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lane says global audience, why it's important because impacts their lives at the height of the storm. water was still high by hey, this is an important part of the world. people pay attention to this very good bringing the news to the world. from here, the colleges a to journalists, have been wounded by shrapnel from and is really rocketing con eunice. the hello, i'm about this and this is all, does he have a life from? don't have also coming up is really intensifies this bombardment of southern gaza targeting homes and a u. n. one school in con eunice. at least 12 people are killed. the us national security advisor has to be occupied west by and come to urging israel to scale.
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donovan, it's more we're going to report from jeanine fighters really forces have chatted out their longest right in more than 2 decades. and israel 6 a diplomatic solution to secure its folder with level known, but has mama says it was negotiate until the warning casa, and the, you know, the white as is urging israel to pull back. and it's high in terms of the military operation on focus. and protecting civilians in the gaza strip despite the pressure of the bomb bomb and continues and what is not de 70 of the conflict. and the last are 2, i'll just say to john was i've been injured by shrapnel from and is writing this all in con eunice where the reporting you have a school, one of them is still waiting for upon emetics to reach him. colleagues is rarely shelling at the air strikes, killed at least 12 people in destroyed homes in northern and southern parts of the strip, including rafa and the occupied westbank,
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us national security advisor jake sullivan. as being missing the palestinian authority president into ramallah, the boss was told sullivan, the washington must force israel to stop its attacks on palestinians. we're going to go to a tonic, aba i zoom, who's in rafa in southern gaza, topic and just bring us up to date. what we know about our colleagues who've been injured. the yes, roll pen. you deliberately attack had been a carried out against a i will do 0 during that list and they'll do 0 a team in con, you and as a, during that coverage i reporting on the latest is really strikes on con you and as a city which had been on the east very intense bombing since the hours of today's morning, or what acrylic, uh, what i do and his camera man a sound the have been in to officer being got talked with. and is there any add road recently during the reporting on the ground in con, units inside of the gauze trip. now what had been transported to the and also
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hospital his situation right now is considered to be kind of being uh, get your rate to do it to his injury in his hand. and his vest completely was covered with a loads as this a tech considered to be the 5th from its kind on a just a rough uh cruise inside of the territory. so i'm going to put up cost still trapped in the vicinity of thought. honda, a school in the that is next to the new disability of con units. he was that reporting and taking a different recording different videos for the coverage as he hits also by and is very messiah with tax. and there is, there is no, any kind of medical risk you have to happen to them as me to come. the work is and civil defense cruise cannot reach to the place as he is not inside the school. he is on the road and he had been injured according to our colleague what his injury
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is very critical, and we are afraid that he's bleeding right now, which considered to be a threats on his life. we're afraid to lose our colleagues as attacks while we're doing that. let's continue with, with the absence of immune and community for the doing that as a site because of strep docents. of doing that, since the beginning of this round of funding thing had been a killed deliberately, by these, by the occupation forces as the trying to deliver the message to the world and to drug with the royce, an image on the grounds regarding what is happening inside the territory now our quick wireless receiving treatment and most are hospital, but till now our camera man assembled up was up go, has not yet been rescued by the civil defense cruise is very small. i pose our opening fight against anyone who is trying to get close to the indication on the ground. so it's worth noting that while dr. the bureau chief, for obviously the in, in guys, has been injured. having lost several members of his family several weeks ago in
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and is really as striking we've been, we were reporting then we're reporting the fact that he went to the funerals of his family members a day off. so it was back on their reporting. the situation there. now that is an important situation number, an important and significant situation for us, of course, at all just 0, but it is nevertheless, an indication of the kind of problems and circumstances that so many people in gaza finds themselves in a yes, absolutely. this situation, every palestinian inside the receipts there are 3 is experiencing one every single day and every one of us is subject to, to face the same circumstances. as our colleagues, i had experienced a date. what is also important to mention is that our legal added to his are an approved as a professional journalist who did not surrender. and he was and says,
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insisted on a continuing his coverage. the whole thing, even off to the death of the majority of his family members, he just early pure them and the late to who return to coverage. he's still in front of the camera just early to report for the world. what is happening on the ground and psych garza, he's very slit past and with a professional features and taxes. and he, even while he was injured and receiving a treatment and must were hospital, he was informing the medical teams that send her a book because injury is very critical and he needs to be urgently rescued. and there is no time left for him. please trying to register him. he's right now we are sending the field to the palestinian red cross on the pallet spending. rick preston's that to please guys. sound right now is a, is dropped on pleasing of the middle of the street on the vicinity of a honda school. next to the municipality of con, you, it is easy to track the there is no any improvements our civil defense of vehicles
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has reached through the indication to rescue santa we are afraid to lose our colleague. we don't want to lose anybody else as attacks on joining us did not stop since the beginning of this around the fighting. we since we are oh, always praying. i praying for well to be safe as to be a speedy recovery from his injuries. as this person had experienced a little of a push to cool since the beginning of this coverage were presented in the loss of his family members. but the truth will continue to be reported on the ground of the gaza strip of the truth. also how the price to be bait. a tonic is worth of course mentioning that for us we will be anxious to get a form of medical stuff to be able to get to our colleagues. one would imagine there are other people as well. of course it may well have been impacted by that said that strike, it is equally important. of course the medical help goes to them as well and try to close them in or off on solving garza. thank you very much. indeed. a policy in general. as in gaza and not just covering the wall, but they're also living through it. at least $189.00 palestinian journalists have
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been killed in the conflicts so far as, according to the international federation of journalist, the policy and officials in gaza say that to be much higher. more than 50 media premises, their offices are being completely all partially destroyed by as rarely strikes. that includes the office of the a, f p bureau and gaza, hundreds of palestinian journalists and their families, including our colleagues. and i'll just see that have been forced to be displaced. we have to abandon the reporting equipment to the offices in the north. 11th reports under difficult conditions and the frequent communication blackouts, journalist working in areas of i'm calling for it's all protected under international humanitarian law, just like civilians under the geneva convention. but israel has been accused of violating rows of law repeatedly palestinian john, let's say israel is trying to kill the messenger and silence the story. we're going to go to child stratford was engineering in the occupied westbank charles over the last several months to have been reporting on the, the optic and rates that have been going on in the occupied of westbank as have
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other men. but teams from all to 0, and we have seen the kind of pressures that journalists, particularly palestinian journalists, are being put through doing those rates in the area that you're in. that's right. i mean, it's very difficult to describe the kind of experiences that palestinian genesis in particular experience on a pretty much a daily basis here in the occupied westbank. since certainly, since the war has started, i mean, we have seen, generally speaking, targeted indeed out team. only a couple of weeks ago was targeted above offer prison. as a group of these ready soldiers came up to all just a 5 rubber bullets smashed the wind screens on our car. indeed, we believe one rather bullet to smash the view. find of one of the houses here arabic team is cameras, and this is not an unusual event. and of course, there is nobody help to account for this kind of action. and despite the
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investigations, the israel says it's going to make a despite disciplinary action against the military. it promises it's going to take this never happens. but of course the situation in garza is, is extremely dangerous. put you on this because there is literally no way for them to go and that's we'd be reporting. they all the trying to do their jobs trying to get the news out. trying to report the truths, well, no risk conditions that the civilians are facing us. this on so it goes on most of the same time, protecting that families, and these are very large families as well and talking to security analysts, they say, and that will these various effectively doing this. they use the analogy of a, of a tube of toothpaste that is generally being squeeze the loss drops of toothpaste to come out of it. and that's what effectively the civilian population is suffering in garza and they're all hundreds of journalists in it. and then amongst those
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groups of people, those, those people and as i say who, who are trying to do the job a and back to the west bank, you know, with pricing rates every, every night across the occupied territories. and there are hundreds of palestinian journalists that are busy trying to cover that, and they do an incredible job. the picture is only a couple of days ago, the beginning of the right here palestinian journalist and our team of a j. i'll just here arabic, just doing incredibly brave was gloss, being totally intimidated by, as i say is very soldiers that the know fundamentally that they can get away with not to put too fine a point on it potentially even get away with murder. busy as many human rights groups would say that they got away with respect to the killing about you and list sharing a wall outlet in, in the west bank last year. so it, is it incredibly difficult for journalists to work in this situation and the level of dedication that we see on a daily basis,
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especially amongst all palestinian colleagues here in the occupied westbank is, is something really to behold because the situation has deteriorated dramatically since the beginning of the war where we've seen these increased attacks by these really ministry on towns, villages, and cities like this one across the occupied west bank. we've also seen a tax wise checklist increase. and palestinians will tell you that low secular tax effectively either given the green light by the israeli military, or indeed a physically actually supposed to fly. we've seen countless, countless videos showing evidence of literally the that is rarely so just standing by, as settlers attack, palestinians. so when the journalist, so they're trying to cover this as well. it doesn't matter whether you go to price sign across, you'll p, p a, you'll, you'll, you'll bullet proof vest or your helmet that does not necessarily mean that you are not going to be targeted. so the situation. yeah, as i say is very,
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very difficult and a journalist here on the obviously the most kind of pressures that they have. experience certainly in that professional career is charles were not assigned to child stratford engineering and occupied west point. i want to bring in 10 dawson, who's deputy general secretary of international federation of journalists, who, joining us live from brussels. thank you very much. indeed for being with us. we had of course, using the situation that our own journalists find themselves into, highlight the, the, the circumstances the journalist find themselves and when they're in a, in a was on. but what is interesting, what is particular about the situation in gaza is that often journalist who are covering a war do have a capacity or some way of getting out of that situation. but journalists and guys have, don't have that. they have no where to go. you're actually right, they are in the most extraordinary situation. they have suffered the most
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extraordinary losses on that showing the most extraordinary bravery in continuing to do the work. an interesting figure. i love to talk. somebody had suggested to me that health work as a boy in the bronx of the a talk from casa, and it's true that nearly 300 of them have died since you stopped at the invasion. but that represents only one point. 6 percent of the health workers in gaza. where is something like 7 percent, 7 or 8 percent of the gen lists in the enclave of lost lives? which is why i, it's like any other conflict could human history i believe in terms of media work is that there is a cover legal cover for journal. this when in situations like this, uh, they are covered by international humanitarian law. finding organizations like yours, go to governments and make representations to advocate for the protection of journalists . what kind of response do you get? well, i have your company mentioned a streaming apple watch. uh,
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a few moments ago. um, her case is obviously a, a well known mom. um, most of the year ago, the national federation of genesis with our affiliates. and i last time i listed in jemison because took a complaint to the international criminal court about black killing. i mean, there's been a lot of documenting of, of what happened there, very chillingly all star tip report from the united nations, which concluded that it can either been extreme recklessness or the number of actions on the box of the is ready to transpose the met life we lays that complaint over a year ago. i'm up to say that the instructional criminal code has been slow in progressing that. the, the, the chief prosecute in calm was in the west bank a week or so ago. and he met with jen, let's try preventative school. he said, he told, well, he was making progress with the case will be with the rob, unlimited staff. we love. and i think it's an absolute new bicycle. the
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institutions like the international criminal court, preparing themselves to take a great many cases arising from this conflict seriously. and it's important. it's important, obviously to get in justice for individuals and about families. but i think more important, but it's important for and everybody in public service, everybody in garza, i'm the west bank to see the intellectual applies to protect them as well as everybody else in the world. i think a lot of the time with, with good reason, they feel that somehow they have exempted from the protection. so the inspection, all right, could be allowed to continue. do you notice any impact to that story is like the one that we're telling the story is like the ones are all shooting the blocks out. and of course, the stories of journalists around the world who have died fine. just simply trying to cover the news. do you have any sense of my name's not having an impact on people coming into the industry. does that in? does that put people off that when they suddenly realize what the risks could be?
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i think it's hard to say. i certainly some people, you know, look at it, i think it's the other, most of them in occupation, which is it's not unusual for people to actually trying to kill you. there is obviously a certain amount of excitement and drama connected with we're reporting. we certainly so that, you know, for example, during the fact that more and lots of, you know, people who wants to be jealous, trig functions as a prospect to being in a was reported all night i, interestingly in 20 years award. but i've only $63.00 generalists died, a total that's been significantly exceeded in gauze that really a matter of weeks. i can't speak for those who seek to become generous to gauze, or i think, you know, what's happening that is outside semi normal experienced. so it was somebody i
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guess it was of like this attractive people generally don't put them on it for metro and dulles and deputy general secretary for the international federation of journals. thank you very much. indeed for being with us. a good stick to the okay, let's go to uh, brandon smith, who is in tel aviv for us. we're going to talk about how israel responds to situations like this. we made mentioning, of course, the incident involving shooting abo offer um who was killed was coming out to her journalistic jerseys, killed by b is rarely military. and talk to us about the way that israel responds to incidents like this of what we've us today for these rarely managers comments on what's happened in the calls earlier to while on some of we haven't had a response from them. yes, although it's a bit early to say now in the past, we know that for example, news agents have international use agencies, royces on the french agency,
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a fee towards the end of october they asked israel is military if they could guarantee. oh no target. the journalist who are working in gaza and his rosemary says that he was not able to guarantee the safety of june unless it's working in that area because it is an active, was over. and essentially, now is what i will say that it doesn't deliberately target some journalists. although we know that according to the committee to protect journalists, there are 63 members of the media, have been killed in this region. and uh, so late supports up to us today since october 7th. and that is at 56 palestinian journalist for is really just on 3 lebanese june list. so when, when the complaints are made these really all far, just the journalists, i've been targeted all killed. israel says it investigates them,
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know that there are no indications of any particular prosecution is going on. tequila attacks on journalist report is without borders at the end of october they issued a conflict with the international criminal court saying scale and seriousness of the of attacks on june. and it's working cause they said, fell into the scope of war crimes and required an investigation the cause of the us unequivocal support for israel in this war. it's very, it's really very difficult for that to be any consequences on his violence, military base. they attack jobs in rome. brown, and thank you very much. ben smith talking to us from tennessee. we're going to bring in moment saw, it was all just say the senior political analyst just to bring up a point that bonded was making. there it is. it was saying that it doesn't deliberately target, generally speaking, i remember of course that it was, they all just had offices in gaza, which i think also how does the ac is all the offices of ape which were hit by
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a rock at 5 by the is really another trade, this is a very important for us as drawing lists. we're using this to really straight the kind of pressures that journalist go through. but nevertheless, it's also indicative of the kind of of pressures that ordinary people in gaza. palestinians go through every day when they're facing the attacks by israel. absolutely, and that's why we're seeing such a high number of casualties along our colleagues how many members, because they are part on part of sort of the fabric of the pedestal society or. but just as you said, we also seen the attack on, on offices, on installations. you know, because i think they do consider in such context a general just to be intimate combatants. you know, joe noticed with those the truth. who reports the facts, any way about what is going on? bad is more dangerous to and a genocide,
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they've gone for months. then i mean how about spices? because the level of the day, the human tone in gaza, it needs to you know, the bones around the world. what is happening in the front of the world. and it's only dreamed that a student, we say, joe, none of us are, they got into it of any democracy without journalists, you know, governments can sunset their functions right. in more it's even more. so there is no, there are no other got answers. that award is going according to humanitarian or international law, other than you and others. what else could be that? who are the eye witnesses? who are the old servers? who are the independent, not take those who are the 1st draft historians, but what goes on and what was on the journalist? except in this very particular case on like, you know, general. so hang out in washington, capitals our to another, or join that us been in a lot of time. pick
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a lot of risks upon themselves and their families and hands, they tend to pay the price. now we've seen that to the here and, and since we keep talking about the both in the united states almost interchangeably. we remember how our offices and howard our colleagues were killed in your walk 20 years ago during the american invasion of utah. again, our office is what the story that we're doing that is what go for 2 years later, our offices were destroyed a couple of years ago and guys of, or an hour during the dislike cubes. so you know, for, for warmongers and, and for, for uh, you know, fighting governments as it where jo that is, uh, do photos endangered because they tend to report the facts. and for those of you just joining us, i wanted to just explain. we're showing you pictures of well dr. for is lying on the journey there in the hospital, in con units having just seems introduced yourself or um,
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we understand from shrapnel uh, from an explosive dropped to the belief buying is really drone in con eunice. he was there a company that started near high school with his kind of them on some of you know, we understand that some of them may still be at the school. and the latest we've heard is that medical assistance has not got to can. yes, the belief from wells that, that some of those injuries may be a critical kind of course and may also be other people who may have also being caught up in that uh that attack as well. and they to pull needs medical assistance . we're waiting to see or hear what is happening with with them. this is of course, coming at the time when national security advisor, jake sullivan, has been saying that at the u. s. as in coverage in israel to change its approaches, military approach in gaza to make the attacks less than $10.00. and from what we can see, of course this was caused by just one is really drawn that was aimed we believe at
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a school. and yet the, it's caused significant damage to so the lessening of that in terms that we may not actually have a significant effect as people might hope it might have. well, well, certainly not on the short term. nowadays, i don't even trust it's going to be on the intermediate and long term. clearly there are no signs from jack sullivan's but i should stick it to advisors. press conference, the take off any commitments from days or the government. in fact, if it is time and american officials say something i was gonna say it looks like they mean it is very new official accounts. those dies by saying good, that's humbug. you know, we're not going to do this that or the other thing that mike, i can say, all the ones that we would do, what we much, that's how it's always. and so now that it's kind of coming together this, this visit by the us not just took it to our advisor as his predecessors. i am
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coming to the conclusion. that's what the americans are trying to do today about garza is viewed, defies a general side. that's what they're trying to, a bit trying to make the war crimes look more attractive, more digestible, more acceptable by the international committee. they've been asking me, is there a non stop to buy them time to kind of is all on the bottom. things is up on the kidding 6 if it is, is up on the destruction of hospitals and places of worship and so on, so forth. but these are, this have been such a district and that the war, but it's even irked, you know, every day, joe, as it where and susan and the united states. right. so in some, in some way or some fashion, the by the administration is basically asking these are the government to help america look better to help it makes a general side look more acceptable or more digestible. but in the end of the day,
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how, how can you make an attack on a journalist, look attractive? how do you make that getting overcharged? look good. because you just didn't pick up and these are these people on where the sophistic approach. i'm not dressing garza, i'm going to give you another example of quickly rob. and janine, after 3 days, they've done a number of 6. they've killed a dozen. people destroyed the dozen houses, blew off. in fact, there's the shuttle homes of people. they've attacked. what places of worship? but then there's something else this started broadcasting. is there any new phones from the minutes of the mosques? why? why? why? why broadcast? is there any storms in a bro, from them in that i still must?
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and what does that? where does that fit in to be whatever stupid unacceptable debunked argument they're making about secure. where does that? what does not like, but in the human, the thing sophistic, war mongering, human action of the city of people. and that's, and you need to find garza so you can imagine there what i've termed earlier astrology that that the, the, the approach of destroying guys that completely in order to then build something is riley or whatever it is new that and that, that requires 1st and foremost, making sure that the words about does that does not reach the so the what so that's during the lesson. also make sure that the doctors are not there to give aid to the injured next door. that there is no running water. there is no food there. is no
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electricity, there's no communication. when as possible, right? there are no homes or shelters for people in this winter time to, to find a place where they can spend the night for children and families and so on, so forth. so this is a situation where we are in where the americans are basically urging these ready, it is to beautify their genocide. and this also highlights another issue that we were talking about with a representative from the international federation of journalists. that it is normally the case, any government who would take military action against journalists and, and it was on anywhere in the world would say they have a choice to be there. they can choose to leave. this is not the case with the journalist and guys, it's not the case with anybody in gaza. nobody can leave johnson. and you're not to be honest. i mean go ahead and convince uh why the dentists to leave. go ahead. be my guess. convince uh, something that i would like to leave go ahead. i mean,
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you know, i'm not gonna stop anyone to stop them. these people have dedicated their life to their profession and it's nothing in just an industry that not car sales people. they have been there for decades, trying to tell the truth, trying to report the facts about the people and they're not going to stop because there's a war is exactly the concept of the, of that rob, because there is war that they going to stay on report if there was no more, oh, you know, there might find the future elsewhere. but because the people are under such a repression under such bombing either such, you know, general side that they need to be there to tell the world the story, the human story, right? that's our slogan right. and the 0 think the human story. i mean that's.
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