in in your headlines on press: dev, four more palestinians die of starvation a gaza hospital. as death toll from israel's genocidal war nears 32,800, mostly women and children. more protest rallies in tel aviv and al-quds, israel is want benjamin netanyahu to resign over his handling of the war on gaza, and the israeli regime launches fresh air rais targeting locations in the vicinity of the syrian capital, damascus, including or injuring two civilians.

hello, the viewers, welcome to press tv. now it's almost six months since israel launched this genocidal war on gaza, the regime's war planes and artillery keep pounding the besieg strip causing more deaths. and destruction in the last 24 hours, four civilians including journalists were killed and 16 other people injured after israeli war plane struck the vicinity of al-axamati's hospital in the central gaza city of dairal balah. several areas of gaza city were also shelled and of bombed, leaving two people dead and 10 injured. meanwile, four palestinians including two children died due to salvation in kamal adwan hospital in north in the northern street. the number of deaths related

to fammin and malnutrition has gone up to 34, including 31 children. nearly 32,800 palestinians have lost their lives and some 75,000 injured in the israeli war on gaza that began early october. thousands of israelis have once again rallied in tel aviv and al-quts to protest against prime minister benjamin netanyahu over his. failure to secure the release of the captives in gaza. the protesters edged netanyahu to resign and call for early elections. they vow to continue their vallies until all israeli captives are released. netanyahu has been in hot water over his handling of the gaza war. israel has failed to release any of the captives by military means. it has also failed to achieve any of the stated goals of the war. israelis have held anti-netanyahu rallies for months. the premier is embroiled in a... series of scandals and charges,

including fraud and breach of trust. israeli forces still attack hospitals in gaza under of the pretext of finding members of the hamas resistance movement. a mother grieves the death of his 9-year-old son in kamal adwan hospital as she recounts the moment iof troops attack the patients and their families there. suddenly. the closed the doors and there was shooting. we said maybe there is a truth that we didn't know anything about yet. the doctors and nurses were screaming and saying that israeli besieged us outside. they started shooting at the doors to get hamas out. but where is hamas? they are all sick children and there's no hamas, only the medical staff and these children. is my dead son hamas? what did my son do to them? all the hospital sections were called to the reception. they took the displaced people out in groups of 40. the first day 40. the

second, the third and the fourth as well. on the fifth day they said that they want to evacuate the families of patients and leave the patients. they told me to leave my son alone. i said i will not go and leave him. some operations were delayed, there are no medical equipment or medicine in the al-shifa hospital. there's nothing. the seventh day the doctor came to me and told me that i should go out and that the israeli forces want to enter the hospital and that i was putting my life and the life of my son in danger. they told me to go out and take him with me, i went out and i put him in his chair and then they started shooting, so i carried him on my shoulders and there was people and patience behind me. once we got out, they started shooting at us again, telling us that this is not a safe area and we should go right, then they started shooting again saying that this is not safe area as well, we were in the middle of the thing and we didn't know what to do, we then came to camal one hospital and they did what's necessary directly, he had a blockage in... his intestines and today he died, his

father knows nothing about him, he only knows that he's sick, he's not around, he didn't get the chance to sick it by, at least free. israeli settlers have been seriously injured a stabbing attack by a palestinian in the occupied territories. the attack took place a shopping mall a settlement near the town of ashdod. according to reports, reaching forces fatally shot the attacker whose identity remains unknown. israeli media say investigation is on the way to determine whether the attacker was from the west bank. there are also reports that second attacker might have been involved. the incident came hours after the algasan brigades the military. wing of the hamas resistance movement republished a message from his commander calling on palestinians to use all their resources to fight against the regime. palestinians have conducted number of shooting operations or stabbing attacks in retaliation for israel's aprocities in the west bank and the gazas rip. lebanon's

hezbollah resistance movement and israeli forces continue to exchange fire as tension. remain high over the war in gaza. in the latest search tensions, the lebanese resistance has carried out several retaliatory operations against israeli positions in southern lebanon. this after assassination drone assault targetted vehicle in lebanon's southern town of kunin. our correspondent mariam soleh has the details. the most dangerous uh aggression today from the israeli side was that an israeli drone targeted vehicle in the southern town of kinine and we're talking about an assassination, it seems, they we know from reports that there was one person in that vehicle, and that has become part of the israeli policy of targeting individuals which could be members of either the hamas, as you know hamas is active in lebanon, it does have

a branch here in lebanon and they are active in south lebanon, we also see that they israelies are targeting, when they do have intelligence, they're targeting some vehicles that include members. of hazballah, but in times there's also uh targeting of civilians in their vehicles as well. hazballah has made it of course clear that they will continue to retaliate for the continuous israeli aggressions and there were several operations today uh the israelies targ excuse me hazballah targeted uh the the post of jordah they targeted specifically they said the espionage devices uh in that post they also targeted these ibdim post and which has become a routine operation for hazballah targeting the occupied lebanese shabot farms, we also saw today targeting of a recent post which is called the barta launching site where the israelis keep their tanks and their artillery and they launch their aggressions from that area, and hazbullah mentioned in their statement that this is a recent post and this show shows that hazbalop that uh the

israelis uh are attempting to move away from their original post, perhaps trying to stave off any uh hizbillah operations, but hazbolah seems to have the intelligence to be able to know. about these recent posts and target them as well, has israel have carried out fresh strikes on syria targeting the vicinity the capital, damascus. the syrian military says the rockets were launched from the direction of the occupied golen height. it added the aggression resulted in the injury of two civilians and caused some material losses. the attack comes two days after the regime's fatal air strikes on syrius aleppo killed a number. number of civilians and military personnel. the syrian government has on numerous occasions called on the united nations to force the israely regime to stop his acts of aggression. damassus says the assaults are in violation of international law and aimed at propping up terrorists. the

iranian president says one way to end the us israel genocide of the palestinians in gaza is to cut off all diplomatic ties with the tel aviv'. ibrahim raisi made the comment in a phone call with his turkish counterpart recep. raisi condemned the crimes committed against palestinians despite a cease fire resolution by the un security council. he added israel's violation of more than 400 international resolutions exposes its aggressive and anti-human nature. the president called on islamic countries to send more humanitarian aid to the gaza strip in a bit to check famon in the besieged territory. risy also expressed willingness to promote political, economic and cultural cooperation between tehran and ankara. erdowan for his part stressed the commitment of the turkish government implementing bilateral agreements between iran and turkey.

it's a good way to see how poor people uh in poor countries or... even in our own countries live, fasting basically heightens your awareness of your surroundings and everything, and now it brings back the reasons for doing dua, for reading quran, when the sun sets, it's a fantastic feeling of achievement. welcome back, iran's foreign

minister has emphasized the need for israel to end this aggression in the gaza strip and implement seasfire as required by a recent un security council resolution. wissen amir abdullah made the comment in a phone call with his egyptian counterpart same shukri. both ministers voiced their. projection of forced displacement of palestinians outside the gaza strip and any ground assault on the southern city of rafa. the two top diplomats also call for ensuring full access to humanitarian aid in the besieg strip. they urged israel to remove any obstacles hindering aid delivery and comply with relevant security council resolutions. shukri and abdullah hian also addressed egypt-iran relations agreeing to maintain consultations to improve bilateral relations. partial

results from turkey's local elections show the opposition is ahead in the two key cities of istanbul and ankara with 40% of the ballots counted ekrem imamo the current mayor of istanbul is leading with 50% of the votes compared to 41% of his main rival who is backed by president erdogan in the capital anchorer the mayor is leading with 56% compared to 30. 6% for the ruling party candidates. the opposition is also leading nationwide with almost 39% of the votes afficed in more than three decades. sunday's election was held to choose mayors and provincial council members across the country's 81 provinces. in our news review program we have discussed with our guess the significance of the turkish municipal elections. let's take you listen. well

joining us on this edition of the news review we have uh emeritus professor of political science at istanbul university joining us from istanbul also journalists and commentator esral turk uh who's also with us from the turkish uh city of uh istanbul welcome to the program uh to the both of you let's start off with - ilter turon, give us your perspective on uh the significance uh of the vote and also uh were any questions regarding the turnout answered today? well we actually the count is still continuing so it would be difficult to venture opinions about the rate of participation, but the significance of elections we can talk about, because uh the elections though they are local, have been conceptualized as a national election in which the support for the

governing party is tested. now this sort of conclusion was also promoted by the governing party itself, because the president was in actively involved in the campaign and not only was he involved in the campaign, but he also allowed his ministers in the cabinet to go in and campaign for particular. candidates, particularly in istanbul that you in your newscast identified as the jewel of turkey. the voting couch is still continuing, but there was depending on the poles, or if we are to believe in the poles, that the governing party will experience difficulties in many areas, particularly in the more economically developed sections of turkey and these sections tend to stretch along the

mediterranean, the agen and the marmara coast and apparently also along the black sea coast. miss oosturk, give us your perspective on what's it stake in these elections, do you believe that this was a litmus test for uh president erdogan and his party? no doubt, no doubt, yes this uh this elections are very critical was... actually very important for a party and for its constituency, because it was considered as a milestone whether ak mamolo is going to win in this elections uh or not. so the thing is the constituency expect ekram imamolu to uh get more strength strengthened for the upcoming elections in 2028, if he will uh get the result from this elections as a with victory uh he will be most probably the presidential hopeful for

for the next presidential election, but the thing for a party constituency ' they did their best, they they really had a big campaign, they they had big gatherings even though it was ramadan and for for many people it was very hard to uh do it outside, mean campaigning and this get uh joined by president erdogan, so what do we have? mean, let's look at the numbers, so we had more than 61 million voters, but almost five or six million of them are generation z which are not islamists, which which who do not like a political islam, who do not like uh, mean the overall policies of party, let's say, and majority of them votes for chp, the second important thing which we can consider as an important factor which which is going to actually give us the result um for the for the benefit of republican people's party,

let's say, is the high inflation and bad economic conditions in the country? all right, thanks. that's all the time uh we have for this segment of the program uh thanks to professor joining us uh from istanbul also thanks to journalists and commentator israel also speaking to us from istanbul with that it brings us to an end here on this edition the news review but stick around we've got plenty more to come here on press tv welcome back. the us has in recent days quietly authorized the transfer of billions of dollars worth of bombs and fighter jets to israel. last week the state department also authorized the transfer of 25 f-35 fighter jets and engines to israel. in our explain a segment, we've taken a closer look at the issue. the us government has approved new

batch of military equipment to the israeli. regime, the most recent aid will include bombs and fighter jets, the immediate question, what happened to the rhetoric of concern for civilian casualties? for example, the us secretary of defense lloyd austin has said that the civilian death tool in the gaza strip is far too high, the too many palestinian civilians continue to die, adding that the gaza strip continues to suffer humanitarian catastrophe, one and which can be avoided, and that the situation is getting even worse, echoing the same view as other us. officials including us president joe biden, now it was within one week that the white house authorized transfer of war planes and bombs, the sale amount $2.5 billion. here's a shot list, more than $1,800 mk84 2000 pound bombs and 500 mk82 500 pound

bombs. this sale also included 25 f35 fighter jets, now. what can these two thous pound bombs do? for starters, the immense fire power can inflict damage to people over a long distance up to a thous feet or 300 away. this can create civilian casualties a massive scale, something israel has done on more than one occasion. well, here's a map which shows craters created by these heavy us bombs, more than 500 craters which are consistent with 2000-pound bombs. note that the average destruction. is 39.3 ft or 12 mes in diameter. two flashbacks are in order here. first, from october the 7th to november 1st, euromed monitor reported that israel struck at least 12000 targets that it had dropped more than 25,00 tons of explosives on the gaza strip, and it said this was equivalent

to two nuclear bombs like the ones us dropped on hiroshima and nagasa. the second flashback, massive us arms deliveries, 244 transport planes from october the 7th to december the 25th, more than 10,00 tons of bombs and munitions delivered to occupied palestine, and that's over a three-month period only. we're now in the sixth month of the genocide. let's not forget, the us has virtually removed all the meaningful restrictions on the stock pile and the transfer of its arms. to israel, this includes surplus weapons limitations, annual spending cap on replenishing pile and curtailing congressional oversight, and to add insult to injury, "the us says that israel is using weapons in line with international and humanitarian law and that israel is not blocking gaza 8, saying israel's use of american weapons meets

requirements of new national security memorandum despite overwhelming evidence that proves otherwise. the us provides israel with nearly $4 billion a year in military assistance. if it wanted to stop the israeli genocide, it could do so by using that as leverage. to condition us aid for israel, but it continues to provide israel with bombs, which may be why joe biden has an unick name, genocide joe. last one of these iranians get together in most mosks and other religious places in the month of ramadan to observe or the night of destiny. our correspondent fazon ashurion who is in the holy city of mashad tells us more. about kad nights, which are considered the most virtuous before god. tonight i am in the holy shrine of imam

razza, peace be upon him, the eighth imam of shia muslims in northwestern city of mashad, and uh where actually thousand, hundreds of thousands of people have gathered here to hold special vigils and pray forg'. forgiveness for blessing and muslims actually believe that on this night the holy quran was revealed to the prophet muhammad, peace be upon him, and according to the holy quran, praying at this night is actually better than a thousand months of prayers, this night, which is the night before the 21st date of the holy ramadan is also the date of the marturdom of... imam ali pe upon him, the first imam of shia muslims and another important actually uh point that i want to to mention is that i was talking to people here

about with different people from all works of life, from actually children different ages, and palestine as the most important issue of the muslim uh world has not been forgotten here and i was talking to them and they said that they have not forgot. lesson about them and they are praying for them in this very significant night for the muslims all around the world and with that we come to the end of this bulletin, thank you for being with us, take care and bye-bye.

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