between the cities and areas and like for today, for instance, this let's say this this strike had paralyzed all aspects of life with universities, bank, commercial businesses, all of them shut down, but the palestinians have chosen to declare this protest or strike, regardless to the fact that the israelas closed the the areas, sealed of using of course the military. the checkpoints and the crossings, they are banning people, the freedom of movement from an area to another, but at the end of the day, the palestinians themselves decided to that all aspects of life to be paralyzed because of this protest, because of this general strike, because they support resistance in the gaz strip and to tell the word that the people are united palestinians here in the west bank. and in gaza. okay, ama, speaking of

lions dan that you just mentioned, because you know we have had uh people and groups from other parts uh showing this reaction in practice to the israeli regime, and like we had pezballah and lebanon, you know, having their own operation near the shabal farms and in the lines then also we hear that they have also performed an operation out of janin refugee camp. tell us more about lines. because recently we are hearing the name often, that's right, the alliance denny group has called on the palestinians to go to this, everywhere westb and to face the brutality of the israeli settlers and the israeli forces, the lines then group based in nables city as well as the janine brigates based in jin, of

course, number of palestinians carried out anti-israeli operations and exchange of fire in numerous points in northern, the occupied west bank near jeine and near nablas as well as the several areas there and they claimed the responsibility for this, for for these shinings. that has been taking a place, number of palestinians had been also killed here in the occupied west bank. yesterday seven palestinians were killed while taking part in number of a protest in nablus, a in palestinian was killed and he was member of the resistance groups in in ramallah at the military checkpoint of baie, there was a protest taking place and two... palestinians

had been shot and killed in al khalil as well, another palestinian was shot and killed, so the israelis are doing their utmost to uh tell the palestinians that they are fighting at another front with the fighters and the gaza strip, but at the same time the aggression and brutality of the israeli military is still going on here in the occupied rust bank, today alone, over 20 palestinians had been detained by the israeli of forces, the majority of them were members of the hamas movement, and those who had been killed in the occupied westbank, is yet another evidence that the israels will do their atmost to prevent the palestinians to of take part in any form of activity against the israeli forces and also not to... continue

supporting the resistance groups and not to take part in any popular protests or even they are not allowed to express their opinions. now mona, given the circumstances and what's being going on, especially in the past couple of days and of course this has been going on uh often on the past uh seven eight decades, the palestines have been going through very difficult times, so there are different scenarios here. that one can envisage as to where uh we are heading for, so it could be simply one scenarios for palestinians to simply give it all up and of surrender, one is take no action, sit idol by and just watch and accept all the brutalities and atrocities level against them, maybe the other one is waiting for some kind of mediation to happen, which has been unsuccessful so far, and the other one is keep up with armed resistance, let our

viewers know what palestinians have on their mind to do. some experts were saying that. there there are real fear of huge ground invasion of the ghaza strip, this is a growing, after israela prime minister benjamin netanyahu promised to turn the uncleve into a deserted island, and netanya himself also had called on the palestinians to to leave the ghaza strip to leave hamas far alone, of course, fighting the the israelies because at the end of the day the israeli military would be would would be doing their atmost in order to tear off let's say the the the the palestinian resistance groups but at the end of the day there are no

bump shelters there in the gaza strip so people there of course would be asking where they should go uh they have to face their destiny they are the real owners of the land, so the warnings and threats by netanyahu and his regime will never terrify the palestinians there, they know that residential buildings are being destroyed, everyone, so the the the footage coming from the gaza strip clearly showing infants and children had been killed during this this this war, netan himself. said it's a war against the palestinians, so at the end of the day, palestinians know very well that the resistance is the only option, even if people do not resist, the israelies will continue suffocating the gaza strap, imposing a

closure and a curfew on the gaza strep, people are not allowed to leave the the uncleave here in the occupied westbank homes are being destroyed. people's lands are being confiscated, the israeli settlers are given a green light to expand settlements and people are being detained a daily basis even if there is no escalation or there is no, there isn't any form of resistance, so it's an occupation that must come to an end, this is what the palestinians, the normal palestinians are saying, and today while the resistance took this first step towards liberation, this is what people are saying, they know that they had been left alone and not the arab countries, not the international community, palestinians had been left alone fighting the israels and that's why yesterday

the uh the leader of the the al-qassam brigades had called on several several groups and several countries and including of them calls had been made to hizballah in order to move to to support the palestinian resistance as they do usually and also to work till liberating the lands that are still being occupied by the israels in south lebanon, the response immediately came today and experts are saying they ex they they expect that there might be more responses and more moves would be coming whether from south lebanon from hizbillah from other fronts not only the ghaza strip would be fighting alone exactly as we were speaking of speaking of support we

just have pictures uh of from tripoli in lebanon people out there in large numbers and uh they are there to announce to the whole world that they do support the palestinians in lebanon we had the same thing, apart from what hezbollah did in terms of taking military action. in iran we had again rallies in in some other arab countries. syria also announced support uh for palestinians and their cause, and of course there are a number of other countries as you also mentioned few arab states also embarking on the so-called normalization deals with the israeli regime, but there are some other countries that are standing by palestinian sites, some arab states like kuwait and others, syria, lebanon, tunisia, some of them have condemned

this, some of them have gone further, have taken action, some of them people are out there on the streets. so mona, tell us what uh palestinians uh expect, you know their uh fellow uh muslim uh brothers and sisters elsewhere in the world to do. that's right, so as you have said, it's well known for the palestinians and they do of course respect and those countries like lebanon, syria, libya, tunia, several arab countries and islamic countries as well, like iran, people are taking part in in protest and and not only this time when the resistance fighters had are clearly and directly fighting the israel

forces, they had taken part in protests and demonstrations every in every occasion to tell the palestinians that they are not, they are not left alone, but at the end of the day the the the palestinians in the ghaza strip there is group had started this move, they know that they have to continue fighting until the end, whatever the high price would be, whatever netanyahu would be doing, maybe experts are saying there, might be some coordination between the israelis and other countries. netanyahu himself had contacted egypt in order to convince the palestinian resistance, to release those israel had been detained, but at the end of the day palestinians think otherwise, they think it's

still too early to speak about the hostages, especially that uptill the moment the palestinian resistance group didn't unveal or reveal the exact number of those israeles who had been detained by the palestinian fighters, sometime sometimes the the the israels had said the number is only. 50 and then they said they they expect that the palestinians had detained even 100 israels so it's still early to speak about them and of course experts are saying that it's not this the simple for the palestinian resistance group to release those israelies without at least guaranteeing that uh thousands and and hundreds of palestinian prisoners, especially

those elderly, sick prisoners, women and children are released in the first place, they would be using those israeli, prisoners a swap deal, whether now or later, it's still too early to speak about this, the destiny of those israeli prisoners, the most important thing now is that there are still palestinian. parters in several areas around the gaza ship, the israelis had said exchange of fire is still taking a place mainly in sedarot and other settlements, strategic, let's say areas like the raim military base as well as the debeeri settlement where the palestinian fighters detained uh and kept at least 50 settlers as hostages and for for the

whole day yesterday exchange of fire continued, however today also the israeli military are saying they expect more palestinian fighters succeeded to infiltrate into a number of settlements including sedarot okay, thank you so much for that, simon. correspondent and ramala with her update and explanation. now live pictures in gaza, you uh see part of the city, as almost every other hour we have seminator scenes, some kind of explosion, some smoke blowing from somewhere and consequently some destruction, it seems to be a residential place, but we'll try to get more information about that as we get the news trickling again, also at the same time we have... support rais in different parts of the world, inside palestinian territories, i was just

talking to mondle corresponded there minutes ago with people in ramala, they're still there, they're out on the streets of ramala, and there you go on the right hand side of your screen, they're out there, and they want the world to know the palestinians do stand together, they do care about the fate of palestinians elsewhere in the occupied. or is gaza now being targeted mostly and as resistance fighters in groups as the people to show their solidarity, so there they are, in their large numbers out on the streets doing exactly that and showing their support for people in gaza who are under attack and cyrens being heard, explosions being heard and destructions seen almost every couple of hours and this is the latest you can see on the left hand side of your screen. now from

toronto canada, let's bring in zafar bangash is director of the institute. of contemporary islamic thoughts, have you with this, so palestinians do not seem to be intimidated by all these attacks and brutality that they are exposed to by the israele regime. i think it is one of the most significant development in palestinian resistance history, that the palestinian people uh hamad, islamic jihad and other groups have joined together to carry out this absolutely breathtaking operation deep inside occupied palestine and having not only killed according to a report aarex newspaper some 600 israels who are

predominantly military personnel but also taken something like hundred or more israeli soldiers as prisoners of war. i think it is important for your viewers and listeners to understand that the soldiers that the palestinians have captured are prisoners of war. it is inaccurate to call them hostages. that is the ridiculous interpretation that is being given by the west. western media, western regimes, the zinis themselves, how can they be hostages when in fact every israeli citizen over the age of 18 serves in the military, so these are military personnel war, himself declared this as a war on palestinians, so they are in the middle of a war, as israeli officials themselves put it,

so exactly, so it's a state of war, in fact just said about this, but i mean, israel has been waiting war against the palestinian people for decades, so it is a state of war and any person that is captured by the resistance fighters is actually a prisoner of war, but the way i interpret this whole situation is that this is an absolutely phenomenal change in the entire situation in the palestinian resistance, this myth of israeli in disibility has been shattered and equally important is the fact that the palestinians have been able to for the first time inflict the same amount of casualties or even more on the zionist than the zionist have been inflicting on the defenseless palestinians as your video footage showed they are bombing the ghaza strip blowing up

apartment buildings these are war crimes that they are committing and so the day of for the zionist is coming, but i think the the most important thing is that since the palestinian resistance fighters have captured so many israeli soldiers and according to some reports there are even top military commanders among those soldiers that have been captured, i think that's an absolutely brilliant development. right, and zafar, just give you an update to the latest we have is, these are hebrew speaking media saying that the fatals part of israel has now reached 600 and 50 and as you said this has been unprecedented parts of the you know territories were captured deep inside the israeli held areas and this shows how strong the resistance fighters have grown despite all the threats you know and the attacks launched against them in the course of all

these years now let's talk about uh other countries you different reactions sporing in from different parts world of course you know the western part of the world how they reacted to this, and then we have muslim arab states, some of them announcing uh that they're supporting the palestinians and some them uh keeping quiet or merely you giving you some maybe service, so tell us, where do muslim states stand, isn't it now time to show which side of the fence they are standing? oh, absolutely, this is the... the moment that these western muslim governments have to make decision, it is actually quite astonishing that some muslim governments either remain mute or they simply say, oh we want the the escalation to subside, etc. and these same regimes, whether it's in egypt,

saudi arabia and these others have never ever done anything concrete to support the palestinian people's struggle who have suffered decades of oppression and tyranny at the hands of the zionist occupiers and of course we expect that the western regimes and the are cawardly rulers who are actually complicit in the zionist crimes to we have seen the united states, canada, britain, you know, all of these regimes have actually condemned the palestinian resistance, ignoring the fact that there are clear rules under international law, and there are united nations general assembly resolutions that clearly state. that people under occupation have the right to resist their occupiers by whatever means necessary, that's what the

united nations general assembly resolution says, that means the palestinian people are absolutely within their rights to resist their occupiers until they achieve full liberation of their lands and their people, but these western cowardly rulers are condemning the palestinians for exercising their right. and they are also saying that they are going to support israel, but i am of opinion that we are reaching a stage where perhaps this racist ideology of zionism will be obliterated and the palestinians and other people, including jewish people, if they wish to live as equal citizens under the law in a unified palestine, they'd be more than welcome to do so, and then but they would all be equal citizens, not. what exists today as a zionist apartide oppresses and terrorizes the palestinian people. let's now touch upon

division that we we see is widening among the israel officials being in at the kineset or the cabinet buse uh as we're speaking uh you know we are airing a ghaza now and uh it's i can say gladly glad to say that no explosion, i can see no smoke for now, it may happen any moment, just like minutes ago, and also we have people in ramala in solidarity, out there on this stres in solidarity with palestinians elsewhere, especially in gaza, we also have member of kineset saying that he had already warned prime minister netanyahu about retaliation by hamas, if uh the illegal occupation continued, so let's talk about this division that we have. members and cabinet members and so which direction could we be expecting this to move to? well, israel

has always been a deeply divided society, they were only able to paper over their divisions by continuously attacking the palestinian people assuming that the palestinian people will not be able to retaliate. now we are witnessing something absolutely phenomenal, and of course the... palestinians are fed up of these oppressors the tyrannical practices of the zionist, whether it's in attacking aqsa mosk, whether it is attacks on palestinians homes, dragging them in the middle of the night or killing them etc. so now the palestinians have finally risen up and giving the zionis a dose their own medicine and there is no doubt in my mind that the israeli society is deeply divided and these are not now coming to the four, in fact even earlier there were divisions that were openly expressed by many israeli officials, former israeli officials,

defense officials, intelligence officials saying that the situation is moving towards an absolute explosion, and if it occurred, israel may not be in a position to contain that situation, we know that you earlier on because of the so-called judicial reforms that natanahu had was through in order to save his own skin, that there were deep divisions, the reservis were protesting, hundreds of thousands of israelies have been protesting almost every week against these these measures and it is now becoming clear that these divisions inside israel have come to the surface, particularly at this time because now they are at the receiving end of these daring operations that hamas is carrying out, so i think what is likely to happen is and in particular the fact. that hamas has been able to capture so many israeli soldiers that now they are deeply worried, they will have to come to decision

as soon as possible that they will have. have to relinquish their control of their illegal settlements, they will have to release palestinian prisoners, if the zionists want their captured soldiers to be released, so it's a very, very positive development as far as the palestinian struggle is concerned, i think the israeli divisions are going to deepen further. so zapha, what do you expect to happen next? do you expect some kind of mediation, for instance, by countries like egypt that happened? you know last time or do you expect this escalate? i think in the immediate short term like within the next few days i think this will escalate, but definitely i think egypt is already trying to mediate, i'm sure that qatar would also be involved in it, perhaps turkey, saudi arabia is definitely working behind the scenes, because at this time it is israel's need to descalate, it cannot escalate any further,

the only it can do is to flatten gaza completely, but it still cannot achieve the objective of getting its own soldiers that are that have been captured, taken prisoners of war by hamas, they cannot get them back, so they israel will have to compromise and will have to come to some kind of settlement and it will use countries like egypt, qatar and others to mediate and and deescalate the situation, thank you so much for that, zafa bangash, director of the institute of contemporary is. okay, now we'll be back in 30, 40 seconds with news bulletin. our special coverage of the railway and transportation expo uh at the tehran international exhibition center is this week

uh we're going to be checking out. the latest achievements in the field of railway and transportation and learner singer to about the industry, make sure you stay tuned. israeli media raised to over 600 death toll from operation alaksa flot launched by palestinan resistance fighters inside israel keeps pounding the base gaza strip at least 370 palestinians have been killed and more than 2200 wonded.