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the palestinian resistance hamas is dealing very cautiously with the us israeli entity proposals regarding what is referred to as the humanitarian ceasefire. so far, mediators had not reached an agreement accepted by all parties. the situation became clearer with the white house's announcement of a daily four-hour sease. but then zionist israel quickly clarified that it does not imply sessation of military operations. you see the us proposal for a temporary four-hour of ceasefire daily was a response to the desires of the zionist regime which does not want a ceasfire that could be seen as an achievement for the resistance or have negative implications on the political situation within zionist israel, internationally as well as on the military level. whichever way you look at it, washington aims for one goal.
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pushing the palestinian resistance of northern gaza to leave towards the south, in line with the basic plan to displace all the inhabitants of the gaza strip. washington is basically telling palestinians to leave or die. the resistance in the gaza strip has already made it clear that it will not compel anyone to stay or move from the north to the south. the resistance already views this proposal as additional us support for the zionist regime since it does not provide a comprehensive cessation of military out. operations and prohibits the provision of genuine humanitarian support to the gaza population. the zionist regime is now requesting more time to achieve field accomplishments that would present the israeli occupation army with an image of victory. they emphasized the idea of displacing the population of the gaza strip to the south practically means clearing the way for the occupation army to launch a more intensive destructive operation in the entire north, absolving them of any accountability for the carnage under the pre the absence of
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civilians. the israeli entity's rejection of the ceasefire is not only related to the military situation, but also to pressure the resistance forces to release number of israeli entity settler detainees without any reciprocation. this announced temporary ceasefire does not even align with the essence of the ongoing talks on multiple levels, including discussions in cairo with the delegation of the hamas leadership and meetings in doha between the cia director william burns, massat chief david burnia and qatari prime minister muhammad bin abdul rahman al thani. what the americans haven't explicitly stated is that the one-sideres and potential agreements come as a result of us pressure primarily stemming from the failure of the israeli occupation forces to achieve any significant battlefield accomplishments that could be used in negotiations. this suggests that the israeli regime may soon be compelled to reassess its objectives to align with the outcome of the battles on the ground where z israel is seriously suffering.
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welcome to the mid-east stream, i'm marwa uthman. tens of of thousands of palestinians fled northern gaza last week as the world health organization warns of warrying trends in the risk of disease after weeks of israeli occupation air strikes. the increasing evacuation came as israeli occupation forces closed in on the center of gaza city, launching intense bombardment campaigns and claiming that the resistance of hamas had lost control of the north of the gaza strip. discuss this issue with us from cairo, is mr. paul larudi, founder of the free palestine movement and the free gaza movement. it's always a pleasure having you on board with us, mr. paul, now the pace of palestinian civilians fleeing the combat zone in northern gaza has picked up. as zionist israel's air
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and ground campaign there intensified under the patronage obviously of the united states of america who supposedly announced a one-sided ceasefire aimed at practically just emptying north of gaza from its residents, how likely is it that we will see that palestinian exodus happening again in other areas in gaza, mainly in the center of gaza and the south of gaza? well, lot depends, i mean people do want to preserve. their lives and when the israeli military is bombing everywhere, they'll try to seek safety where where they can. we're not talking about the military here, we're talking about civilians who want to save their families and their children and uh and this sort of thing, and um, can can they be pushed for example into the sina? i imagine that with enough destruction, israel would be able to do that if if if egypt permits, permits the border to
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open for that, but that there's no sign that that's going to happen, so they're really caught in a situation. where they have to run away from wherever the danger is, but uh, but there's no place to go. i hear that, and support, the idea of displacing the palestinians of gaza strip in the south practically means basically just clearing the way for the zionist occupation army to lunch a more intensive, destructive campaign in the entire north preparing for the complete invasion of gaza. however, the situation on the ground tells another story of extensive. occupation army defeat, so what's the endgame here then, for the zionists and the us administration, when is it enough for them to say, that's it, we're done, i don't know what it means to say that's it, we're done, because i can't imagine that, let's face it,
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the resistance forces are extremely well prepared with the type of weapons that they're using and the strategy, and they've made lot of the... uh the zionist uh effort useless uh each time the the zionist think that they have bombed the the resistance into oblivion, they send their soldiers in and their sold soldiers get massacred uh because the resistance is prepared, so uh the only thing they can fall back on is to a complete genocide and and ethnic cleansing. and that's that's what they're doing, they have no other strategy than to try to massacre uh thousands, tens of thousands, perhaps eventually even hundreds of thousands of people, who knows, but they're not, they're not making much headway against the
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resistance. well, all of this suggests that maybe the israeli regime will soon have to be compelled to reassess its objectives in gaza, to align at least with the outcomes of the... results of the battlefield, but does that mean that a prisoners swap might be in the horizon, and if so, if that actually happens, if a cease fire happens and the prisoners swap happens, what guarantees that palestinians will have that after the swap, the israeli entity will not just launch another uh ground invasion and another bombardment campaign against gaza? i think the prospect of a swap is a realistic one, because obviously the government, netanyahu and... cronies are um are failing on the battlefield and uh their the their high highly criticized by uh the people themselves, the the zionist you know population uh, and this is this is a way of
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perhaps regaining some credibility that they're not totally ineffective, so that's a possibility, as far as as you know um using massive destruction against the population after the the such a swap if it ever takes place. i think the the possibilities of massive destruction are equally great with or without a swap. they have what's what they call the hannibal directive where if they think it's in their interest they will actually... bombard the place where the hostages are and and their own soldiers if they think that they can uh uh gain by by doing so let's face it they they have no respect for palestinian life and how much more respect do they have for the lives of their own people i don't see it i think
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they're willing sacrifice the people they already did that we had lot of reports coming from the resistance of hamas saying that number of the israeli settler detainees were killed because of the uh arial bombardment campaign by the zionist entity, but paul, you are now uh, the founder of free palestine movement and the founder of free gaza movement. what are the efforts that you are trying to do, in support of the palestinian people, and uh, what kind of uh maybe moral support are you bringing on with you from the united states of america towards the palestinian people? well, we feel um, um, we have with. very talented people in terms of uh doing resistance and doing exercise and publicizing and we have journalists, we we have human rights uh activists and so forth, they're talented, but we're a loss right now
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to figure out exactly how much we can get done, there are restrictions of course by the government in egypt, access to rafa is uh very... limited uh, but what we can do and what we are doing is we're demonstrating what the world is saying, we have millions of demonstrators across the world, uh crying out to uh to save the palestinians and and to uh stop uh stop uh the the genocide and uh i think that if we can get some of this uh action uh on the on the scene here in cairo and perhaps elsewhere then this will help to dramatize the concerns of the people of the world and this will reflect uh be reflected hopefully. in uh in action by at least some governments and you think that your
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government will have any sort of uh attempt to hear you out to hear what the american public wants to say about this? a certain point they have to, the demonstrations in the in the us uh are the biggest since the iraq war, and it's really dramatic. um, the palestinians uh, are um have not always had very much success in the united states, but they are having it now, and this is very interesting, this is quite a turn, and especially the young people, it's young people who are turning out on the streets, so uh, it's we're a point where anything can happen, it's a very fluid situation, and the more we can get our voice and action in front. the people and the government, the more chance we have of making some sort of
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progress and headway, so that's we we're trying everything, good luck with what you're doing, paula rudy, founder of the free palestine movement and the free gaza movement, thank you for joining us to discuss this very, very pressing issue currently going on in palestine, thanks million, now ladies and gents, please stay tuned because next we are going to talk about the arab islamic summit in riyadh. the concluding statement of the arab islamic summit held in riyadh on saturday called for lifting the seed on gaza and ensuring the immediate entry of arab, islamic and international humanitarian convoy. is including food, medicine and fuel into the sector. i'm sorry, i'm not, i'm not too
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excited about that result, but here are more details in this following report. a disagreement occurred among the foreign ministers of arab countries during their meeting on thursday november 9, in preparation for the arab summit that was supposed to take place separately from the islamic summit on saturday in riad. just hours before the scheduled summit, saudi arabia announced on friday evening the merging of the two summits. originally planned to host extraordinary meetings of the organization of islamic cooperation and the arab league on saturday and sunday, however the arab foreign ministers who convened on thursday for summit preparation were divided. some countries led by algeria called for cutting all diplomatic ties. the delegates added that a group of arab countries that had established diplomatic relations with the israeli entity opposed this move, emphasizing the need to keep channels open with the israeli regime. meanwhile, in the concluding statement. on saturday evening, the emergency arab islamic summit called for a halt to the war in gaza, rejecting the israeli entities
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justification for its actions against palestinians as self-defense. the summit condemned israeli entity aggression on the gaza strip and the heinous, savage and inhumane war crimes committed by the colonial occupation government. the statement also called for lifting the bloccade on gaza, allowing the entry of arab islamic and international humanitarian aid convoys into the territory and halting the export of weapons and unition to the israeli entity. among the prominent participants were syrian president bashar al-assad, egyptian president abdul fattahy, jordan's king, abdullah ii, qatari amir tamim bin hamad al thani, iranian president ibrahim raisi and turkish president rejab tayb ardoghan. iranian president ibrahim raisi emphasized that gaza is witnessing the worst crimes committeed in history which reflects a collapse of ethics and humanity. president raisi reiterated that the israeli entity violates international laws in the gaza strip. and decisive historical decision regarding what is happening in palestinian territories is what
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palestine needs now. meanwhile syrian president bashar al-assad stated that arabs and muslims today face unprecedented historical responsibilities because gaza is not the issue rather all of palestine is the issue. president assad declared that any plan undertaken in this arab summit is meaningless unless the summit has effective tools of pressure against sionist israel. although such important statements were made. however, over approximately 70 years, 62 arab summits have been convenied with 14 of them labeled as emergency summits, including the latest held to address the gaza strip genocide. contrary. to the expectation that emergency summit would address immediate crisis. the term is used here 36 days after the aggression against gaza began, raising questions about the urgency of the response with huge gap evident between the rhetoric coming from normalizing arab and islamic states and their actions in support of palestine. now to discuss this issue with us
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from beirout is dr. omar nashabi, political anist and lawyer, expert in human rights and supervisor of the al-qaus supplement, which is... published weekly with the lebanese daily newspaperbar. thanks million dr. nashi for being with us this morning. now contrary to the expectation that emergency summit would address immediate crisis. riyad's emergency arab and islamic summit was held 36 days after the aggression, the genocide, the killing, the bombardment of gaza had already started raising questions about the urgency uh of uh that summit after at nearly 15,00 deaths, 5 of whom are infants, toddlers and children, what took them so long? well, i can think of five reasons, i'm going to talk about them free, you know, one after the other briefly, because i can talk about this for like hours, but i'm going to try to be brief, first, well obviously they didn't think it was emergency, after you know the one of the most densely populated areas in
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the world, two million, 2.2, almost more than 2.2 million people living in 360 square kilometers being bombed continuously for 36 days, more than 30,000 tons of bombs thrown on these people, and they're arab, they're muslim, and the the joint emergency arab islamic conference took 36 days to convene, so obviously the first question that they consider this emergency or not, the second is that they perhaps some of them who are doing naturalization of relations with israel, to hope that this will end soon. and that you know the gazan resistance would collapse and it would end sooner and they wouldn't have to do a conference in the first place, or they would do a conference in order to regulate and see what the west needs for the new order in gaza, and you know this is what the west wants the conference to do, the third is that they have so many disagreements among these states, you know, most of the states you know
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are completely inactive, you know, on the other hand, there is the islamic republic of iran, there is a... you know yemen, there is iraq and lebanon, and these are taking an advance stand to defend the resistance, whereas the other arab countries have total opposite position, you know, maybe they don't express it that, they don't articulated that loudly at this point because of the you know the blood bath in gaza, but they have an opposite position, fear perhaps of some of the arab and islamic leaders that maybe if they will convene a conference very fast and they would have a high... it would maybe fuel more the popular support for the palestinian resistance in their own country and it could threaten their their leadership because most these countries unfortunately are they're not exactly democracies they're more likely you know dictatorships ruled by the system of intelligence that controls their population well doctor nashabi the least that could
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result from a summit like this was at least concrete and such as severing ties, diplomatic ties, maybe uh, economic boycots, for example, and taking a strong stance against international companies that are dealing with the zinst entity in the midst of this catastrophe and this genicide, what was, i mean, what was reflected in the uh closing statement of this summit, i mean how can you see, how is it helpful for the palestinians? well, the closing statement of this summit, this emergency arab islamic summit is more like a report by an human rights ngo with the general very general recommendations with no concrete action, nothing concrete, you know, they wanted to be sure to move away from any disagreements between the nations that are participating in this conference, so therefore it's you know, i could say, it's fair to say that it's meaningless, but they came out with our general recommended any
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practical follow-up, so nothing on the boycott, nothing on stopping you know naturalized. relationships with israel from some arab nations, or call for calling the israeli ambassador or calling the diplomatic mission and showing a strong you know stance or you know some actions that are direct, there was no mention of any concrete action, and that that makes the statement, the final statement so insignificant, there was nothing, you know, you know egypt has a border with gazza, there is a border in rafah, you know, you know they said yeah we should pressure on you know for humanitarian assistance to go in from rafah but they didn't give any practical force that could actually you know make sure that the... border with rafah is open and you know and that because nation nation with 120 million arabs cannot open a border for the love of god and and all the islamic nations i think
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they would support this, this is humanitarian call, i mean they could support it, they could send perhaps delegations of observers, i'm not talking about military, delegations of observers to the rafah area to make sure that all the aid is going in, now all the is not going in or very little you know and it's all... under you know israeli control, how can all these long and trucks, we do see the long lines of trucks standing there and most the aid is either going bad or is not getting to the uh palestinian side and the palestinians and every day they needed more, you know you have to remember winter is coming, there are you know hundreds of thousands of people that have no shelter, nothing and i'm not talking about the hospitals, people are dying in the hospitals and you know they take these decisions that are so generous. and impractical and as if nothing happened. netanyahu before the the israeli prime minister before the summit said that the arab nations should rather shut stay
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silent. i wish they stayed silent. they did worse than that. they surrendered completely by calling for peace, going back to the peaceful negotiation, not by not asking for any sort of accountability for these mass crimes committed by the israelis. everybody is witnessing these mass crimes. they are violations. and violent violations of you know the basic humanitarian laws, what where you're talking about dr. nashabi was mentioned in the word by syrian president bashad, one of the most important speeches giving on saturday when he said that um, by the way, his own country is under attack by the zionist entity and the americans as we speak as well, but he was asserting that the arab world has the potential, they we have the potential to reshape the narrative in favor of palestine, but he said that if nothing really viable comes out then it's meaningless, and this is what you're saying, what is stopping the rest of the arab world to adopt at least a similar stance or approach like that of syria? well, the syrian
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president gave direct recommendations, he said that there should be concrete action to make the actual humanitarian supplies go into from rafah, he said that there should be a stop for the naturalization process with the israelis and he talked about you know taking advantage of what's happening to advance our political agenda. uh, no, they're not going to respond to that, because they, because you know they think that uh, you know, uh, and let's be, let's be very, you know, frank about this, syria paid heavy price for its positions, syria has always had these positions that are you know more practical, more uh, you know, calling for you know justice in the area and taking concrete actions, and i think it's still paying, i mean, the morning of monday, the united states of america had air strikes on there is. yes, exactly, and i think that every position, this position by president assad and the position of syria to support the resistance is very courageous decisions and
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syria has been paying the price and it will continue to pay the price and any country that decides to call for justice in a concrete way, not in a you know in a kind of folcloric kind of you know just a verbal kind of ngo statement for you solidarity with palestine, that's allowed, but any concrete action to support the palestinian people and support the resistance and justice uh will be you know faced by very aggressive western action supported by some of its allies in the arab and islamic world. well dr. omar nashabi, political analyst and lawyer expert in human rights, supervisor of the al-qaus supplement which is published weekly with the lebanese daily newspaperbar. i want to thank you very much for the immense helpful and amazing information that you gave us in support of the palestinian people and in showing how this so-called emergency arab islamic summit was actually an embarrassment, i'm afraid to say, well ladies and gents, thank you for watching the media stream this week, please do follow us on telegram and on
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israel intensified attacks on gaza's south, despite ordering civilians in northern gaza to flee to what calls the southern safe zone. a senior hamas official says that israel is trying to cover up its failiers in gaza by accusing the resistant movement of using host. in gaza as its faces. the leader of yemen'sla movement says that yemen will continue attacks on israel, raising the possibility of targeting israeli ships in the red sea.