued a warning to the all the population that don't go anywhere in the world because there is rise of antisemitism, you don't want anybody to leave, but tons of people left, and if you look at the united states of america, with the money it's pouring at the zianist entity, every individual zionist who live in the entity have a free education, a free health, a free all the services, none of that applies on the united states of america, and they... took the taxpayers money to subsidize israel, they deny the the western people in the uk or in the united states of america from lot of free

services which des entity people enjoy on the back of the people tax pairs money here, that's to sustain and to encourage them to stay, because if they start evacuating palestine, the whole project collaps, those people come from east europe, ukraine or from russia or... from somewhere in the west and they have as as jahan said two nationalities, they have two passports, they can enjoy summers in in palestine and swimming pool in the settlements, while the palestinian farmer cannot find any kind of water to irrigate his plants or give to his cattle, the same thing in gaza, they poison the aquafire because they suck all of the water out of it to enjoy their swimming pools in these settlements and suddenly when they see there is danger the... use the second nationality and start fleeing, this is why the west goes and shows the french, the italians, the germans, the americans and the british, even the

romanians, all of them to solidify this this entity and say, we gna make sure you will stay on the ground, because while is there they can succeed in controlling west asia, transport, oil, gas and then they can humanize the world. because while they are there, they can control the growth of china, they shrink in it. okay, would you hangir uh, what is your assessment of the performance of the axis of resistance front in fighting the israeli regime during this genocide? well, i think that is the only resistance that is taking place against um the um uh state of israel uh in the north and by the hooties. uh and whatever is happening in iraq uh and um you know they uh are also at the same time trying to ensure that there's not regional

chaos that the war doesn't spread uh and um provide some support to the people of the the palestinian people but you know the the reality is that uh unless some military force uh like the egyptians or other arab states take action against uh the the israel forces uh in gaza to stop them uh this genocide will continue and they will continue to slaughter because they have the full backing of the west their sugar dadies in the west the western leaders who are supporting them and so there is no uh there is no opposition in gaza to what they're doing. uh and they will continue to do that, and obviously um the the palestinian people are putting up stiff resistance uh for the last four months, but

you know they are a lightly on... uh militia up against one of the most powerful militaries backed by uh the united states and united kingdom world superpower so uh they they can only do what they have the capacity to do okay but nobody else is stepping in and not even you know some of the other countries in the region the hootis obviously are taking action but others are not even taking imposing sanctions and some are even as you said trading and and oil is being supplied via azerbaijan and turkey and other countries to to the state of israel. yeah well really quick 30 seconds we don't have much time sub chef about that these countries because actually the spokesman for hamas tonight he talked about uh the uae he talked about

jordan he talked about all the country. india, all the countries that are helping the zinanis regime get in their supplies on the land and he's asking the people to block these supply lines and to stand up to their governments. 30 seconds, final comments. there's lots of these regimes are involved, especially like jordan. jordan today, the the king of jordan released a video showing he is air dropping aid to gaza. i can't believe that while the whole supplies. coming through jordan to the zin entity militarily or food, it slize the turkish as well, erdogan say a statement, but de facto they are supporting this entity, the its root of supplies of energy, lot of countries involved that, the people have have to move and to block these regimes and have to revolt against these regimes because so sorry we're out of time, i appreciate you both being with us from

brussels author west asia. expert and jahangir mohammed director center for muslim affairs out of manchester and thank you viewers for being with us on another spotlight, i'm marza hashimi, hope to see you right here next time, goodbye. لك عريس جديد ويا محمد ارتاح ارتاح ويا محمد ارتاح ارتاح ارتاح واحنا نواصين شاهد دياليك شاهديك حبيب الله والشهيد حبيب الله والشهيد حبيب الله والشهيد حبيب الله لا اله الا الله لا اله الا الله الله

the headlines and press tv, israel intensifies its deadly strikes on gaza's southern city of rafa, ahead of a plan to ground assault in the city where nearly one and a half million palestinians. have sought refuge. the un issues a stern warning about the possible israeli ground offensive in rafa as international criminal court vows to investigate any crimes committed in gaza. and the international monetary fund and the world bank are raising the alarm over the global economic repercussions of the ongoing us- israely aggression on the gaza strip.