law maker was stripped of seat for breaking covid-19 rules. hello and welcome to press tv spotlight, i'm marsia hashimi, thanks so much for being with us, a historic day in palestinian history and a day of shock and off for the israeli re has been witnessed on saturday with operation alcords flood. palestinian resistance fighters attacked the israeli regime from the air, land and sea, and for the first time since the 1948. occupation of palestine, land

has been liberated by palestinian forces. towns have been retaken and israeli military bases now in the control of resistance fighters. we will be analyzing the significance of this major intelligence failure for the israeli regime and what may be next on the spotlight. but first uh we're going to cross over to gaza and talk to press tvs ashraf shanon to bring us up to all the latest ashraf. tell us what's going on there. well marz israel regime forces continue to commit crimes against palestinians in gaza, so far they they bombed and destroyed a 14 story apartment building displacing over 100 families and they also bombed seven residential structures uh throughout the gaza strip, including one in the southern gaza strip town of rafah where. at least three

people were killed and according to the of ministry of interior and the emergency uh response teams, they're still uh digging the bodies of of women and children and looking for survivals, survivors under that building in the southern gaza trip town of rafahda was bombed by israeli uh fighter jets uh another opponent was uh bombed in the south of of gaza city and tell how neighborhood, another one in zaitoon neighborhood, the last tell by the palestinian ministry of health was 232 marters in gaza, this is not including the of victims of just mentioned, so the number of of palestinian fatalities possibly risen to uh 250 by now, and the injuries over 1800, this is happening while hospitals. gaza

already is far from lack of medicines and supplies and surgical supplies because of the ongoing israeli blockaden since 2007 and they repeated israeli wars and military of aggressions uh over the year and and yes this is a historic day for for palestinians and historic day for all uh for all muslims with the with the uh with the fact that uh of hundreds or hundreds of fighters from the small territory, the gaza strip 360 square kilometers, under blocked under seage by israeli regime since 2007 managed to uh break into the security fence, the so-called borders east of the ghaza strip, take control of at least seven israeli settlements there, a fight against israeli soldiers, kill soldiers, capture israeli soldiers. and uh

we've been learning that uh some uh that the the fatalities when the the israeli regime and this is according to the israel media has jumped uh over 250 fatalities since the uh since the hours since the early hours of of this morning right uh to remind the viewers around 6:20 am thousands of rockets were fired from gaza against the israeli regime are you think? so much for that update ashanan, correspondent the ground there in gaza city. i'd like to welcome though, my uh other guests now to this program out of houston texas. mostly human rights activists and out of vancouver khalid bar, spokesperson for massar badel movement. thank you both for

being with me uh quite an unbelievable uh day most and let's start this and just looking at uh the difficulty in carrying out such an operation like this from gaza an area which is so highly surveiled, controlled by the israeli regime and has been under siege now for 16 years. um, your thoughts about this, let's start from there. good evening, it's quite astonishing that the billions of dollars of fundings that the us empire funds israel in, and the kind of money, the kind of military budget that israel has and it was unable to secure its borders, the iron dome has failed, it is quite clear that israel is as weak as a sider's web and this so-called threat that israel has had on the region of

asia and this impression that israel has created that it is, that it is undefeated, that is borders cannot be trampled over, that it is an occupy force that is un unmatched in the region, hizbullah in 2001 in 2006 clearly proved that israel is weak, and now the resistance forces, hammas, the alqasan brigade has proven that israel is truly as weak as the spiders web, it is astonishing that how a group of gorilla warriors, are able to infiltrate within the so-called occupied territory, occupied by israel, with the limited, with the limited arsenal that hammas has and immad says a beautiful thing in which he he states and being one of one of the the the masterminds behind the

resistance, the resistance that we see in palestine and the ship of islamic jihad and hamas says that apart from the equipment, apart from the military arsenal. "the one thing that fights is the soul, when one fights for for for for truth against false and an oppressed fights an oppressor, truly we see divine intervention, and today's events are no less than a divine victory against the zinanis regime. okay, well khalid, let me get you in this conversation, operation planning and coordination, as hamas had continued to warn the israeli regime uh about the brutal attacks against" palestinians and that uh al-aksamas was the red line uh do you think the regime forces either did not take the resistance forces seriously are simply choose to ignore the warning and and what does it mean that hamas was able to to do this mediculous planning um

under the current situation that they have salam alaikum sister greetings to all of you and your viewers and guess, this is a indeed a historical days for palestinian people struggle for their liberation and the history the palestinian people struggle against this brutal zionist regime and it backers for past 100 years, it is the first time that a palestinian fighters organized gorellas, actually liberate part of palestine, the time after october 7, 2023 is not the same, and before that we are entering new chapter in our struggle and new chapter in the palestinian resistance struggle, and the zist

enemy have been taking by surprise, they did not anticipate this attack. which indicates and they agree to that and they admit to that that they have failed in noticing the palestinian resistance operation, tens of israeli commanders and soldiers are now in the hands of the palestinian resistance, some of our land has been liberated and the rese is every step in the way, it is very confident of victory, and the palestinian resistance is not alone in this battle, it is part and parcel part of the resisting camp in the region, the lebanese resistance, the

yemen resistance and iraki resistance led by iran, and we see that this camp and we have said this many times in your program, that this is coming, we're not surprised that this is an offensive tactical measures that the resistance have taken and it is been coordinated completely with all the allies of the on the resistance, we see in the last few years how israel have been committing its crimes against our people in jerusalem, against the aqsa, mask, the theft of palestinian land, having all these gangs and paramilitary settlers in the west bank, brutal attacks a daily basis against political prisoners, over 5000 palestinian political prisoners are... in israeli jails, some of them have spend over 30 uh five years

and they are going through you know illness and cancers and israel will refuse even release them or and practice medical neglection, palestinian children are being imprison, palestinian camps and villages have been under daily attacks in the west bank, so this is an offensive and tactical. offensive uh that in one hand, it is an initiative by the palestinian resistance, but also it is bond to israeli crimes. well, moson, as i mentioned, this operation has been a complete intelligence failure uh for the israel regime. i like your analysis of this and the total breakdown, this regime that is uh funded billions and billions of dollars, not only from the united states, but other western regimes and have the... is as far as technologically and militarily um against

these as you call them basically gorilla forces, i mean let's talk about that of things. yes, so the israeli intelligence has has absolutely failed, there is absolutely no doubt about that, and this is obviously not the first time that we've seen regime failing. i think israel has lot. on his hands, they were warned during ramadan when they when they attacked masjid aqsa under the commands of ben gavir, they were warned then that there will be retaliation, and then when in west bank we see that a shaheed, hero, there was in which 50 innocent palestinians were killed, um, it is, i would be surprised if israel wasn't aware that there will be a retaliating. so i'm sure that they were preparing for a retaliation in my opinion, but they weren't expecting the magnitude of

this retaliation to be to the extent that it was that they will cross borders, enter occupied israel, that there will be that there will be a gorilla warfare happening in seven cities in occupied palestine which three of them have already been captured by the resistance forces and also constantly in continuously netan yahu and ben gave's government, they have unfortunately they have well... fortunately for us, they have, they're not taking this resistance in west bank seriously, the resistance in west bank has truly paved way for hammas to take the steps that they are taking, there is support from islamic jihad now as well, as it's already been mentioned that islamic jihad resistance fighters have now joined the al qassan brigade and they are at the borders fighting hand in hand, these are unprecedented events that we had not seen for, as far as the intelligency is concerned. it's surprising and shocking that 7000 missiles are fire on israel. gaza is a small,

it's it's almost refugee camp, it's a small city and for israel not to be able to locate these these missiles. the system of gorilla warfare that have been created by the life of shahid qamani, life of shahed, it has proven to be successful in lebanon, it has proven to be successful in syria, in iraq, and now. will prove to be successful in in in occupied palestine as well, i mean us empire intelligentia has failed, um, israel's intelligentia has miserably failed, the west has miserably failed to support its pupit israel in the region of west asia, and truly there is absolutely no doubt in the fact that not only militarilly, but diplomatically as well, israel is on the verge of of decline and we truly hope that as reber a few years mentioned that israel has no more than 25

years to it said that maybe even than 25 years we see that prediction coming to fruition very soon sooner than we had expected now that the vulnerability of the regime has been exposed more so uh do you think this provides more motivation for resistance fighters uh to continue um with this fight even more aggressive against the regime. and they can see or they feel that victory is possible, yes, and what israel is trying to do now is to inflect casualties as much as can by killing palestinian civilians and destroying houses and towers in gazza and just trying to cover their failures and their losses, but what is important to understand is that palestinian people understand this

brutal enemy very well, we have been fighting the zist regime for over 120 years. and we understand uh their mental now israel is in crisis, internal crisis, israel also is facing very strong and mounting resistance in the west bank, also it does not have any kind of strategic depths in the region as netanyahu and bingaver and these people were trying to celebrate the so-called normalization victories with some of the arab regimes, we understand that these regimes have uh these relationship with israel for decades, it is just being now public and on the table, and it's mounting to an alliance between some of these regimes and israel. the people of the region in the arab world, in west asia, are seeing the palestinian resistance as the forefront of their own resistance against imperialism, colonization

and brutal regime, and there is a rise in uh people voices, people ability to fight back, people want to protect their wealth and resources and they want to perspect their future, you look for example at the wars of aggressions and economic wars that the us and western powers are trying to impose on yamen, lebanon, iran, syria, palestine, and it is always targeting people who have rejected these germany, and one. to bring the people the region into their needs and submission and this is not going to happen, so the balance of power is changing in the region and it is changing worldwide and us today is retreating, it is very similar to the 50s when the british and the french empires were collapsing, today we are waiting the us also

are not you know focusing on the region as much as they are focusing on ukraine and situation that is developing in europe and so palestinian people and the palestinian resistance are united to their front, this is very important, those for the past 30 years they tr these illusions of the so called peace process and palestinian people have realized that this is nothing but a cover up to steal their land, to liquidate their rights, to end their resistance and at the same time impose a brutal see our people in ghaza for the past 17 years, okay well most and 250 israelis had been killed. let's talk about what that does to the psychy um of those people inside this occupied land. we had already been seeing actually increase in numbers of israelies who wanted to leave um the entity for elsewhere. but but let's talk about this this status quo with at least 250

them being kill today. right, so the 250 israelis that have been killed today obviously it is huge deterrance um by the by the resistance forces on the israeli regime because we already see statistics where by 30% of israelis want to leave israel, they want to move out of israel because they don't feel safe in israel anymore and think a huge part that is has been played by the operation that were done by the lions in the jeden brigade inside of palestine um and the death of this unprecedented number in one operation and not only civilians but we see we see that resistance forces enter occupied palestine and they capture 55 55 israeli soldiers, i mean how many soldiers did hizbullah capture and we saw the effect that the that that that

it had on the on the zinest regime, this is 55 soldiers being captured by the resistance forces. and then in one operation hundreds of israels being killed in self-defense obviously, this this bears a huge deterrance on whether or not the common israeli citizen wants even live in israel when it has the opportunity to move out, go back to where they came from, they have your, they have several places that they can have a peaceful, peaceful life, but if they are choosing, if they are choosing to live in occupied palesty. if they choose to become part of a system that constantly is to this date in violation of international law, occupy garbing more palestinian land, then they would have to face the trumpet, meaning the palestinians are only resisting in self-defense, they are resisting in self-defense, and they have every right, even

international law to protect the lives and integrity of of their citizens. well, now reaction to this, of course, we're not surprised, but the united states says it's ready to offer support to israel, uh, the pentagon also reiter. support for the regime, what do you think that means exactly, because it has supported and continues to support it, more than any other entity in the world averaging around 13 million dollars per, so so you think that means when washington says that it is ready to offer support to israel? washington offer support to israel a daily basis since israel creation, israel received over $3 billion. of military aid and the billion dollars of financial aid, let alone the hundreds of millions of dollars that they steal from american people pockets and to

feed this racist zionist regime, the world is waking up and the people in the united states are also waking up slowly and they understand that the israel that they pull them at one point of time to support you know the... israel, this is not working anymore, the younger generation globally, they understand that this is racist brutal in the united states particularly. now we need to, we need to identify in a very clear words, what is israel to the united states? israel to the united states is almost like mittery camp in the region in the heart of the arab and the muslim, so it is in the interest of the united states to support because it is in the interest of the united states, once israel becomes a burden on the united states and europe, they will abandon this racist regime,

because it no longer serve their interests, as long as israel is serving the united states interest, the us will keep supporting israel and feeding it with all kind of support, the problem is the united states, the problem is the united states policy, united states united states plots, united states conspiracies, united states support of the most brutal regimes in the area, whether it's israel or whether it's the arab reactionary regimes, this is the experience the people of the region, we understand that united states is treeding, and sometime it's dangerous, because although they are getting weaker, they are still supporting israel, they are still feeding israel not just with money, but with settlers, when you go to the west bank and you go to an israeli, colonies, they're speaking fluid english because they come from new york, chicago, san francisco,

they they're from canada, they're from europe, these settlers are you, in in palestine are european and american settlers and they are there in order to serve the us imperialist and colonialist project in the region in order to do. dominate the region and to steal its resources and of course we're keeping our eyes very closely on occupied palestine tonight as this operation continues, thank you both for being with me, we're out of time, human rights activists out of houston texas khalid barakat, spokesperson movement out of vancouver, and thank you viewers for staying with us on another spotlight, i'm signing out for myself and all the crew right here in tehran. see you next time, this is forest, in the past eight years

alone, the united nations general assembly has approved 140 resolutions criticizing the zionist entity, and the world's last apartide regime was centured once again at general assembly last month, what tends to happen is they point someone's independent and goes and finds out what's happening in israel. and design entity and it discovers surprise surprise there's ethnic cleansing and there's appalling human rights violations and of course they report that and theisinis throw up their hands in horror, clutch their pearls and they say oh these people are anti-semites these ngos were were playing for audience one washington essentially and washington would then relay the talking point of the un watch so we were under constant pressure.

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your headlines for this hour palestinian resistance fighters have launched a large scale operation against israel firing thousands of missiles into israeli cities the head of the political the palestinian resistance movement, hamas, says the operation of alaska flood against israel will end with palestinian victory.