isis may on al jazeera, what happens in new york has implications all around the world. it's international perspective with the human touch, zooming way in, and then pulling back out again. ah ah ah 74 seconds of sirens to mark 70 more years in time, nature and dispossessed of their land. ah, climes, jeremy's aid and joining us here live in ramallah for special coverage of the event

known as a neck of the great catastrophe. it was the moment when 500 palestinian towns and villages were destroyed. there was the moment when palestinians were turned into refugees in their own country. let me explain a little bit about the geography and why, where here, if you were to look over to your screen, right, you would see beyond those buildings is israel. the lands from which many palestinians had to flee from? when did that by happened? well, they moved over into refugee camps like this one, which is in front of me. that is al jealous on refugee camp, run by the united nations, a very compact place, a tough place to live in 1967. israel then occupied this area where we're sitting now the occupied west bank and started constructing illegal settlements

like this one illegal under international law. baby bilbury nevertheless, exists very different living conditions. what does that mean for the palestinians here in a jealous aud another refugee camps. they got sandwiched between israel proper on one side and settlements dancing them on another that makes life for them even more difficult. how or that's what we're going explain to you today in the course of our coverage will be speaking to our 2 guests who and joining me here in a very windy rooftop. thanks for putting up with the wind. we have jada how ali, she's a senior analyst at the shabba, covent palestinian policy let for her. we have also a de la hart. she's assistant professor of conflict resolution and diplomacy at the arab american university. her grandma well, the still a lot of history and details to get through. so maybe we should start by going back to that beginnings in this package where i explain how it all began. this is what

the zionist movement termed a land without a people. but in reality, during the 19th century, the land had an overwhelming majority native palestinian population. the majority will muslim with christians making up around 11 percent and the small palestinian jewish minority of around 3 percent. but by 1917 britain had occupied palestine. the country's foreign secretary wanted to win favor with the powerful zionist movement. after balfour committed to supporting the establishment of a national homeland for jews in palestine as occupation authority settled, increasing numbers of jewish immigrants from europe. palestinians began rebelling, jews from europe felt their religious beliefs and the historical existence of jewish communities and the land entitled them to palestine. palestinians felt their country was being given away by foreigners to foreigners. in 1947,

britain announced it would hand over palestine to the u. n. to sort out. in the same year, the u. n. proposed establishing 2 states against the wishes of the majority, our population. the majority of the country would go to the jewish immigrant population, which owned only 6 percent of the land and constituted only a 3rd of the population. and the native palestinians, they'd get less than half of their own country. the jews accepted the un plan, but palestinians rejected it. war broke out during which design ethnically cleansed, the estimated 750000 palestinian arabs. in may, 948 design is declared. the establishment of the state of israel. the palestinians were out gummed a zionist, overran palestinian towns and villages in some places like that. he has seen zionist forces massacred the civilian population, residence of other palestinian towns simply fled in fear. hundreds of thousands of

palestinians were displaced as jews, celebrated palestinians marked the great catastrophe, all neck for the zine as quickly absorbed, conquered palestinian towns into their new state of israel. as many palestinians languished in refugee camps a park with fields and flowers. you know, they all seem so tranquil now. but appearances can be deceiving because this was one, the palestinian village of a bullet, swept by the turmoil of an extra 10 israeli national park to day. the out of houses of gone we wandered around, but it's hard to find the remnant of the palestinian village to touch or hold onto . and yet for sure how to leave it all still there in his memory. now, living in holland dear refugee camp, he was forced to flee a poor june 948 when he was 18 years old. but he still holds on to what left the

keys to his house, the powerful recollections that sometimes capture his gaze. in your hood above albert, the jews attacked the town. there were 4 people with mental disabilities who didn't understand that they should stay indoors. so they were killed by the zionist shilling. i did not see the zionists, but i heard the show them. why haven't you gone back to the porch? colored a steady. yes. the eldest decided we should stay out of the town for a week or a month or a couple of months until the zionists leave. but they never left our town. and eventually our hope of attorney died. who was the head of your home? there were a few people who tried to sneak back into a badge at night, but the zines called them and killed them. how could anyone think of returning after that? he longed to set foot again in his village. he still remembers its water wells and trees fondly. but israel generally does not allow palestinians into what is now

israel even for a visit if they don't have his railey citizenship. israeli id cards or special permits could only give him a glimpse of what it looks like today. a grandfather displaced heartbroken and still hoping to return his power. thousands displacement seems the distance is ever the we have correspondence rise of cross occupied palestinian territories to cover and mark this special event. we have him in occupied ramallah. we have also him on hon. he's in ship jaguar, neighborhood of occupied east jerusalem. you said will be joining us from besieged garza and nick clark. is that the damascus gate and occupy these jews? well for palestinian 948, wasn't the end of the class was just simply the beginning to see today the ra

estimates and 7200000 palestinian refugees worldwide. israel prevents them from returning to the land. 5.7000000 of those registered with the un are in the occupied west bank golf, the syria, jordan and lebanon. well, israel is built around $250.00 illegal settlements for jewish only communities in the occupied west bank and occupied east jerusalem. also imposed severe restrictions on palestinians. freedom of movement. there are about $700.00 roadblock including a 100 and salty checkpoints right across the west bank for palestinians. but settlers and other israelis, they get to move freely and for more than 14 years, garza has been cut off from the outside world by israel's land air and sea blockade . well, the killing of our colleagues should we enable our clerk just highlighted some of the challenges that exist in this part of the world. al jazeera is right now

holding a memorial ceremony for her. let's go over to need that abraham. she joins us from that. in rome, alida, oh, this is the 1st week to be held for sitting a balcony here. and i'm a law. and even before it started, we've seen the roads block too many car arriving so many people want to pay her tribute. i'm gonna ask my government joseph to pan and show you the numbers of people that are coming in from all walks of life, women, organizations, activists, medics, politicians, lots of lots of people also coming in palestinian his way these cultural figures. everyone wants to say that they loved shitty and some of them have watched the find . the report that she's worked on, which talks about neck back while she had even isn't here and couldn't see that.

but a poor to go an air. she knew that mac back is still going on just a few days ago with been in my 30 a fall, which is in the south of the occupied westbank. people were telling us that is really plans aim to dis, possessed them. of their lands. halima unit says israel considers her existence a threat just because she's a palestinian iraq eugene who was forced out of her home in 1948. now she's threatened to be evicted again. she's been living in this cape and miss ashford here thought. the southern hebron hills for decades, gary said regulate the 80 year old, gave birth to her children here in the very same cave and tells us she doesn't want to be buried anywhere else. oh well, le mars or la mad them, our suffering is not over. as long as we are here, they are brutalizing our light. if they just leave us and let us be, we'd have a good life in halima who up witnessing shrinking,

palestinian lance and more illegal is ready. supplements locals here have recently lost a 20 year legal battle to allow them to stay. they have little hope and is ready justice, like many other palestinians. they believe israel supreme court is part of white washing the occupation. for decades, israel has been using different methods. the strip palestinians out of their clothes, military areas, weapons ranges, natural reserves, and state labs are old. but some ways to push palestinians out at the same time is really supplements. considered illegal under international law are expanding, although the very same land every year. palestinians mark neck, which means catastrophe in arabic. thus when more than 700000 people were forced out of their homes by the creation of israel, 74 years on. many here, save that now isn't just a memory. but our reality with israeli land grabs evictions and illegal supplement

expansion, they want the world to know that the neck back is continuing every day. those who left their homes thinking they'll be back within days, have had their children and grandchildren, born in refugee camp refugees in palestine and that they asp. exceed 6000000 people . i don't 10000 refugees live in the full war. refugee camp near hebron city south of the occupied west bank since its establishment in 1948. its population has tripled. amazon nephew's will volunteers to organize fun activities with children. while he teaches them songs about the return. he does not think it's possible in his lifetime. miss mary got l m and then we'll shave. i've lost hope. not that i don't want to return the situation and what they have planned for. i suggest that it's over. we've lost our lands, they sold us. as time passes, the waiting goes on and palestinians,

now we're even struggling to stay on the little land that is left. accountability is the main word here. people us come and they say that they want justice push, read, and for all the other is really crime. people say they have no doubt that israel has killed sheree. they say that israel is not only targeting palestinian, but also the journalist worth reading the words out about what's happening to palestinians who have been living under a military occupation. well, the brutal killing of our colleagues. surely not just another reminder, like how the life of proficiency spent her life documenting blaming through the world. huh. jump june. now look back on what her life and death her for her friends and her family. then as well with the wealthy

that i had to help when a voice as vital as should ina blacklist is silenced before my grief is immeasurable. the pain is almost too much to bear known by many as the daughter of palestine. the veteran l just needed journalist was shot dead by his really forces in the occupied west bank on wednesday. while on an assignment in the city of jeanine. for her friends and colleagues, the loss has been devastating. she was born in res, end up in jerusalem on their occupation. she was telling the story that she was living every day. she was not just telling the story of the people. she was telling the story the story off her life as well, and this is what made her magically and i could look up. shaheen was one of edges he had. his 1st field correspondence in having joined the channel in 1997,

covering the 2nd into father didn't just turn her into a household name. it also transformed her into a role model. on the air, the palestinian american trailblazer showcased the power of journalism baja while off the air. she taught journalism classes, inspiring women and men to always speak truth to power for many of the younger journalists. in fact, for most of us, she wasn't either. somebody would look up to, she knows her facts, she knows the story. she knows how to connect to people. she wasn't here. she loved what she got. thousands came out on friday and occupied east jerusalem to pay their respects. but earlier, as the funeral procession began to st. joseph hospital in the shifter rough neighborhood, they were confronted with the ultimate sign of disrespect. ah, as mourners were attacked by his really forces,

pall bearers struggled to prevent should ins, coughing from hitting the ground. people were pulled out of the hearse. israeli forces also removed the palestinian flag that everyone was their sport there too is to show their support and love and an end of the day, even if she was not even that day. close to the funeral was was violent. the funeral procession leader resumed and reached a cathedral in the christian quarter of the old city. oh, where a service was held before she read was laid to rest. next to her parents, grave site at the mount zion protestant cemetery, pablo hawkins. she went into the hearts of every single palestinian and i daresay, every arab household closet touching the floor, being in the way that she had of bringing to life the reality of israel's brutal

occupation. those are the tools i didn't that i needed in her reporting. should ina barkley combined unwavering strength and steadfast empathy? you will know how well ethan johan, telling the story of her people as clearly and thoughtfully as possible. why did her voice may have gone silent? oh, but it will continue to reverberate tele homes of nano, paula, mamma, jim john, as visitor ah, well international and palestinian, not journalistic organizations, media organizations. they launched an accusation, a case, a formal complaint to the international criminal court last month, accusing israel of committee crimes against journalists. the committee to protect journalists says $24.00. not including sure enough arc law have been killed in israel and the occupied palestinian territory. since 2002 other press freedom,

advocates have reported even higher numbers. will israel systematically targets journalists, including al jazeera, has been the finding of several human rights groups in 2010. it detained several on board, a humanitarian flotilla, heading to garza last year israel bomb the building with me. the offices including al jazeera in the occupied garza strip. barely a month later was ready forces arrested al jazeera of journalists, yavara bal daily. as she covered a demonstration in the chef jar off neighbourhood of occupied east jerusalem. although the i spoke to pierre husky is the president of reporters without borders and i asked him about these kinds of events. first of all, it may convey my condolences for the tragic deaths of so uh sure in no, it hasn't. and it, it, it, the requirements are not there. we've been calling and many people. i've been

calling for an international investigation to go to the bottom of, of this case. and we have some experiences already. you know, 35 journalists have said, have been killed in israel and palestine in the past 20 years. and none of the investigations, gary dod, by these radio men, me jump in, if i could, cuz you mentioned something really interesting there. you said that have been calling on israel to allow an international investigation. what kind of response do you get from israeli authorities to that kind of request? is there any indication that they would be open to an international investigation to cooperate with it? no, there is no indication yet or is it the israeli authorities have been giving the usual response that they are conducting their own investigation. but are we all feel whether it's the un security call yesterday or the u. s. state department or,

and geo is like ours as been calling for an independent inquiry and that a cannot be as solely from the israeli army. and there is no sign yet, or that said the id that israel is is ready to comply. but we think that the pressure is unprecedented on this case, and we're hoping that these really authorities will change their mind on this independent inquiry at what the make of how the israel position has evolved over time. at the beginning we heard statements from israeli officials, we'll kind of pointing the blame and direction of the palestinians since then. their statements have kind of taken a different direction to include, at least in their minds, the possibility that they did actually kill sharing. yes, i think it has followed the kind of usual past in the, in the sense that the immediate, an automatic response is to blame the palestinians for what happened. they probably

underestimated at that point. the outcry that it would generate worldwide. and certainly it has forced the israeli authorities to pull back on this initial statement and that least leave the door open for their own responsibility, or if the investigation goes through. but it's not enough. and. and as i said earlier, we needs an independent inquiry. but it's a good sign that the authorities in israel, i've been responding to the, the pressure on their initial statement, which was really a baseless part. you mentioned a moment ago. there's been no indication that israel will be open to an international inquiry without the internationalization of the investigation. what does that mean for the chances of accountability? well, without an international presence,

i think there will be no accountability. we have to be very clear about that. and it's very interesting that in, in the midst of the ukraine war and the intention that we heard a lie there when do as a listening. why good? because the records are for the past 20 years, for the 35 journalists who have been killed in particularly in the policy and 30 tories as been no accountability, never that for a single case. so we have no reason to believe that this will be different. this time and, and it's very interesting that in the middle of the international divisions, the un security council was able to produce a unanimous statement calling for an in it and the needed transparent and thorough investigation into this case. so i think the, the, the level of international consciousness on, on this case is, is quite unprecedented. and i don't think it is. well,

we can't get away with it. i've got to ask you one more question since it is also the one year anniversary. since the destruction of that me, the building housing, the facilities of al jazeera and associated press, how much progress has there been towards any sense of investigation, transparency or accountability for that? there's been no progress to be honest or that can be spoken of because it, it, israel says it's a, it's the middle of the war. it doesn't take it to account that are targeting a media bill day is considered a war crime in this contradicting every or international low or resolution that exists particularly resolution to a to, to a, to of the, a un security counselor from 2015, which it stays clearly that journalists should be treated as civilians and therefore cannot be a target in a war. so,

or this is very clear and there's been no sign yet there again, or of any accountability. well, sadly, the killing of shooting ball cloud colleague is not the only last that journalists have suffered in this part of the world a year ago. exactly to the day. one of the main media buildings, residential buildings, is also how's the off of al jazeera and a p was destroyed by this re the missile strike. we can go over now to the stage. you stand by live for us in garza a lot of catastrophes for palestinian there to remember on this day of next. right yuma yes indeed. the done. i mean the 15th of may now commemorates many, many really sad incidents for the palestinians here in gaza. it's not just the 74th anniversary of nick bar, which keeps our catastrophe which keeps it's, it's, it's,

it's results in the everyday life of palestinians as many as e, as you know, many palestinians in the gaza strip are refugees living in a besieged strip for more than 14 years now, this even adds more to the deteriorating life in the gaza strip that everyone is living. within. also the 15th of may, the last may war, one of the bloodiest wars, and actually it has been the bloodiest since the 2014 of war. it was only for 11 days, but the amount of destruction that was caused in that war. many civilians were killed more than $260.00. a more over, 2000 were injured. many residential buildings where conflict li,

or almost destroyed, for high towers were completely destroyed. one of them is this one behind me here, which used to house al jazeera and the associated press officers. it also house 30 apartments, residential apartments, and more than 50 other different offices. sammy, this, this tower, which was an 11 story building, was brought down in a matter of moments just like that. it was struck down and brought to the ground. people were given just an hour to evacuate it. we weren't able to take anything with us from this building. and this has happened to so many other our apartments, residential buildings and towers. he regards the in the past war. so on coming back to this place and looking at it we, we stayed here for,

for actually days after it was destroyed, we looked at the rubble and we, i, and, and it just, it just meant like we, we su in a matter of moments we lost everything we lost everything that we had for years. the following report has more details or every year may 15th palace, teens around the world, to remember napa or the catastrophe. the day in 1948. israel was created in palestine this year in garza elk, as you were to marks the one year anniversary of the israeli bombing of a building housing its offices on the same date. that attack came as part of an 11 day battling gaza between israel forces in palestine groups. it was the bloodiest conflict since 2014 and i am, i could not come see him. come,

come see him without the bit. with the apartments and 50 offices were forcibly displaced in a single night. r hobbs with high upto head of the donnas funding for the reconstruction. but manns paused and nothing has been implemented yet. according to local officials is really forces targeted high rise towers, apartment buildings and bob thousands of other sites. more than 260 people were killed and at least 2000 others were injured. basic services for severely disrupted. according to the ministry of housing in garza, only $200.00 residential units have been rebuilt. israel also destroyed 15 media offices in garza, including of jersey harris. at the time, israel said her mass operated, we're using the building, but presented no solid evidence to back this claim. young work, no worth looking into. a levy oper got up. we are certain that the person who gave

the order to strike and destroy al charla tower is the same person who gave the order of breaking travaras arm and shake, draw. and is the same person who gave the order of the assassination of serene abou arc length, and he is the one who must be revealed and presented to the international trial. to day. as we recall the memories of the bombing of our rec garza office. we are once again under attack. after the killing of our colleagues, she read a barclay who was covering and is really rayden. she mean after year of where it came from, par yes, locations and temporary offices arches. urine now has a new garza bearer, but got stuff like the rest of these really occupy territory has always been one of the most difficult areas for journalists to cover. but it is never detritus from our mission to report the news in the sea. it algiers,

eva. got there. well now we can continue the discussion about the situation in garza. we can join the kazi, hamad, he's a senior member of hamas class, of course runs the gaza strip. thank you for joining us. how difficult is it to run the gaza strip on a day like napa and, and in a situation of a seeds that's been going on for years. first of all, i can say that the neck by a suppression of our tragedy of our sadness of our suffering, of our pin. but in the same time it is exhibition of her resume are struggling with the policy and her people. we still believe that the palestine, after 70 years of the corporation, we still believe it's still believe that palestine is below to the palestine and

there is no place for their capacious verses after 70 years of dissipation is i approve that this is a state of oppression aggression, a state of occupation, a state of murder, the state of as destination, and killing, and demolishing homes. this is a, the picture of israel, and they returned 2 years upon the scenery. do you still believe in our homeland and our national rights? we never saw rent, and we never do could nice dissipation. and we never quit and give up. we still fighting and fighting until we achieve our national rights and independence and the prosperity and the freedom. and we still believe that all the international community, all people, all free people, all over the world. they support the policy, and course because we believe that. but a scene of course is just in the right side. and we think that the,

the honest people in every live, they believe that fullest finance, the, the service that we deliver said because we are civilized people we are before our loving live for you on to, to live in the stability and prosperity. but i think in the same time, all day after destination in a while clear, let me jump in here and ask you this question. mr. rossi hammer, you say we're fighting and fighting right now. a shaky, something of a shaky truce, seems to be holding between hamas in israel and the years are going by. most of the, a lot of the inhabitants of garza are themselves refugees. can you tell those palestinians they're any closer to being able to going back to their homelands after all these years of as you said, fighting and fighting and resistance? yes, i think i'm not saying that hamas is all the fighting. i think all the policy and

infection, all people everywhere, are fighting, either with their gun fighting with their camera, fighting with their pin fighting with do, there's more the speech. i think that the policy in and all policy in as are there in egypt or a lebanon and jordan in europe everywhere. all of them are very connected to the police time because palestine is still living there hard. we're still teaching our, our children and the generation that the high for and l could jerusalem and our go all these boxes of bullets find, there is no place for israel. and i think that if you make any kind of survey all paul, you will find 99 percent of the volunteer people there still believed that we have and we believe that we will return to the palestine to our villages. our cities inside the 48 inside the grill line,

and i think that is not to do. but i think that this is our, our impression, our, this, our, the truth that, that someday we'll go back to the policy. let me because i think that a no one will have to fight for give me a jump in again. israel says they've pulled their troops their ground troops out of garza. they say they've disengaged militarily from ground operations in garza. but hammock continues to fire rockets at these railey cities that france as they see it, israel to intervene through air strikes. why will go on to tell you something that you have to believe that the source of all kinds of evils and pain and suffering is occupation. and we are the policy of people we still live under the capacious. and we have, according to the international law and international moors and international ethics

and international morals that we have the right to defend ourselves and to fight again a situation where, you know, all the people. busy the international community support the korean in, again, is the russian or all support the korean, again, as the russians because they believed that there, that did, they did, people should live in a personal, attend a freedom. and i think now all the, the international laws and the organization that the believe that the policy believe to live in an indemnity state and the freedom estate. as i said that there we are fighting illnesses or because it's all right. but i think if our, our bill is in ms laws and i still owe my rockets that endangered civilians in their cities who cares as as hamas li way, navarro. i think the thought to target this heaviness. but now if you look to the,

to the crimes of israel in garza, you will find it more. so people who are aware targeted all killed or injured, most of them are to be including women, children, even the medical teens, even the journalist. and i think that that's a situation unfair, she no barclays, that big approve that israel, the israel have intention in order to kill every one who, who can explore it to crimes in the internship community. 5 i think that there we as a pull a scene as we still believe and believe that resistance is part of our culture. and it's part of our track and the part of our tra track. because i think after 25 years of negotiation and peace will talks between the policy or therapy and israel, we got nothing. we got just there more sit than minutes. more checkpoints, more and more that people more more asia mora more aggravation. again,

a lot of people i, i think that there are i kind of all that people believe that is or is not did the state of beast. it is a state of the co patient. it is a state of mayor, but it is it that of, for colonialism instead of apartheid. so i think there is no place what is, are in our, in our homeland here in palestine. all right, thank you very much for talking to us as a hammer there. let's bring it back here to the rooftop lumala joined now by our 2 guests voici voicing white patiently mentor. use them again. the lad are a part, she's assistant professor of conflict resolution, diplomacy and strategic planning of the arab american univers fermoso, joined by a jada. however you see the analyst as a chevy. tell us the palestinian policy network. good to have you both with us. and thanks for staying out here in the wind and sun that stop yadda. if i could ask you, you know, do we need to break this down? very simple terms for people to understand whether it's what's going on here or

what's going on in garza which. busy according to its rash, locals is also occupied despite the the israeli ground. with rural people here are living under occupation. what does that mean for them? it means having every aspect of your life controlled by the israeli regime. for example, freedom of movement being able to travel from point a to b is handed by checkpoints by settlements. he don't know if you're going to make it or not. sometimes they close roads without. what does that mean? if you need to get your dad to a hospital, i case i came across yesterday. well, it means a lot. the health care infrastructure in the west bank is says is severely lacking . so sometimes people have to travel inside the 48 territories for medical attention. and in order to do that, you need permission from the israeli regime to do so. and the israeli regime often denies that permission. and such as the case with a lot of patients in garza who had denied access to the treatment that they so

solely need. and in the west bank, if you need to go to hospital, you might come across a pop up checkpoint and you might not be allowed to pass. right? so it means mosley is very hard, but also july. what does that mean for people's basic normal political and human rights that we take for granted? a living under occupation means that sort of off. net, my dear friend city, is the palestine that we need to promote to leave. the truth is justice, and she is the narrative that we should be for more thing on the continuum. israeli war crimes since 1948. her case is the perfect legal case for a war crime. that is why we think the i to see is relevant today. it must add on them individual case that palestinians are face of the year. they thing here and there is continued to try and what we have witnessed in jerusalem and should ins, good funeral on friday. that thousands of palestinians demolishing furiously for

study. and it is because we love study and it is because with respect to the and especially the pride by the palestinian, however, that the marsh was an inflection of 74 years of occupation. 74 years of repeats of the war, crimes of persecution, of annexation of apartheid, of force, the displacement and execution. i mean, an exception to the lexi to the and, and daily basis with no accountability whatsoever. i just break it down for you. that means things like, for example, the army can come into your home and say, we need to take over the top floor roof. they can say you're not allowed to move. you can be killed as sadly, we've seen chevy and very little options for address, right. i mean, every palestinian is target to the military machine. you know my own car then on the 23rd of june, 2020 was killed on the checkpoint on his sister's wedding day. up until this moment his body is filled with held by the israeli occupation. he is held in admitted

refrigerator. that's why we are going to shock him. have you lost? i'm assuming, of course you all screws, bobby black, of course. and it's not only that the only case. he's kept with another 90 palestinian body. and when it comes to the question of the human rights of humanity of equality, this is what the family is asking today. and i here, i want to integrate that a blinking statement on should. in general, he said that every family deserves a dignified burial up until this moment owned appeared. and my own uncle is asking for is to bury his son in dignity. i mean, the israeli occupation is targeting every palestinian. no, we need protection. we need accountability. we need investigation, however, the narrative needs to be poker and restricted to ending the occupation. we need to end this occupation that national well, that created this state of israel 47 years ago, need to come together bravely, courageously enough and to meet it's

a respect is legal and ethical obligations to where the palestinian people have been suffering for 74 years and, and this brutal occupation when the order to bring it back in perspective, or viewers who might not be very fluid or this is how, okay, why, why is the occupational guard? this is a struggle over the line. this is a struggle over a settler colonial project, right? that was the beginnings of this, the, the zionist project. and for palestinians it hasn't changed, right? this is a continuation how to get the land without the people. absolutely, and that's why when we talk about the napa, we talk about nathan smith about the continuous snuck by, in other words, the continuous zionist settler colonial projects in the land of palestine. not just in the 67 occupied territories, but those also occupied in 1948. and what that means in reality is the constant process of erasure and dispossession and ethnic cleansing. and it's not going to stop. you know, at the 67 nuns we've seen already how the west a,

how israel has divided up the west bank fontas denies the west bank so that palestinians are forced into tiny pockets, tiny ghettos really. and they're not going to stop. they're going to continue expanding and we've seen time again over various peace processes. israel has never ceased building settlements, and this isn't a question of israeli right to left. the israeli sets my project in the $67.00 territories was spearheaded by a left labor israeli government. this is to its core what these really state is, bill on expansion and dispossession of the palestinian people. really going to make this, you know, simplified for our viewers sitting behind us, all people for refugees in their own country. they know where their home towns are, all were some of them even i spoke with someone they have keys, they showed the keys to the houses, which may not still exist. they want to go back. they. i mean,

if you think about this from maybe an international suspect, they will say, well, why not just have a state where everybody has equal rights, let them go back to their houses and be citizens. that is not possible for that's not an option right below. well, according to international line, you ask, years ago that his edition one right there, right? they do have their own log that says people should ha, how ever literally put everything in contents for your audience. what happened that $948.00 is not only the label of neck but only the destruction of. 1 than $500.00 villages, it's also the forcible displacement and infections of thousands of palestinians to day what we are witnessing and cetera, and shop i gate and sid wine and laugh mud in beta. it's also in them, as i said, he thought it's to repeat that neck but continued neck. but so without that come to vindicate again with the immunity that israel is enjoying. what are we going to go? and i want to also simplify that simplified that living under the occupation with

the case of my own children when i want to go and take them to visit their own bad mom in columbia, in the north or in draco. we have to pass at least 2 checkpoints, with my kids sitting in the back seat with the israeli soldiers on every checkpoint, pointing their guns at my kids when they get settled. and i want to tell you thank you. thank you. i'm been the israel occupation comes and says the palestinian mothers teach their kids hate, excuse me, the palestinian curriculum and the palestinian mother. i trying to raise citizens of the world we're trying to raise then get for us as well. it is the most difficult reality that me as a mother, as a friend, as a palestinian and as a human full authority get for this israeli machine i, on databases. vincent moves towards piece piece hasn't been achieved. he's been recently the deal of the century initiative announced by the last few us administration. i'm curious to get a feeling from the ground to ya. about how people feel about the idea of announcing

peace initiatives of countries or other arab countries, normalizing ties. why. busy the reality is here on the ground, as i said, a few meters behind where we're sitting. people don't get their rights back. people don't get their justice. can that? can that be peace in that kind of situation? the sammy, i would actually say that these haven't been punished terms at all. it's really always been about palestinian submission on palestinians giving r. hm. we saw what happened when the recent normalization deals. this was a group of countries making agreements with israel, who are all massive human rights abusing regimes. i'm making weapons agreements, basically get go security arrangements. and we've seen that time time. and gad, palestinians have not been part of the their, their discussions. and there is no actual interest in peace. if we break down what the tom piece means for israel, certainly it means that palestinians go quietly away. and that means that they

don't have to see palestinians. it certainly doesn't mean justice. and i don't think palestinians on the streets are interested in that kind of piece at all. what they are interested in is justice and accountability. and the simple right to be able to return home the right to return home the right to keep your her with fulton themes. we're going to talk more about them. but since we're on that issue is maybe time to go. the among hon. he's in chef john ross neighbourhood of occupied east jerusalem. and there the story him, ron of dispossession is still very fresh in terms of events that are going on right now in chicago. ross rides him, ron that's absolutely right. there are at least 300 palestinians in just this one neighborhood who still face threat of eviction. and let me just show you the geography of the area that are israeli central, the house. they used to be

a palestinian home or that was taken over the israeli law courts forced the palestinians out and gave it to nas riley family just next to where i am right now is a another house. this is indeed a kind of a microcosm of what's been going on. there's a jewish settlement organization. they've taken the front portion of the house which used to belong to palestinians. they pushed the palestinians into the back portion of the house. that's really the type of neighborhood, the type of housing situation that we're seeing. so when we hear about forced evictions, this is really what we're talking about. but it's a very complicated legal procedure. let's get into it now. this a report or we'll try and explain to you exactly what's been going on and what led to last year's war in gaza. in 1948 when the math expulsion of palestinians from their homes, by what would become known as the state of israel took place. some 28 of those families came here to the shake gerard neighbourhood of east roo. slip in 1956.

they settled here hoping that this would be the last time they would lose their homes. since then, they faced a constant struggle to stay in shape, dra forced evictions by the state of israel and jewish. a settler violence against them have made life unbearable own. so there tends to her garden telling us with the support of palestinians all around the world. she summons the strength of his stay here, despite what she faces at ally a little while, but i'm only had as our family and beat us. they dont care. my grandson, 14 years old, was standing in front of the main gate of the house. they came and took him. his father defended him a lot of problems like that we have in this neighborhood. the settlers that take the house is trying to rule their rights in this way. it's a type of terrorism and trying to scare people in 1956 east. jerusalem was under jordanian rule in shake. draw. jordan provided the land and the united nations

provided money to build the homes back in 1950 israel and jordan signed a treaty, dividing jerusalem in 1967. his ro violated that treaty and occupied east jerusalem . israel then claimed under its control, all previous agreements were no and void under international law. israel has no legal authority over the population. it occupies the fact. it routinely ignores in 1972 jewish organizations claim, they own the houses, the palestinian families lived. and after a hard for legal battle courts awarded ownership to israeli illegal settlement organizations. since then, more decades long legal battles have forced the evictions of palestinian families. international outcry led to protests across palestine and the world which turned violent in early summer of 2021. israel then bombed garza in may of that year as hamis which runs the strip showed solidarity with the remaining residence of

shaquira, the head of a palestinian think tank says the issue of shake. dra is much deeper. is the question of control. the question of claim sovereignty and they have been crushing the better thing and pleasant single time since 1967. you go for records all the time now, but it isn't that they come with this idea of out law legislation ownership. what is what, what does not work? all these claims are not. yours affordability can perspective. it is only for ownership and control. some $300.00 palestinians are under threat of forced evictions. in march, 2021, these ready courts ruled that 4 families could stay in their homes are pending a land arrangement effectively, that's a stay of execution. it means that all previous legal decisions, another void and those families can argue their case. but for the rest of the families under threat of forced eviction, their situation remains precarious. but even then,

the final arbiter of that ruling is this really office within the ministry of justice for the full families? their past experience with these railey courts suggest future decisions might not be in their favor. but for them and other palestinians who still face forced evictions. they say support at home and abroad, gives them the strength they need to remain and fight for the right to live in their own homes. now sammy, this is just one particular neighborhood we're talking about in occupied history. them. this is actually happening happening in several different neighborhoods in salon. gonna look well and other neighborhoods. a is a legal fighter. that's what the israeli say they look, they say is there any government has looked it up to the locals. this is something that we do, but if you speak to palestinians, firstly, there is no hope in or belief that the locals are going to offer a fair or at least even a, or

a fair hearing to them and listen to their arguments and the evidence that they produce so we have a lot of organisations here in occupied easters from that, a fighting for the rights of the palestinians. but israel keeps changing. the laws is ra, keeps braising the bow. and oftentimes these are back to add those cases back by jewish settlement organizations. who have a lot more money to spend to have a lot more lawyers. and so the fact that these really say will actually is up to the locals. the palestinians aren't playing on any sort of level playing field. oh, that was sir. iran thanks very much ringing us. that perspective from share of july or march is have been taking place throughout romanella to day to mark the anniversary of a napa thousands of people already taken to the streets in those marches expected to continue throughout the day for joining me now. here is her sam's omelettes.

he's the palestinian ambassador to the united kingdom. good to have you with us, said lacked by the great catastrophe, the palestinian effort to seek their own state to seek their independence and freedom that battle goes on, including diplomatically, right? absolutely. under today, we call moderate 74 years of our catastrophe. the knock about that is ongoing since 1940. it's ongoing visa v r land. and i commend you for choosing the spot for your excellent coverage. so me, her, and the result of the newcomer is a refugee come here. we can see it is all very clear here, isn't it, that it is still standing 74 years on this as the faster than the human history. i think it's the longest occupation. if is, are the longest oppression and injustice that has been life on tv for all this

years. and behind you as the settlement of bay deal that is in the heart of ramallah. and for that small settlement, they had to build an entire infrastructure. the disconnects suffocates the entire people of the westberg commuting from the heart of the west van crumb alonzo selim, either north or south. so few hundreds here can actually colonize the land and sit here under such system of occupation, military occupation under a system of colonization. and land theft and apartheid as has been attested by the consensus of the international human rights organizations. so this tells you and it has all of your ass i'm. i've got to ask your ambassador everything you said is so well known in international law. you can just read, well it doesn't un resolutions from 2422446, and so on. you can read the international court of justice, advisory opinion of 2004,

very clear settlements are illegal and international law fans for. busy population is wrong. what when you engage within states with the powers of international law, there is no application, it feels for. busy for the rules of international law was it is no that is, but that is selectivity. you. so what i feel like vacation i leave i stateless us. possess it seems international law as established already for certain countries. you have to you, you have to be the right victim and you have the more lies, you know, it doesn't, no doesn't because we are increasingly having the people of the world. but the systems, the governments are absolutely complacent and complicit for them is ryan, is the exception of the role for them is right as of, of the law and above all of us. and that's why you have have this long history, 74 years of complacency, complicit the dublin standards hypocrisy. and that's why the international nor system is under mine because people are, are seeing what happens in the ukraine in

a matter of weeks and compare it to us, not one form of sanctions of even against the clearly illegal southern mug behind you. here i've been ever applied as their promise. we have been calling on western governments, including the u. s. when i was on buses, and now in the u. k. to ban the illegal set them on products. can you ever legally argue against this? it's illegal to consume these products, not only according to international law, but according to you as an d, okay, and european nor yet until this moment, these western countries are unable just to protect the, on consumers from an abiding by the, by a, by the owners of glass, is that a segue is the problem? this is a, you've rein situation and you mentioned these governments are unable looking at ukraine. you've got to ask, are they really unable or unwilling? we've seen just the prospects of perhaps a wide spread occupation taking over all of ukraine,

which hasn't happened just that prospect has fronted a very strong international response. that is clear. not happening that absolutely . if it's a problem of ability or will it's, it's a problem of well and perhaps of a problem also even the heart of perception and of discrimination, discrimination. we happen to be the wrong color. perhaps. i mean, not only in political and legal positions, okay, which is absolutely a disgrace, a travesty. but also in the western media. i mean, when sharon walkley was killed was murdered in front of cameras. the 1st, the bbc and the rest of the world was reporting the death of a palestinian jordan death as if she died of natural causes. and then the fast reaction came, they go to venezuela or fisher line. the cheaper hubs was killed by a palestinian fire in across fire. this has been our story with, with some media for all these new kids since 1948. the case is the only reported when israeli are injured. but when we are to day to palestinians,

we are body into palestinian martyrs to day one from janine and one from jerusalem . is it fixed in an international media? no, it's not fixed. should in was an icon. sharon has become a liaison and then down the line only the last one to 4 hours. western media started really to portraying their situation. this is what has led to become being here for 74 years. and the settlement being here for 54 years. this is what is causing the financing issue to last this long part of it is this international complete. i cannot find for you a better word complacency with a situation that is blunt, that is clear. we don't need to tell the world the legality of the stuff around us . we don't need to tell them how many per hour when you've had a sunny us have lost their lives. and by the way, the negation that is happening against us is absolutely absolutely unprecedented. as we speak that our students into live even over city, who are comedy, things like that and all. and it's symbolic because tel aviv sits on the destroyed

village. palestinian will is very symbolic of the day and the combination and are to those the palestinians inside the zone went to come on. but if that, another group of israeli students came with a, with a slogan, happy knack back. can you imagine the sickness, the sickness, the denial of the basic, they do not even want to allow us to remember our own catastrophes. they deny us our own paint. this is the situation that the world has got to report and international governments. i've got to act because we are 2nd thought of statements and some of the statements are even wrong. so the government of the okay, what i serve is concerned about the death of shaheen and others. and obviously the government to investigate. and what does that tell you? what does it's, it's a absorbing the very clear responsibility of taking action. all right, some, some that thank you very much ambassador for talking to us here on the roof.