your headlines on press tv, the israelit prime minister has approved plans to invade the city of rafa and the gaza strip rejecting new cease fire proposal by hamas. the palestinian islamic jihad says the us is. sit in the israeli onslaught on gaza calling washington's limited delivery, an act of hypocrisy. and hezbollah has warned israel that the lebanese resistance movement is prepared for any escalation of hostilities by the regime. of

hello everyone, you're watching press tv live from the studios in terron. thank you for joining us. now israel's prime minister has rejected new cease fire proposal by the hamas resistance movement that included the release of the regime's captives in exchange for the release of palestinian abducties. benjamin netanyahu's office issued the statement following a war cabinet meeting in tel aviv. however, the statement said delegation would leave for qatar to discuss israel's position a potential agreement. it also said netanyahu had approved plans for a military operation rafa, the southern gaza city where more than million people are taking shelter. earlier hamas said under his proposal, the occupying israeli forces should leave gaza. hamas said his proposal also included the return of displaced palestinians to their homes and providing them with aid. the exchange of

palestinian abducties with israeli captives held in gaza was included as well. the israeli military has conducted new attacks on different locations across gaza, our correspondents in the central city of deirobala joined us earlier to give us the details. in the meantime, the israeli accubition artillery maintained its shelling towards the eastern part of. several areas of gaza strip, particularly here in their balah city and almograga neighborhood and even refugee camp, heavy uh artillery shilling reach those areas uh and that shilling actually was maintained over the night and even in jabal refugee camp and in kanyunis city the israeli artillery also maintained and continued their attacks and air strikes in the meantime the central the central areas of khanuni city and javalia refugie camp also

were hit uh relentlessly by those israeli continuous air strikes several horizontal buildings destroyed over those cruel attacks. rare shipment of food aid has arrived at the gaza strips coastline in a first after more than five months of israely onslot which is pushed the territory to the brink of famon. the eight consists of more than 200 tons of... food and water and is now being unloaded. the consignment has been sent by world center or world central kitchen charity with the help of spanish aid group open arms. the group says a second aid package is also ready sail to gaza from cyprus. the food is planned to be distributed in the nearly flatten northern gaza. the united nations has warned that a quarter of the population of the gaza strip faces starvation and the crisis is growing. that's admit persisting.

truly blockade on the territory. we've been holding an exclusive interview with the deputy leader of the palestinian islamic jihad movement. in it he details the latest seesfire plan proposed by the resistance in gaza, but cast doubt on israely willingness to reach a political settlement. let's take a of look. a new proposal was submitted which divides. the agreement, meaning that the first phase would begin, which includes the prisoner swap, and we agreed to add other elements to it, which would include a withdraw from the rashied street and the

salahaddin square, which would allow for the return or guarantee the return of the displaced to their homes in the north of the gaza strip and gazza city. the second phase, which includes the swap of the soldiers, which must include guarantees for an end of the war, an end to the aggression and an end to the ceastfire, and the third phase would include pledges to begin the reconstruction of gazza. we believe that the israeli government, because it includes number of members of the far right will not respond,

and it has maneuvered, there is maneuvering on the part of a netanyahu government in the... however said that such israel maneuvering will not lead anywhere because of palestinian steadfastness. he said the resistance is carrying out operations in areas which israel claims to have captured including in the north of the strip and in hann unes to the south. the resistance official also highlighted the us complicity in the israely genocide in gaza. take place. in this aggression, there is american agreement with israel, and the american administration is a complete accomplice with

israel despite the crocodile tears which they are shedding. so the goals are the same, but there is a disagreement regarding the priorities, the americans talk for example about sparing civilians. but the civilians are being killed with american weapons and bombs, and some of these weapons reach israel, even behind the back of the congress. hindi described as an

act of hypocrisy, the us delivery of limited aid to gaza through. air drops and temporary seaports while delivering weapons to israel, he said the us is attempting to mislead the international conscience and buy time for israel. hindi also pointed to israely threats to invade the refugee packed city of rafaah, describing them as meaningless given the large extent of israeli losses and casualties elsewhere in gaza, which he stress the regime is concealing. conomist and political analyst said shahabi tells us about the two major failures of israel since its creation, despite committing all sorts of crimes and atrocities. there are few points here: number one, israel, after 75 years of occupation has

not secured its own security. for 75 years there have been only wars, crimes, suicidal policies, they have been repeatedly criticized by international body, so on the security front, they have failed to achieve their own security, despite what is said about their sophisticated security systems and sophisticated military hardware, they have faith, this is number one, number two, the when they waged the war on hamas on and on palestine. in the last four months since october the 9th when they started their operations against the palestinians, they declared and they said that our aim is to destroy and demolish the resistance movements especially hamas, but now after four months

or five almost five months, they have failed to do it, they have not been able to defeat the resistance movement and this is what happened in the last, as i said, 75 years, they have never been able to defeat the resistance movement, on the other hand, the they have been boming the... citizens, then ordinary civilians in gaza, in sometimes in jerusalem, meanwile ground fighting rages on across the gaza strip with palestinian resistance fighters repelling attacks by israely forces. the military wing of the hamas resistance movement, the algasan brigades, says it has killed four israeli soldiers in central gaza. the group says the regime's troops were targeted while moving explosive devices to building in a zahra municipality, in a separate operation there, algasan fighters carried out rocket attacks

against five israeli mercaver tanks. the alguspurads also launched mortor shells at the gathering of regime soldiers. israel says it has lost 250 of his troops since the regime's ground invasion of gaza began in late october. palestinian groups however say the actual number of the regime's casualties is much higher and israel is hiding it to avoid public. anger. for muslims across the world, eid al-fitr, which marks one month of obedience to god in the holy fasting month of ramadan is a special feast. muslims feel festive and proud for their servitude to god. ramadan is called the month of blessings. out

of respect for the holy month, muslims put aside their differences and hostilities and forge a stronger unity. different cities and villages in iran have their own traditions for ramadan, which date back to centuries. get a glimpse of it in this document. on press tv: welcome back, the hezbollah of resistance movement warns, it is prepared for the expansion of hostilities with the israeli regime if necessary, hisballah made the comment in a statement shortly after: have responded to series of israeli attacks on his positions in southern lebanon. the movement

said it targeted the regime's military bases and gatherings of soldiers with rockets and missiles. hezbollah and israel have been exchanging fire across lebanon's southern border since the regime launched this onslaught on gaza early october. as israel continues is deadly attacks on southern lebanon and made tensions with the lebanese resistance movement hezbollah. we talked to our cars. to give us the latest developments that there was a heavy shelling from the israeli side and we're seeing increased amount of air shelling more than artillery fire which was basically the norm in the beginning of the confrontations now you have lot of sharing on the outskirts of several villages like almashab like kramia for example but you have certain towns like mesabal and karkela for example where you have the lot of residential areas have been completely turned into rubble uh and despite

that you see and we notice no from our authorities that the israeli seem to go and once again shall the same place, even if that residential area the certain residence or group of houses uh or buildings were like we said completely demolished um the israelies still once more target that same area, analysts are saying that this is part of israel's frustration and the fact that they do not have uh enough data when it comes to their their targeting, husball's fire has also reached the israeli posts in several areas. we also know that hazbullah has been attempting to target israeli soldiers whenever they they stop them, we know that there was a group of soldiers in the vicinity the post and said targeted that group of soldiers uh by a burkan rocket. another week of pro-palestinian valleys in yemen, huge crowds of demonstrators once again took to

the streets across the country to condemn the us israel genocide in gaza and eg the yemeni army to continue with this operations against israel. for more details our correspondent abdul latifa washali joined us earlier from the site of the rally in the capital sana. despite the sunny and hot weather the people here and also despite their being fasting today. you know it's ramadan, but the people have choosen uh to gather here, they came from across the city, to gather in the capital son and also in other cities to express their solidarity with the palestinian people, they said they can't... just remain passive while witnessing the oppressed people of palestine suffer from killings and being starved to death by at the hands of the israeli regime, they have to do something, they have to demonstrate, they have to keep provoking the yemini army escalate its operations in the red sea and gulf of aiden, and today we've seen them being happy uh after hearing the speech of sayed abdul malik

al huh yesterday saying that the naval operations now will be escalated and now they will target the... israeliing chips not only in the red sea and bab almand straight but also in the indian ocean and in the south africa the people today are very happy they said they will keep telling the enemy army and urging the emini army to kescalating its operations. now the yemini army says it has carried out fresh attacks on us and israely vessels in the indian ocean as it expands the scope of its propalestinian and retaliatory operations. another victory for the oppressed palestinian people and in retaliation for the american british aggression against our country. the naval units of the yemeni armed forces carried out an operation targeting the israeli ship pacifico 1 in the red sea with number of suitable naval missiles. meanwhile, our forces carried out an operation targeting

an american destroyer in the red sea with number of drones and successfully achieved its objectives. implementing the directives of our leader sayid abdul malik badriddin al-huthi, in another victory for the oppressed palestinian people, who are being subjected to aggression and siege in the gaza strip, and in response to the calls of the yemani people, and all the free people of the nation, the yemeni armed forces began to expand the scope of their operations against israeli ships, those linked to israel or those heading to the ports of occupied palestine to include the indian ocean to the cape of good hope. accordingly, the yemeni armed forces won all israeli ships heading to or coming from the ports of occupied palestine, not to pass through the cape of good hope, otherwise they will be legitimate target for our armed forces. the yemani armed forces within the framework of implementing these directives carried out three operations against three israeli and american ships in

the indian ocean using number of suitable naval missiles and drones and all three operations. fully achieved their objectives. the yemen armed forces will persist with their military operations enforcing a blockade on israeli navigation in the red and arabian seas as well as the indian ocean until a cease fire is achieved and the siege on gaza is lifted. iran's firm minister has called for a united endeavor by the muslim world against islamophobia. in an online post on x. yan said the aim should be creating an effective deterrance against sedicious moves that are opposed to lasting peace and security, the top diplomat added that hegemonic powers are doing everything to distort the image of islam before the world public opinion and depicted as a threat. amir abdullahyan describes such policies as a plot stressing that islam has always promoted peace and mutual respect amongst different

different people and religions. he made the comments on the occasion of the international day. to combat islamophobia, which is marked on march 15th. the international court of justice says it will hold hearings in nikaragua's case against germany for aiding israel in his genocidal war on gaza. the world court said the hearings will take place on april the 8th and 9th. according to nicaragua, the germany is violating the 1948 genocide convention and the 1949 geneva conventions on the laws of war. in the occupied palestinian territories. earlier this month, nicaraguay asked the icj to issue emergency measures requiring berlin to stop military aid to israel and reverse is decision to stop funding anrua. the icj recently issued an interim ruling in a case against israel brought by south africa. it called on the regime to take all necessary measures to prevent genocide in gaza.

however, un experts say israel appears to be in breach of that order. iran condemns the us instrumental and political use of human rights in his foreign policy, it says the us is the main suspect when it comes to the violation of human rights. in a post on his x account, iran's foreign ministry spokesman said the us cannot exponge its complicity in the gaza genocide by targeting iran with human rights propaganda. nasaknoni also underlined that washington's move to air drop humanitarian aid into gaza. would not compensate for his unflinching support for israel. the us recently backed an anti-iran report by a un fact-finding mission. the report accused ivan of committing what it claimed to be crimes against. humanity during forenback rias in the country in 2022. ivan dismissed the allegations saying the report was based on incorrect and biased information

and lacked any legal credibility. last but not least, russia has begun three days of voting to pick a president, four candidates including incumbent vladimir putin of vying for the post. in a pre-election address, putin called russians to participate in the election. we have discussed the issue in our news review program. let's take a listen. hello and welcome. you're watching press tv's news review where we look print to some of the top stories of the day. in this segment the program, people across russia are heading to the poles to. choose new president for the next six years. the vote is taking place across the country's 11 time zones. more than 112 million people are eligible to cast ballots from friday until sunday and coming

president vladimir putin is running for fifth term. he has three rivals, they're from the new people party, the liberal democratic party and the communist party. prior to the election putin called on russians to vote, saying that people are the only source of power in his country. he said russia is going through... difficult period and needs to stay united and confident to uh overcome it. the vote has also taking place in the four regions at russia annexed from ukraine in 2022, namely donietsk, luhansk, zaporija and hersan. joining us on this edition of the news review, we have uh press tv's very own johnny miller joining us from moscow. also, we have journalist activists and political. mr. john boss joining us from belgrade. let's start off with um press tv's uh johnny miller in moscow. johnny uh walk us through uh what's uh taking place during the uh three

days uh as russians go to the polls and about the significance of this election as well. well the first day of polling is practically uh at an end. local reports say 20% of russian people have already voted. i spoke to one woman today who told me she's never voted before. but she's going to vote this time, she didn't tell me who she's going to vote for, it's quite implike question to ask here in russia, i've tried my best to, mostly won't answer it as well, it's rather than polite to to answer it either, but though one man told me there's only one man to vote for and that's who i'm voting for, by what else he told me, i suspect that he was voting for vladimir putin, uh, vladimir putin will win the election, i won't even say almost certainly, he certainly will win the election, the main reason being is that he's very popular uh, the economy. despite the fact that russia is fighting major conflict, a war, special military operation, call it what you will, against ukraine, some say the whole of the collective west. russian economy

is stated very strong, and indeed is growing, politically, it's very stable, and vladimir putin remains very popular, so the main reason he will win the election, um, and i think many people have criticized in russia or question why they're holding an election now, they are fighting, major conflict, but i think it's all... also part of just the kind of stability that the russian government wants to project, the the country is running along smoothly, if you here in moscow or elsewhere in russia, daily life does continue as normal, it feels like there's a war at the edge of the empire so to speak, but life continues, and that's very much what this election is proving, was certain attempts to destabilize russia, particularly from ukraine, drones, attacks in the belgrad region, other events around russia try to stabilize russia. this election, but certainly it does feel very stable, the election is going uh going going ahead uh as planned and uh the russian government does seem strong and confident going forward. the

issue of the economy was something that our correspondent johnny miller just brought up, mr. bozic, i want you to break that down for us as well as we know uh in spite of uh the uh dire predictions of many critics uh russia has actually been successful in uh evading western sanctions. and its economy has outperformed those uh expectations, how is that going to play into the uh to the voters minds and the elections uh at this point in time right now? you've had the privilege and the good fortune of being personally involved in some of these transformations. i was the advisor to the japanese prime minister's office at the time that we negotiated on behalf of japan for the building of the espo pipeline, the east siberia to pacific ocean pipeline, and that pipeline has become the economic life, life blood of russia, and from the revenues from that pipeline, russia has

been able. to build its links internationally and to finance the redevelopment of agriculture. russia was agricultural importer and now is an exporter. russia is now one of the world's leading oil petroleum product exporters. russia is producing domestic retail goods and russia has built an alliance of steel, literally pipeline of energy and retail products interchange with china at the perfect time, because china is under sanctions from the united. states and it has turned its eyes towards russia as a commercial and retail market, there couldn't be better nexus and better uh synergy of all possible benefits, and that has been tied directly to the presidency of vladimir putin, thanks lot press tvs, johnny miller joining us from the russian capital moscow, and thanks to journalists, activists and political analys mr. john boznic, joining us from belgrade, with that it brings us to an end here on this edition of the news review,

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hello and welcome to spotlight. israel's genocidal war on the gaza strip continues with unflinching support from the u.s. as massive aerial and artillery strikes keep pounding neighborhoods, homes, refugee camps, while civilians trying to receive aid have turned into new targets for israeli forces. hamas resistance movement has presented a