the, the, this is the w news live from berlin. israel says it's at war on several fronts, defense minister you, of god on says no one who attacks is rarely say, statement comes after a suspected is rarely airstrikes, kills any run in general in serious. meanwhile, israel's right wing government is under increasing pressure to crack down on violence by its settlers to target palestinians any occupied westbank. the

i'm when go crap. welcome to the program. israel's defense minister says his country is facing a war on as many as 7 fronts. you will have kalonde says is rarely forces are responding to many of them. iranian back, malicious, have stepped up a tax against israel in response to israel's efforts and gaza to wipe out from us a group that is also linked to iran and designated a terrorist organization. by many countries on monday i suspect it is rarely asked, right? killed a senior iran in general in syria vision. so i can see that my raimie in the state television interrupted regular broadcasting to report the strike and the high ranking general's death security insiders say, sorry, addressing most savvy was responsible for coordinating the military alliance between iran and syria. it ran back. so network of proxy militias across the middle

east to advance its interest and pressure at sworn enemy israel. most savvy was killed in a suburb of the capitol, damascus in the building, allegedly used by has belie and it ran back. melissa, that has been fighting, is real for decades, is real. neither confirms nor denies. having killed me savvy. i need a law because i do not comment on actions according to foreign publications, any action in the middle east. obviously the idea of has a role to defend as real security in terms of some of the point implementing. obviously the a rainy and broadcast ended with the logo of it runs revolutionary guards with a voice threatening retaliation on israel. earlier i spoke to middle east analyst bend to sheller and asked her how significant the killing of the general was. well, he has hit and read a high ranking range in general. this time bad. it is not that special. we have seen many, it's very s race in syria before. and we have seen

a list of really high ranking and ringing personal children, syria. so it is one of the series, so to say, right, which brings me to my next question. israel and the united states have made a number of tit for tat strikes or would appear to be to protect strikes on a variety of targets. we're talking about syria, iraq, the red sea. do you view these as isolated incidents, or are they part of some kind of larger strategy as well? i think we can see a pattern here. first of all, of course we know that ron has expanded his role in the middle east over the past decades, and it has many axes. so we see here sites on the bringing proxies. and what is up is, is that it is king range and targets that are outside of ron, because that avoids the direct and escalated consultation to be around it so that it's sends messages we will get your personal wherever we find them. so you just mentioned the key word escalation, do use view of what we're seeing as

a whitening or an escalation of the fighting. how big of a risk of that, do you see what we can do to be sure that there is no risk? but i think that all the messages that we have seen from the other states in the region are not prone to escalate the situation. if you've made the edits as bullet for example, which is maybe the might use power directly on israel's borders, may have practiced considerable restraint. there has been services, there has been a text for slaughter. however, i think receives strategy up to spell it wrong, not to escalate, but yeah, from israel's which rhetoric we understand it sees itself in a word 7 front and that of course much is because confrontations are not the lateral. so we might see an escalation here also from the and from the spanish site . and what about from the iranian side? because they, i can imagine have to say face, they are seen as the sort of powerful protector of a number of various interest across the middle east. just how much power do they

have right now as well. they really have to boston for purposes to 10 act on their behalf. some of them, however, also considerably independent. his bullet, for example, is also independent of around in many regards. so i think ron has the potential to manipulate the powers that are outside of its borders. but then can enhance the tension with israel, but i think and all confrontation is nothing ross, interest, israel has the might to hit iran in a way, but reading would hurt. and the time that rang and potential and so for i don't think the ron wants to risk losing all that. and the united states, they are also in a very delicate position, supporting israel, opposing a rod not interested in escalation either. what is the us role here and kind of balancing all those various pieces so to speak with us. i think the interest has been in the past year is that just stay out of the middle east as far as possible. but now that they see off the doctor was 7 massacres is still,

i'm just spread. i think they feel they need to engage. they don't want to engage in gaza, obviously. and so i think they take care of targets in the region where they also see their own interests website. and that is mainly moulton, syria, north east, syria, where they still have troops, as well as the rock, where they feel as certain responsibility off to the result that they should keep it comp in their own interest. and this is why we are seeing them engaged here. okay, bent us out of there with a view to them, at least from the high, much both foundation in berlin. thanks very much. thank you. of israel's government is coming under increasing pressure to crack down on file ends by its settlers that target palestinians any occupied westbank. united states, for example, as issued travel bands on extremist is rarely settlers responsible for the attacks . european governments are looking to impose similar measures. figures from the united nations show a spike and incidents of sadler violence in the west bank since

a most carried out its terror attacks on israel, on october 7th. use abraham has more driving through, cut out with benny hudson. it's difficult to miss, but it's a town in morning at its entrance, plastered on its buildings, bus stop, even wrote signs everywhere. you look posters of asked about the house, see what the words murder before i became a martyr to people. here he was a carpenter, a husband, and besides a father to 6 children, a brother, and a cherished son to stay and look at him. isn't it a shame that he has now been east the ground and that was loved everywhere. his family loved him, his friends loved him. everyone loved him. what has his boy done wrong? but he now has to grow up without a father. what has this girl done wrong that she now has to grow up without a father? she has been by the level this makes shift memorial marks the spot where from its

body was found. she'd been shot in the chest. it was hours after palestinians here say about 20 is really settlers descended on colorado and benny has sun from a nearby hill, a local council of men who says he witnessed the attack, walks me through what he saw, a, a. what is the, is the military, it was with the settler from the start. they cleared the area so the settlers can attack as they pleased and shot at anyone who approached on it was just all the local, subtler violence is not new in the occupied westbank. but the un says it has serge dramatically since the almost her attacks on october 7th, and nearly half of all recorded incidents. as with the attack on cut, old benny hassan is really forces were reportedly seen supporting the attackers. this town is completely surrounded by is really settlements, which are considered illegal under international law palestinians who told me they

can barely sleep at night, not knowing where the next attack could come from. just look at the devastation that these attacks usually bring in response to our inquiry about the attack on color with benny has done these really military said there was a confrontation between residents and settlers. and to break it up, troops use life, fire and other means. the incident is now under police investigation. the people who've cut out would benny has sent, told me none of this makes them feel safe. that when there's an attack there left defend for themselves. darcy was killed. he had responded to a call that came from the speakers of the local mosque to help protect the village from the settlers. who is 2 youngest children, however, are too young to understand that sacrifice, that their beloved father is now gone for good. lemme just the kind of i had picked

up that whenever there was a knock on the door, she says, that's dad. he's come home and brought me sweet and very frustrated with when she opens the door and he's not there. on the other one tells me grandma that's really what i want to see. my father help. i miss him to take me to my father. take me to having problems so i can see my father. jen name is jennifer. well, it's getting more on this issue with semi circle. he's a journalist and he joins me now from jerusalem. sammy, welcome to the program. let's start with these recent sanctions. for example, these travel bands from the us. how is the, is really government responded to that kind of pressure against certain settlers? well, of course say these really government them is really politicians and do not like these the sanctions. and they believe that it's in labeling the, the settlers of the say, the settlers, by and large are,

and all the little bathing community and that we're talking about and very small group of individual is. and by making these kinds of statements by the americans and by others, it's kind of like creating a problem where the reason they problem is so they, they tell you to, to downplay this whole issue. and i must say that we so far we have not seen any list of those who are on the blacklist and i'm not allowed to go to the united states. i mean, this is the, the sanction that we're talking about as so we're staying. we still have to see how it develops. yeah, and it's important to note as i'm sure you know, that there are americans, or at least us passport holders, who are settlers in the west bank. can you help us understand the connection between westbank sadler's and the israeli government? and it's settlement policy as well by enlarging the

segments in the west bank even though they are illegal according to the national law and the. 1 is the view of the legal and the back by the israeli government. and the funded by the is really government. we're talking about a large, a project that has been going on and as being the supported by the various different is really a government. and the, this is a project that has been a growing in developing. and if we also include the settlements in the east jerusalem, the ones that is run doesn't usually call the settlements, but rather than a jewish neighborhoods in, in occupied these through. so we're talking about nearly 700000 of these settlers. now of course,

many of them have moved into these areas for economic reasons. but the nonetheless, there is a group of very, rather collides with the settlers that are engaged in these kinds of acts of violence as rob the west bank. and they have exploited this period of the war in the gaza is to expand the palestinians from certain hurting communities and to take advantage of the fact that the is a kind of like a war situation. so this is basically the, the, the situation of a, today's, israel's government is it is far right wing. that means that the bid is still police. he himself is the, is the right wing, his settler x,

who himself would have been under these categories being forbidden to go to the united states. he belonged when he was young to the highest moved man. okay. and that was described by the us administration. is it the organization a complicated picture, a new paint for us, so we're have to watch on full journalist, sammy supplementary. slum thanks very much for that update. turn now to some other stories making headlines around the world. ukraine says it's jets, have destroyed a large russian worship docked at a port in russian occupied crimea. russia said the ship was only damaged with one person kills ukraine. disputes. moscow is claim that its air defense or shut down the attacking ukrainian jets police in delhi are investigating the cause of an explosion that went off near these rarely embassy. israel's foreign ministry says none of its staff members were injured in the blast authorities from

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