elijah on gaza has impacted the region, it of has kind of a spread, you know that resistance fighters have not been sitting idol aby, they haven't performing their own rital operations. now we're talking about the hezbollah in this episode more, hezbolah is one of them, and it seems that some analysts maintain that even if the war in gaza stops the tension between tel aviv and hisbollah could linger on, do you agree with that, and if so, where could that end up in? thank you for having me, sure. i'm not sure that israel can afford to see the war continuing on the lebanese borders because of the hezbulah capability that has manifested in the last four and a half months and we have seen how hisbullah gradually used sophisticated missiles, drones, heavy rockets and prove the k capability of selecting specific and

precise military targets all along the 100 to 110 kilometers all along the lebanese borders. moreover we have seen also drones going more than 90 kilometers inside palestine, the bypassing even hifa and we have seen how the hezbullah bombarded the golan hight safar. and other targets showing that it can keep up with the israeli challenge, however, what has been introduced recently was the anti-air missiles that drove the israeli totally out of their balance, when the drone, the hermes 450 that can fly up to 20,000 feet was down by the hizbullahi anti-air unit, this is why hizbullah is showing, its military capability and is

hiding even much more, the hisbullah started the war and hizbullah is saying that is ready to f it. israelis are only saying that they will continue if the diplomatic mediation has failed or will fail in convincing hisbollah to stop the war. therefore it is always conditioned. with an element that the israelis are making sure they offer it to the audience that they really don't want to engage in all-out war immediately and have only this option even if they have instructed their people that the war will last until the beginning of the month of august. okay now of course there is this division among the israeli officials uh we know about that and uh we have some radical one of some like the

israely war minister ufgallan saying that there will be no decline in his words in israely action against hisbollah even if these f is agreed upon in gaza and we'll talk about this file later in the show so uh do you share the same view as elijah? talking about um what is happening especially what you galant said i think you've heard yalan say the same thing in uh the first se fire that i was announced in the war on gaza, i think it was the first uh, after the first month and a half, and i think that it was not necessarily message towards his own people as much as it was some sort of message towards the internal lebanese society by trying to threaten them not to go back to their houses, in the event that there was a ceasfire uh announced, because uh even if seas fire gets hold of fanon as well, after it gets all of

gaza, the zionist israeli settlers will not of go back to their settlements, and the reason why is that they have made it clear that they will not go back even if a cease spire is made with lebanon because they don't feel safe, this is what they are saying, so yaavkaland is trying somehow to uh keep also the lebanese border out of, keeping the lebanese people out of the lebanes. order as well, because he knows very well, even if the seasfire takes place, the israeli settlers are not going back, because they are demanding a conclusive truth, some sort of a peace plan with lebanon, or else they will not return, and we have heard lot of issues, lot of issues being discussed about this matter over the fact that there are some political people being sent to intermediate in lebanon, especially from the united states of america, that there might be some sort of

a political solution that they might reach with designist entity, a political one rather than a military one, and hisballah said that... repeats what they keep saying, repeats what we heard hasan nasallah say since the beginning of the war on gaza up until now that hisbullah will stop when the war on gaza stops and sad hasan in his last speech he made it clear that in the event of sess fire in gaza hisballah will stop fire but if the zinist entity continues to fire hisballah will file equally in a deterrent manner the same manner that we have been seing yes it has been escalating but at very very slow pace but at the end of the day it is being confined to certain areas to certain targets and not getting involved for example with the capital or with major residential areas, despite the fact that zinis israel always bombards residence, the residential areas and claims that it is targeting hizballah depos when in reality and after the

lebanese authorities investigate they find that they are either privately owned companies or residential areas where uh literal lebanese civilians were just living. were their families there okay now uh elijah, lebanese resistance fighters uh you know they mainly targeted israeli military positions, but you see that the israeli regime has targeted residential areas in lebanon and causing the death of number of civilians there, so it's not only the gaza strip that you see is to live is disregard is everywhere for civilian lives no matter where now you see this also noticeable in lebanon because it's real these are careless about civilian lives, we have seen how little importance they give to the geneva convention and to the international laws in gaza, they have done that in the past against lebanon in the many previous wars, this is why it is not

surprising when we see the israelies trying to target the lebanese civilians and trying to drag hizbullah into a wid war. this is something that hisbullah is very conscientious about and this is why hizbullah is limiting always the fight and the war in support of gaza, so the palestinian cause is always in the center of attention and bringing back the israelis to the same rules of engagement and imposing deterrance on the israelis, even if sometimes what the israel do is quite painful when they... kill civilians that are supposed to be spared, but at the end of the day the world is dealing with the most immoral army in the world, and we have seen how the israelis are behaving, have behaved in the past and are behaving today in palestine, so i am not surprised for

to see this behavior of the israelis and trying always to hit those who are the weakest in any war, right? and uh marwa, lots of people have been uh displaced uh from both sides of the border, especially uh from the israeli side, thousands of people have been displaced in this exchange of fire between the two sites as well and the iof, and uh, i remember uh, hazbella chief warning the telaviv regime just recently, maybe a couple of weeks back, that uh, if they uh, take further steps and if they move towards further escalation uh, that's what i will do something so that the you know israelis have to be uh actually forced to evacuate maybe two million is really uh close to the border so i want to ask you uh do you would you expect this in any way to turn into a full fledged war and if that happens who would be

the loser at the end of the day? um that was i think the only uh option uh that this might end up being a full-fledged war is uh directly related to the preliminary results the us elections, it has nothing to do whatsoever with what the israelis want or can do, because if it's only about the israeli capability, it is definitely a no, the answer to your question no, but we have to look at it from a wider angle, if the biden administration is not going to be able to stop donald trump from returning to power, i think the us might uh uh go ahead and in order to try and use code 606 for their own country, which means stopping uh the elections because of major war that might take place that would end up having the united states of america get involved, then yes, the answer to your question would be yes, but at the moment, reading what's

happening, looking at the regional politics, the international politics and the us politics and also diving into the internal israeli politics when you see how the protests against nathan and the war cabinet in general is escalating, people are going back to the streets same as they did before the war, because if you remember they were in the streets for like 54 to 56 weeks trying to get rid of the netanyahu government because the reform plans that they wanted to impose on their judicial system. now we are seeing a return to the protest, not with the same intensity, but it is being said that in the event that the cease fire happens, we will see protests in the streets, the same way we did before, so that's a more pressure on the israeli government to stop the war, so if it is only according to the variables that are found inside of the israeli entity, the answer is definitely not. okay, now... ja, let's now take a glince of the situation in the gaza strip and related developments there. cattery forum ministry spokesman

marstary says that doha is optimistic that the deal on the seas five will be achieved before ramadan and also we have us president joe biden hoping that this will happen by next monday, but hamas speaking of uh some big gaps to be bridged before a deal is reached. is deal around the corner in your opinion? "i think the seas fire is something that everybody wants at the moment, but what benyamin netanyahu is trying to do is to bring a goat in a farm at the last moment, because he feels in a strong position, and he feels by starving the population, by continuing the bombardment in gaza, even if he has not achieve any of the declared objectives at the beginning of the war, he can twist the..." arms of the palestinian resistance because he doesn't care about the

136 israeli prisoners, so what he's trying to do is he's trying to accommodate the american pressure, at the same time the families of the prisoners by releasing a small number, there been a talk about 40 prisoners to be released in exchange of a certain number of palestinian prisoners that has not been agreed upon yet, but at the same time, it is important to keep the muslims away from fighting during the month of ramadan, that will end also by the beginning of the jewish feast that would last for seven days on the 22nd of april, so this kind of combination, it is suitable for the israelis and for the palestinians to breathe a little bit and to have less bombardment a daily. cases against the civilians, allow the civilians to go and see what happened to their beloved one or if

they can find something still standing or perhaps have more humanitarian aid, because the israel has been violating the icj order and the international laws and committing war crimes and crimes against humanity by denying the population, the basic service, basic need, to survive and denying them water, food and electricity, so for that i think it the problem are the details of the deal, and netanyahu is trying to squeeze as much as possible to give less concession and to offer himself as a good negotiator to his people and at the same time plan to continue the war on gaza after the seas far. now marwan, you know that natan has also threatened to launch

this military assault on rafa and you know what the situation is raffa like more than million palestinians have been forced into displacement there and some of them are being starved to death another weapon that unfortunately israel is using apart from all those you know us made weapons and all that that they are using against them they are also being starved to death dying of some preventable diseases so uh netanyahu is just saying that the attack on rafa will happen, definitely, that's for sure, and a possible uh cease fire deal would only postpone it, so let's have your assessment of the situation, i think that he means it, and i think that the biden administration, despite the fact that they keep saying that they don't like it, they would see a catastrophe coming out of it, or that they have many times asked the israeli and... entity not to harm any civilians while the arafah operation is

underway, they did not tell the israeli entity they're not allowed to initiate any sort of ground invasion or air invasion against rafah, which means that the united states of america actually gave the green light for such horrific operation that might end up in a second vase of the genocide that we witnessed before and we are still witnessing massacers that come out of this genocide, so i think that ' um, if there is something that would stop netanyahu, it would have to be some sort of internal pressure or elevated resistance coming from palestine in specific and the... taxes of resistance by default, but if netanyahu is to break the ceasefire, which is also a possibility, because we saw how the the first part of the paris talks just went down the drain because felt like it and decided that he wants to finish off with khan units and probably start something, but was then stopped by the americans for the sol purpose of approaching

ramadan and what ramadan means, the whole month of ramadan means for all muslims and especially the muslims of... palestine who would go and pray in alaxa and not allowing them or continuing the genocide during the month would only elevate and escalate the situation against the entire axis of resistance, but in case netanyahu decides to break the cease fire or wait till until the seas fire which supposedly according to certain sources coming from egypt and qatar that it would be around 45 to 50 days, if he's going to wait 45 to 50 days and then relaunch that attack on uh rafah, i think the first thing that he would be doing is pushing the uh current displaced people, the refugees in rafah north either to gaza or northern than that, but under the condition that he's been stating several times right now, whether in the science media or elsewhere, that he will not allow men to go with the women and the children and the elderly, so i think what

we saw in the northern part of gaza where the israeli entity occupation forces entered forcefully with. and what not to uh basically just incarcerate everyone there, including the paramedics and the doctors and the nurses and everyone involved in helping directly helping the civilians will happen again in rafa and he might take advantage of this 40 to 50 days truce to maybe let off some of the civilians who will either accept going back to the north under certain conditions or completely leaving into the sinai desert in either way. okay, elijah, how do you look at this, what's going to become of raffa? i don't think the israelis can afford not to occupy rafah, because benyamin netanyaho have said already that he has still four hamas battalion to deal with in the area of rafa,

however he needs to look after the 1979. agreement with the egyptians, because he's not allowed to put more than four battalions on the borders with egypt, that will require a lot of effort, international effort and pressure from the americans, nevertheless the resistance can never be defeated, because we have seen how he claimed to have occupied the north and occupied the middle, but occupying is something and controlling something else, the resistance is still... bombarding the israeli settlement from the north, the israelis are still bombing the north with their terrory and airplane, which means that there is a still significant resistance in the north and he is still engage in kanyunis, therefore everything he's saying is just to keep the battle as long as possible, allowing

him to sort out his domestic affairs and make sure that "there is no strong appetite for a very early election where he is going to be accountable for all the mistakes that he did according to the israeli society on the 7th of october and also the corruption charges, therefore it is not a promenade that is going to go to rafah because the palestinian resistance is still strong, moreover, the international community, although they are finding excuses..." for israel saying you need to displace 1.5 million internally displaced palestinians from rafah, it is not that easy to send an army operating on the ground with so many civilians around, even if he doesn't care a lot about civilians, so between what he's saying and what he can do, there is a still a huge gap, and this is why

the seas fire will allow him to reorganize himself or perhaps... "something new can be presented during the time of the cease fire when longer negotiation can be presented and available and that can relieve both sides. okay, that's all the time we have. let me thank my guest, elijah magner, journalist and analyst in brussels.man journalist, polic analyst and my colleague at press tv in beirout. and thank you for watching this edition of the spotlight. i've been your host and i'll see you next time.

it seems the israeli occupation will conclude the ground operation in the city of khan unis in southern gaza within days, withdrawing thereafter to the newly established security zone along the border with gaza, just as it did weeks ago in the city of gaza and its surroundings to the north. does this mean that? the next step is to begin the ground operation in rafah. it appears that the decision regarding the operation is still pending, not only for field related reasons, but lot of regional players prefer the

negotiating path to end designus aggression against gaza. hence, all eyes are now a possible improved prisoner exchange deal both in form and content, compared to the first paris formula reached between qatar, egypt, the united states and designist israeli entity last january. gaza talks underway this week on the media stream. um, well in the 1981, there was initially there was only four people ever going to be on it, um, that beg with bobby and frank and patsi and remman, and um, and then one of them died that there would be be replaced, so there's ever only ever going to be four. at one time, but in june it was decided to increase the numbers on it, so each monday someone you joined it, not because someone had died, but because we're bringing up the numbers, so i joined on the which was the

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your press of headlines a senior un official warns that at least one quarter of gaza's population is just one step away from famine amid israel's genocide in the territory. the un says is... forces are targeting aid convoys in gaza as they try to systematically block aid access to people in need. antiran slams germany's anti-iran rights allegations as feudal attempt to hide berlin's support for the occupation and the regime's campaign of genocide in gaza.