is 1.3% and. well the us israelity genocidal war in gaza of continues for the 145th day with the death doll nearing 30,00. us president had few words to say about a truce deal that's being discussed, looking on some ice cream, he said that there will be atris by monday. all this goes flat against what hamas political bureau chief ofia has said, and also the hamas rep in lebanon osama hamdan. in this edition of the spotlight we will look at the genocidal war and how nothing has prevented civilian.

killings from the icj to protest to a possible true deal, a genocide made possible by the us providing the israeli regime with bombs and missils. first let me introduce our guests for this edition of the spotlight. john phoenix journalist and international relations expert joins us from london. also joining us is nicholas davis, independent journalist and author who joins us from miami. welcome to you both. "if i may start with you, john phoenix, when we take a look at what's happening in gaza, it's quite incredible and shocking uh that we're approaching uh 30,00 in terms of the death tool, 145 days now, and just in the past 24 hours over 100 palestinians have been murdered, um, what do you think about the fact that nothing is preventing the genocide from uh stopping? well, it's just just make it clear that the the main factor of the..."

support for the israeli army genocide in gaza is obviously the american government, if the united states wanted to end this massacer, want to end this genocide, you only had to pressure the israelis and stop the sending daily emition and daily support for the israelis in fact the the clear now from the reports that even the from the last, i think 26th of december till now did not after the ccj stop killing the palestinians you know so the only brush can actually stop designing this entity killing more palestinians is the is the americans because in the other hand you have the neighboring arab regimes was actually as clear now from what happening 145 days the are obviously american public to

cannot take any decision, they fail even to to to actually smuggle, not even deliver smuggle glass of water to the palestinians who are starving in gaza, especially the north of gaza, obviously no feed food at all, we were driving dead on the north because of the the lack of food and medicine and and and water, they starvation became woman now and hand of the israelis because they make it clear as one of their member of the parliament said if we stop them they will be able to come and give us information about hamas so it's actually intent to start people to this so out of this misery is only the americans the government who are sponsoring this massacar sponsoring the genocide sure sure well let's talk a little bit more on the humanitarian level before we get into the american complicity should say, and nicholas

davis, when you take a look at for example, the un organizations, um, you had a recent incident on february the fifth where uh, the israeli regime forces fired at the un convoy that was carrying vital supplies of food for the starving palestinians, um, and uh, at the same time the regime forces, they blocked these trucks and uh, that has led many to say food is being used as a weapon of war, um, so so much so that the the humanitarian organizations are saying, we're not going to be... to function in the gaza strip as as it is, it's been uh, it's been almost impossible. um, why do you think israel is using food as a weapon of war? auguster talked about how it wants to extract information on hamas, but is that the only reason? well, well, no, of course not, and and i mean, this is, this is an integral part of why the icj uh, has essentially accepted that this is case of genocide. um, because

clearly the the intent is to completely destroy gaza and kill thousands of civilians. this is not what the americans like: to call collateral damage, the these are actually the targets, under whatever pretext the israelies come up with, the goal is to make gaza uninhabitable and to inflict so much death and destruction and shear terror on the people of gaza that eventually israel will be able to push them out into egypt or... just out into the desert, um, so so yeah, no, none the pretexts cited um have any validity whatsoever, this is genocide, pure and simple. you talked about the us assistance, john phoenix, maybe you could expand a little

bit more about how vast uh this is, i mean we have at some point uh former or pentagon spokesman said that the security assistance continues to arrive a near daily basis. to the israeli regime, um, throughout this time, the us is saying, not throughout this time really, but in the past month or so, that it's telling it says it's telling israel to really watch out for the civilian casualties, but it continues to supply israel not just sporadically, but almost a daily basis, if not daily, um, how much of a contributing factor is that to the genocide taking place? well, from the beginning of genocide, from the october when the american... actually noted that the israeli skill civilians, they did not actually stop the israelis killing civilians, they actually deny the figures, if you remember biden said, i do not just believe hamas figures, this figures was

coming from united nation and other independent organization who saying they civilian being targeted, houses been demolaged, children and women being killed, hundreds of kids under the rivers, so the americans knows that there is, when i say americans, i mean the american government, they knows that they is targeting deliberately civilians, that's explain why they, i mean that's obviously explain why the you have 8,800 women you know killed, 700 children, so 75% of the casuality in gaza. "the are civilians and under the vtext of fighting hamas, there is no hamas to fight, i don't see the logic that israel is by buming houses and killing civilians, it's fighting hamas, 65% of the houses in gaza destroyed a

total of 80%, the rest of the figure houses you cannot return to, had to be demoniged and rebuilt, so the clear that..." "the american government is not only aiding the part of that because they are not only sending women's daily to the israelis, they have actually storage in nag desert which is been there for years and years every time they fort hamas in gaza, they attack the palestinians in gaza, they storage is full, but in this time the tole of the..." for it taking longer than 33 days last time or or or 25 days the time before, this now nearly six months, so the israelies need a supply and americans happy to supply them to palestinians. now you're talking about the issue of ra, they've been attacking actually

on the ages of ra, they killed people yesterday, they bomb houses of rafa, so the media knew that no they're stubbing now because of ramadan you know they're not attacking. rafah, they actually attacking houses in rafah and the sad thing to see yesterday when the jordanian after all this brusher and be exposed actually aiding the zionist and sending food, they dropped some some food yesterday and ended up in the sea, the poor people want to the sea to to actually collected, they be shot at by his neighbors, so you mentioned about the trucks, there is no need to send, there is no point sending a trucks to gaza. where palestinians, civilians cannot reach it, there is never everywhere, this trucks had to be aided by international force to be able to deliver deliver this to the civilians, otherwise you can have food in the street and you cannot reach to it, sure, but let's talk about this

self emilation that has taken place in nicholas davis, which i'm sure you're aware of, when you take a look at what has happened, the depth of this is not really uh being reflected by us officials, especially the us president i mean we're looking at this up his life for the genocide and the slaughter that's taking place, but the fact that he did that in addition to the fact that he was. military person um points to whether it the genocide has reached a degree where you have american public to have actually be awakened to the point where one of them this uh um brave aaron bush now went and self-imalated and killed himself because of that. has the awareness gotten to that point? yes, and and i would add first that um the us role is not limited to provide. weapons um the right at the beginning they sent a us

marine general james glynn who took part in the us virtually genocidal destruction of mosul and before that of faluja in iraq to help the israelis plan this whole operation and there are us military personnel in israel continuing to do that continuing. to work with the israelis to help them to use these us weapons to kill more palestinians. i heard yesterday, but a friend of a friend who works in florida here for a company called l3 harris who um his friend believes it is currently in israel because l3 harris um helps to build the the so-called iron dome israeli and you know missile defense system. so there are american technicians in israel working to maintain the the weapons that are

sold there and there are intelligence officials and senior military officers helping israel to plan and target these weapons on civilians in gaza. now when it comes to uh aaron bushnell, since october, i believe, he he had been under orders. um to be prepared to deploy to the middle east or to israel, so he he explicitly uh, you know, was was implicated, the the the air force unit that he works with, was on deck to to be sent to the middle east to take part in this war, um, so you know, he, probably more than most americans uh, felt complicit because actually in fact he is implicit his the air

force that he is part of is part of the war and um so but mean i i thought his statement on facebook before he did this was just incredibly eloquent he said he said how many times have we all asked ourselves what would we do if you know we were alive at the time of of slavery of african-americans in in america, or if we were, in in germany taking part in the genocide or or or hearing about the genocide that that their country was committing, and he said, well, we don't have to wonder anymore, he said, every one of you can now answer the question, what are you doing while your country is committing? genocide and the answer is obviously for most americans, it is little or nothing or even

even actually supporting it, so that is that is the answer to the question, and i mean i had a conversation with somebody yesterday talked about how terrible trump is, and i said, well, you know, biden, biden is, how can, how right? anybody be worse than a president who is committing genocide? well, we're looking at another um instance that we can make a comparison here, john phoenix to go along the same topic, and uh, that is uh, back in 2003 where you had rachel cory, i don't know if you recall uh what she did at that point, and i'm going to refer to what she said then, i think it's a good idea for us all to drop everything and devote our lives to making this stop, i don't think it's an extremist thing to do anymore, fast forward to 2024 with aron bush, now compared to what... have been experiencing in palestine at the hands of their colonizers, this is not extreme at all. you have these

two instances happened, but yet you as politicians, joe biden um, you know, he's not made really any, not really, he hasn't made any reaction or statements on what has happened, um, why do you think uh, this has been the case, and why do you think all these years you still are getting the silence from the us government on people who are sacrificing themselves for causes that they believe in like this? well, if you look at the case of rishi when she was in gaza, the way she was killed that she was try to stop a buldoser. destroying house and the driver actually drove over her, it was clear that she was shouting, make it clear that she's in front of him, he ignore here warning to him and managed to kill her, now the not only that the soldier killed her, when the family decided to take the army to court, the

american officials were siding with the israelis against an american city. seas you know it take maybe six seven meetings with the the series tel aviv and it was clear that the american officials especially from the american embassy taking the side of the israelis, the only crime she committed that she tried to protect a family where she stayed actually having to stay in in few houses in gaza to help the palestinian refugees and that's what happened, so obviously the american government had a barage of threat and pressure from the z slav, not to side with the victims, side with israel, and that's what happened, it was a clear that ak was working hard to be sure that the israel will not be invited and that

crime, sure, well, we we are looking now at what's been uh coming out uh from paris, the news that has now been uh um spread in the past couple days regarding a possibility of a truth which the're differing signals the divisiveness between what the americans have said even uh the qataris and what hamas and the resistance has said nicholas davis i'd like to get your reaction to it because on the one hand uh joe biden and i can't believe that they actually uh i mean it doesn't look good when the president is uh is uh looking ice cream and answering reporters talking about palestinians and it just doesn't look good um correct me if i'm wrong but he said that there's a deal on monday uh and yet you have hamas that came out hours later practically and said that there's still large gaps may main kind of the same type of reaction that hamas had to the previous truths tell us what you think about what's

out there regarding this uh so-called truce that's in the works yes absolutely i mean this this is being going on for weeks uh that the us um will will come out with saying that you know there is some sort of deal on the table - but when you when you look at the details uh it it's clear that that that that that there isn't and that that you know i mean essentially they they are trying to impose on hamas an agreement. in which uh hamas would release the israeli hostages in exchange for a temporary truth and then the the bombing and israeli assault would recommence um and clearly i mean hamas has clearly rejected that over and over and over

again and and hamas demands what the whole world is demanding. which is an actual ceasefire, an end to the genocide, and i mean the us is complicit also in in fostering a view of this whole crisis that um, that implies a reciprocity between the actions of hamas on october the 7th, and and israel's um... is israel's genocide and war crimes and in fact the secretary general of the un was absolutely explicit um in introducing one of the one of the un security council sessions uh where the which the us eventually vetoed um and he said yes we condemn what hamas did

on october the 7th but israel's obligation under international humanitarian law are independent of whatever happened on october the 7th, and they do not depend any kind of reciprocity. we are talking about enforcing international law, enforcing the genocide convention. it does, in terms of stopping genocide, it actually does not matter what hamas did, because they do not provide, what hamas did? not provide legit cannot provide legitimate pretext for genocide, right? well, it seems like throughout the questions that i've asked and the responses that i've gotten, can't escape uh the role that the us uh has played john phoenix in this and uh the us itself was uh focus of the most recent g20 meeting that was held in brazil uh so much so

that the brazilian president came out talked about the us role there and actually then uh made the focus of the g20 in some sense the reform of the un because uh the brazilian president and uh um other officials that were present there aside from looking down at the us have said this is where the un has failed, it needs to be reformed, we've heard that before about the un being reformed, but here is a clear example of how bad things can go, what do you think about nothing to have at this point prevented the genocide uh from stopping? well, can i just highlight one thing before i answer the question, you sound like little best of brighs about the icy cream incident, you know, mean you're talking to about a resident who is actually uh forget what he ate in the morning, when he came to the media and talking about genocide, he knows about the issue killing civilians, starvation, and he's eating ice cream, which

is insult, that remind me of the when i watch the general list and one of the the nazi officers attacking old lady and the other officers laughing, you know, this is really disgusting to see a president of united states talking about issue which is killing genocide starvation and eating ice cream, that is really a shame, but do not really obviously blame him, mean he just mentioned that he metran in the conference in france with mit died 30 years ago, he called ces prison of mexico, so do not blame him for that please, yeah in regard to brazil, not only brazil even algeria. public decision, motion that this genocide should be stopped, you know, because there's no end to this cycle. israelis have a free hand, they know

that the americans will v to any decision, now talking about the reform of united nation, and i mean anybody can ask the same question is how come 30 countries, 40, 120 countries would take decision to stop a genocide, and then one country... can override this decision, surely we need to have a reform where other countries who are not sitting there like sheeps, you know, and four countries in control of the united nation, you know, so it is really time for reform and time for other countries to have it say on international affairs. okay, thank you very much, we're going to have to add in there, let me thank john phoenix, journalist and international relations expert, and thank you, nicholas davis, independent journalist and author from miami, with that we come to an end for this. edition of the spotlight from the team, it's goodbye. a diming report

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today in the studio we are joined by one of the members of the political bureau of the palestinian islamic jihad movement, ali abu shahin. since the israeli aggression, there has been no safe place in gaza. the world today is saying enough is enough. the american administration is a part of this aggression under the pretext of slogans of democracy and confronting dictatorship.

two major hospitals in northern gaza stop services due to fuel and medical shortages as israel's onslot takes a toll on the health sector. israel continues to use food as a weapon of war against palestinians, causing six infants to die of severe malnutrition in gaza, and a german naval frigate mistakenly opens fire on american mq9 reaper drone over the red sea nearly shooting it down.