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shell summarizes big issues in five minutes, it puts words and events frequenting the news in perspective. the headlines, genocide in gaza, hundreds of more. palestinians were killed after the israely military targets the hospital on the beside strip. the leader of iran's islamic of revolution, how many deplores israel's genocide in gaza, saying the regime should be put on trial over his crimes. also in the headlines, people in many countries hold fresh rallies and solidarity with palestinians. they call for immediate end to the israeli onslot on gaza.
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8:30 pm in irons capital tehman, this is press tv news, thanks for joining us. 100 more palestinians have been killed and yet another israeli air strike this time a hospital on the visige gaza strip. the total death doll from the ongoing war to nearly 3,500, the israely air rate hit al-ahli arab hospital in central gaza on tuesday night. palestinian health ministry says at least 500 people were killed and many more wounded. that is the highest single dayll in gaza since israel launched this war on october the 7th. the hospital was packed with people who had fled from northern gaza following an israeli order to evacuate their homes. israel has attributed the strike to a misfired rocket launched by the palestinian. islamic
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jihad resistance movement, but the group, along with another resistance movement, hamas, has denied the israeli allegation. soon after the strike on the hospital in gaza, an advisor to the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu admitted in the social media post that the regime's air force was responsible for the attack. in his post on x, hananya naftali claimed that israeli air force had struck a hamas base inside the hospital. he said multiple members of the resistance movement were killed as a result. hours later, however, he deleted the post, although screenshots of it went viral on social media platforms. ismaal, political bureau chief of the palestinian resistance muhammed hamas, calls on the international community to condemn and to take action, response to israel's deadly bombing of the hospital in gaza. americans take
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responsibility for giving unlimited cover to this enemy to commit these massacres, war crimes and genocide. those who gave israelis the cover in the un security council and refuse to condemn this occupation and aggression. i call all the free people, the a united nations, the security council and in united nations general assembly, legal institutions, call the arab league and the in organization of islamic cooperation for a clear condemnation of this bad massacker for mass murder of our blood, our women, children and elderly. this silence must stop. israeli forces have attacked palestinians are taking part in pro-gaza protest in the occupied west bank, killing of these two and enjoring.
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dozens of others. palestinians took to the streets and several parts of the occupied territories, including ramala, alkalil, bethlehem, and tulkaram to condemn israel's deadly attack a hospital in gaza. they also urged the international community to stop israel's aggression at the beside trip, which is in his 12th day. the casualties took place as the israeli troops used live ammunition, sound bombs and tear gas against protesters. of clashes were also reported between the protesters and the palestinian authorities forces. palestinians in the west bank have also staged a general strike to condemn gaza's hospital attack. since the start of the aggression on gaza, israely troops have also intensified their attacks on the west bank, killing more than 60 people and injuring 1300 others. iran's islamic revolution leader ali khamenei says the crimes committed by the israeli regime against palestinians amounts to genocide, but first before we get to that, let me uh see if i can uh establish a connection that as i'm
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seeing ash there in khan, i see you, tell us what's going on, i see that there's darkness from where you're at, well let's tonight. time now and uh today uh the hospital i mean half an hour ago the hospital has managed to get a fuel shipment for the generators from the united nations when i say fuel from the un that doesn't mean it went to the border or the crossings it's from the uh the the the reserves of the united nations to listen tour the palestinian envoy to the un, do apologize for that he's talking live. and yet the security council of the united nations is unable to say the only thing that truly matters, stop the bloodshed, i repeat, stop the bloodshed, for those who think they can
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avert a humanitarian catastrophe and a regional spellover while israel continues continues bombing and killing palestinians, think. again, the region is united in telling you, it is not possible. listen to them, the only way to prevent both is to stop this criminal aggression against our people. mr. president, there is no speech, no legal contoration, no political cover that can clear israel of its responsibility. for the palestinian civilians, it is killing. for 75 years now, israel has explained, breazenly, justified, how it had to disposses us, how it
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had to occupy our land, how it had to kill our people, all in full impunity, killing more palestinians will never. never make israel more secure. 75 years of experience should have been proof enough for those who want to learn. there is no logic in this world, no moral in this world and no law in this world that can justify the killing of people. innocent children, women and men as a pretext to make another. secure, another one secure, the whole world is watching, they're watching us, the events of the last 10 days may shape the next 10 years in our region and beyond, what happens next is decisive, if
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anyone thinks this is a situation under control, for which you can plan and implement, they are making. false and irresponsible assumptions, this is the kind of war where you know how it starts and have no clue how it ends, until now it can be stopped and it should be stopped immediately, any further delay is a risk, no one should take, the council should have met today to head the call. the secretary general of religious leaders around the world, including the pope, of the arab states, of the muslim countries, of the global south, of the overwhelming number of states around the world, of billions of people, including the
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millions who marched in your streets, stop the bloodshed, stop it now, stop the bloodshed, stop it now, listen to them, but it has not headed these calls, it has not upheld international law, unequivocally, equally and responsibly, and in the next few hours more palestinians will be killed. tensions in the region will rise to new dangerous levels, anger and resentment will explode. each one of us will be asked what we did when all of this was happening, all will be asked what they did to prevent what will happen next. the council's failure to shoulder its responsibilities after 10 days of israeli massacres against the palestinian
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people, and after the killing of hundreds of people gathered in a hospital to find shelter and care, will mark public opinions, in our region and the world for very long time and affect belief in the protections of the law for all people as well as their perceptions and reactions, this was not a moment to foster more despair and more impunity, this was not a moment to make the same mistakes that got us there here in the first place. finally, israel does not deny that it killed entire families, infants, children, their parents, uncles and aunts and cousins, their grandparents with sometimes up to 45 members the same family being slaughtered. it has
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done so repeatedly through the years and is doing it again this time in the ghaza strip. it has now killed 3,500 palestinians, almost all civilians, including more than 1,00 children. it admitted it was killing all of them, but urged. "it could not do otherwise, their deaths were not its fault even though it killed them, but the hospital massacre had such an impact on global public opinion that it had to change tactics and change its original story into a new one, so israel will deny responsibility for the massacre in the baptist hospital al ahly. just as it made every effort to deny its responsibility in
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the killing of shirin abu and and mahmoud durra, muhammad, and in the many massacres, it had perpetrated over the decades, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. it will blame the palestinians for their own death, as it has always done, and it will attempt to. to present evidence to that effect to this council. remember, the last time somebody presented evidence in this chamber to justify or. do you remember that? somebody came with technological devices and pictures and what have you to convence you of evidence? remember the last time somebody presented evidence. in this chamber to justify war. i am sure the council, the media
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and the world will not be foled by such theater again. these are serious times, they require serious and responsible leadership. one, this council has failed to provide, some members here are losing an opportunity to change our region for the... better, whatever their calculations, they are wrong, may they change course before it is too late, reality on the ground will overtake any plans you may have, shaping it or enduring it is decision that needs to be made now, thank you mr. president, i thank the permanent observer of the observer state of palestine for his state. i now is the person you were listening
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to, he's a permanent envoy to the un, some of the highlights there, uh, there are no signs when it can end, it should be stopped, further delays to not take place, next few hours more palestinians will be killed, and he said that israel is changing tactics and will deny responsibility of the hospital attack of which he said shirin abu, many other instances uh in the past, are examples of which there's despiting overwhelming evidence that obviously point to the contrary, let's bring in samti taraabi who's a director of the rasalat institute who joins us now samti, welcome to the program, if if you want to take a look at the statements there by the palestinian envoy, i think one the best ones to ask you is about this attack on the hospital of which he said don't be fooled by it, israel obviously is changing his narrative. but it's something that it has done in the past and he cited some examples like uh the um assassination of shirin abule
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uh but what do you think about that? isn't that point here that's important to note? good evening yeah mean i think you know this events that we're witnessing now is once again showing how useless and actually you know negative the role of the un is and the idea that you know we have this club where you know some whenever you want to do something you're going to have the americans veto it or the americans with the british and the french so you think the sooner we get over this idea that the un has anything to do here or could help is very good, the fact that we're seeing that you know the un just sits on his hands and and and will just do nothing for genocide to happen, really is is an example of what realists have always talked about when it comes to international relations, which is that you have to help yourself, and you have to have countries, for
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example, countries like iran, or strong enough to be able to you, and genocide if it's necessary, because it's not going to happen by the un, and it hasn't happened, and you know we could go on and on and on over the last you know 70 years where genocides have happened and the un has done nothing about it. all right, so um, let's hypothetically speak, not hypothetically, but let us uh take your notion there and uh go a little further, let's put aside the un, and let's go for an organization that speaks uh truthfully. i'm not too sure maybe the oic, in order to mobilize and get uh countries united to move forward to do something about what is happening, why should we let the region be dictated by countries that are against, for example iran or against palestine for that matter? well, that's actually a good point in terms of let's look at the oic, which is the organization islamic
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conference, we know that international organizations are only going to do what the... the different member states allow them to do, so yeah, the idea that we have this kind of organization, international organization that includes 50 odd, 50 plus countries that are you know muslim countries in terms of having a populations which are majority muslim, that's a good thing, it's a place you can meet, you can talk, you can discuss things and you know the point is this, when you have member states whose governments a lot of which are not you know backed by their own people which are tribal you know dictatorships or which are military dictatorships or which whose existence depends on you know the uh welfare of the americans or the west for these rulers to to continue their rule and to continue to make you know the billions of of dollars that they put into their pockets and the pockets of their families there's going to be issues yes
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they are under pressure now uh it's so it's so apparent and it's so clear what's going on now you know we live an age where they can't hide these things anymore, everything is happening live in time, so even if on the tv they don't show it or on on satellite stations, they don't show what people are putting the videos or putting the the different clips of of what's happening online, so it's very hard for countries like saudi arabia or the uae, or jordan or all these countries which are completely dependent on on on western support, i'm talking about the rulers, not not the people of those countries. countries, it's very hard for them to run away from this from this issue, but nevertheless, there there's going to be, you know, there's going to be limit of what they are, that they're going to do, they're not going to for example say to the americans, i'm even going to include turkey in this, they're not going to say to the americans or the israelis that if you cross the line, we're going to attack, but an independent country like iran can actually
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say that and says that, of course it says it a in a proper way, it's not going to say it a very crude way, but very clear by the statements that we have from the leader of the revolution on down that there is a red line, there's something, there's there's a limit to what, the the israelis can do, which is of course the idea of of conducting genocide in front of everybody, you know in the in front of the eyes of everybody, so this is again the same thing we said about the un, maybe in a lesser lesser of a of a degree, but the reality is that nothing replaces countries having their own power and being able to shape the event, so wouldn't it be great if erdogan and the turks were to send a clear message to whoever, to the americans, to the israelis that we're not going to you allow you to do this, that would be a good thing, but i don't know if they're capable of doing, wouldn't it be great if the saudis were able to say that, wouldn't it be
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great if the egyptians were able to say that, but they don't, and so this all of this what? happening is teaching us lessons, it's giving, it's telling us what the reality of international relations is, and that the sooner we get over these dangerous fantasies about you know different things that we're taught in in in school and and people repeat on television about how things are, the sooner we get over those and we understand that you have to enforce your own, you have to have the power to enforce your own rights, as we see iran has done and as we see the... resistance most importantly in palestine itself do, this is what what is required in the international scene, and if we look at palestine itself, and what they have experienced in the last 30 years, well... uh, if you look in the 90s, you had the so-called peace process, which was always a process, it was never peace, and the idea among some, in the among the palestinians that they could somehow negotiate something with with the
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israelis and the americans and and it's just made their lives worse, and it's it's it's it's worse than it was 30 years ago, and the minute you saw another significant part and faction among the palestinians, different groups deciding that they're going to go the non-negotiating route, going to go the round of militant resistance uh you are seeing results that uh you know took in four we in four years you saw results that were promised 40 years ago that hadn't happened you saw in you know a month or two or in or in in one or two days you know advancements of of the cause for the liberation of palestine that were we're going to take years if if you were just going to sit and try to talk about well uh when when you talk about the countries that need to stand up uh "we know that for example, egypt or jordan, for that matter, both of them uh, are pretty much on us's payroll. however, we're seeing that how the meeting with joe biden was cancelled by both,
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and there's some news that indicates that joe biden has actually asked the egyptian president to take in the palestinians, and if it were to do that, that it would clear its death, it would be zero, but the egyptian president has rejected that and has actually said that that is actually in a sense uh a threat to our national security." such a proposition, what what message do you think egypt is sending to the us presidents and do you think that egypt is is actually coming out of that uh us uh i guess um superiority over it? well well why do you think the dictator in egypt or the unelected king of jordan would say these things? why would they say that? have you have you seen the the the film of jordan and egypt because their own people would linch them, would kill them, so it's not about that... somehow now become you know these great supporters of the palestinian cause they know that if they if they do that then their own people will will overthrow them so they know that they cannot
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allow uh this idea of of of you know cooperating with with the israelis and the americans in the ethnic cleansing of palestinian because that's exactly what it is, the americans and the and the israelis are proposing ethnic cleansing to the jordanians and the egyptians which they've been doing from the first day of the uh establishment of of israel, okay, so this is not a new idea, this is just something that contrary to what the founders of israel hoped for, which is to basically erase a palestinian identity and have all the palestinians either go to jordan or go to egypt, well it hasn't happened in in almost 80 years now, 70 odd plus years, whatever they have, so they're trying it again, and and the rulers in egypt whoever they are, whether it was, you know, 50 years ago or whether it's now, whether it was the father of of king abdullah or whether it was you know anwar sadat or whether it was whoever else uh in egypt before they know that if they actually cooperate with that they
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themselves will lose their power so that's the reason they're not they're doing this it's not there's other reason so from from uh your perspective in terms of what what's going to be happening in the immediate future like in the next days or so um the ground invasion the us presence uh militarily in terms of the carriers um and then the the threats that the prime minister of israel has made that we're going to raise palestine to the ground, uproot the palestinians, they want them to move to the south, what do you make of all those and whether they are serious in their intentions to do that? well, they would like to do it, but they've realized that that if they do that, they they're going to uh probably not exist after that, it might take a while, the war might be long and and difficult, but the idea that they would still just be able to do that with... any issues is it's just they've realized they can't do it and and the part of the story which i have to criticize the different media that i'm watching, especially from the muslim countries and our own media
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is, nobody is talking about the situation inside of israel, which is a complete mess, they are completely a mess, what's going on inside of israel, they they're at each other's throats and this this would be a good angle to talk about of of what kind of a pressure all of this is putting on... the internal side of things in israel itself, so this is going to determine lot of things, unfortunately we have genocidal society in in israel, which is anybody who might want to come from among the israels and the zionist and propose negotiated settlement is not going to be accepted by the political process, people will not vote for them and people that kind of a person is is is is is marginalized in the current. situation, so the crazier you are, the more genocidal you are, the more people are going to support you in israel, because you have now, after the assassination of raben by a zionist
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extremist. and the all the you know decades of of the you know the worst cynical kind of rule by by genocidal maniac like netanyahu by a by a certified psychopath like netanyahu when when when a person like that rules society you the society is destroyed very similar to what you saw for example in in iraq during the during the rule of saddam very similar to what you saw in libya during the rule of of of qadafi'. which is you have crazy people at you know ruling society and that society completely you know deteriorates morally as you can see right now, so i think what's going to determine the future is whether the zionists and the israelis are capable of bringing a leader or leaders and politicians in the mold of fwclerk who was part of the national party of south africa. a
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party and decided at some point him and his generation or his his his group of people at that time who were ruling apartide south africa that they cannot continue having apartide state with force which would require the ethnic lending and genocide of the of the majority of the population, so that's what would be required for things not escalate, but i am, i am very skeptical that israeli society, this this psychopathic. society is capable of producing such leaders, so what will happen is you will have these uh, you know, certified insane people, pushing for genocide, pushing for ethnic lining, and when that happens, you're obviously going to see a reaction from the muslims around the world, you're going to have probably some of these countries which are ruled by these rulers who are cowards and are not capable of very
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simply stating: issue that they will not watch the palestinan genocide, you will probably see some of those governments collapsing and you will see probably in those countries political turmoil and and the attempt to establish new government, and you will see the resistance, all the different groups in the resistance entering the scene and not allowing that to happen, and it's going to be a long war, and the americans, we just have to remember, the last times the americans were in the region with boots on the ground was in the early. is, i don't think i have to remind anybody what happened to the americans, for example in beirout, the last time they were there, so the idea that somehow you have now these americans there, and that things are going to be different, well it's not going to be different, were the americans able to win any war in west asia over the last 20 years, were they able to win against the taliban, where they were able to win against the iraqi people or the or or or whoever else they were attacking in all these years, so why should it be any different this time around when they they want to you know
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enter the scene with? on the ground, i think that's more for domestic consumption, it's for the idea that well, you know, we're helping you at this point in your in your in your struggles, but that in in terms of militarily there might not really be that much of a significance, and it's very interesting because you had putin and just as side remark talking about how the russian navy, which is stationed in the black sea, the the the hypersonic rockets and missiles that they have. are capable of reaching whoever is is out in the mediterranean, so he he prefaced the whole when he gave that information, he said, well, i'm not warning anybody, this is just i'm giving you information, but obviously the idea that the americans and the israelis can do whatever they want, and that the iranians, that the russians, maybe the chinese in the background, and of course uh, at the forefront of of all this, the different various resistance groups led by the palestinians themselves, led by the lebanes.
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resistance and other groups led by the by the iraqi resistance and by the syrian uh by the syrian would allow this to happen and nothing would happen of course is is the fantasy and this is why the world has changed, this is why things are different now than they were before and it's clear that it's different on the ground and as matter of reality and it's also different the way we see things in social media which is you no longer have this idea where whatever the israeli say or whatever the americans say is accepted actually see that in this case and and and as it relates to the subject of why we're even having this discussion and the horrible you know war crime and and and crime against humanity that was conducted by the israelis, we see that in the social media, it's actually the americans and the israelis are on the back foot and the only place where they are able to you know talk about these things.