um, but also they have kind of reignited the um acceptability of direct and civil disobedience, direct action and civil disobedience. you know, we're seeing things in london now where people are protesters are doing sit ins across train stations um, but also targeting solicitors firms, um, any contractors that are associated with uh elbit of systems. um, and so i really wanted to kind of you know... them with with this discussion, but also really having just um, just a little bit of a of a conversation over direct action and how powerful it can be, to bring about change, yes, to bring about change, to bring about awareness, to put pressure on these organizations to disassociate from genocide, you know, but they are complicit, and in the uk that makes us complicit, so it is absolutely our duty to have some sort of direct action, it sure is.

i think that ties in well with with the next story that we have picked for us. yes, um, who lo cannot feel something when they look at the following clips, you know, it makes you wonder um, why there isn't any more direct action being had. um, these are, is this in the west bank? this is in the west bank, yes, you know, the the the current propaganda that's being pedled by these zionist entities is that you know hamas are these terrorists and we need to going to gazza, we need to flatten it, we need to treat these human animals in x and such a way, one actually, what about the west bank, the israeli troops barbarically treating palestinians in the west bank where hamas doesn't even exist? they are depriving them of their dignity, they are subjecting them to torture, um, and they are recording it and sharing it with the world to further degrade these these um these prisoners, you know, in

the west bank, we talk about being the the largest open air prison a concentration camp, uh, the west banking is is is not that much different, we need to remember that they are also under um, they are under control, the they have you know uh barriers and uh checkpoints that they must enter and they and they have to do so with the permission of the of the iof um and so they are just as much victims as any other palestinian in archipat palestine we talked about. weapons earlier uh your next story um shows us perhaps how those weapons are used, one of the things that elbet systems um says about its weapons is that they are battle tested and we've been seeing that happen multiple times over the a course of decades. absolutely, the statistics here talk for themselves, battle tested against children and the number of of children reported killed in just three weeks has has been you know the the number that of

have been killed globally more than the number of children being killed globally in armed conflict. of of the more than 8,500 people who have been killed in the since october 7th in gaza, almost 3,500 have been children, that's like 10, one child every 10 minutes. it's what can you say to that, you know, it's the it's a sad reality, um, it's true. and um and they will they will see their justice uh you now say the children it's worthy mentioning that save the children are a charity uh they are non-government organization and they are considered uh unbias and so the the facts that they are reporting are accurate. i also remember seeing um on one of these charities something truly harrowing truly heartbreaking that um

the schools in gazza, some schools in gazza have already announced the ending of the academic year, because all the children in that school have have have died, so even if the um, even if the massacre and the genocide, if there was a ceasefire and that seasfire you know uh was was over a certain time that allowed people to return to their daily lives, those schools have nothing, they have nothing to do, they have no children to work with, so um a whole generation has been wiped out, yes children. and entire family blood lines, children, mothers, fathers, grandfathers, all of them taken out, murdered brutally since this war started, um, it is just awful to say the least, um, let's have look at how it all started, uh, you know, lot of people might think that it all began on october 7th, rather than looking at the history of it and what led to... october 7th

and the flare-up that we saw happen on that day. well, yes, absolutely, we know that this has been a an ongoing genocide. this is something that started actually even well before 40. because we know that the plans existed and and you know the the infiltration of of you know certain refugees that came into the country with the intention of of um of turning coat and and um and uh making victims out of there and pushing out the the palestinians who had opened their homes and their land to them, but um what i did want to bring to the forefront is two things a reminder to our audiences and to ourselves that you know one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter and these labels that keep being put on the palestinian people, this is um something very subjective uh, you need to remember that that the west should not be our we should not allow them to direct our moral compass this way or that way, you know they are so flippant with their um, maybe flimpant isn't the right word, flimsy,

they're so you know that they can be pushed this way and that way depending on on their interests, there's really no uh conviction, it's it's just depends on where they benefit from in that time and that moment. you look at messallan um used to be considered a terrorist by the west and then a few years later was given nobel peace prize, you look at nelson mandela, nelson mandela who was you know considered again a terrorist and then up until 2008 2010 is now someone who is considered role model for um uh for world peace um and so let's i would like us to end the segment with with looking at some of the timeless world. of how the oppressed rise against the their oppressors is uh masterfully uh explain here by the late malcomax. well, this was a terrorist organization that didn't just defend themselves from specific acts, but initiated act of terrorism. you favor that in this

country? no, i think that the conditions that prevailed in kenya, force the mao to take action, and any action that they took, even though it seemed that they were initiating it, actually it was defensive action and it was. reaction to the colonial powers that were uh exploiting them, but do you favor such an organization here? uh, do does white america favor the cookluck's clan or the citizen's council and as long as the government, police bodies do nothing about the existence of white terror groups that are terrorizing blacks, then it's time for blacks to do whatever is necessary to put these white terror groups in their place, and i feel that mall could wipe out the clan and... in the north, south, east and west and wherever it exists, i'm not against the idea at all. all those years ago it feels like these comments were made on october 7th or the day after. yes, and it just shows you that it's so important for us to learn our history, number one, because lessons can be

learned, it's as you said, it's it's as if this was being said literally three weeks ago, um, the the lessons are timeless, but also um, because it shows you the hypocrisy the west, and it shows you the hypocrisy of mainstream. media, because someone like mal x was once upon a time considered a terrorist, you know, um, someone like yasar arafat was once upon a time considered a terror, nelson mandela, and nelson mandela, and you know few years later we're given, i'm not sure about nelson mandela, but yas arafat was given nobel peace prize, and you know it's we we need to remember not to take or not to allow the the west uh to direct our moral compass, um, but also to you know in a time and in a place where the war is no longer just being fought on the ground, it's being fought online, it's being fought you know in our workspaces, we need to be able to use language in in a way as you know masterfully as you said as malcolm exted, we need to be able to have those phrases and and those um

uh, those conversation points in our in our arsenal and we need to make sure that we um continue to use these spaces to politicize them and to fight for the palestinians and just. to see through the lies, so to speak, and and spread the truth, as you say, the factual information that we can have at the ready, in conversations where people are peddaling uh falsehoods or untruths about why what has happened or is happening in in the gaza strip didn't start three weeks ago? yeah, all right, latif, thank you very much. latifra, thank you, the massacre at the jebalio. refugee camp was one of the clearest examples of israel's blatant disregard for international law. we spoke with writer and activist jackie walker, herself jewwish and asked why, in spite of these violations, israel has been allowed to carry on with their ethnic cleansing agenda? well, it's

allowed to, because i don't call them our leaders, by the way, they're not our leaders, they're our rulers. we have a ruling class here who are totally dis'. connected from the people, most people in this country, whatever sides of the political divide they reform, over 70% want to see fire now, they're not going to get it, and they're not going to get it because we increasingly have a ruling class that disregards the wishes of the majority, it's made democracy just into a joke, but that doesn't mean that the mass of people aren't noticing what's happening, the last demo which i was on, which had 500,000 people on it, i think that's a pretty good estimate, mean i was on the anti-iraq march and it's the biggest i've seen since then um will get bigger the next time, there are

revolts of people everywhere, last night there was a mass of people led by jewish groups and they were at liverpool street station and they were outside of downing street, now of course what's happening is that they're being accused of being a rabble, mob, destructive mob, can i just say out of those hundred? of thousands of people who marched, there were actually nine arrests, and now our home secretary of course is calling us load of anticeemites, but they will do that, and more they do that, the less currency that these accusations will have, the horror, the absolute horror of seeing the israeli ambassador just few days ago, having the hoodspar to put yellow badge of the incarcerated and tortured people of the nazi

holocaust on his on his comfortable shoulders to an effort to actually shame the un into becoming complicit with genocide was even too much for the people who run yad veshem in israel, that's the kind of ridiculous show we have got into and more and more people in the uk are seeing this for what it is. the international community seems to be failing the palestinians. we ask jacky walker why the us and uk continue to back tel aviv, whose actions are surely now indefensable? you know, i made a comparison uh in a talked some time ago and it's a very sort of blunt comparison and i don't know how much this

works around the world or with your viewers, but certainly in england if you see a man walking quietly with dog, but that dog looks like it's a vicious dog and it growls and it goes up to you and you know you're scared and you're scared into maybe moving over or doing what the man asks. that's a great analogy. for the relationship between america and israel, you know, israel actually does the functions, it gets its hands dirty, it gets its hands bloody with the kind of international crimes that america likes to pretend it doesn't do, so top of it being an outpost of euro american power in the middle east, which it is, it also has that. function, israel will do and say the kind of

awful, awful, horrible, racist, bizarre, barbaric rhetoric that even the americans won't say, back with her second helping of palestine in the news, fahim muhammad, fahim starting with the man who paid dearly for speaking the truth in this country, absolutely, we have jeremy corbin again talking to al-jazera um if we have the clip up there we can sort of see what he says and uh basically unfold that there is jeremy corban i think outside because the occupation has gone on so long many people don't appreciate what it's like if you live on the west bank your movements are controlled by the israeli forces the patrolling and streets is done by the israeli army, and if you protest against the settlement, then it's the

israeli army that will come and deal with you, we undertaking that protest. i remember talking to a palestinian politician, well this goes on for a while, so what i want to just quickly wrap up to say that he's basically telling people that this does not just start, as our guess mentioned even earlier on the 7th of october, there is a history that people need to sort of recognize and understand that the palestinians have. no control, they have no um sort of normal facilities or even when people are saying, at the end of the day, they should do this, they should do that, they do not have that ability and that freedom at all to live system. absolutely, exactly, well in the way they trying to obviously discredit those sort of you know occupation um and the permits that they have and all the things that they have to go through you know and being oppressed daily, so that's why you know he's sort of reiterating that to sort of show people that we need to go back and literally you know look at the situation as to what it really is even prior that look at the history and what led to october 7 absolutely and to be honest

we've got loads of people um we've got the next tweet um let's have look that one first. okay, so we have again, we have kier starmer here, um, receiving donations um 50,000 pounds from the pro- palestinian lobbyiists, so we shows in it very clearly as to why he would constantly and very much so um, push forward, absolutely, and we raised that before as well, like soela braverman and uh cleverly all. these mps that were there before, you know, friends of palestine, sort of associations, and they've actually you know been paid, so that's why they are pushing this narrative no matter what, on on the side of israel, and he spoke at chatham house yesterday, trying to clarify his position on it all, and this is institution that is funded by the us state department, the uk foreign office as well as lockhead

martin, bae systems and the like, absolutely, but he was met by a croud outside as well, you know, sort of. knowing that you know no matter what everyone is saying again we know the truth and we're there to sort of call it out so that is another thing and people on high level are actually acting and taking steps not just in the uk but we have the next one where the director of the un's new york office resigned after 30 years and not just that you know leaving very very um i would say letter which really does not hold back and if anyone has a chance please go... and look at it and read it cuz it's very clear what he says and how many years they've been fighting and he just could not take it any longer where he you know this cannot be blindsited anymore so he had to step down and that was a real stance to the feeling of lot of people out there so when people of that position are making these kinds of moves it really does speak volumes and um it's across

the globe are we going to see in your estimation are we going to see more of this happening we saw the bolivia example we saw the un example well we've seen a lot of... mps that have stepped down and resigned here um and lot more are also in mutuny within sort of governments and sort of certain constituents as well um but at the same time you know is that really going to make much of difference we have yet to see and it can happen any moment sooner because as we speak people are dying more than 400 people dying every single day absolutely the numbers are you know you cannot comprehend uh and you cannot even understand you know how those... numbers are even just being said as they are, those are just what's being counted, but obviously we're going to see and hear so much more unfortunately as we as the days go by. fahim, thank you very much, we're going to here, next time, she joins us. now, as israeli weaponry continues to pound palestinian positions, the un has again urged secession of violence. a spokesperson addressed the media on behalf of the

secretary general antonio guteres with one of the most strighten messages from the world body todate. the secretary general condemns the killing of civilians in gaza and is dismayed by reports that two-thirds of those who have been killed are women and children. the secretary general morn in honors the un colleagues who have tragically been killed in the bombardment of gaza over the past three weeks. his heart goes out to the families of our colleagues who lost their lives in service. the international humanitarian law establishes clear rules that cannot be ignored. it is not an alacart menu and cannot be applied selectively. all parties must abide by it, including the principles of distinction, proportionality and precaution, with too many israeli and palestinian lives already lost, this escalation only increases the immense suffering of civilians. the level of humanitarian assistance that has been allowed into gaza up to this point is completely inadequate and not commenserate

with the needs of the people of gaza, compounding humanitarian tragedy. the secretary, reiterates his call for an immediate humanitarian ceasfire and unimpeded humanitarian access to be granted consistently, safely into the scale in order to meet the urgent needs created by the catastrophe unfolding in gaza. he remains deeply concerned about the risk of dangerous escalation beyond gaza and urges all leaders to exercise utmost restraint to avoid a wider configration. my guestts, palestinian analyst ibrahim abulasad and author and publishers. are still with us, thank you both for sticking around and for your patience. sahar, is it quite telling that even though, this is one of the most definitive messages coming out of the united. it seems likely israel will ignore it just like it did all the previous ones. of course it's going to ignore it. they purposely targeting uh all of the un

relief agencies. that was one of the first places that they actually targeted after october 7, so we know that they already discredit. they're also not allowing for any the un you know workers to actually enter into us or or properly support or properly credit how many people are killed how many peop people are dead uh, and so of course they're going to discredit, they absolutely, why would they care, why should they care? i mean, if they're being backed by america and britain blindly, why should they assume any responsibility towards them? and though israel has walked back slightly on the position of not granting visas to un personnel. the fact that they chastized the un secretary general for not. going hard enough and hamas uh ibrahim is is it's quite telling isn't it? i think what's more telling is the fact that they've killed 60 un humanitarian workers since october the 7th,

why the double standards, why the hypocrisy in these western democracies? if one part country was to do this then we'll be quick to call it out, why are we scared to call it out because it's israel? 60 un health workers have been killed since october the 7th, this is factor, quite frankly. i feel to your point, they um, again to the spoiled brack mentality, if i'm being honest, the spoiled child mentality, they grew up with the ability to not be held account during any time, whether it be the un calling them out, the britain any time, if they did call them out, israel has never followed suit, so it allows them to say to continue with these attacks, it allows them to continue with this level of arrogance projected at the united nations that quite frankly gave israel the legitimacy to be a state. "if we look at historically, it wouldn't be without the united nations help that israel would not have got the legitimacy to form a state as a setler colonial state in palestine. they are

very, israel sees themself as above the law, and they have seen themselves above the law countless times, whether it be the murder of paramedics, journalists or children, and on that note, the events that we are seeing post october the 7th in. should not be seen as an anomaly, in 2014, 500 children were murdered, yeah in one summer, you have as i've mentioned before, countless paramedics who have been killed, you during this conflict, you have many medical officials that have been killed, journalists have been killed, journalists have been targeted, families of journalists have been targeted, let me bring the buildings themselves have been destroyed, as if people cannot remember into... 2021 when the building that houseed al-jazera and ap is like sand castles in the sky, just collapsing like that, like that, yeah, why is

there this mentality that we are above the law, why is it that no leader can hold israel accountable, what gives israel this upper hand across the globe to murder 3,500 children, at least 150 children a day, and in their eyes they are saying: "we are doing this to take out hamas operatives in these hamas controlled areas, quite frankly, unless we have these membership forms of these 3,500 babies towards hamas and one last point, so no, in accordance of international law, please correct me if i'm wrong, nobody or power has the right to take somebody's life because of their political alliance, they cannot drop bomb in a hospital because they suspect it to be a hamas controlled hospital. this is acting outside of the paradigms of international." law and they see themselves as above the united nations. israel must be held account effectively as soon as possible so we can see the seasfire take place not

only in gaza but also the end of killing for the children as well as the palestinian people immediatefire is what we need at the moment that's for sure it wouldn't be lost on most people uh sahara that had israel been any other nation it would be drowning in sanctions by now. uh, most definitely it would be drowning sanctions. if we were to refer right now to russia, uh, when russia decided to take arms against ukraine, what happened, we instantly saw so many sanctions on their banking system, on uh their commodities, on exports and imports, and so where are these sanctions sanctions right now to israel, if anything, instead actually, um, america has pledged uh billions more aid to israel, canada has pledged as well, uh, banks in canada and lot of companies are are pledging them uh, every single country, we're now noticing that they're not only not placing sanctions, but they're also

supporting, and what's even more uh disheartening and comical are those middle eastern countries that have been very quiet and silent towards their sanctions. for the longest time we've seen how many middle eastern countries were willing uh to neutralize their stance with israel and so it's going to be very interesting to see right now moving forward what is to come, we know that yemen has now entered and so that's going to change the grounds, but what is to come with how much of... an impact are they going to make against israel? and that's been a call coming out of tehran too, calling for the sevoring of all diplomatic ties as well as the exporting of oil and goods uh to israel by countries in the region. with those comments we're going to come to an end of the show. i'd like to thank my guest once again, palestinian analyst ibrahim and author and publisher sahar jaber on skype from nabati.

lebanon and thank you for uh staying with us and keeping palestine in your thoughts, gaza under attack, we'll be back tomorrow with more, until then, goodbye.

your headlines on press tv, day 27 of the israeli onslaut on gaza, the regime pounds different areas in the besieg territory, including a un run school. hamas says israel is committing the quote massacre of the century against palestinians while dropping internationally banned bombs on the besieged gaza strip and israeli settlers have attacked palestinians in the northern part of the occupied west bank setting fire to their vehicles and stores.