international human rights defender zead ibrahim patel joining us from johannesburg and we also have human rights activist joi 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 mention. and in our intros launched a fresh attack on syria targeting number of locations in the northwestern city of aleppo. the attack is after 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 launched 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 you, thank you for having me on this show. um, 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 was which is quite in gaza, israel is feeling the pressure, it's feeling the pressure of their 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 of context that all these extraterritorial attacks uh are unlawful under international law to to come you conduct these strikes in syria and again. we got to look at you know

in what was military advantage uh and compared to uh what you know what human causation? in other words what was the human beings that were lost in this? you know they would call this uh the um so for instance uh human beings and innocent are always caught up in this conflict unfortunately but this this continues and israel we must hold israel to account uh but but unfortunately this is the situation uh 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 it perceives threats to be and that's why we seen this this increased attacks in the region mosanav let's also focus on the growing tensions between lebanon's hezballah resistance movement and uh forces of the israeli regime,

the israelies have targeted vehicle in the city of tyre with a drone leaving one lebanese dead. hezball has also carried out retaliatory missile strikes on israeli 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 of 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 hizbullah has been happening since october 7th in which many of hizbullah's fires have been have been have been martered, but hizbullah 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 10,00 settlers evacuating from that part of occupied palestine, so hisbullah is 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 existence, then we can understand the attacks on on israel, we can understand the concept. constant the constant attacks on

the southern front in in lebanon as well and ironically and unfortunately the science regime another sign of the weaknesses 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 idlip, idlip, the attack of terrorists in idlib was seems almost coordinated with israel's attacks goes to show that these splinter groups, these terrorist groups who have been operating in idlib who were operating in syria and 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 of intervening in israel, in intervening in in syria now understand and know why syria has always been of such great importance to the axis of resistance. mr. patel, how important has this unified response been from the resistance front in the region? there's lebanon, yemen, iraq, resistance groups in syria, were the israelis and 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 belligerent military occupation in the occupied palestinian territories and in occupied palestine 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 yemanies in yemen, closure of the red sea, you know the the stopping of ships in that area and stopping that kind of cargo, which is very good dvs campaign, and then we've seen the access of resistance, hizbullah 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. 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 no real military intervention despite the carnage in gaza, and just coming back to my previous point, and i think it's important what my colleague mentioned, is that in all the attacks by this terror groups and israel and backed by the us, and of course we must also remember that, "the united the european union and european union countries uh sell huge and license 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 launched the first docket criminal complaint against

israel uh with south african authorities we had focused on war crimes where israel has perpetually used in indiscriminate use of force and indistinction of military target to civil" population that has continued, israel is continues to be responsible, criminally responsible for egregous 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. and is it from the perspective of international law and what are the laws of war and what we must what must be complied with and what uh what are the levels that a certain you know 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 responsibilities in terms of conflict and how to you what of the aggressor in these instances. yes. back to mr. nahvi 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. 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 zin 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 the zionist, the the israeli zionist crimes that they are committing in in gaza today, we we see them taking a slightly different line from the zinanis which. 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 khumeini said that america is the great satan, america is shaitan and 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 khumeini, it had lot of wisdom in it, is the zionist regime um is not the real issue, but it is rather the policies the us empire that has empowered this weak, 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... to make 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 hisb is very organized it's an organized military giant in the region now, they thought that

they will be able to weaken hizbullah when iman was martered, they thought that after jihad is murdin is murdered or shaheed abbas muswi or sheikhib or had when they when they when they martered hisbullah will become weak, but history has shown us that the the the school of martidom within hizbillah 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 has hailed a ruling by the international court of justice ordering the israely regime to address famon 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 of 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 they 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 use and use use it in a different way, they've used the haspara and the spin on the order stating that the word cease fire did not was not included, but the order could not be effectted. without an effect of cease fire because of the humanitarian aid that was required at scale. subsequently to that,

south africa uh 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 uh now separated from southern gaza, netanyahu has spoken about the demal the rice zone, which means effectively more billigerent military occupation, and and and certainly that ferm and stavation is serious problem, so africa in its application stated that there is almost a concern for about 80,000 civilian debts 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 raporter that can't with her report an anatomy of a genocide uh 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 is spoken clearly through the general assembly, unfortunately the un security council has always been politicized and we've seen the number of vetos that the us is 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 held dent on the destruction of

the palestinian population, we're not only seeing this genocide unfold in gaza, but also the increase. these raid in the occupied palestinan 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 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 axis of resistance. but they're not going to be enabled 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 orders, that humanitarian aid be delivered, that access be opened and that it be provided to the needs of the dasan

population. mov, we're running short of time, but i want you uh to uh to discuss uh... 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 soldiers, 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. um, 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 alaxar 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 of the zine 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 manner. okay, i'm sorry uh, we're running short of time now. allow me to thank my guests uh, ziad ibrahim patel, 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 viewers for staying with us tonight. spotlight is good night for now and see you next time.

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your headlines for this hour, israeli forces continue to attack gaza's hospitals and the displaced people taking shelter there as the regime's genocidal war enters its 177th day. thousands of... israeli protesters once again take to the streets across the occupied territories, calling for early elections and the resignation of the regime's prime minister, and the islamic resistance in iraq carries out another anti-israeli operation, this time targeting vital target in the occupied galilee with drones.