and only 27.3% are couples with children. your headlines on press tv, the international medical charity doctors without borders says israel is deliberately and systematically destroying gaza's healthcare system emit is genocidal war on the territory. major international aid groups slam western countries for providing weapons to israel, saying they are complicit in the regime's genocide in gaza. and the hamas resistance movement once again says any sease fire must end the israeli onslot on gaza and lead to the pull up. out of his forces,

of hello everyone, you're watching press tv live from the studios in tehron, thank you for joining guys, now nearly six months into the israely genocidal war on gaza. and the regime keeps pressing ahead with its onslot across the besieg strip. some 62 palestinians have been killed and scores more injured in israelly strikes and shelling over the past 24 hours. the regime's forces also continued with the avial raids on the city of khan unis in southern gaza. they say that the majority of these attacks were focused on the al-amal neighborhood leaving number of people dead. meanwile palestinian fighters are putting stiff resistance to israeli troops on the ground in some areas. they have attacked.

israeli soldiers and vehicles with mortars in the eastern and southern parts of gaza's rib or gaza city. according to the gaza health ministry, the death toll from the israeli war has now topped 33,000. over 75,600 of palestinians have also been wounded, while thousands more remain unaccounted for. international medical charity doctors without borders has accused israel of... deliberately and systematically destroying gaza's healthcare system, a senior msf official said deadly attacks on medical and humanitarian staff indicate either israel's deliberate intent to destroy the territory's health sector or is reckless incompetence. amber alian added that gaza's hospitals are grappling with levels of carnage a daily basis that no healthcare system in the world can cope with. she said the vast majority of the injuries in gaza are explosive injuries

caused by the regime's bombardment of homes. she emphasized that no amount of field hospitals can replace the health healthcare system that existed in gaza before the israely unslot. the head of the charity organization doctors without borders has slamed the israeli regime for the quote deliberate attack aid workers. christopher lokier was referring to an israeli strike on monday that kills. seven international aid workers associated with a us-based charity world central kitchen in the gas strip. humanitarian workers are protected, iffs, no buts. we do not accept the narrative of regrettable incidents. we do not accept it because what has happened to world central kitchen and msf's convoys and shelters is part of the same pattern of deliberate attacks on human. humanitarians, health

workers, journalists, un personnel, schools and homes. this is not just about implementing effective deconflection mechanism. our movements and locations are shared, coordinated and identified already. this is about impunity, total disregard for the laws of war, and now it must become about accountability. it not only shows the failure of deconfliction measures. it shows the futility of these measures in a war fought with no rule. that these attacks on humanitarian workers are allowed to happen is a political choice. israel faces no political cost, instead, its allies enable this brutality with impunity and provide even more weapons that mame and kill civilians indiscriminately. major international aid groups have called for immediate cease fire in gaza, they say country... that are arming

israel are also obliged under international law to protect the people from the regime's quote atrocity crimes. the groups including ox farm and save the children also slam. the israeli regime for restricting aid delivery into gaza, saying it is now almost impossible to work in the besieg territory, meanwhile the president of the medical charity, doctors without borders, blasted the west for arming israel. isabel defny says or said the us, britain and france are complicit in what is going on in gaza, which amounts to genocide. she said israel is waging war on an entire population which is trapped, deprived of food and massively bombed, she added that gaza is progressively being made unfit for human life and has passed the threshold of absolute horror. author and journalist robert fantin believes that israel does not want to cease

fire in the gaza strip. let's take you listen. israel government doesn't want to see fire agreement of any kind, because that would prevent them from slaughtering the rest. the population of gaza and being able to annex gaza strip, which is what they want to do, they will continue to uh to to annihilate the people there, to destroy the infrastructure, all under the myth of protecting themselves from what they refer to as existential threat. it is palestine, not israel that is facing an existential threat, but that's exactly why the israely government will not, will not move towards a ceasefire because they want. to end palestine and major step in doing that is annexing gaza and in order to do that they have to destroy the people of gaza or drive them out into egypt into refugee camps as was done uh 75 years

ago and many of those people have been unable, most of those people have been unable to return despite the uh international guarantee that that they can, but israel is not has never been a a reasonable part. partner for in so-called negotiations which are ridiculous and it's not a reasonable partner now in looking for a cease fire because a cease fire is not its goal. israel knows that whatever it wants to do, the united states will back it financially and diplomatically and militarily. this is a policy of the united states that has been ongoing for decades that makes no sense. the united states is coming down again on the wrong side of history and will be associated with genocide for decades and decades. to come, a senior hamas representative in lebanon has slammed israely atrocities in the gaza strip, calling on palestinians escalate the acts of resistance against the regime, a proof of the unity and cohesion of our people

around the option of resistance as a only legitimate means for liberation and return, and we call for this to continue. and to further escalate this resistance against the enemy and against the settlers, the blatant crime committed by the zionist enemy against the al-shif medical compound and the medical teams and the unarmed civilians and ill and those who were with them and the displaced in the hospital and in the surroundings of the hospital, over a period of two weeks will continue to witness the brutality and sabagery of this enemy. which we have tried for more than seven decades. osama hamden said in a press conference that all plans of the enemy against gaza will be destroyed in the face of the palestinian resistance. he also mentioned the israely attack on charity workers in gaza saying that the strike shows the depth of israel's brutality as the regime

keeps violating all international norms and laws. the senior hamas official condemned the continued us support for israel saying that washington is responsible for telaviv's crimes against palestinians. on the notion of talks for a possible cease fire, he stress that any deal must lead to an end to the enslot on gaza and the withdrawal of the israeli forces from the territory. speaking on the eve of the international goods day, hamdan called for worldwide rallies in solidarity with the palestinian people. the leader of iran's islamic revolution has held prayers over the bodies of the seven iranian military advisers killed in israel's monday attack on iran's. embassy in syria. ayatollah khamenei prayed over the bodies after meeting with the families of the marters. the bodies arrived in term from the syrian capital earlier on thursday. the official funeral ceremony will be held on friday, which coincides with the international quds day.

the israeli attack killed two senior iranian military commanders and five accompanying officers who were on an advisory mission to syria.

welcome back, on the eve of the international what's day, iran once again calls for a referendum in the occupied palestinian territories to resolve the century old issue the region. in a statement published online, iran's prime minister said tehran believes that the palestinian question should be resolved through a referendum amongst all original inhabitants of palestine that includes christians, muslims and jews. hussein amir abdullah yon said, lasting peace in the region can only be achieved. by addressing the root causes of the problem. he noted that al-axa flood operation was in

response to israel's 75 years of occupation and continuous crimes against palestinians. iran's top diplomat is international community and muslim states to take practical steps to end israeli crimes. he also blamed the us for the continuation of the war on gaza and the obstruction of efforts to end it. international woods day is annual pro- palestinian event marked on the last friday the holy month of ramadan. the day was designated by the founder of the islamic republic of iran imam khumeini in 1979 in solidarity with palestinians. people worldwide will mark this year's goods day on the coming friday. our correspondent in new delhi munavar zaman has asked some people there about the event and his important. des

criminals have always subjected palestinians to tremendous violence and injustice. imam khumeini has left his legacy alive by declaring 5th of april as international day, which should also be observed as muslim unity day so that we would liberate palestine from the zionists. israel is committing genocide while the whole world is silent. april 5th should be marked as a muslim unity day against injustice anywhere. this will also keep alive imam komaini's legacy of uniting the muslim ummah. muslims all over the world are suffering, so april 5th should be observed as a day of muslim unity. this year it should be more intense considering. the palestinians are facing at the hands of zianists. let's unite and keep the legacy of

imam alive by marking this day gloriously all over the world. it's a disgrace that the muslim is watching when coveredly zinas a killing innocent women and children in the occupied palestine. april 5th is the day to unite for palestine's freedom. meanwhile, our correspondent in paris, romney mazauri has asked some french citizens about the international good state and his importance in the muslim world. let's take a listen. what's terrible is when you feel that there's real discrimination against the people of gaza. all the western goverments in the world today support and do not criticize israel, and it's so very unfair. in fact, there's a... is fair attitude in europe that's just intolerable and we must fight against it, we

as citizens must openly support palestine constantly. in france we expected too much from our government's foreign policy and we have been let done yet again. however, we cannot abandon palestine now, we must keep demanding justice for them. beaucoup victim, there are so many victims in palestine, children, women, it's so bad that i can't even watch. videos anymore, it's very very hard for all humanity to see this and to see that certain governments won't even stand up against what's so very very wrong politiques vachement de temps pour réagir. "it's so important to keep fighting for palestine because our politicians aren't doing anything at all. however, that doesn't mean the population isn't aware of what's going on and doesn't want to support all these people who are suffering for nothing. there's a famine that's being exploited by israel to better control the people in palestine right now. so we must show our solidarity, we must push to

make things happen. here in france, it seems that the israelis are hitting the palesty." too hard, they should have gone about things differently, but that's how the israelies are. this is going to be like ireland or yugoslavia where there are endless conflicts in the un is completely overwhelmed by events, unless they are stopped now. the kremlin spokesman says nato continues to expand this military presence towards the russian borders, the criticism comes as the us that alliance is considering more military aid for ukraine. earlier with this... the topic in our news review program, let's let's see what our guests had to say, spokesman says the relations between russia and the nato military alliance has reached a level of quote direct confrontation. dimitri peskov

said the members of the us led alliance are already in continuous movement towards russia's borders through their involvement. to the ukraine conflict, moscow has clearly stated that the war with ukraine aimed to prevent the western alliance from approaching russian borders. the military alliance enlarged to 32 members by accepting finland and sweden in the past year. nato has been helping ukraine with advanced weapons, training and intelligence. the military block's members are now discussing plans for more than $100 millions of further military aid for kiev. ukraine has also been seeking to join nato in recent years, which could... escalate the tensions between russia and the west to even higher level. donar is radio host and journalist at cpr news joining us from new york. we also have greg simmons an independent researcher and author joining us from upsala sweden. welcome to you both. um, i'll start with you first, don debar. $100 million dollars. i don't know if that's a

lot, or maybe it's not a lot, but it does sound like lot for a commitment to perhaps be pondering there. nato to give to ukraine, what are your thoughts on that? depends on what you're measuring it against, let's start with what was russia's annual military budget, this big threat to world peace prior to this war that began earnest in february of 2022, $65 billion a year, that there's actually no country in the world that has a budget of more than $100 billion a year for their military except the u.s. in china, china is about 250 billion for its entire military to protect 1 and a half billion people, so from that measure a billion, $100 billion dollars is an awful lot of money. let's look at it however, from the cost to the people that are paying it in the united states and presumably in the eu, with hundre billion dollars, you could solve the homeless

problem in the united states entirely, there'd be no more homelessness in the united states rather than tens of thousands of. people living in the streets and every major city, you could solve the hunger problem in the entire world for five years with $100 billion dollars. you 9 million people a year die of starvation in the world every year, you could solve that problem. so it's a lot of money, indeed, it's quite, i shouldn't say surprising, greck simmons, but it's somewhat, i don't know what to call it, to say that nato has done this. before trump comes comes on board, i mean we're looking at eight months now, if that were to happen, and between now and eight months from now, including april, lot of things could happen when it comes to nato and russia, given this uh aid were to happen or not, we're still looking at the tensions there that keep ratcheting up uh, what type of confrontations do you for see or where do you see this going

in terms of the military aspect of it? well, i think the main problem is the level of unpredictability, and the unpredictability comes from the collective west, because what you have here is a bunch of mediocre politicians at best who have bruised egos, they predicted that russia would be defeated, that ukraine would win, they've done everything to try and do that, yet this is not the case, so the it seems their egos worth. more than major military confrontation that nato initiates with russia, so this level of emotional ' investment in it uh from them makes it very unpredictable, the predictability comes from russia, which has been uh to date, i'd say rather restrained uh

and very cautious about these constant provocations uh which have been used to try and irritate russia. all right, thank you very much, we thank our guest don davar, radio host and journalist at cpr news and also greg simmonster independent research. researcher and author, thank you to you both. with that we come to an end for this news review. a last money is pakistan's authorities have detained dozens of individuals in the aftermath of a protest where demonstrators chanting anti-israely slogans set fire to a kfc restaurant in pakistan's administered kashmir region a correspondent nasa. reports from islamabad tempers are running high in pakistan over israel's onslot in gaza. in dramatic

incident, a kfc restaurant in pakistan administrated kashmir was set ablaze during an anti-us israel protest. following the incident, police detained over 50 individuals who were accused of attacking the restaurant in the mirpur district. we do not uh... support the burning of kfc, but we want to boycot it as it is in support of genocide. we stand with boycott and we do bycott, we do not want them, we just want them not to fund israel and help them in their genocide. the arson comes as us israeli genocide in gaza shows no signs of abating. the regime's attacks on all areas of the besieg territory, including hospitals, schools and aid convoys continue. we are already seeing the... impact on the economy, on the financial decline of mcdonald's and baycott, it's huge, even in some countries, in arab countries those outlets are being closed because nobody is

buying it. the ongoing genocide in gaza has fueled anger and frustration among people worldwide. prompting calls for boyots against entities believe to support israel financially or politically. why god is something that we are um, you know what, this is what we feel from our heart from inside that we don't want to support their economy, we don't want to support the companies that are supporting the israely soldiers, so for that we need to boycott, i know this is not a permanent solution but we have to boycott. authorities are now faced with the challenge of managing the fallout from the incident and preventing further escalation of tensions. as temples run high in pakistan due to the call for bicotting pro us and pro israeli brands, the targeted destruction of a kf. restaurant represents a symbolic reaction of the people both locally and globally against usraeli genocide in gaza, nasik azmi, press tv, is

abad. there you have it, those were the top stories on press tv. thank you for listening, take care and bye-bye.