tv Mideastream Genocide in Gaza PRESSTV October 22, 2023 6:02pm-6:30pm IRST
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and for continuous weeks, maybe i don't remember how many 20, 25, 30 weeks, we had the is really people taking out to the of streets and large numbers, slamming his judicial overhaul plan, it's hard to know at this point, i think that the upsurge of anti-israeli uh feeling around the world is in definitely. weakening the support that netanyahu had before this crisis erupted, also the governing of israel's policies by this extremist government that failed to have the intelligence, knowledge to have prevented the hamas attack on october 7th, all of these
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uh, issues are hurting uh, the position and the respect for netanyahu, and when this violence against gaza stops, he will be, i think under extreme pressure to resign, and whether that leads to... to his uh being prosecuted for these bribary charges or not is not clear, right? israel may want to have smoother domestic reality and work out some suspension of the prosecutions, i don't know, but i think he is in severe jepardy unless he can present. these developments a as some
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kind of ultimate victory right for israel. okay, thank you so much for your contribution and insight. richard falk, former un special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in palestinian territories. he was with me live in istanbul, as rally in support of palestinians uh was going on in istanbul and elsewhere in the world. we'll keep an eye on those events related to palestine and people in gaza and uh... it's uh goodbye for now, we'll be back shortly. they were on their way to flee escape death from the northern gaza strip, but the israeli entity war jets intercepted their way and launched a violent bombardment on them, leading to the death of at least 70 civilians in one moment. the israeli occupation advised the gazans to flee to the south of the gaza strip to ensure their escape from the raids, but what actually happened was that zionist bombs and missiles accompanied. the gazans along the
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way. until the writing of this report, the number of palestinian marters from the israeli occupation bombing of the gaza strip has reached 2,200 marters, while the number a of wounded reached 8,800, most of whom are women and children. what is currently happening is a war of annihilation against gaza in front of the world, which is doing absolutely nothing to stop it. the palestinian ministry of health announced recently that during the past 10 days since the start of it. aggression against gaza, the israeli occupation has exterminated more than 55 palestinian families, completely annihilated them to point that their names have been erased from official records. israeli entity war planes have been continuously hammering the gazza strip neighborhood by neighborhood, reducing buildings to rubble and sending people scrambling to find safety in the tiny sealed off territory. humanitarian groups pleaded for the creation of corridors to get aid into gaza and warm. that hospitals overwhelmed
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with wounded people were running out of supplies. however, the zinst israeli entity has stopped entry of food, fuel and medicine into gaza, and the soul remaining access from egypt was completely shut down after air strikes hit the border crossing. rescue officials in gaza said large numbers of people are still trapped under the remnance of leveled buildings with rescue equipment and ambulances unable to reach the area. just take a look at this for minor example, large part of gaza city's rimal neighborhood was reduced to rubble after hours of air strikes. residents found buildings storn in half or demolished to mouns of concrete and rabar. cars were flattened and trees burned out on residential streets transformed into moonscapes. rimal, an upscale district home to government ministries, universities, media organizations and aid agency offices, all now completely flattened. there is no safe place in gaza right now. you see decent people
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being killed every day, it could have been you had you been born in palestine, but it seems the luxury of being considered valuable human life, not having to sleep, not knowing if you will ever wake up, has led you into narcotizing dysfunction, completely numb to all the horrors committed by zionist israel against the palestinian people. however, rest assured, the palestinian resistance never forgets the blood spilled by its people, and evidently knows perfectly well when to retaliate. welcome to the mediast stream, i'm marwa uthman. at least 800 palestinian children have been killed by the israeli military offensive on gaza until the writing of this report representing one-third of the death toll with casualty count rapidly rising as the israeli
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authorities seal palestinians in gaza off from food, fuel, electricity, water and medical supplies. now israeli regime official statements combined with widespread and system. attacks carried out by the israeli occupation forces in the gaza strip raised extreme concern that this is now a campaign of genocide against the palestinian people. to discuss this issue with us from the west bank is dr. amal wahdan who is an human rights advocate thanks emillion for being with us dr. the humanitarian situation in gaza has deteriorated to an unprecedented dangerous level with the dire need for the necessity of opening a humanitarian corridor to the... diver aid to the people of the gaza strip. why is the international community? dr. amal completely deafmute to these atrocities? actually, the international community is deaf and blind, they cannot hear the cries of children and women, and they
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cannot see the tv screens that shows the the human catastrophe in gaza, which is beyond any imagination. 2 million palestinian civilians living an area of only 375 square meters are left without food, water, electricity and medicine supplies and medical supplies for almost 10 days today, the israelis has refused to let any aid coming from the egyptian crossing at rafah city in the south, they also refused any sease fire to allow it in, they don't care, they want... revenge, this is called collective punishment and considered as grief violation of international law and international humanitarian law and also human rights, so these countries, what we call the international communities, which is led by
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the us and its satellite states, actually violate human rights, human rights all over the world, now especially in gaza stread, they cannot see what the israels, what atrocities the israelis are committing against our people in gaza, and also our people in the west bank in occupied west bank, the people of gaza have been living under seg and open prison for 17 years now, if this is not a concentration camp, what do we call it then? they are, they are partners in these war crimes. that the israelis are committing, actually our enemy as palestinian people is the us and its allies, it's not, it's not only the israelis, well doctor, we have heard the western mainstream media basically just beat the uh drums of war claiming that the atrocities that the people
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in gaza are facing is on the hands of the palestinian resistance hamas, because they kick started the al-aqsa flood operation to begin with, as if gaza was in so much peace before the al-aqsa. uh flood, how do you debate such accusations? first of all the palestinian resistance actually, what they did is a preemptive operation of aqsa flood, as their intelligence intercepted information, that the israeli occupation forces are preparing a military operation against gaza just after their holidays, so what they did is a self-defense, they wanted to defend the the ghazan people, they wanted to defend the palestinians as as you know the palestinian people have been living under direct colonial occupation for over a century now first by the british then by the zionist at the moment so most of the palestinian refugees who live eight refugee camps in the
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gaza strip were originally forced out of their villages 55 villages were totally destroy destroyed in gaza strip and in bershiva so the residence of these refugee camps came from the areas that was forcefully um depopulated displaced so uh "the international community has to look into the real causes of this war, the real causes of these atrocities, if they only come to point to recognize the un security council, although we don't believe in it, if they only recognize that, if they only let the refugees back to their villages and their cities, they wouldn't be need for this. war, but of course, the us and its allies want to to
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maintain this military base of colonial appertite israel for its own interest, and the palestinians have has to pay the price for it. well, dr. amal, despite the destruction, we have equally seen undefeated palestinian will and steadfastness that has amazed the world all across historic palestine, not only. in gaza during the war during right now during the war, it is truly astonishment not only to the friends of palesstan, but also to the enemies of palestine, especially the israeli regime itself, and to the western public opinion who support the israeli colonial regime as well, how do you explain such a stance when people are facing the horrors that they are seeing in gaza? yeah, it is astonishment, but we can't be surprised by the palestinian people who show. showed resilient and who showed patience and showed steadfastness all over 75
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years of direct zionist occupation, we can see the women and the children, even the children who are who have survived the the air strikes of the israeli f-16s, they are saying that we are not leaving our homes, we are not leaving our land, we did this before in 1948. we were forced out of our homes and our villages, thinking that we will be returning in a week, but we ended up living in refugee camps for 75 years and that's why we need to stead fast, we need to stay in in our on our land and defend it with our souls and this is actually surprising for the israelis because they thought that if they cont continue to hit, if they continue their air strikes against the civilians, they will
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force them to flee, and even when they told them that there are safe corridors for them to leave to to the south, they hit them again with their air stries, so the palestinians know that the only thing that they have is to resist this occupation and stead fast and remain on their lands, but now israel saying that it's open the corridors of the... or crossing for just five hours before it supposedly begins the ground invasion of gaza, do you think that uh even that kind of red line if it if it is crossed by the zionist entity, will the international community put a stop to it? no, as i said, the us is leading this international community and even the us is complicit in this crime, so there is no such thing as um peace or secured corridors for the people to leave, we we saw that they had an envoy of
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core of cars which were driving to the south, and hundreds of people were either killed or injured, so the israelis actually and the and the us will with its fleet and the mediterranean just close enough to the ghaza shores are... saying the same, they they don't budge and they want to continue stressing over and pressuring the the palestinians until they, what they say, until they will destroy hamas, will hamas is not some isolated group from the palestinian people, not only in gaza, but in the whole historic palestine and outside as well, they can't approve. the spirit of resistance from the palestinian people, they only have two
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options, either to win and go back to their land, to their homes, which is in occupied 1948 or to continue resistance, there is other choice, our guests from the west bank human rights advocate, thanks million for your time and your contribution to our show specifically at this: very extraordinary times in palestine, now ladies and gents, please stay tuned, because next we'll be talking about zionist missiles, the targeted the press right here in south lebanon.
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now an israeleli artillery strike hit a group of reporters from several outlets who were clearly marked as press. this war crime constituted a blatant attack and a crime against freedom of opinion and the press, human rights and international humanitarian law through the easy killing of unarmed journalists, victims of their duty to convey the truth, defended with the lenses of their cameras and pens and transfer them to the screens, the repeated israeli occupation attacks in south lebanon. now let's have more details about this in this following report. in light of the crazy israeli ultimatum to two million palestinians in gaza to move to the south of the gaza strip and the further explosive repercussions it caused militarily and diplomatically, and on the friday of the general readiness on october 13, in solidarity with the palestinians in many
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countries, including lebanon, the lebanese press once again paid with blood the tax of covering the truth at the... gradually escalating confrontation lines on the southern lebanese border with occupied palestine, journalists were injured by direct and intentional criminal israeli entity bombing that targeted sng cars and media crews during their coverage of confrontations that took place in the outskirts of the southern village of alma shahab. a young journalist isam abdullah, a photographer at reuters was killed in the israeli entity bombing. two other colleagues, eli brahiya and karman juhadar from the al-jazera station team. were injured, also colleague christina aasi, a correspondent of afp agence france press, was seriously injured in the feet and hands and afp correspondent dilan collins was seriously injured. the iraqi correspondent for routers thair khazim and his iraqi colleague mahar abdullatif also suffered injuries and were taken to the lebanese italian hospital in the city of tyre. this dangerous development appeared to be a
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warning of the worsening situation on the ground in south lebanon, such that the press and media became an indiscriminate target. for the israeli occupation, while the confrontation flaared up as a result of the bombing of almas shab as the islamic resistance hisbullah announced launching attacks a number of israeli occupation sites. the israeli targeting of journalists sparked wave of angry and widespread union press, media and political responses in lebanon. the targeting of press and media crews came amit a clash that took place in the border area between the towns of aldahira and almasshaab in the afternoon, where exchange of fire took place between the... israeli army and hezbollah in light of violent israeli bombardment of the area and intense overflights of apache helicopters. according to the lebanese army statement, an army intelligence control tower was hit and the vicinity of lebanese army and grain without border centers were bombed, but no casualties were recorded among the ranks of the soldiers. just as lebanon, atrocities against the press continued aggressively in gaza as
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well, as israeli entity continues its most ferocious assault yet on the trapped people of... gaza, it has also targeted journalists offices, telecommunication networks and internet services, seemingly to prevent accounts of the mounting atrocities emerging. with these war crimes, the israeli entity is seeking to silence the palestinian narrative and erase all traces of its crimes committed against civilians and civilian infrastructure in gaza. the zinous israeli regime wants to close off access to gaza so that the attention of the arab world and international public opinion won't be drown towards the atrocity. is being committed in terms of war crimes and mass extermination. to discuss this issue with us from beirot is dr. ali awada, journalist and broadcaster at the lebanes almanar channel. thanks million for being with us. dr. ali now, the ministry of foreign affairs and immigrants instructed the permanent mission of lebanon to the united
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nations in new york to submit a complaint to the un security council about the israeli entities's deliberate killing of the mark. worked for voters and the winning of several other colleagues as well who worked for agence france press and al-jazera and others as well. do you believe this move will bring justice tosam, to his family, to his colleagues? israel, the israeli entity must be held accountable, this is the basic rule that all officials in lebanon have... been working on since the first moment, reporters and media professionals were exposed to this unprecedented crime against journalists and media professionals, so much so that team is directly exposed to this crime by the zinest entity. the israeli entity targeted them even though it knew for certain that these were journalists. this is a crime that will not be tolerated. this was confirmed by the chairman the media and communications committee,
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member of the loyalty to the resistance block, mp, dr. ibrahim musawi. from the first moment of this crime, dr. mosawi had a clear position, which was that lebanon would not remain silent about this crime, and from that moment, this file was transferred, the lebanese ministry of foreign affairs was addressed to activate this file at the international level. the access of... working on these files must make every effort required to be able to prosecute the zionist enemy for this crime and other crimes it committed. in answer to your question, yes, there is a real effort being made by those concerned, including the parliamentary information committee, which is making every effort with serious contacts made at the level of human rights associations in a number of european countries to activate this file, because what happened is a crime in every sense of the word and no one can cover it up, this is a crime because there were eyewitness. therefore, yes, i believe this time is unlike all the times, the zionist
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enemy will be prosecuted for the crime it committed, but as for the nature of this prosecution, we will see where the path of justice will reach in it, so that conclusions can be derived from it. well, dr. ali, attempt to basically just silence the truth, the israelity. assaulting the media and the press, whether in lebanon, in palestine, in a bit to control the narrative that comes out of both countries, how do you think this makes those who work in the media feel while covering the live events as they unfold especially in a war zone, and how much do you think it affects their efforts to deliver basically the truth to the public? are they afraid to do their work now? what the zionist enemy is doing and what it has done towards the late photographer will increase journalists determination to convey the truth. this is what we saw in the alma shab area on the lebanese palestinian border. it
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is true that press crews were targeted, but at the same time the arab local and cable channels were reporting what happened and the reporters completed covering what the zionist enemy was doing. there was a real attempt by the enemy to obscure the truth, especially since it was targeting lebanese border areas. the enemy wanted to silence these media professionals, but the... response was resounding when these reporters insisted on completing media coverage at the location of the crime, provided that they return to the live broadcast again. this indicates one fact that all these crimes such as the killing of al-jazira correspondent sharin whose memory is still fresh until this moment from may 2022 when she fell as matter. yet this never silenced the voice of the truth, nor did it prevent reporters and media professionals from continuing to convey the truth to the whole world. the enemy wants to obscure this. truth, but on the other hand, the group of reporters will always be on the lookout to defend the true story as it is in gaza. in gaza we daily see the crimes committed by the enemy against the palestinian people. what if
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there were no media that possess conscious, freedom and sanctified the truth, then wouldn't that truth be threatened and lost? so the will still persist amongst lebanese journalists and wherever there are media outlets that have a free and honest consience in this world. but something really interesting, let me say, not to say another word happened after the uh targeted killing of uh issam abdullah, the lebanese journalist, we we saw that there was blind bias and international and deliberate ignorance if you will of the international agency routers and number of international media outlets who deliberately refrained from naming the side that killed isam and injured his friends as well. i mean, why would they do that? why, how would you assess that the company, the media organization that sam
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works with, actually deliberately dropped the people who committed the crime? in fact, this bias was surprising. we always read that these media institutions are distinguished by their long history, and that they are supposed to protect democracy and freedom, especially freedom of opinion. expression, but in fact, this is a failure that history will record regarding the extent of the media institutions commitment to objectivity, why? because everyone was present and could see who bomb these media professionals, therefore this media institution was supposed to report the story as it is without defending any party, it should have named the party that attacked themara is the team present with him, this is a media mistep that will go down in history, but we know that in all the wars. that took place over the past years, there were some media institutions run by western parties that were somewhat sympathetic to the zionist enemy. in addition, there is lot of information and studies that clearly indicate
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that those manage these institutions in administrative positions, especially the boards of directors, belong ideologically and intellectually to the scionist enemy. somewhat, this topic is neither surprising nor new. as we know in all previous wars, whether in the july 2006 war or the american invasion of iraq in 2003, there were many media institutions that adopted the framing technique in the process of covering events. any case, this reality exists in most walls where attempts are made to obscure the... to exonerate the oppressor and the murderer and to attempt to hide the truth, however public opinion remains much more aware, especially since we are in the era of social media and the reality of life fee broadcasting, which can distinguish between truth and falsehood, and there are always conscious professionals to follow the path of the truth, your opinion here, concerning that and the truth shall always be out there, because there are a lot
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of people who care for palestine and care for. lebanon and will always tell the truth. i want to thank you very much dr. ali awada from beirout, journalist and broadcaster at the lebanese almanar channel for joining us to talk about the atrocities that uh befell actually lebanon at the marturdom of our own issam abdullah, the lebanese journalist was killed by the zanist entity and his friends were injured uh right there when the whole world was seeing just as the whole world was seeing how gaza as well was being uh basically just under genocide. by the israeli entity, but we are always here, we are always going to remember every martyr that fell, we are always going to talk about the woons of every one of our native leventinians and especially against israeli entity, and we are always here at press tv to give voice to the voice list, ladies and gents, please do follow us and on x and on uh telegram as well, and we'll see you again next week for more from the video stream, salam alaikum.
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