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depressive headlines: more than 100 palestinians are killed on the 136th day of the israely genocidal war on gaza. the international court of justice of the hag holds the first day of hearings on israel's occupation of palestinian lands and in a letter to the un chief iran urges the world body to stop israely massacker of the palestinian people in the southern gaza city of rafa.
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hello everyone, it's midnight in the bessieg gaza strip, you're watching press tv, world news. the israeli regime continues pounding the gaza strip 136 days into the regime's onslot on the palestinian territory. 107 more palestinians were killed in the past day. according to the gaza health ministry, majority of casualties were civilians killed by israeli air strikes, including 30 people in the town of alzaweda. four more people died in rafa. from another israeli air strike and to the south 16 people were killed and khan unis where alnaster hospital is located. hospital has been severely damaged and many of its staff members abducted. meanwile israely artillery continues to bombard eastern parts of the city of darbala. israely genesidel war so far killed more than 29,00 palestinians and injured 69,00 others. israel regime is... is still committing atrocities
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against the besieged gaza strip with american maid weapons, endless number of bombs has of been raining on the strip for more than four successive months with gaza's health sector admitting in tremendous number of the palestinian casualties. once should take into account the gaza medical infrastructure which is devastated due to 17 years of siege and also the systematic israely attacks that besides the delayed permissions issued for the injured palestinians in need of... travelling outside gaza strip has exacerbated the already catastrophic conditions, we fled our house in alburaji camp to daral balah 40 days ago, we were targeted in the house for no reason, many members of the family got killed over the attack, my father was among those injured, as you can see he has severe burns all over his body, we're still waiting for the permission to travel abroad to... get
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the needed medical care, we appeal to whoever is able to help us get permission for my father to travel, his condition is critical of and i don't want to lose him. according to gaza's health ministry, hundreds of injured palestinians including men, women and children lost their lives due to that delay, while thousands are facing eminent death due to serious once they sustained in israely attacks. even those who managed to survive have one or more of their. amputated: the number of the injured palestinians is four times the capacity of hospitals and this number is dramatically increasing over the constant israeli air strikes. we have at least 11,000 people injured in the gaza strip. only in this hospital, 2,100 need an urgent permission to travel. the main obstacle is that receiving the approval for any case could take days or weeks. as a result, many might lose their life while waiting. for the permission, we demand all
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relevant parties to set more effective mechanisms that help to rescue the people here. it's not worthy that the problem also includes the palesina patients with the chronic diseases and those in need of urgent surgeries. i am dr. khalid al-said working at the alaxa marters hospital since 2001. at the start of this aggression, i felt pain in my right leg. i found that my ordinaries were... 80% blocked. knowing that i made diabetic patient, my fellows told me that i needed an urgent permission to travel abroad to undergo a surgery before my health deteriorated and had my leg amputated. i have contacted and appealed all relevant parties to hasten the permission, because time is really decisive, and as you can see, i have been waiting for the permission for about two months with no response. having a brush with the people inside any health facility in gaza strip is enough. enough to wrench your heart when you
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see the injured children and their parents imploring for travel permission. now the question for the palestinians in the beseged gaza strip remains answered that. "who bears the responsibility for this delay that threatens the life of many injured palestinians in gaza strip?" breast tv, the central area of gaza strip. remember the islamic jihad movement has held what he calls "unprecedented losses inflicted on israely forces by the palestinian resistance movements." despite. its limited military equipment, the palestinian resistance has inflicted heavy losses on the israeli enemy, part of which the regime has admitted, the israeli regime struggles to underreport its losses in order to keep the soldiers and settlers spread up, the more israely assaults against the palestinian nation and the gaza
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strip, the more losses the regime will suffer. in exclusive interview with press tv, ali abu shah, he said that is regime is unable to hide the casualties that suffered in gaza, member of the political bureau of the islamic jihad rejected israely allegations that resistance uses as hospitals as operation headquarters. he said regime levels such allegations to justify bombardment of mosks and health centers. ali abu shahi said fact regime forces invaded hospitals and found no resistance fighters reveals the palestinian movements do not use civilian infrastructure for military operations. the top un court at the heg has open public hearings on the legal consequences of israel's occupation of palestinian territories, addressing the tribunal palestine's envoy to the un, so the international law has never protected palestinians. israeli leaders no longer feel
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the need to hide their intentions. they speak openly of getting rid of... one way or another, they defy the law, and the law is barely fighting back. for palestine, the law continues to be only measure of the severity of breaches, rather than a catalyst for action and accountability. what does international law me? for palestinian children in gaza today, it has protected neither them, nor their child, it has not protected their families or communities, it has not protected their lives or limbs, their
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hopes or homes. people have faced attempts to push him. their lands for 75 years, he demanded palestine occupation come to immediate and legal representative of the state of palestine focus on the consequences of israel's many breaches of international law. for almost 57 years despite the repeated appeals of the general assembly and the security council of the un and numerous other international organizations with the ngos or governmental, israel has obstantly stuck to its policy of oppression and discrimination against the palestinian people in breach of the most fundamental principles of international law, and by its practices has
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continually exacerbated the situation with the unconcealed objective of making impossible the realization of the palestinian people's. to self-determination, over 50 states, including iran will participate in the oral proceedings before the international court of justice, at the request of the un general assembly, the icj will then issue a non-binding advisory opinion on israeli occupation. last month, court issued a provisional ruling in a case brought by south africa against israel as well. it called on israel to cease all activities that could constitute genocide in god. however, according to the un special reporter, israel appears to be in breach of that order. activists and lawyer kim shadif says a case is against israely occupation and genocide at the international court of justice have exposed the hypocrisy of the regime's allies.
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the actions of the state of south africa, which is admirable, has brought uh... the uh core issues of what's really going on into the attention of the world and it's actually exposing the hypocrisy of the the countries that were previously claiming to be upholding the... of law under the international fora which they went and on the contrary they're actually aiding and abeting genocide, there is no issue no no doubt that this is genocidal campaign, this is a systematic extermination of a specific group of people, which is horrific type of crimes against humanity, and wst there may be issues and debates and considerations about how do we enforce the ultimate ruling of the court at? and uh how we go about doing that, that's another day's discussion, but the fact that the case was brought so hastily and with
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ample evidence and brought it to the court with the most formidable team of legal experts who have done an excellent job, i've watched the whole in the entire proceedings and i was very pleased to see such top level advocates were dealing with matter and since the court has accep accepted that there is a primaphacy case to answer for the charge of genocide. "i think we can sit back and say, yes, there is hope that uh, there is going to be a change in the international uh platform in terms of upholding the rule of law equally to all peoples of the world. iran's foreign minister was called on the united nations attacks swiftly and resolutely to stop israely massacring more palestinians in gaza. in letter to the un chief hussain emmy abdullah, he answered that israeli crimes in gaza cannot be described as anything but genocide." he warn any israeli ground invasion of the densely populated southern city of rapa will be another phase in this
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campaign of genocide. the topuranian diplomat added the vast trail of death and destruction in gaza is testament to a premeditated israeli plot to exterminate an entire nation. am abdullah hyan said israel is also depriving palestinians of food, water, humanitarian aid and other essential resources to make gaza unlivable and force. palestinians off their land. alexander dugin challenges the western capitalism and the unipolar world. he says the world has moved away from the western subjugation and countries like iran, russia, china and turkey have stood up against the domination. listen to the russian political philosophers. arguments in this documentary,
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welcome back everyone, you're watching press tv, world news, a group of un human rights experts expressed serious concerns over a report revealing assault against palestinian women and girls in israeli detention, group of lawyers from the human rights council, the palestinian female detaines have been subjected to multiple forms of sexual assault with at least two of them being raped. they say photos uploaded by the israeli army have shown the detainees in degrading circumstances. the group of un lawyers has also expressed concerns about unknown number of palestinian women and girls in gaza and occupied west bank who've gone missing after contact with israely soldiers. group of un experts is called for an independent and thorough probe into these allegations. and occupied west bank is really forces
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intensified raids and illegal detention of palestinians. moncandel has your story. the israeli uh military rates to palestinian areas had become common everyday the israeli forces the storm palestinian villages, towns, cities all across the... occupied west bank, the israeli justification or excuse is always the same to detain palestinians, members of the resistancy groups, palestinian fighters, palestinian activists, anyone who's against the israeli military and the israeli regime. this morning the israeli forces had arrested 25 palestinians during military raids to the town of kober north ramallah. the israelis had also rated almasaif near ramalah. this
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refugee camp south ariha and the israels had also stormed the village of qabatia south genine and they remained there for over five hours. during these five hours 40 palestinians had been detained from the town of qabatye and they were interrogated and questioned in the village of course we are speaking about interrogation about difficult situation about the storming palestinian homes early on monday and and at the night hours after the interrogation, the majority of those 40 were released, however number of them had been detained and taken by the israeli forces in order to be held in israeli jails. the israelies had detained over 7,100 palestinians since the 7th of october,
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according to palestinian commission of prisoners affairs. the eminy army says is carried out an operation against two us vissel vessels pardon in the gulf of aiden. army spokesperson says ships named a sea champion and navy's fortuna were hit with missiles. yah sadi said the four military operations were performed by the yemini forces in the past 24 hours. first hit a british vessel in the gulf of aiden which resulted in this ship sinking. second shot down a hostel american drone over the port of hodeda. the military officials stressed armill cont continue to target british and american vessels in response to attacks by them against yemen and in solidarity with palestinians and yet another operation against western interest and support of palestinian in warton gaza, the spokesman for the yemeni army announced the successful targeting of the british vessel roby mar in
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the gulf of aiden with naval missiles. the reprisal operation resulted in damage and complete sessation. the naval forces of the yemani armed forces with the help of god carried out a military operation targeting a british ship in the gulf of aden, rubimar, with number of appropriate naval missiles. the results of the operation were the following. the ship was seriously damaged, causing it to stop completely. as a result of the extensive damage the ship suffered, it is now at risk of sinking in the gulf of aden. during the operation, we made sure that the ship's crew. exited safely. the yemani army also shut down an american mq9 drone in hodeda while it was engaged in hostile actions against the arab country. experts interpret this operation as message to the us and the uk that yemeni naval operations will continue until israel ends its genocidal war in gaza. the military operations carried out
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by the yemani naval forces and their targeting of american ships and drones will not stop unless the aggression against. the brothers in gaza stops. this is new victory for the yemani army. indeed, we are not strong in the face of the world, but we trust that god is the one who supports us. hemen is have asserted that the retaliatory operations will not end as long as the gaza war and all outtu is support for israels continue since the start of the israeli military campaign against the gaza strip, the yemani army has conducted naval operations against israeli bound vissils. in solidarity with the palestinians, they have also launched numerous ballistic missiles against the occupied territories of palestine. observers say the american designation of the ansarullah movement as a terrorist group has not succeeded in halting the yemani army's naval operations. they believe that the us and the uk will eventually come to realize that talting the israeli genocide in gaza is the only way to protect their interest in the
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volatile region. reporting for press tv, sanaa. "the situation remains volatile along the southern lebanese border where his bullet resistance movement in israel have been engaged an almost daily exchange of fire since early october. hez fighters have targeted several israeli military sites as regimes attacked industrial town of gazia, far from lebanon's southern border. earlier we were joined by our beirot correspondent madiam sal for your details. well today later the afternoon we have..." "the exchanges of fire began pretty late, we saw that there were three operations for the resistance, mainly we had an operation using appropriate weapons as hazbullah said against the post of berkatrisha, they also targeted two posts in the labanese occupied shiba farms, ramta and sumaka specifically, those posts were also
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targeted by the resistance, but the israelis uh seemed to be doing things differently today, they were focused." more in their shelling used airplanes instead of artillery artillery fire, which is usually how they shell the southern towns and villages and there was a lot of heavy shelling in the towns of yarin, albustan and also some other areas infarkela as well, but the biggest and most major development today was the israeli sling in industrial site in the town of aziye which is just south of the town of syden and that is city which is the first city in south lebanon, it's very basically relatively far away from the border, it's closer to the capital beirot, and this is why it came as a shock to many, it's... especially since the last time there was a strike that was near siiden but it targeted a specific vehicle uh this time we're talking about targeting a whole site and that areas known to be
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industrial site there are several factories some media have said that we had there was an or factory other media have said that the factory one of the factories was that for motors for generators electricity generators and another one which had lot of fuel in it and so therefore this is why it caused also all of this bombing and it was lot of explosions were heard near the towns of and and saiden and many people of course were terrible. as a result of that we don't have exact numbers when it comes to the casualties yet, but it definitely is considered major development that will not be taken lightly by the resistance since it does go beyond the scope of the rules of engagement. thousands of people hit the streets of the canadian city of calgary to condemn israel's genocide in gaza. they also call for sanctions and an arms embargo against the regime. our
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correspondent robert ingakesh reports from calgary. as the assault on gaza escalates again with the death toll since october 7 nearing 3ous pro-palestinian protests are gaining momentum in canada. during nationwide rallies, protesters criticized prime minister justin trudeau for his inaction. palestinians deserve to remain on their land, to live on their land. we are not looking for an evacuation of palestinians into the sinai desert, which is what uh, the zianist entity is trying to do right now with raffa's specifically to push them out. um, so the urgency of the situation is, to ensure that palestinians can live and and live freely on their own land uh without the bombardment of setler colonization and the israeli invasion the sovermost city of gaza, the people of calgary take to the streets joining cities
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across canada, calling on their government to take measures to stop israel's genocide of the palestinian people. i'm here to ask for seizfire right now, um, enough is enough, it has been taking a long time for for our government to stand up and and force fire, this is not the right way to do it, uh uh, we have to get uh arms embargo. i'm a loss for words to be honest, but what's going on, it's the end of the line, it's a death camp, and we want to again pressure our politicians, pressure our communities, hands off rough. although the government of canada has called for a ceasefire, demonstrators noted that since october ottawa has approved 28.5 million dollars of military exports to israel, they see this along with the refusal the canadian government to call the assault
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on gaza, genocide, tant amount to a stab in the back of the public's demands. robert and lakesh, press tv, calgary. forum minister is in the sri lankan in capital colombo on an official visit aimed at boosting bilateral ties. was officially welcomed by the sri lankan minister of state for foreign affairs upon arrival in the south asian country in a social media post uh just before is departurean said the boosting ties throughout various sectors including trade, economy and technology will top the agenda of his visit a top iranian diplomat met with the ambassador of sri lanka to iran just before leaving tehron. that's it for your latest here on press tv everyone, thanks for tuning in and bye-bye for now.
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how did zionists come from across the world to palestine to occupy a land belonging to another nation? how do they form their secret army hagana? how do they grab lands belonging to palestinians? how did they build and expand their illegal settlements? israel's former prime minister goldomir answers these and more questions in this documentary.
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now entering its fourth day, we're looking at some.
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hello and welcome to press tv spotlight, i'm marizia hashhim, thanks so much for being
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with us, well..." on monday, the international court of justice started public hearings about the israeli regime, which had been requested by the united nations general assembly in december of 2022. now, the court was asked to look... into the legal consequences related to the regime's policies and practices in the occupied palestinian territories of the west bank, gaza and east jerusalem. the question of the day is, will this hearing make a difference for palestinians in the occupied territories, or is it just more hupla from the international community? well, i'd like to welcome my guests to the program. alfred das, former secretary of... the un human rights council out of geneva and kim sharif activist and lawyer out of london. well, thank you both for being with me. i like to start this off
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in geneva with alfred. your perspective, how significant is this hearing on the israeli occupation? personally, i believe that every hearing before. for the international court of justice creates presidents and it is important to show that uh there is opposition, worldwide opposition to the war that israel is waging all the palestinians and in the manner in which this war is being waged, which is certainly genocidal. now for your listeners, and viewers, you should understand that there are several proceedings in progress, the hearings of today that will go on all week and next week monday,