to respond to, so not only miller calls this uh illegal active aggression on the residential area in bayrut, the goldilock solution, meaning that it was just about right, despite the fact that he's fully aware that two children under the age of 10 were killed in this strike. um, miller went further by repeating the israeli narrative about the golden heights attack in majd shams, which was we all know now was an israeli iron dome interceptor missile and not a hazballah missile as they tried to fl frame it. uh, they even tried to pin this specifically on the murder fod shukur, which is completely false, and even unifill said that they had no evidence to back these claims. true, so next we have msnbc again, but this time with retired colonel jack jacobs, who was a bit more professional than miller, as he spoke about the difficulties that will challenge israel in the event that netanyahu decides to push for a confrontation with hazballah in lebanon, so let's hear what he had to say on msnbc, uh, it'll give them pause, but they are still... going to have to respond in some way to keep faith with

, i'm gonna say this before i speak about syd fo'ad, the enemy described the aggression on southern bayrut, because what happened in southern beirout was an aggression, it wasn't only assassination, it was an aggression. let me say this from now, number one, an aggression in southern bayrut, the southern suburbs of the capital, that's number one, number two, striking civilian buildings, not a military base or military baracks, number three, there was death of civilians who were women and children. number four, targeting a senior commander in the resistance, we have to describe this because that is related to the stats, what was the way they described this aggression, because it's an aggression, they said it was a reaction and in the days before the aggression, "they were talking about an israeli reaction and we all have to await the israeli reaction or retaliation, and many countries interven, many of these countries are hypocritic countries, that there will be a retaliation, you have to accept the retaliation, you have to absorb the retaliation etc. and they have the right to retaliate, t

and in the islamic republic bayrut being there um the us also carried out attacks in a in iraq a base belonging to hashal shabi that you see over here um killing four members of the group there there are reports that one us force was also killed uh there was also attack that happened inside of syria by the israel regime let's not forget the pat that iran has exercised since operation allo flood. through almost 10 months of this genocide, ivan and the resistance groups have struck a balance that put pressure on israel regime with resistance groups sharply increasing attacks while avoiding an all-out war. example of these attacks have come from for example yemen, the islamic resistance in iraq, and more recently joint operations between the two against the israel regime such as on the port of haifa and even tel aviv itself. now in april iran. executed his biggest attack on israel, the first ever uh attack on the israeli regime on the occupied land directly, the name operation though promise, which i'm sure you heard of. hundreds of missiles and drones were launched in retaliation for an

after they've been martered. so after israel struck a residential building in the lebanese capital bayrut southern suburb to assassinate senior hizballah commander shukur the top military commander in hezballah social media was flooded with post paying respects to the revered and admired resistance commander who began his militant activities in lebanon's capital beirot and he quickly became key figure in resisting in the 1982 israeli invasion he participated in many notable battles. and he emerged as a significant commander and he helped establish resistance groups of course, including itself as a co-founder, social media immediately got busy revealing these heroic deeds over the years, since shukur was considered one of closest advisors in fact, and has been pursued by the united states for the alleged role he played in bombing operation that eliminated us and french soldiers deployed in lebanon during the civil war in the 1983 bay. barack's bombings and let's not forget there was a $5 million dollar reward placed uh looking for a while yeah so let's begin with sarah haj on x who posted

resistance leaders is of hamas and along with mr ali yah a standby on not standby he's on phone out of a bayrut mr us congress they listen to benjamin netanyahu tried to justify the gaza geness side and and they stood and gave him a standing ovation, stood and clapped for him dozens of times, as he shared many lies about gaza, and this is not press tv saying this, this is fact checked, most of what he said with the fact that he said barely any civilians have uh we've been killed in in rafa that we're not uh impeeding the entry of aid into gaza, he went on and on that that hamas doesn't want to cease fire that we're very flexible, hamas is not showing. flexibility in a ceasefire lie after lie fact check by western corporate media, but he still got a standard standing ovation every time he shared one of those lies by a us congress members and uh many say this was netanyahu uh carrying out a litmus test to see exactly how they respond after 10 months of genocide and gaza and then what did we see? we saw him getting boldened, he comes back to the region and carries out these two. of course we do kn

second is a retaliation to this crime, this crime, which i once again say, an aggression on southern bayrut, killing of civilians, women and children, and the killing and the assassination. they know that the resistance cannot but respond, that's clear, not up for debate, everything which is being said is brothers, be careful, that the retaliation be acceptable, etc. and they try to minimize the aggression and the true nature of the aggression which took place against us and against lebanon and southern beirout and the people in southern beirout and the resistance. today i don't want to use lot of words. the enemy and those who stand behind the enemy must await our coming retaliation which will be certain godwilling, the enemy and those who stand behind the enemy must wait for our upcoming retaliation, which will certainly come about god willing, there is no debate regarding this, and the days and the nights and the battlefield separates us. today, ever since them ofid, and now after the assassination of the leader hajhani, you know the entity is in the highest state of alert, the air force

press tvs, mariam sol joining us from the lebanese capital bayrut. now jordanians have once again been out on the streets to express support for the palestinian people, particularly though. is facing the us is ready genocide in gaza. the protest was held in the jordanian capital ammon after friday prayers, the demonstrators also slammed the torture and abuse of palestinian prisoners and israeli jails. they held banner saying the prisoners are the symbol of resilience on the path to victory and palestinian liberation. the plight of palestinian prisoners has come under renewed international spotlight after the recent emergence of a video showing israeli troops gang raping inmate. in their weekly pro-palestine rallies the jordanians have also been calling on their... to cut ties with israel and close the regime's embassy, you have any protesters have also poured onto the streets across the country and yet another manifestation of unwavering support for the palestinian people in the war ravaged gaza strip. protesters held pictures of assassinated top res

do to the retaliation to say forard, this crime, which i once again say, an aggression on southern bayrut, killing of civilians, women and children, and the killing and the assassination of the senior jihadi leader said for us, for all of those who are discussing with us in the world and who are contacting and who are talking, they know that the resistance cannot but respond in one sentence only, the enemy and those who stand behind the enemy must await our coming retaliation which will be certain. i will make very short answer. nazarlah said the confrontation with israel entered a new phase after the marturdom of top hezballah commander faad shukr and hamas political leader ismail hania. nasrolah warned israel and its western sponsors of painful and harsh response. he said israel invented the deadly rocket attack in the occupied golen heights to make up excuse for the assassination of resistance comment. also noted that leader of the islamic revolution ali khamenei and his remarks about ania assassination were more powerful than the ones made in response to israel's attack on iranian emb

thousands of morners marched through the streets of the capital bayrut to pay tribute to the senior hizbollahmmander, the waved hizbullah flags and charted slogans in support of the lebanese resistance group. the attendies slamed israel's recent assassinations calling for decisive retaliation. fuat chur was assassinated when an israeli drone hit hisbullah's. shura council in the heavily populated harit harik neighborhood, an iranian military advisor was also killed in the attack. according to lebanese health ministry, three women and two children also lost their lives. and as you can see breaking news coming in, the salvo rockets over fired from lebanon towards occupied palestinian territories in retaliation for israel's assassin. nation of fuad shook. now the secretary general of hezbollah resistance movement says retaliation for the assassination of top lebanese commander who was killed in an israeli strike in beirot is definite and inevitable. they must really put pressure and force israel to stop its aggression on gaza. there's nothing else to say, whoever you may kill, whatever. you may

stop functioning, would stop operations, but bengian no, the foreign airlines would stop coming to bayrut, would not stop coming to tel aviv, our economy would be damaged and their economy wouldn't be damaged, although their economy is big, if it's damaged it would show, and lebanon's economy, you all know, its situation, this is all changed today, this has all changed today and... the airlines they stop it, foreigners leave lebanon, they leave the entity, the people of the south on the border villages, they are displaced, and the settlers in northern palestine, 270, they're displaced, our homes are destroyed, their homes are destroyed, their factories are b, our factories burned, their factories burned, our people are afraid, their people are afraid, this is because of what, they have to take everything into consideration, take everything into consideration, they strike southern beirout, they send the message by the americans say, that's it, i've stopped. what does this mean you stopped? why? because war has its calculations, let no one intimidate you, brothers and sisters via war. i'm n

he mentioned that first, this aggression targeted the southern suburbs of bayrut, which symbolizes the capital. thus, the basis for the response and the nature of the target that the resistance will aim at stem from these four factors. practically, this is what worries zionist israel. defined these criteria in his speech, leaving no room for the enemy to ascertain that the response would target a specific place or time. therefore, the element of ambiguity falls within the framework of the... related response that the resistance in lebanon seeks. it is important emphasize that so far, the escalation of the war into full scale conflict is something that no one wants except perhaps one person. well, we had iran, iraq, lebanon and yemen all vow that they will retaliate and revenge for the rising marters of the resistance, but we had on the other side as well, israel, we have the us, we have. the uk, france, many other european countries that are ready to defend and protect syanis israel, and there's a possibility that even some arab states might use their interceptive defenses to stop any

bayrut being there um the us also carried out attacks in a in iraq a base belonging to hashal shabi that you see over here um killing four members of the group there. there are reports that one us um force was also killed. there was also attack that happened inside of syria by the israeli regime. let's not forget the patience that iran is exercised since operation alaxa flood. through almost 10 months of this genocide, iman and the resistance groups have... struck a balance that put pressure on israel regime with resistance groups sharply increasing attacks while avoiding an all-out war. example of these attacks have come from for example yemen, the islamic resistance in iraq, and more recently joint operations between the two against the israeli regime such as on the port of haifa and even tel aviv itself. now in april, iran executed its biggest attack on israel, the first ever uh attack on the israeli regime on the occupied land, directly the name operation true promise, which i'm sure you heard of, hundreds of missiles and drones were launched in retaliation for an israeli strike that

they've been martered, definitely, so after israel struck a residential building in the lebanese capital bayrut southern suburb to assassinate senior hizballah commander fuad shukr, the top military commander in hazballah, social media was flooded with post paying respects to the revered and admired resistance commander who began his militant activities in lebanon's capital beirot. and he quickly became key figure in resisting in the 1982 israeli invasion, he participated in many notable battles and he emerged as a significant commander and he helped establish resistance groups, of course, including hazballah itself as a co-founder. social media immediately uh got busy revealing these heroic deeds over the years, since shukur was considered one of sayid hassan's closest advisors in fact, and has been pursued by the united states for the alleged role he played. a bombing operation that eliminated us and french soldiers deployed in lebanon during the civil war in the 1983 barracks bombings and let's not forget there was a $5 million dollar reward placed uh looking for a while yeah so let's begin

spotlight with our guests. political analyst and academic ali hamiah joining us from the lebanese capital bayrut, and we also have actives and political analysts. bato sobeti joining us from the british capital, london. well, welcome to the program, to the both of you. let's start off with mr. hamia in beirot, uh, and uh, let's begin our discussion uh with uh with this horrendous appalling and gut-wrenching genocide that is going on. as we speak just last week, a dark milestone was passed with over 40,000 palestinians, mostly women and children. being slaughtered in cold blood and of course when the death when when the dust settles the death tool will definitely be much much higher. over 10 months of war crimes, bombings, starvation, sniping and etc. and the international community has sat idely by as these horrors unfold before our very eyes. mr. hamya, yes sir, i, i would like to start to say that we see that with every visit of us secretary of state to the area, we see new massacers committed by the israeli entity, and we see that they are talking about massacers, they are talking about we we

i think that is one reason why he opted escalate upon his return from washington. here in southern bayrut, that strike also in tahran, which israel hasn't admitted to, but it's almost certain that it's the one which is behind it, so the those factors, the israeli ideological stubborn ideological approach and the lack of decisiveness on the part of the americans, the american divisions between republican and democrat, the ovation, the reception which netanyahu received in washington, not only is that enabling israel to continue. it's enabling israel escalate, as i said, just right after coming back from washington, these two simultaneous strikes on bayrut and on tahran, and we're going to come back to that uh, his his us trip, but first i want to put this question to mr. sad, nimer, the yesterday, the security council, the emergency meeting on these assassinations, the uh palestinian temporary um envoy, that young lady said that violence and terror is israel's only currency that "the regime doesn't respect international law, any red lines, uh, doesn't not try to use diplomacy or compromise

he mentioned that first, this aggression targeted the southern suburbs of bayrut, which symbolizes the capital. second, there was an attack a civilian building. third, there were civilian murders and fourth, a senior military commander was targeted, thus, the basis for the response and the nature of the target that the resistance will aim at stem from these four factors. practically, this is what worries zionist israel: sayid defined these criteria in his speech, leaving no room for the enemy to ascertain that the response would target a specific place or time. therefore, the element of ambiguity falls within the framework of the calculated response that the resistance. it is important emphasize that so far the escalation of the war into full scale conflict is something that no one wants except well we had uh iran, iraq, lebanon and yemen all vow that they will retaliate and revenge for the rising marters of the resistance, but we had on the other side as well as israel, we have the us, we have the uk, france. many other european countries that are ready to defend and protect zinast is

we also know that the israeli entity aggressions have not been limited to the southern suburbs of bayrutnd 10 days before that an israeli attack on. ambiguity, in my opinion, was intentional to plunge the israeli entity into a state of uncertainty and anticipation. we can all observe the psychological state of the israeli entity settler community, anticipating the response. will it be collective or isolated? all these matters were deliberately left unclear. in my view, the response will span from tehran to the southern suburbs to yemen. as for the israely entity response to the resistances retaliation. i believe this will determine how things will unfold and where. through their mediators on what they called a measured response by hizballa is hizbullah is going to like take a tape and then measure how much he's going to response so israel won't have to reply back to uh to any kind of retaliation uh maybe that uh won't go as they uh wish i'm actually sure of that but is that an option for hizbullah given that the capital was hit mean beirot the capital was hit. and it's something that say

hizbillah has of course breviously maintained that they will retaliate for the strike on the capital bayrut uh and the assassination of course the strike on southern suburbs of beirot did not only lead to the assassination of top military commander for chukot but also to the killing of five in civilians two children uh and three women uh as a result of this attack and allah has said that this is a different course and a different path from or on ghazah and this also comes a time when of course the talks are going on. now when it comes to general cases, will this lead to a war? what we're looking at is up until now the israelies have avoided attacking civilians and this is probably what we're looking at. perhaps they are waiting to see the results, the results of the hizballah attack or that they were probably meeting right now to see what type of uh uh strike they will go on for lebanon, will they go for a further strike or will the talk that we heard the words we heard from the israeli uh regime's prime minister benjamin netanyahu talking about self-defense, talking about preemptive war, w

ali yahya is a standby on not standby he's on phone uh out of a bayrut mr shariyat us congress they listenahu tried to justify the gaza genis.

we are going to talk to today and i'm going to bring her right in here now uh khadi francis she is a bayrut based journalist and war correspondent we've had in just the last 72 hours we've had israel bombay root uh killing multiples many civilians actually i think the account keeps going up. and of course seven now seven yes um you seven seven in the attack on on dahi but then five yesterday and everyday they kill civilians it's a daily practice for them right right yes there has been fighting going on israel they say the north but really it is uh continued incursion into lebanese territory and of course the top commander one of the top commanders of hezbolah f was was killed, we also had top uh negotiator for hamas, killed as well, ismael uh hania, i believe pronounced his name, so these aggressions have happened in the last 72 hours to a week, and khadi, i wanted your assessment, because hasan nasarala has given his speech, has said that there will be retaliation, that there's a new phase of the war. now uh with israel, i wanted to know, because you're based in lebanon, you have such an e

mounting over the possible upcoming second phase of retaliation from hizbullah following the strikes on bayrutsential discussion on the real dynamics driving the conflict and the looming threats that could reshape the region. negotiation breakdown revealed this week on the medias stream. rest of the headlines, there's really occupation forces launched the largest military operation in two decades on the occupied west bank. "more palestinian civilians fall victim to israel's indiscriminated strikes across gaza, with overall death dolls are passing 40,500, and iran and turkmenistan signed several cooperation agreements to pave the way for strategic partnership in different fields.

an all-out regional war. the first one claimed by israel killed hisbullah chief of staff, shukr in bayrutook the life of hamas political bureau chief ismail hania in the iranian capital tehran. now israel hasn't claimed responsibility for that one, but the killing has israel

mounting over the " possible upcoming second phase of retaliation from hisbollah following the strikes on bayrut

can see some live images that we are receiving from doha. we have our correspondent with us live from bayrut. mariam, i'm not sure if you're watching these live images that we are receiving from doha after the massive funeral procession that was held yesterday in tehran with iranians coming from even cities far from tehran to attend the ceremony, now we are witnessing a funeral procession in doha. tell us your thoughts on this tragic event. and of course israel crossing all the international red lines, yes of course, well we can from noticing of course and observation of the the funerals of we can see how significant he was to the people, especially in the funeral that was held in the in iran, and you can see that it was very popular funeral, whereas in doha it seems to be more off. actually um and despite the fact for there is of course lot of attendance and the palestinian factions themselves have gathered and and they have united it seems and even here in lebanon we heard condemnation from all the palestinian factions despite perhaps that they could have be could be differences sometimes

the dual assassination of the head of hamas's political bureau ismaal hania in tehen and bayrut's southernילה בבהירות, ואני מדגיש בכוונה את המקומות, כי למקומות יש חשיבות רבה, רמתכל חמאס, חזבלה כמו שהוא מכונה, ואניה בתהרן, זה שני מקומות שיש להם מסר מאוד חד וברור שינות המרחק, כי הקו הזה בין תהרן לבין בהירות לבין ישראל הוא קו מאוד ברור, שאתה מסתכל פה על ראש המערכת ואתה מסתכל פה רגע על יחסי הכוחות. so mr. ruddwan, i mean as we saw here, the attacks in tehran and in the southern suburb of beirot can significantly affect the battle as the analysts did say here uh, how serious of an impact are we talking about? well, it's very serious, because uh, especially it came after the netanyahu visit to united states. his speech in front of the congress on and all the support that he got from the congressman there, i think he came back with agenda and it's no one can believe that these attacks took place without the permission and the green light from the united states, so it's a new step evolved in the in the battle, and now it seems that the americans have took the decision, evolve this this war to a di

after many countries denounced it from all over the world, the crime of the aggression on southern bayrut and the targeting of the senior commander in was also similar, a clear aggression and the dangerous escalation. with the continuation of the crimes in gaza and the mass massicers which reached this week around 25ive massagers and the brutal. this level of escalation and the ongoing criminality is very clear that it is linked to the vision of the criminal to the united states of america whereby he returned and carried out these crimes and at the same time. were american measures which were taken in the gulf and in the mediterranean sea, so the americans are a clear accomplice, at the same time, they speak about the necessity of not expanding the war, then they provide support and participate along with the israeli enemy in expanding this war and escalate by committing large scale crimes and then they say they don't want to expand the war or they want escalate. and they give the opportunity for the israeli enemy and they allow them to do whatever they want, then they say they don't want

aggressions that are being committed by the israelies other than the attack on the southern suburbs of bayrut. now yesterday we had of course uh very significant operations and in addition to the ones that you mentioned um which have only been broadcast by the israeli. media, we still don't have statements coming out from hezballah except for one where they say they have targeted the al marge post which is near the border, however when it comes to the mitat and the other we start waiting for a statement on that from hazballah but has for example yesterday used in several instances drones and when they say drone they're talking about squadrons of drones and the number of thrones is even not stated in the statements and even the israeli meed and military as when they tried to get that answer from the israeli military, they had no response, so the israelies could not even identify and know the number of drones that are being flown from lebanon, so that in itself is very significant security breach for this is in addition to the fact that yesterday was able to get their to let their drones fly ov

is doing some kind of victory, you know, and to say that israel can reach everywhere, from tahran to bayrut to anywhere, even to al hudaida fee in in in yemen, and we can reach everywhere, and we are still strong army. thank you very much, professor. we also have with us mr. barry grossman who is an international lawyer uh who is joining us from vali, indonesia. uh, mr. grossman, uh, let's discuss uh more the uh international uh implications of this and what this means in international law. we do know that many red lines were crossed by the israeli regime to commit this uh act of aggression on iranian soil. assassinating a politician with a diplomatic passport who was taking part in a ceremony upon an official invitation, so an official guest of a state was assassinated on iranian soil, and that goes against international law. iran has announced that it does reserve uh the right to respond, but could you tell us more about how this can be legally pursued, both, by iran and on an international scale, but should this go to the icc or the icj, which they seem to be after so many years finally

thanks to author and researcher daniel yegic joining us from the lebanese capital bayrut. thank you, mr. khalid barakot, spokesperson of the massar battle movement joining us from vancouver, and also special thanks to you our viewers for. staying with us on tonight spotlight, it's good night for now and see you next time. in the heart of tehran amits the fervor of

now people in the lebanese capital bayrut have bid their farewell to the hezballah military commandern nasulah vowed to that the lebanese resistance movement will avenge israel's killing of its commander. our correspondent in beirot, marm salh reports. secretary general say has described as inevitable the retaliation for israel's killing of the lebanese movement's top commander. the enemy and those who are behind it must await our inevitable response. "there's no doubt in this regard, the upcoming days and nights, as well as a battlefield will prove we are working a real and very calculated respts. during the funeral ceremony of hazballah commander fuad chukar who was killed in an israeli strike on a residential building in a beerut suburb, nasalah underlined that israel has seriously crossed the red lines. the hazbillah chief added that the region has entered a new era following the assassination of both fuad chuker and head of hamas political bureau." we are with the resistance and stand by the resistance, we are the people of the resistance, and this israely aggression is not new f

of the founding members of hazballah in 1982 and who took part in resisting the israeli invasion of bayrut fighting of the enemy in oz and she posted the following: after israeli invasion of lebanon in 1982, 10 young men met in a mosk in the random slums of beirot and pledged to resist israeli invaders until martter them. the names and pics of nine were known, yesterday, the 10th joined, it was fuad ali shukr, and that is how hazballah started. yeah, it's profound. yeah, so next we have richard medhurst to commented on the pretext given by israel for targeting the martter said muhsin, which by the way marwah. proves this has nothing to do with majd shamps, yeah, the way israel tried to promote it, yeah, and make it seem, so richard wrote, israelies are trying to justify murdering for shukat for bombings in the 1980s, these are the same people who would silence anyone who tried to bring up the nakbah or any other date prior to october 7, 2023. following richard, we have vanessa beili, who shared photos of the majestic scene in the streets of tahran during the funeral procession of the martt

what happened and the cheering that they were happy about you know killing han and fuad shukr in in bayrut and now they know that they are you know waiting for the retaliation and this thing is making you know on the psychological level uh the israel are really really in the last few days they are you know as as hasanlah sayid he said they will be standing on one and a half leg which is true today in israel as we can see from the israeli media as well as what we know from what's coming out from the israeli leaders or previous leaders generals and also officials and politicians who was talking about this was kind of a without saying it clearly, but they indicated that it was a mistake, a big mistake. the outcome of the assassination of haniah to the contrary, make the man more and more popular. and make him more and more, if you like, dear everyone, which means that by the end of the day he's representing hamas, it means that hamas is not a terrorist organization, it is a freedom fighters who are trying to liberate their country from an occupation which was there for the last 76 years, righ

something that we need to wait and see. thanks on, mariam press joining us from the lebanese capital bayrut. morners have gathered in the southern lebanies village of sham told a funeral ceremony for a syrian family killed in an israeli air strike. the lebanese health ministry said a syrian woman and her three children were killed in the israeli strike, the ministry added that five lebanese citizens were also wounded in the attack, israel has increased the attacks on residential areas and killings of civilians in lebanon as the regime has failed. to stop hezbollah's retaliatory missile and drone strikes. yemenes have once again poured onto the streets and yet another friday of nationwide rallys in support of the palestinians in war ravaged gaza. the demonstrations were held in different cities, including saada and the capital san all. the protesters have expressed their strong outrage over israel's assassination of hamas political leader ismail hania holding his pictures during the rallies. they called on the resistance forces in the region to take firm action. in retaliation. the yemani pr

thanks to author and researcher daniel yegic, joining us from the lebanese capital bayrut. thank you, mr. khalid barakot, spokesperson of the massar battle movement, joining us from vancouver, and also special thanks to you our viewers for staying with us on tonight spotlight. it's good night for now and see you next time. when human beings first decided to domesticate animals and keep pets at home, they had different goals in mind, but now the idea has been taken to a whole new level, watch in the... documentary how animals are suffering at the hands of human beings and how keeping animals has changed people's lives. your headlines on press tv: iran once again condemns the assassination of the hamas leader in tehran warning it dangers, regional and international peace and stability. yemanies hold another friday of mass rallies to hold to honor the late hamas. as many and reiterate their support for the palestinian people, and more civilians are killed in israel's attacks on gaza, where the total death toll from the regime's onsload nears 39,500.

aggressions that are being committed by the israelis other than the attack on the southern suburbs of bayrut. now yesterday we had of course very significant operations and in addition to the ones that you mentioned um which have only been broadcast by the israeli media. we still don't have statements coming out from hazbillah except for one where they say they have targeted the al marge post which is near the border. however, when it comes to the mitat and the other we still... waiting for a statements on that from hazbullah, but hazbullah for example yesterday used in several instances drones and when they say they're talking about squadrons of drones and the number of of drones is even not stated in the statements and even the israeli media and military analys when they tried to get that answer from the israeli military they had no response so the israelies could not even identify and know the number of drones that are being flown from lebanon's that in itself is very significant security breach for hezballah. this is in addition to the fact that yesterday was able to get their to let the

mounting over the possible upcoming second phase of retaliation from hisbollah following the strikes on bayrut

we are going to talk to today and i'm going to bring her right in here now uh khadi francis she is a bayrut

jamal wakim, professor of international relations, the lebanese university, out of bayrut. well, thank you both for being with me, starting it off with ken in hamilton. i mean, can, what do you make of that major drop on the israeli stock exchange on sunday and monday? i mean, what does it indicate to you? israel is under a growth. pressure, economic pressure, political pressure, international pressure, social pressure, all kinds of pressure, but the the main fact is that the using witnessing the sterling example of the economic blockade of the red sea and now of the eastern mediterranean, and the the... evacuation of settlements near gaza and in the north near lebanon, the israeli economy is in a nose dive and it is suffering greatly, and this is part of the the war picture, the the total war picture, of course we have to note that the international stock market also plunged yesterday and today, and to my mind this is part of not just the... israeli society coming apart at the seams, but it appears to me that the us empire, this house of cards that they have built for 75 y

vast military power will deter hazballah from seeking retribution for the killing of h a commander in bayrut. this calculation was and americans have said this, israel have said this, they said will not dare, they will not dare attack us, because that could trigger a war in which lebanon will be destroyed etc. this is a miscalculation of the enemy if you want, and and and that is why i think also they cannot calculate what's going to happen next. they don't understand how far hisballah is willing to go, how far iran or hamas or anybody else or the hies for that matter who are still of course blocking. ships going into the mediterranean into the red sea, so i think there's there's miscalculation about the potentiality of response from the axes that's opposing israel, what's called the axes of resistance, and i think the american and the israeli intelligence, and they are partners of course, full partners, they really need to reassess what they know about the... forces that oppose them and try to understand what can drive them and what doesn't drive them, and so far they have not faired so wel

assassination of its top commander. press tv's mariam salah is joining us now from the lebanese capital bayrut with all the latest on the uh hezballah israeli tensions that are ongoing in the along the south lebanese border. mari, would you have to share with us and our viewers at this point? well, in addition to what you mentioned those really aggressions, we also know from hazullah that a sixth member of the resistance has been also killed, now it's not clear whether this last attack was, the last murder was a result of the attack on the tire road, it was also another drone attack against the vehicle, we did see that today, israel definitely escalating their strikes against many areas in lebanon, areas that go far away from the border, also not even close to the border and the main confrontation zone, and the last of which was a direct attack on the on this vehicle which is said to be between the roads of mataka and tardiba, which is very close to the city of tyre, and this is area which is relatively considered far away from the border, there are civilians in that area, and of course we we

um assassination attempts that we've we've been seeing, one that took place in the lebanese capital bayrutourse, a concerted effort by some arab governments a form of sanctions and and cancelling normalization agreements, they would have been necessary, they could have gone a long way in quelling the behavior of the israeli regime. the main question here is why has that not happened? well, unfortunately some of the arab countries which... nations are among the richest nations in the world and these governments are the richest governments and they have so many resources and if they wanted to simply as they say if they would just drop one bucket of water on israel there would be huge flood uh over the israelis but uh there are three different scenarios that the zionists are pursuing first of all they are moving forward. islamophobic agenda, not allowing the true face of islam to be known to the world, they create uh groups like daesh (terrorist group) so that the world does not know what true islam is, the second scenario is iranophobia uh trying to scare other countries from iran saying tha

of iran and hizballah's response to the assassinations of han and tehran and the southern suburbs of bayrutם החלטה ללכת על חזבלה, אבל כן מדרדרים להסלמה של מול החזבלה ומול איראן, זאת אומרת, זה לא, זה לא החלטה בשליטה, זה החלטה כתוצאה מחוסר שליטה, מחוסר החלטה מפוקחת ללכת לזה, ואני לא חושב שאנחנו ערוכים למלחמה בהיקף הזה. well doctor, i mean earlier in the show you mentioned how the israelis are deliberately trying to drag the americans into the war, could you elaborate a bit on that point? uh, well uh, netanyahu has been trying to do this uh over the past decade, thinking that the iranians should be stopped at all cost from acquiring the nuclear edge and the nuclear weapon, and for this is... one thing, another thing is that iran over the past decade has been the main or the backbone of the axis of resistance that was trying to block the us zinist project to shed its hegemony over the middle east, so that's why he thought that the american approach to contain iran was not efficient and that... things should be handled the hard way, which is to launch a full scale attack on the iranians and on i

our bayrut correspondent mariam saul joined us earlier with the details: of course there was a lot was really aggressions, they targeted area in the darn town where there was a group of young men who were gathered in the center of the town uh that led to the wounding of six of them and one of them also was murdered and here we're talking about 17-year old 16-year old. the israelis also targeted several areas, for example and it seems that the israelis target several tap bombings as they call them, they target one area and then they make sure the entire house is demolished in other um consecutive bombs in the town offarkila there were at least four different instances of shelling, has of course has retaliated for these attacks, specifically they mentioned today and job they said that they targeted residence which is used by soldiers in the settlement of mutilli, they also targeted the settlement, the polonial settlement of shomi. also targeted two different posts in the occupied lebanese territories. of course hezbollah has definitely made a distinction between the operations that are i

our bayrut correspondent mariam salah brings us more. the israelis are using today uh more uh tank uh bombs actually there. launching uh several attacks against, for example, you have the town of ramya, at least five uh instances of shelling from markava tanks uh were witnessed towards the town uh, you also had direct attacks on itashab also through markava tanks, another markava tank in the and the uh the eastern side they targeted also the quarshuba town as well, we also had lot of uh shelling uh against the towns of kinhammam and of course hizballah has retaliated um for many of the israeli aggressions and most of the attacks that they conduct of course against israeli military posts they always mention the fact that this is in retaliation for all the israeli aggressions on lebanon in addition to the fact that this is in support to for the the people of palestine and especially the resistance in ghaza. we have also from israeli media saying that the area of juma there there are two rockets that landed from lebanon into the area of jum

israeli aggressions, this is in addition to the the breaking of sound barrier that reached the capital bayrut, and there were really heavy sounds today from the war planes that sounded as if they were explosions deep in the... heart of the capital beirot, but of course that is part of the israely attempts to try to make more terror and atmosphere of terror, now when it comes to the analysis of course the israelis continuously are talking about the fact that they are on high alert, um, there's so much apprehension within the regime, they've made sure that their people whether in the in alqs in the heart of also the regime's home front in telaviv um preparing the shelters, telling them that you will only have 90 seconds to reach those shelters, this is all in apprehension of the possible retaliation from pussiblah's resistance as well as the islamic republic of iran, but of course uh we hear even from western media like foreign policy for example uh saying through their analysis that uh um the israelis are attempting through the latest wave of assassinations whether in lebanon or in uh iran uh

you, thank you, the fear of retaliation for the assassinations of marters and the southern suburb of bayrut increases with each passing minute. evacuation measures in the north, including factories, continue. חיפה, שיהיה ירי לחיפה במסגרת התגובה, ולכן, למרות שההנחיות לא השתנו, בעירייה כן ממליצים לתושבי חיפה לשעות מעכשיו כבר בסמוך למרחבים מוגנים, זאת כאמור למרות שההנחיות שפיכוד העורף לא השתנו, יש גם תגבור צבטים ועבודה במתכונת חירום שהוא הרחה כרגע עד ליום ראשון. צעד נוסף שנעשה כאן בגזרה, מפעלים בטווח של 40 קילומטר מהגבול שיש בהם חומרים מסוקנים, קיבלו צבעי הפסקת פעילות, יש כמה עשרות מפעלים כאלה. the confusion is not limited to the... state of alert as it is today? well, of course, it's the first time israel has been on this state of alert, and that's for several reasons. first of all, this is the first war where israel treats it as an existential threat for it, so israel is, they declared that, well we our existence is under threat, and at when at the time this existence under threat, and let me declare here that it said this when gaza started the war, now with several fronts, one of them is ir

threats of retaliation for the assassination of marter commander fuad shukud in the southern suburb of bayruton their retaliation, so basically we can see a wider war in both cases, correct? it depends really on how israel wants to react towards hizballah and iran's retaliation, israel has two choices, evil either to uh stop what it's doing after hizbolah and iran's retaliation and they israel is being deterred, or it continues? the escalation and then the region will be going towards regional war. mr. dr. mohammed based on your experience and expertises of course uh could we in fact see because you're mentioning the iran's retaliation hisballah retaliation could we in fact see a unified retaliation from not only iran and hizballah but let's not forget the yemenis. you know one of the best things the acts of resistance do is to always be vague this access has so many choices and today inside of israel. thinking, well, what will happen in the next couple of days? will iran retaliate alone, will hizballah alone? will it be axis retaliation? will they be assassination, destruction, missiles, roc

lebanon's hezballah and the isid regime could lead to. let's see what i guess told us. braham saw. from bayrut joins us, we also have masod shajar chairman of the islamic human rights commission who joins us from london. welcome to you both, mariam salv, first over to you. we spoke to you a couple hours back, have there been new developments since then? yes, we are definitely getting lot of developments on the southern front. of course, lot of the news comes from the israeli media, since it is better to know what is happening on that side. they are talking about some 80 rockets uh fired from lebanon, and they have admitted. that number of those rockets have reached their target in the colonial settlement of capri uh in addition to the fact that sirens were sounding over at least six settlements in the gileli region especially in the western guilli for example elon, afdon and manot and nifeziv um sirens were sounding all across those settlements, it's not clear whether the rockets reached those areas or not, we also know from the israel media that the 146th brigade the... headquarters of that b

this crime, which i once again say, an aggression on southern bayrut, killing of civilians, women and children, and the killing and the assassination of the senior jihadi leader sayid, for us. for all of those who are discussing with us in the world and who are contacting and who are talking, they know that the resistance cannot but respond in one sentence. the enemy and those who stand behind the enemy must await our coming retaliation which will be certain godwilling the enemy and those who stand behind the enemy must wait for our upcoming retaliation which will certainly come about godwilling there is no debate regarding this said the confrontation with israel entered new phase after the martidom of the top. commander fuad shukr and hamas political leader ismail hanyer. nasolah warned israel and his western sponsors of painful and harsh response. he said israel invented the deadly rocket attack in the occupied golen heights to make up excuse for the assassination of resistance commanders. nashrolah also noted that the leader of the islamic revolution, ayatollah sad ali khamani's re

let's get a little bit more on this from muhammad obaid who is a political commentator joining us from bayrut. mohammed obaid, welcome. so here you have this revelation uh made of which we have the brutality that uh the us during its occupation of iraq executed and in this case some point uh looking at uh if i uh may say massacer that took place. now the photos uh have uh made these revelations public. what are... your thoughts on this, thank you for having me, now this is sort of, i cannot accept that this is just facac acts of across act, rather as part of the ploy or the plot to just serve the... image that america saard of human rights and not allowing any crimes whereas the whole issue the whole decision starting with the sanctions up till to the invasion of 2003 were all full of killing of innocent including the indirect killing of children. and while preventing or not allowing the proper medicine to enter iraq and so the whole the whole act, whole two or three decades were full of massacers perpetrated by the american forces before and after the occupation, for someone to come and tell