the, the challenges here with the, [000:00:00;00] the o. m serial. then. yeah, it's great to have you with us. this is the news our lives from bill coming up in the program today. guys is being strong. the people of garza is shown underneath it. and then both of you and says nowhere in gaza is safe

and it's 8 operation is collapsing. no let up in israel's bombing of gaza. civilian areas have been hit overnights the number of palestinians killed has passed. the 7000 at least for palestinians have been killed in the occupied westbank and raids by israeli security forces and multiple fires in the border between israel and the tensions between the 2 escalates over the wall and got the it is now 10 gmc, that is 1 pm in gaza, where the humanitarian situation for palestinians is getting worse. almost half of the hospitals have been forced to close. unable to attend to the hundreds of people wounded during overnight is really airstrikes. there has been more bonding in civilian areas and the united nations has warned nowhere and gaza is safe. it also says civil order has collapsed. foreign ministers of 9 arab countries have

condemned to be forced displacement and collective punishment of palestinians. the joint statement says, israel's right to self defense does not justify breaking the law and ignoring palace to use rights to the commissioner general of the un agencies of palestinian refugees on raw, says, israel is inflicting collective punishment on people in gaza. he said, the majority of those suffering are women and children. what was the last 2 days? one of what has drastically meant to dis, consumption of choose. but this came out to cost out came, had to make a tough decision that no human to invoke us should do. what needs more people. bakeries will just ation love supervision in the hospital. all these needs fuel to function. the siege

means that full time fuel on basic commodities are being used to collectivity punish more than 2000000 people. and one of them, the majority of children and women, us since the war began on october, the 7th. israel's bombing campaign across the gaza strip has killed 7028 palestinians. that's according to the health ministry there. it also says 108 palestinians have been killed in the occupied westbank and nearly 3 weeks. and 2 palestinian prisoners died in his really custody. israel says that they died of natural causes. meanwhile, is really government says more than 1400 is really is were killed in the hum us attack. houses here is honey, much more joins us from fun. eunice, honey, i want to talk about the essentials about the basics with you, food and water for palestinians. when palestinians wake up in the morning at the moment, where is the next meal coming from and where are they getting that food and water? well yeah,

this is the question is how the citizens have and not only in the morning, but it's true out of the around the clock a where to find uh the next to me and or how to get the next meal. and so far, the ongoing is, tribes have, have made it hard for, for palestinians to move freely and safely to, to find food had water sources. and we're talking about more than one uh, one market has been forced to completely shut down right after the, uh, the strikes on the site on the market. busy such a busy market in the middle of the site as direct, as you can make in every other market in the surrounding area. just fear for their, for it, for its life. and people, there is stop, a go and, and, and cutting all the, uh, the food supply. so leaving an entire population without food supplies,

we have bakery is who have been targeted and destroyed. and that the cause it stream short of this, right? so at the beginning, the 1st week the of the war of the guys that people were able to get at least to pack the print, but with many bakeries out of service because they were destroyed. every person usually got a paper ticket. i'm only allowed to one type of paper. it doesn't matter how many people are in the house or the apartment or direct these g r days that goes inside the individuals. a parent is only entitled to one talked with brandon that that is absolutely not enough. is causing and now nutrition it's causing is afraid of disease as well because of the people in the special that little kids don't have access to a proper meal. then this is the situation so far. well, wait, tell me again because i, i couldn't quite hear you the,

the tickets situation. you're saying adults have tickets and that entitles them to, to what it yes. well, here's the thing, the bakery is down when there's only a limited number of bakers working on the early work in a few hours in the morning and then a few hours in the evening from the day because of the intensity of the years. right? and for safety reasons, these, these should be completely closed. so what happened just to make the process a little bit more organized, to ensure that every person in line will get his share of little bit of share of the bread and the owners of bakery started to follow a ticket system. where if you hold a ticket and a piece of paper with a number and then you can get, you can pay the money to get your pack the bread. if you don't have that ticket, it's unlikely you will get a pack of the print leaving

a lot of people who are not familiar with this system. that is like this started to be applied yesterday without to print it. it's only causing a more problems to families and, and then family members who are waiting for, for a meal or for a piece of bread due to dine on. okay, so it's a rationing system that you're describing. the bakeries have been putting in place where if you have to tell us what it is, young, honeywell, who would you, and i will talk more about this in the coming hours. thank you very much for that though. uh, phillips. laza really also said that to date, efforts to deliver humanitarian aid, the guys that have been largely ineffective. they have been intense, negotiation and the set them to provide to open a new many turn supply line sofa. it has only resulted in a handful of it's converting to this when not to me,

the side stuff that goes out is being stronger. the people of gaza is shown underneath it and then build a beer. it is the senior middle east spokesperson for the world food program, which is the branch of the united nations are in cairo. thank you for taking your time to joining us on the program. so under wal, warned the gardens are for the 1st time he said, going hungry. what are you seeing? what are you hearing on the ground about that? why don't you guys, i dropped them in with a lot of basic supplies in c, v, a few of the shortages that's really going to disrupt and bringing all you many setting operations into a whole food and water running out and people are facing increasing the desperate conditions and also, and also even i've got the endorse conditions up until they think every day until it's running short. so without the additional fuel supply and or so with the why we

went to the opening of the border crossing point last week. i think the number of humanitarian aid, the cause of the inside guns up on these convoys has been really very limited. so it's a very difficult situation. yeah, we're seeing a picture of, of you and trucks going into or out of them. i'm not sure from the angle but going into gaza. the world food program is involved in that. of course. can you just describe blow by blow, how it works, how the aid goes in, where it starts, what processes it has to go through. okay, let me 1st start and send you the 9 trucks that get the trucks getting get on. 15014 mattress from the full supplies have crossed in the last 2 days. how does it work? so basically the trucks are loaded with full supplies and then, or you might have sent me an agent janet, and i'll just put and then it goes to the board,

the crossing points long. so right there it's, it's fine though waiting for the opportunity to, to, you know, across the board. and then when, when, when i think the board that is for the or the, the costing point is for the and the have all the 3 of them says the boys move to what i say, they get all up there. it says, how do they get cleared and who clears them? so, so the, the trucks move in from dropped off, they go to a village, 50 kilometers from the war, the crossing point called mid center. this is where they get inspected as times and checked by the 3 is radio hodges and then data train back for another. ringback during the 6th, an hour and a half and what are they check things out to the these really is checking for in those trucks. i think they're checking that that the, the supplies, the human, it's only humanitarian supplies that it's just, i gave us the list. the stuff has been provided. i, you know that to my knowledge that they are directing this as you many study and

assistance. um and then it goes back for another hour and a half. so the cost the point, and then this is the moment when the cost to the other side plus the cost, then that is a plus shipment, meaning that the egyptian trucks offload the supply and then they go on palestinian trucks. and then one was in together sort of submitted to us and process it small and it takes time. and then what happens is once they're inside guys that because that's what matters most, especially to the palestinians. we need the 8, the one that you know most this is inside got that makes its way to wherever it is that this technician is part of the, the for the program supplies, we have a, we immediately a, have our genes on the drones receive, the supplies in most of the, most of the cases it goes, you need just keep the shuttle to what is this supposed to be distributed? or, you know, for, for some commodities,

it will still be warehouses in preparation for. it's going to probably be in the other locations. so this is basically what it, what, what the process is like, of course the movement inside of it is extremely difficult because of the safety situation, the damage to the infrastructure, and now we are facing also the shortage of fuel supply. it, is that food? do you have any of that food left? you mentioned that 9 world food program, program trucks crossed in the last few days. do you still have any of that food left or has it all been distributed by now? i think most of it has been distributed, but we've been have some of the food supplies in our warehouse and these are the probably the, the, the, you know, the weak flow is that we are supplying the big cause with some of the food options that you cooking facilities, but most of that i get you to eat brushes, they don't say i love them and you know, for longer our warehouse is, is just

a matter of organizing where they are going and their own award for distribution. so 9 trucks, how many people does that feed? 140 pounds does not feed much. so we all in or we have a system since the beginning of the conference. i'm feeling now. i don't 613000 people, but that includes, you know, fresh broadway. i say that again include, excuse me, say that again. there are 2300000 palestinians and how many, yeah. does that amount of food that you were able to bring in feed, as long as we are able to back to that suite sense so far? it is like probably less than a $100000.00 people. so that, that a list they compact to the, you know, size of the needs that we have inside got that. so it does work for us to be able to provide assistance to people in government as a scale of a patient to provide for 1000000 people. we need 40 trucks of w

b for one to enter every day. for this one, the cost is fine. so we definitely, it's not enough. we need more. uh, you know what, the opening, we need much more. you know, these products needs to be scale. it needs to be much, many, many more than the 20 truck sold every day. well, with the numbers you gave us, we also understand why on why, which is the another branch of the un uh says that, uh, let me find the exact quote that the 8 that is coming in is just crumbs compared to what is needed. and you explained that the truck, the truck, the wi fi a sent in would have fed an estimated 100000 people. and as a reminder, there are 2300000 palestinians in gaza. so we understand why and why use the word cremeans. what is the actual food that people get or you know, and it's really that is um, but most of the, most of the trucks have been cutting kentwood. that's the, you know,

energy to eat. you know, because of the lack of cooking pacific it's, it's kind of tune that it's, uh, you know, can a different type of templates, but mean he kind of tune up for the finding at the same time. the distribution that we're doing in size is the best brands and at least, you know, just in the last some voice we have sent some saw in a few different items that can help with, you know, big footprint would, you know, distributions at portion just okay. um, one more thing before i let you go, do you expect that more trips trucks will continue to trickle into guys over the next few days, or is it a day by day decision? well, with the car, you know any, we extend stuff today. it's been like 20 truck, 172015. so it's not looking like we're going to pick up more than 20. i wish we hope that we haven't even have much, many more than that because this is basically

a draw in the ocean. come back to the news and you know, it's the situation guessing best buy that they wouldn't think out of the supplies that we have. and before the conflict and, and in the last few days, we've been able to distribute the, you know, electronics without just where people can go to the stores and city regina. again, this call supplies the supplies that are in the store on their own, running out. so, you know, we're getting to a point in which whatever was inside guns is now almost over. okay, listen, thank you very much for all those details it's, it's really helpful because as we give the big picture, we all know the food is running out, that there's only a tiny amount of aid running in. but we got a lot of specifics there that our viewers don't always get. thank you very much for joining us on the program. i thank you very much for having me. at least for palestinians were killed by the israeli army and occupied westbank on thursday

night. there been confrontations between palestinian spiders and his really soldiers conducting rates, videos, circulating online show is really forces storming the city of janine and we're on con, joins us live functioning. you're at the side of the raid and we're on explain what happened then. what you're seeing in the aftermath. well, before i do that, let me just show you where i am right now. i'm actually inside the janine refugee camp. the funeral was the taking place for 2 of the palestinians that were killed, that one of those was actually a lead within the janine battalions. he is just being very, you see all the people around just can see some of the, um, men as well with the by the club has over the face. they've actually been shooting into the walls space whole takes place. now one thing that's kind of worth pointing out here is the janine battalion didn't come into jeanine refugee camp directly

from jeanine refuge account. the only reason they exist is because of these really occupation of the occupied west bank and on the international law is they actually have the right to be able to resist. now the raid started to take place around 1 o'clock in the morning, just these ready forces on that road just behind where the funerals being taking place on the right where i'm about 40 to 50 of them came in in heavily armed vehicles. they then went inside to come, and that's where the main bulk of the fighting actually took place. but they also did something this slightly unusual, but we're seeing a lot more of right now. they actually dug up the roads um, in leading into jeanine refugee camp. that was speaking to pablo simmons have set of so they didn't understand why if this was to try and cut off the water supplies . so the fault easier ways. i'm actually doing that. well, palestinians, the thing is,

this is actually just harassment. they're trying to make life as difficult as possible for the people with in the janine refugee camp itself. this is a, a harassment, a site palestinians of the people that simply living within that now. so it's like very interesting to point out that in the last couple of months of the policy has been trying to build these roads leading into the account to try to improve the infrastructure of the count. but now these right, these are simply coming in, they're writing these camps. this is a 3rd grade. within the last week, some 14 people have been killed in races. you'll keep pipe since october 7, justin jeanine alone, and now they're making life difficult for the people. one of them fighters who are simply in the account who are just living around con, reporting from the janine refugee camp inside the occupied west bank and the aftermath of that is really ready. thank you very much. and ross is really army has

prevented worshippers from gathering ahead of friday prayers of alexa mosque and occupied east jerusalem. just talk about that with alan fisher allen. you can see them off behind you. normally on a friday morning there would be many muslim, faithful praying at the lock. so what are you seeing this morning? a little prayers are now over. if you take a look by me, you can see that the courtyard cuz essentially empty. now normally on a friday you would expect somewhere between $40.00 to $60000.00 people, the guy, the in the i likes that component is the 2 most and many more most under driving. there's a control center as well. it's a place where people gather to meet friends and family, to talk about events of the week. but as i say, normally between 40 to 60000 people at prayer that this week it has been 50. if we move along the wall towards lion's gate, we know that so few men were, were come to weave from there and then up the road to why they chose the they are

a group of young men. wanted to walk towards the mosque to pray and see where blogs buy these really police and these really are me the use because done grenades, they also use skunk water and tear gas to force them back. the men did the retreat down the road slightly, but then held their prayers in the middle of the street, and we knew it wasn't just young men that were being blocked. but we also know that in the compound itself, in the old city, beyond the walls, when some men were trying to just walk down the alley we would normally take to get to the mosque. the other way was blown to and the web young we were talking about man in the 50s or sixties in the seventy's and the 2 were being turned back. so you can see that with blockades all over the occupied westbank with check points being put in place. and then with the police being all the way around the mosque itself and the most comp time. it's incredibly difficult for people to get there to pre

like we normally do on a friday, a allen. thank you very much or is for that you gave us a really good look around at the geography of the place. and what happened this morning. i want to talk a little bit bigger picture, if you could explain to our viewers is really use as access to alexa as something of a lever that they can activate during moments of pension. can you explain that? well these are, these would argue that the gathering of so many people in one space is a security risk. so the restrict the numbers because the have been protests over the years in the comp time, mainly, and go to something that these release of done. but this is also used as a lead, but as you say, to remind the palestinians that even though jordan has control of the area under the international treaties, it is because really is that control access on a day to day basis. and so by restricting the number of people and how often they

can get to the most, it's sort of mind to, to the policy citizens who this really is believe is in control here. and how they can dictate even the smallest details. the most important details of someone's life that you're reporting from occupied east jerusalem. thank you very much. ellen representatives from homos and iran are currently in moscow for meetings with russian officials there believe to be discussing the possible release of some of the $229.00 captives being held in gaza. let's go to you here. shove of oliver who's in moscow. you'll hear what do we know about the meeting of the well actually, where it gets things from the crowd and present those types of things with your best phone. russia believes necessary to maintain contact with policies to the policy and it is really cold, like i, it's been an unannounced visit for russia by hamas as that. i'm just basically

a roster will declare that it remains unimportant, original today as well. me see what the representatives of come off and trying to assess all the context yesterday evening. there was a me say or versus deputy for administer. we have books on of and reset advert, missouri. he is the men both come off, his police 0 and jeff, also the deputy for in minnesota. ron was also present that there was a space when joshua is from the russian foreign ministry. that the issue of wow, the show. but releasing the cops who have been discussed and the russian in boston, israel and a 20 uh victor of that has said that, uh, 3 people with russian and is really citizenship had been held and considered in the go this trip. and also these really slide, these ready for ministry reported that during the reasons for citizen $23.00 russian citizens were killed. and now it is widely expected that if there are people with russian passed close with country health, passive,

they will hopefully be released with how much does not say anything about the possibility of the a cafeteria being released to invest statements only as a result of the space negotiations with most of the sound, the sounds that that leverage is loading. now basements is not enough on how mazda is very limited because of how much is lost united organization. and it also has no influence on it submitted to we have been holding people, inconsistency. so are these talk. so when you go she is going to continue or is it pretty much over now as well? absolutely. i show you the information guessing is various codes from that because no pictures, no statements as of today. um, because uh, you know, it's, it's a delicate mess. months, so it's cool. well, we know that for many is most could try to play a mutation role, which really more for the members and bring them together to the negotiation table

. so basically these to pursue fractions have been divided for many years. now to the 7th of october, the situation has changed, and initially it was especially that the fast presence her right would be the internationally recognized president of the state of palestine. my route i buys, they had to be more direct from the scene and movement of sunset, but how much arrived at it and that visited seeing here as an impulse and image story for how much it's an important for them to show that they are welcoming here that not an installation of how much does not recognize here as a terrorist organization, and it's no bonds in russia. while, as we've heard from israel, is all convinced that visit to russia and do that leasing with the russian officials and cold on the countries of flores. he's a rough look forward to say immediately expelled those terrors that it was acquired by the use of, of all of the reporting from moscow. thank you very much. that's bringing a bill. are you an associate professor of middle east history at georgetown university here in guitar?

it's good to have your own set with us and, and you'll have mentioned the word leverage to moscow realizes it doesn't have a whole lot of leverage with homos when it comes to negotiating the release of captives. now leverage is what so many countries are looking for, whether it's the us, whether it's fronts, whether it's russia, there are plenty of others who have or believe that they have captives that are currently still inside garza and their priority is to get them released. i would say for those countries, that's their priority. even above, you know, any big picture war questions stopping the war, political resolution, they want their captives released. yeah, i mean this the seems to be at least the overriding priority for a number of states. um, i think the mechanism of how to achieve that though in the shadow of these, these massive bombardment campaigns that we're seeing obviously is a big, big question. i mean, this is why so much of the seems to be tied up with the idea of a un security council resolution ceasefire. even a temporarily perhaps,

i think is one of the kind of negotiating trips that seems to be being put forward is the idea of, of what they've called the temporary pauses. which of course, does not in any way really alleviate the, the horrific humanitarian catastrophe that's unfolding on the palestinian people and gaza. but certainly they're putting forward this idea a piece is releases and seeing what they might be able to offer in exchange and part even potentially as we're seeing, some reports of palestinian captives also being released by israel potentially as part of a sort of a prisoner swap so to speak, there were reports earlier this week that one of the reasons that us us present joe biden specifically is pushing netanyahu to delay any ground invasion of gaza is because he wants more time to release captives. what is the, what is the group of countries that actually has leverage for? well, i think, you know, the countries of the security council, certainly those who have been, you know, using their veto power to stop any kind of a resolution that may call for stopping the violence stop. and that is really some

argument of gaza. i think those countries certainly, if they were to try and in some fashion to be able to, to bring this to an end, especially again, given that kind of the scale of the catastrophe that's unfolding. and certainly that would be the, the, the leverage and then kind of looking beyond that, certainly things like lifting the conditions of the siege and so forth. so there, there are a number of other factors here, a number of variables that all have to be addressed in some capacity. and certainly, you know, the release of the, of the captains is one of them. i'm i, you noticed you might have noticed them a little distracted because i'm seeing that the live pictures as well. and i'm just being told that this is the scene right now in ramallah. so there are a process going on in the occupied west bank. and so forth, of course, of palestinians and against the continued is really been barred meant of the war and does a understand we also have other like pictures. um, let me see top right of your screen is amman, where we have seen some of the largest protests and supported palestinians them on

which of course has a historically and has had for decades a large population of uh, of palestinian refugees. and pretty much since the days of the creation of the state of israel. um, let me see what else we cuz we have other pictures. i am told that we also have pictures of folks this coming in live from a human. so embodied specifically. um, so i, i, i don't know if this is qualifies as across the, our world, but on a friday, not completely unexpected on a friday's prayer day. that's when you would see these expressions of popular support. yes. and over the weeks, i mean, we have seen them both region wide and even globally, really for kind of expanding um, you know, 2 parts of asia, africa, the middle east, and of course, throughout europe in the united states. i mean, there have been protests, people who, of course are seeing what's unfolding in real time through the course of all of the images and really being affected. and, you know, denouncing the position that many of these governments have held them. this

includes even some air of states that, of course, have given some condemnation but have not actually taken any real steps to bring any kind of a stop to, to the violence that's being inflicted on problems, comments weights. you give to these protest. i mean, how much does it actually move the needle? because you have situations where there are protests, they're allowed to happen, it changes nothing. and then you have situations where their protests and it, it puts genuine pressure on the deciders. and the leaders of those countries and they have to, you know, amend or at least do it seriously and forms the way they then conduct their countries. diplomacy. what scenario do you think were it? yeah, absolutely. i mean, i think we've seen a history of this, right? the spring uprisings were not that long ago, there's still a very fresh memory of the decade in which we had mass uprisings that actually had the power to change governments to bring down corrupt authoritarian rulers. and certainly the memory of that is fresh in the minds of many of the regions you know, rulers, at this stage. and so there is a kind of a sense of trying to balance what their narrow interest have been, what their priorities have been in terms of states with pursuit normalization

pursued, you know, alliances not just with israel, but with us and beyond. and now having to contend with the fact that their populations are so deeply opposed to this and would like to see a shift in policy one that obviously brings to the fore ground, the plight of the policies, the fact that they've been living under the siege under this occupation for so many decades that the washington has never really been resolved and in fact, disappeared entirely pushed to the margins for, for at least the last decade. and certainly the normalization agreements which suggest that the states have kind of abandoned this issue. and the populations are trying to bring it back. now in terms of what we might see in terms of an actual response. i think it's still, it's still early to tell in a way, but i think certainly we're seeing that there have been some responses. so for instance, the idea that a us president would come to this region and to be met with, you know, a hostile reaction from leaders who don't even want to be eating with jordan egypt . right? they canceled them. exactly. and i think that was very much a response to this pressure. it certainly wasn't a decision that they would have made independently

a dealer. stay with us. we'll talk to you again throughout this hour. i do want to go and see what's happening at the israel 11 non border though, because multiple flyers have been seen on lebanon's border with israel. the united nations interim force in lebanon says that they are burning near mine fields. and that they're caused by fighting between these really army and the lebanese armed group has belong, you and firefighters are at the scene. israel's military says, at least 7 soldiers have been killed. houses, there is an, a holder, is in $711.00 on monitoring. this is dana or the suppliers started deliberately as part of a fighting, or they collateral damage of what's going on around this border area. well is really strikes are being blamed for the wildfires that have been raging along several kilometers of the border with israel, according to the united nations peace keeping force the fires are now under control,

but we've seen this in the past. this is not the 1st conflict or 1st war, if you like, between those very the army and has the law and previous rounds. it is really military. they target bushes, trees the cause fires. so that has the law has no place to hide, so that their fighters cannot approach the border so that they cannot launch attacks from those areas or launch any possible incursions into northern as well. so this is definitely a tactic because what both sides have been trying to do is blind each other about a few days ago. hezbollah said that it has been destroying surveillance cameras along the border on is really military positions so that they can not see. so these are, these cannot see their movements along the border and that's why we've seen israel use drones. drones are in the skies 24 hours a day. and really that has made it quite difficult for hezbollah to operate. it has suffered quite a number of casualties nearly 50 in the past 3 weeks because they are operating in

open territory. and because drones surveillance, drones are in this car, but in the past 24 hours we haven't seen any has, has, will attack the police know, claim, or responsibility. which could be an indication that the group is reassessing and seeing why they are taking these casualties. and may come up with a new strategy the, the big question for his below is and it, and that has been the big question since pretty much october. the 7th is whether they decide to join a full scale war against israel. and they've been keeping their cards close to their chest when it comes to that question. but do we know anything more about as well as intentions or. 2 they say that they are ready for any possibility and that they are in the hearts of the bottle. but they also say we will not reveal what our next step will be, but it's will depend on the events or the developments on the ground in gaza. a top

ranking hezbollah official has made it clear for us, garza will not fall. now the question is, when and for how long can, how much to stay in attacks against is really army, maybe then has below, will decide, you know, take it strategic considerations into considerations that strategy. because at the end of the day, launching a full blown military conflict with the israeli army. yes, it is a much stronger force than it was in 2006 according to that as well as secretary general house on the stroller he both. so the force of $100000.00 fighters, he also says that he has position guided missiles that can hit anywhere in israel, but as well to as an advanced army, it has air superiority, and it can target areas. whereas while a supporters live putting pressure on the arm to group, we saw that happen in 2006. and also this is a country where, you know, people are suffering because of an economic crisis. many of these people have nowhere to go even to rent homes. so the situation is

a very difficult decision for hezbollah, but it's how said garza, we'll not fall zayna holder. thank you very much for your reporting and for all that context that that's a 1000 years in a for the reporting from the liberty side of the israel level number in egypt. now at least 6 people have been injured and following an air striking a medical facility in tampa. the resort town on the red sea is located near the is really border. egyptian media reported to the missile hidden ambulance facility and a residential building at the local hospital. it also said that the blast was related to the war on gaza. the is really military said it was aware of a security incident in the area of the us as long as the strikes on iran, lincoln's facilities in eastern syria. the pentagon says the strikes were near the town to become a la and targeted weapons and ammunition storage facilities used by iran's revolutionary guard. john henry lives in washington dc. what can you tell us about the strikes specifically?

should we be connecting the dots between those strikes and syria and what's happening and goes through all the biting? the administration's answer to that question is yes, but we definitely should connect the dots and they point mostly to timing at these strikes. they say we're response to growing number of attacks and 19 attacks in the past 10 days, which of course is after that war began. and you want to officials say that one us contractor died from his injuries. he had a cardiac attack. they say, during one of these attacks 21, others suffered minor injuries. and the usaa saying that most of the these attacks are generally unsuccessful from their perspective. but they definitely do link them to iran and to the war in gaza. and as a result, that's why you had to f sixteens dropping precision precision guided munitions on 2

sites in eastern syria, which they said was occupied by the air runs as logic, revolutionary guard and related militias. and you've got the secretary defense lloyd austin saying that this is a rot he's. he said in a statement on thursday a ron wants to hide his hand and we will not let them. he said, we will not hesitate to take further unnecessary measures to protect our people. so the u. s. answer is that this definitely or is connected to the war and gaza. john, what is the us saying currently about the risk of escalation from iran or iran link groups in the region because this is what the us has been wanting to prevent since the beginning as well. president biden has talked about this over and over. he's got a one word answer to, he always says if anyone wants to use the opportunity of this war to get involved, don't and the,

that's the whole idea behind all the us. fire power out there. you've got to battleship carrier groups out there. you've got extra planes, you've got military advisors, and that's all designed as a deterrent. mostly in that or ron and a ron backed, malicious and even see that it's not entirely working just by watching. who does story, i'm sorry, by, by watching st. his story. just a little bit ago talking about the you know, the fire exchange over the 11 on border with hezbollah. and so. busy what the u. s . is trying to do is call out some of these actions. they haven't exactly been furnishing proof to reporters, but there was a pentagon call with an a number of reporters last night, which was senior defense official reiterated much of what the defense secretary said uh, but also added a little detail on there, such as a number of strikes and what they believed was the motivation behind this lloyd austin goes on to try to differentiate what's going on with those attacks on us

forces with what's going on. and guys, a says the us is not trying to escalate its involvement and that conflict, he says that quote, there are. these strikes are separate and distinct from the ongoing conflict between israel and homos. and we do not constitute a shift in our approach to the israel, i'm us conflict, so they are trying to deter auron from getting involved in a rainy and back groups from getting involved. and at the same time, the us is trying to enjoy it doesn't get more directly involved in that concept. john 100 reporting live from washington. thank you very much. i at 260 lawyers in the u. k. have sent a letter to the british prime minister, another cabinet members requesting that they quote, act urgently. a serious violation of international law or taking place and gaza was, is there as need barker is outside the foreign office in london. tell us a little bit more about this letter of me because it's, it's,

it's not exactly in line with the case. steadfast support for israel is it sort of, i mean, this tends about essentially to legal advice. and some of the most, this is the professionals in the country. we're talking about m and a little professors were talking about things counselors were talking about for you, for i see the judges of all their basically insisting is free things. first leaving israel. a c says supplying that that so the payroll that ceases supplying is row with the weapons and that's a the u. k avoids the possibility of reaching the geneva convention by essentially aiding and abetting a country, but in that judgment is a branch off international law of i also insisting that the governments pushes for complete cease far as opposed to humanitarian pools. and that's exactly what these people here behind me, according for as well. they're basically a group of parents, people that children alone for fight talk. she can show of solidarity with the

units instead of being killed and god with the here. placing tiny bugs in front of the foreign office and office that many of these people just simply believe is not prepared to listen to. feels like rapidly changing public opinion. what we know is that benjamin us know, who needs west and support not only militarily or marley, but the more these people are not as across the country. see the devastation inflicted in gulf of the way to the gap between that a power military objective by and that's now who government and the willingness of western governments to continue supporting in houses here as need barker report an outside the foreign office in london. thank you very much, needs a vote is expected later on a draft resolution calling for a ceasefire and gaza this at an emergency session of the un general assembly in new york. it comes after to fail. the security council resolutions tabled by the us and

russia. gabriel elizondo has more from the un headquarters in his speech to an emergency session of the un general assembly re admin sewer. the palestinian ambassador called on the world to uphold international law. and hold is real accountable. the only path for the is justice. justice for the palestinian people. done this thought law done then that done but eric is done with today it to accommodate is an opponent opponents. hi. this is what we are here for as a united nations to save future generations from the school to war. but israel's ambassador de lat done, said the world's attention should be solely on the october 7th attack by him us and israel's self described efforts to destroy what he called the monsters. who

perpetrated it. this is not a war with the palestinians. is read is a war with the generals cybill jihad, these come us terror organization. only it is the law abiding democracy is read against modern day not sees. jordan's foreign minister countered israel's claim that it is a biting by international law. how many words? how much that has our agents suffolk, and what good did that do all of us and it did not bring security to his rent. it will not, it did not bring security to any of us. my friends, director said the defense is not a license to carry with impunity. collective punishment is not the set of defense. it is a little crime that are still speakers for more than

a 100 countries on the list to address the general assembly. a vote on the resolution could come as early as friday, afternoon or evening gabriel's onto which is either at the united nations. to do that, laurie on his back with us, we've got to talk about what's going on at the united admissions they, they, you, when was specifically created to help achieve peace, stop fighting, specifically for these, these kinds of situations. that's where the un supposed to kick in and, and bring in a voice that, that, you know, otherwise can't be heard. it's not working. it's not working. i mean, this is, this is a body that's meant to uphold international law. and certainly we've seen in israel, at least the country that's been in violation of international law for many decades . and there's been a failure to address it. i think the un as an, as a body is only as powerful as the states themselves that choose to use it as an instrument. and in this case, of course, if we're talking specifically about the un security council, the, the one part of that body that actually has the power to enforce its,

its law and force its resolutions. we seem to use a veto power. the us, of course, has used its veto power over the decades, usually to shield israel from any kind of accountability or any kind of enforcement of its occupation. so they're fine, but it bears repeating for viewers. there are 5 countries in the world that have the right to veto at the un security council. that means there are 5 whatever is being discussed, whatever the conflict is being considered, or the issue at hand, or 5 countries that can say no. you know, even if there is overwhelming support for anything else, funding, there are 5 countries that each individually can say, this is not happening. that's right. and, and so far we've already seen the use of that detail twice just over the last couple of weeks. and in an attempt to try and actually bring an end to the violence that's currently unfolding in gaza. i mean, i think one of the really difficult things to watch is the idea that these resolutions are putting forward is this notion of a humanitarian pause. the idea is that simply, you take a break from the massive bombardment of mass civilian populations, just to be able to feed a few people for a few days. dress

a few wins only to resume bombing them in a way. it's almost legitimizing the attack and the onslaught that's, that's a guys is being subjected to, rather than simply calling for a cease fire and saying the size that and, and it has to be a permanent and rather than simply a pause for that's a good point that was being debated right now is not ending the war, let alone, you know, any kind of political solution that is not at all where the international diplomatic process is. right now. it's being debated is, should there be, should there be a ceasefire? should there just be a pause? should we just even even a circumscribed pause, just around the area where the aid is being delivered? i mean, we're talking about a really small sort of a window of the stoppage, potentially for the flight. yes. and, and this i think, goes to the heart of the problem, which is a failure to address the very root causes that are brought us to this is terrific. we tragic point, right? and this of course is the fact that that is real has continued to occupied palestinian land for the decades that it's been, you know,

doing so through the siege of particular one of the worst posts will re succeed just in modern history. the cause has been subjected to for 17 years before of course it's even increased that stranglehold and then use this massive bombardment campaign over the course of the last 3 weeks. and so the inability to even address that or even recognize it as a root cause of all of this, i think it's certainly why these resolutions are falling short in terms of any kind of real relief for the 2300000 people, of course, currently suffering when we talk about word, cause we've seen how contentious and fractious that conversation is because when the un secretary general, just 2 or 3 days ago, said the how mazda attacks did not happen in a vacuum. israel was incense, then they called for his resignation. threatened to block visas for hire high profile. you in figures, so yeah, root cause is a not being discussed it to you. and right now, i mean not in any meaningful way. they can, they can yield a resolution. so what if the un security council failed?

what we were saying just now is that the un general assembly? no, that's not 15 countries, that's a $193.00 countries give or take that are now discussing their own resolution. could they managed to achieve what they use? let's see, isn't doing in terms of a showing a statement certainly. but, but as we've seen historically that the un general assembly can only make statements but have no real enforcement mechanism. and again, i think this shows the way that we live in a kind of a 2 tiered system in which a small select number of powerful countries essentially dictate the terms of, of kind of how law gets enforced and applied. and then the rest of the countries can simply issue their opinion or their position, or even just statements of, of, you know, a condemnation or injection of what's happening, but without any real enforcement mechanism. and i think in many ways this is clearly the, the flaws in the way that the system has function. so that's the, that's the big difference, isn't it? if the un general assembly does something, it's non binding. if the un security council does something again 15 countries versus a $193.00 countries. so all the countries in the world when they do something get together,

it shows statement it is non binding. we're just stating how the wind works here, right? that's just a refresher when 15 countries that make up the un security council issue something it is supposed to be binding rights. and even historically, it hasn't always actually been enforced. and so we have seen, for instance, un security council resolutions that have called on israel to withdraw from policy and territory. and of course, those have never been been enforced. and so i think, you know, what we sometimes failed to recognize is the fact that although we'd like to think of these as, as legal institutions and legal instruments, but in fact, they're deeply politicized. and in the end, it's really the politics and the political well, that has to be there in order for us to ever see any kind of re enforcement of do that are in thank you very much for that. i want to go back to ramallah. we've been looking at the live pictures. it's the top right on your screen was top right. live pictures of the protest rally, i should say, in ramallah, in supports of palestinians. and goza houses there was for the mead, joins us from ramallah. we're also looking at the deluxe

a mosque that ellen fisher was walking us around the geography of that most moments ago on prayer day with many palestinians, most palestinians have been prevented the muslim faithful from praying at the most of the day. i to hold on what for? what can you tell us about the rallies in ramallah? well, sir jenny, it is quite a large riley, full remodel of sand. there's these, these days when they started here, the square behind us, but now they've got them having a walk around the block. this is how it usually happens here. when these up by this thing is that ok, heating the call made by have miles to go down to the streets in support of gaza. and they are charging slogan, a support of the people of guys and some are also charging some slogans in support of the can some brigades that the military are pa,

i'm us. but certainly is just the way for people here in across the occupied with back. because there are similar approaches happening in other cities and sounds like, uh, nat blows. i like the jericho, like high, broad as we are also hearing that in certain areas that some of them had turned into classes with the israeli army. but people would tell you at the moment they're so just graphically separated from gaza that basically raising their voice is the only thing they could do. hold on. um, we're also looking at protests in stumble uh there are protesting, amman, jordan, and there are, there were also protests earlier. we no longer have the feed in yemen. why have a process in ramallah not as big as in some other places. what i thank you though, you mustn't on the estimate of the atmosphere about in design d

n. fear that exists all across the occupied was bad. we've been reporting a full week's know about the nightly rates, the, the tensions. there's also the, the settler violence has become now 8 on average, 8 attacks per day and they are increasing because a far right member of the government who is also the national security, this minister, it them are been there has been arming the settlers across the occupied west back of the army has said that it was taking off his gloves when it comes to the west bank. so people are afraid know that if you go to a class is not anymore to your gas and rubber bullets. i mean, they shouldn't, but it's going to be live. i mean, they should like, it's happened last friday, just hear the outskirts of ramallah. so there is all those to take into account when you, when you're a police senior living in the west bank because the dangers of homestead night and

day. and i think people are just wanting to make sure that they can continue on with their livelihoods at that time where they are incomplete, locked down. it's very difficult from them to go from one city to another. there's a 150000 by the seniors who used to use the process on a daily basis into israel, to work that's not happening anymore. they don't have a job anymore. goods that are not coming in. so the climbed out on this area is really intense advised by the day and i think people all worried that i was speaking to a lady who actually used to go to israel towards the end of my food farm. and she said that she had 2 teenage boys, and she was very afraid of for them to go down to this trees. and just because they were very affected from the pictures they were seeing on social media on television, about what's happening guys up the young people to hear

a boy like. so the parents are trying to keep them as far as way as possible from any classes. and any kind of confrontation, the houses here is how the mead reporting from ramallah on the demonstration that we're keeping an eye on there. thank you very much. i'm a village just before we wrap up this this hour of news. how much pressure is the palestinian authority under right now day, of course, or the, the ones who officially represent the palestinians on the international stage at the u. n. and they're the ones who nominally run the west bank. well, certainly there's a lot of pressure right now. i mean, i think again, if we go back to the origin, the policy and authority is an outgrowth of the so called peace process, right? that in many ways they were now seen as being a byproduct of the continued process by which israel has appropriated palestinian lands. are there essentially as an outsourced contract or really to enforce is really security in the west bank? certainly that's the only domain is mostly to keep, you know, palestinians from challenging any elements of their occupation. there's certainly

lots of reports of corruption, human rights abuses if they commit against palestinians. and so certainly right now, i think given where the mood is and given what we're seeing unfolding particularly in gaza, but also across the west bank that most of the population of palestine certainly seems to be quite upset and fed up really with, with the role that the p a has played over the course of, of these recent events and really going back historically over the years. and we've seen that it's allison, you story, the way they've been trying to handle this saves it clearly. it's quite a sensitive issue. there is support for home us on the streets of the occupied west bank. we've seen that, that yellow flags showing support from us being waive, which normally wouldn't have been the case. ordinarily, you can't show public support for a mazda in the west bank, but since the war rep did on october the 7th they've, they've had to kind of loosen the screws on that. a little bit of do that. thank you so much. we're going to keep talking to you throughout the morning. we're going to take a very short break and reset here on alpha 0, but we'll bring you

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