welcome to spotlight. israel has carried out its deadliest attacks in monsan syria, leaving dozens of people dead. the aggression is coincided with a drone attack launched by terrorists in itlip. israel has also ramped up its deadly air strikes on lebanon in recent days. this is while the regime is pressing ahead with its genocidal war on the gaza strip and there seems to be no end insight to. the nearly six months assault

despite growing international pressure. on this edition of spotlight, we'll try to find out why israel uh is uh trying to increase tensions and what would be the repercussions of such escalation for the entire region and beyond. our guests tonight spotlight are international human rights defender ziad ibrahim patel joining us from johannesburg and we also have human rights activist movi joining us from houston, texas. gentlemen, welcome to the program. let's start off with mr. patel in johannesburg. it's great to have you with us. so now israel, as we mentioned, in our intros launched a fresh attack on syria targeting number of locations in the northwestern city of aleppo. the attack is left number of civilians and military personnel. dead, it's damaged public and

private property. now the syrian military said the israeli aggression coincided with a drone attack by uh terrorist organizations launch from idlib and the western countryside of of aleppo, as the massacre in gaza rages on. how do you perceive the israelis actions uh in other areas of the region and how much of this increased aggression would you say is tied to israel's failures in gaza? good evening and thank thank you for having me on this show. yes, indeed, this is the normal cause of action that israel has been doing over many years and as the war rages quite rightly in gaza, in fact the genocide as it rages quite in gaza, israel is feeling the pressure, it's feeling the pressure of the resistance movements that have continued unabated. as israel has continued unabated in

its atrocities and crimes against palestinians and we got to put this in context that all these extraterritorial attacks are unlawful under international law uh to to come you know to conduct these strikes in syria and again we got to look at you know what was military advantage uh and compared to what you know what human causation in in other words what was the human beings that were lost in this, you would call this the um, so for instance, human beings and innocent are always in this conflict unfortunately, but this this continues and israel, we must hold israel to account, but unfortunately this is the situation, because israel feels that it's losing control in terms of its fight against the resistance movements and will try to

suppress and equalize where he perceives uh thats to be uh and that's why we seen this this increased uh attacks in the region. let's also focus on the growing tensions between lebanon's hezbollah resistance movement and uh forces of the israeli regime. the israelies have targeted vehicle in the city of tire with a drone leaving one lebanese dead. hezbal has also carried out retaliatory missile strikes on his positions in the occupied territories, are the israelis actively pursuing more tensions in the region and how do they benefit from this? i think this is a sign of israel being very vulnerable and a sign of them being weak, so because they're being defeated in the gaza strip, the solution that they're trying to come up with is to expand the war in the region to create chaos in the region and that's why we see them acting so erratically

where now they've attacked syria, the the fighting on the northern front with hizbillah has been happening since october 7th in which many of... hizbillah's fighters have been have been have been martered, but hizbillah has also been retaliating to to strategically retaliating to israel's attacks as well, and as matter of fact, i wouldn't be exaggerating in in stating that the role that hisbollah has played on the northern front has led to thousands, over 10 thousand settlers evacuating from that part of occupied palestine, so hisbullah. playing that very key role, so it is quite clear that just how israel sees a mass as a threat, just like they see syria as a threat, they see hizbillah as a threat equivalent to that of palestinian freedom fighters, so in short, if

we summarize and if we conclude that the zionist regime of israel considers the access of resistance as a threat as a genuine threat to its very exist. distance then we can understand the attacks on on israel, we can understand the constant, the constant attacks on the southern front in in lebanon as well, and ironically and unfortunately the zist regime um another sign of the weakness is that for the most part their targets are usually civilians, may that be in palestine, syria or even lebanon, whereas the resistance front, has always focused on targeting military personnel, and adding to the point that my colleague made earlier about syria, i think it's important to note that the fact that it idlip, the attack of terrorists in idlib was seemed almost coordinated with

israel's attacks goes to show that these splinter groups, these terrorist groups who have been operating in who were operating in syria, they were kicked out by hisbullah in syria, have always been a proxy of the us empire and the zionist regime, they've always served their purpose, so those who are criticizing hisbullah of intervening in israel, in intervening in in syria, now understand and now know why syria has always been of such great importance to the axis of resistance. mr. patel, how important has this unified? once been from the resistance front in the region, there's lebanon, yemen, iraq, resistance groups in syria, uh, were the israelis in washington expecting that from all of the resistance fronts in the region? i think we all know that palestine uh has been

a state of resistance for several decades uh undergoing bellegerent military occupation in the occupied palestinian territories. and in occupied palestine at at large, it we've always known, and i mean the enemies of palestine, the americans, the israelis have always known that there are certain groups that will be steadfast to the standing with the resistance of palestine, which is a fundamental right under international law, because the right to resistance is strongly associated to the right of self-determination, and palestinians need to... exert that right um so i think in some in some cases they may have been surprised by the uh broadening of the axes of resistance as we've seen the huzis in yemen closure of

the red sea the you know the the stopping of ships in that area and stopping that kind of cargo which is very good bds campaign and then we've seen the access. resistance hisbullah in southern lebanon, northern occupied palestine and of course in syria and iraq, and that needs to broaden, we need to look look at this also from from the context that we've got arab countries around palestine, syria, jordan or well let me rather put jordan, egypt and other countries that have normalized, some countries have normalized with the zionist regime and we've seen that there's been uh no real military intervention despite the carnage uh in gaza and just coming back to my previous point and i think it's important what my colleague mentioned is that in all of the attacks by these terror groups and israel and back by the us and of course we must also remember

that the united the european union and european union countries uh sell huge and licensed huge volumes of arms to israel and this is being used indiscriminately. for many years since i think the 2009 war when we issued when we loud the first docket criminal complaint against israel in with south african authorities we had focused on war crimes. where israel has perpetually used indiscriminate use of force and indistinction of military target to civilian population, that has continued, israel is continues to be responsible, criminally responsible for igrigous crimes such as crimes against humanity, crimes of apart, torture, force displacement and many other crimes, and of course now we see genocide, whereas the arm resistance of arm resistance groups have have had focused targeted areas and i think when we look at this, it needs to be looked at, is

it from the perspective of international law and what are the laws of war and what we must must be complied with and what what are the levels that a certain use of force must comply with, or do we need to look at it from an islamic perspective of what our responsibilities are, and i think the resistance groups are very conscious of the islamic responsibility. is in terms of conflict and how to uh, what of the aggressor in these instances? yes, let's go back to mr. narvi, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has defiantly vowed to go ahead with this military campaign, this genocidal massacre, saying that the international pressure on his regime will not work, have all the years of impunity and us cover for israel, made this child killing regime believe that it's actually above the law and it's safe. from accountability, absolutely, um, there is absolutely no doubt about that,

that the zionist regime independent of the us is nothing, it has no power, the only reason why the science regime has been imposed on the region of west asia is because of the support that it gains from the us within the international community, we now see that the european union is also... taking a very clear stance in in in shifting away from being a party to designist the the israeli zionist crime that they are committing in in gaza today, we we see them taking a slightly different line from the zionist regime, but the one country that we still see to date that unequically supports the israeli regime, may that be militarily, may that be diplomatically, may that be in the... international arena in the united nations, that is the united states of america, so now

it makes sense when imam khumeini said that america is the great satan, america is shaitan buzurg, when said that, many must not understood that statement before, but it is now seen it is now, it is now we can we can now conclude that the statement that was made by imam khumini, it had lot of wisdom in it, is the zionist regime, um is not the real issue, but it is rather the policies of the us empire that has empowered this week, this this this this so-called state, this occupying power which is as weak as the spiders web in that region, and another statement that i would like to make in in addition to the previous question that was asked few minutes back is that when the zionist regime tries to target military personnel from hizbullah like they targeted shaheed ali abdul hassan naim who was one of

the leaders of the heavy warhead rocket fire unit of hizbullah we need to understand that and they already know but just to kind of reiterate for the audience is that hisbullah is very organized it's an organized military giant in the region now they thought that they'll be able to weaken hizbullah when iman was murdered they thought that after jihad. will become weak, but history has shown us that the the the school of martidom within hizbullah has only strengthened hizbullah and has made them into the giant that they are today, they are so organized that they work in ways that they always have parallel leaderships within their divisions like any other military power. mr. batal hamas uh has hailed a ruling by the international court of justice ordering the israeli regime to

address famin in gaza. the reaction came after the icj ordered israel to allow the immediate delivery of humanitarian supplies into gaza. hamas has called on the international community to create mechanism to ensure uh the orders implementation. how do you see that happening? what would be step one in your opinion? yes. i think this is an important. development and to give your viewers context, i think south africa has been busy with this since january or december when the hearings initially started at the international court. justice, the application was made, and in fact the icj has now issued three orders in terms of provisional measures. initially the provisional measures were very clear in secint that there needs to be humanitarian corridor and it needs to be accessed to aid, and that was one of the conditions. we saw the united states and

israel uh use and use it in a different way, they've used the haspara and the spin on the orders. stating that the word cease fire did not was not included, but the order could not be effected without an effect of cease fire because of the humanitarian aid that was required at scale. subsequently to that, south africa requested further measures to the international court of justice, and the response from the icj was that no further provisional measures were required, israel was bound to the initial order that was given by the court and just... recently the order based on femine and starvation, we know that the catastrophic situation that now exists in gaza, northern gaza is effectively now separated from southern gaza, netanyahu has spoken about the demilitarized zone, which means effectively more billigerent military

occupation and and and certainly that feminine and starvation is serious problem, south africa. application stated uh that there's almost a concern for about 80,000 civilian deaths that are imminent if this problem is not you know seriously redressed as there is imminent imminent harm to a civilian population and of course there was also the un raportier that came out with her report an anatomy of a genocide claiming and claiming that israel is guilty of at least three of the five acts in terms of the genocide convention so "the international pressure is mounting, the international community has spoken clearly through the general assembly, and fortunately the un security council has always been politicized and we've seen the number of vetos that the us has exercised, but my view and i just come back from from tehran recently is that there's nothing stopping islamic states or

muslim countries from intervening in this crisis, and in fact my belief is that they should have intervened from the very outset." because we know that israel is is is now a ultra right zio fascist government and they've been helped on the destruction of the palestinian population. we not only seeing this genocide unfold in gaza, but also the increased rates in the occupied palestinian territories, so muslim countries and countries should intervene, and and but they need to be politically enabled and not. be politically influenced and controlled unfortunately by the western powers that that you know have neutralized them, that is the reality of of the fact that they've been utterly neutralized, only way that we gain being able to see any movement is through the resistance or the access of resistance, but they not going to be enable to be able to provide the humanitarian aid at scale, so i

think we got to insist on the international measures and the international community to... force israel to comply with the international court of justice uh orders uh that humanitarian aid be delivered that access be opened and that it be provided to the needs of the kazin population. what a nav, we're running short of time, but i want you uh to to discuss a video that surfaced showing israeli forces executing unarmed palestinians near gaza's coast, they were waving white flags in a show of surrender, the israeli sold. after murdering them, they went to bury their bodies in the sand with bulldozer, is this a clear indication that this genocidal massacre is not only been a war against gaza's resistance, but actually against all of its people, absolutely, the resistance has simply been used as a pretext, the civilians in gaza have not, this is not react, this war did not start after october

7th as most of the world might think, but this genocide against the... "the innocent civilians of gaza is exactly why you now have freedom fighters in the shave of hamas, islamic jihad, the alamarter brigades who are now defending the very rights of their people, and also i would like to reiterate the fact that to to to to go down on such low levels to to assault and to respect civilians in such manner and only be expected off the zionist regime and only goes to show how weak they are. that because they cannot fight like real men, they can't fight the military, they can't fight palestinian freedom fighters, they exert their frustration and their pressure on innocent civilians by... disrespecting and insulting them like this, but they need to understand is only exposing themselves when they act in such a mad. okay, i'm sorry uh, we're running short of time

now. allow me to thank my guests uh, ziad ibrahim pattel, international human rights defender joining us from johannesburg and human rights activist movi speaking to us from houston, texas. thank you gentlemen, and also allow me to thank our um viewers for staying with us on tonight. spotlight is good night for now and see you next time. ich bin 28 jahre alt und lebe in nordenham, es war auch schwer für mich da auszubrechen, es hat lange gedauert, also es ist eigentlich erst passiert, nachdem ich... sein kennengelernt hat, für mich war klar, ich möchte ein eine muslimische frau sein mit einem muslimischen mann, wir wollen beide ein bodenständiges leben und dass ich dem, wie ich gehen möchte. ja, heute werde ich in der

moschee des glaubensbekenntnis des islamsaussagen vor einem gelehrten und damit offiziell zum islam konvertiert. مشکل تربیه توی همه کارخونه جات تولیدی بود از جمله خود ما به این فکر افتادیم که یه کار اساسی اینجا انجام بدیم برای تعبیر. سالن با خیس شدن آجوره های سفالی و عبور هوا از دیوارهای مشبک آجوری هوای خنک مطبوعی به داخل

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your headlines here on press tv, scores of palestinians are killed in israel's indiscriminant strikes across gaza, as total death toll for regime jennisano war tops 32,600. israely forces carry out fresh raids across the occupon. at west bank, leaving teenager dead and several other young palestinians injured, and jordanians gather outside the israeli embassy in the capital omon for a sixth consecutive night, calling on their government to cancel all treaties with israel.