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the palestinian resistance hamas is dealing very cautiously with the us israely 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 of the white house's announcement of a daily. 4-hour ceasefire, but then zionist israel quickly clarified that it does not imply a cessation of military operations. you see, the us proposal for a temporary four-hour sease fire daily was a response to the desires of the zionist regime, which does not want a ceasefire 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 and for one goal, pushing the
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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 zinist regime since it does not provide a comprehensive. sessation of military operations and prohibits the provision of genuine humanitarian support to the gaza population. the signist regime is now requesting more time to achieve field accomplishments that would present the israeli occupation army with an image of victory. they emphasize that 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
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pretext of the absence of civilians. the israeli entities's rejection of the seasfire 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, masat chief david bernia and qatari prime minister muhammad bin abdul rahman al thani. what the americans having explicitly stated is that the one-sided seasfires 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. ground where zionist
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israel is seriously suffering. welcome to the mid east stream, i'm marthman. of tens 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 la rudi, founder of the free palestine of 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. northern
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gaza has picked up as zionist israel's air 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 of 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 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 uh, if
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egypt permits, permits the border to open for that, but that there's no sign that that's going to happen, so they're really caught - 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 supple, 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 israeli occupation army defeat, so what's the end game here then for the zionist 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. the uh the zionist effort useless, each time the the zionists think that they have bombed the the resistance into oblivion, they send their soldiers in and their sold soldiers get massacred, 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 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 ceasefire happens and the prisoner swap happens, what guarantees that palestinians will have that after the swap, the israeli entity will not just launch another 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 his cronies are um are failing on the battlefield and they're the they're high highly criticized by uh the people themselves, the the zionist um
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population uh, and this is this is a way of perhaps regaining some credibility that they're not totally ineffective, so that's a possibility. as far as uh as you know um using massive destruction against the population after the the such a swap if it ever takes place uh 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 uh 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 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
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their own people i i don't see it i think they're willing sacrifice their own people they already did that we had lot of reports coming from the resistance of hammas saying that number of the is 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 ghaza movement, what are the efforts that you are trying to do uh 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... we have with us very talented people in terms of doing resistance and doing exercise and publicizing and we have journalists, we we have human rights uh activists and so forth,
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they're talented, but we're a loss right now to figure out exactly how much we can get done, there are restrictions of course by the government in egypt, access to r is very limited, 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 action uh on the on the scene here in cairo and perhaps elsewhere then this will help to dramatize the concerns the people of the world and this will reflect. be reflected hopefully in uh in action by at least some governments uh and
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you think that your 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 are the biggest since the iraq war and uh it's dramatic, um, the palestinians uh, are 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 in front of the people and the government, the more chance we
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have of making some sort of progress and headways, so that's we we're trying everything, good luck with what you're doing, pauli, founder of the free palestine movement and the free ghaza 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 riyad on saturday called for lifting the siege on gaza and ensuring the immediate entry of arab, islamic and... international humanitarian convoys including food, medicine and fuel into the sector. i'm
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sorry, i'm not, i'm not too 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 merge. 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 with zionist israel. 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,
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rejecting the israeli entities 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 ammunition to the israeli entity. among the prominent participants were syrian president bashar al-assad, egyptian president abdulfat assisi, jordan's king, abdullah ii, qatari amir tameem bin hamad al thani, iranian president ibrahim raisi and turkish president recep tayyib erdogan. 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 law in the gaza strip, and decisive historical decision regarding what is happening in
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palestinian territories is what 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 ciinist 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. side. contrary to the expectation that an 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 beirot is dr. omar nashabi, political analist and lawyer, expert in human rights and supervisor of the alqab. supplement which is published weekly with lebanese daily newspaper al-akbar. thanks million dr. nashebi for being with us this morning. now contrary to the expectation that emergency summit would address immediate crisis. raad'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 that summit after at nearly 50. deaths, 5,00 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, um, well, obviously they didn't think it was emergency, after you know the
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one of the most densely populated areas in the world, two million, 2.2, almost more than 2.2 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, hope that this will end sooner and that you know the ghazan resistance would collapse and it would end sooner and they wouldn't have to do conference in the first place, or they would do a conference in order to regulate and see what the west needs uh 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's you know, yemen, there is iraq and lebanon, and these are taking an advanced stands 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. and they would have a high tone, 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 dictatorships ruled by the system of intelligence that controls their population.
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well dr nashabi, the least that could result from a summit like this was: least concrete action 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 zinist entity in the midst of this catastrophe and this dencide, what was, i mean, 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 a human rights ngo with the general, you know, 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
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general recommendation without any practical follow-up, so nothing on the boycott, nothing on 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 uh 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 ghaza there's a... they said, yeah, we should pressure on, for the 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 that you know and that's a nation nation with 120 million arabs cannot open a border for the love of god and and all the
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islamic nations i think 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 aid is not going in or very little. you know and it's all under you know israeli control how can all these arab and islamic nations we do see the long lines of trucks standing there and most of the aid is either going bad or is not getting to the uh palestinian side and the palestinians and every day they need it 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 general and impractical and as if nothing happened. netanyahu before the the israeli prime minister before the summit said
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that the arab nations should rather shut stay 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 basic and violent violations of you know the basic humanitarian laws, what what 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 and... 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
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approach like that of syria? well, the syrian presidents 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 they think that you know, 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 i mean the morning of monday, united states of america had air strikes on their resour, yes exactly, and i think that every position, this position by president assad and the position of syria to support the resistance is very
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courageous decisions and 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 folkloric 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 newspaper. i want to thank you very much for the immense uh helpful and amazing information that you gave us uh 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
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the illegitimate child of the united states, it is the united states that has preferred supporting the israeli regime to the lives of palestinian children by holding its emergency security cabinet in the occupied territories.
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situation in elshifa hospital in gaza is escalating into an apocalyptic catastrophe with each passing minute, israeli forces and tanks of storm medical complex into... discriminally attacking thousands of innocent women and children, taking shelter there, israel prevented the people from leaving the hospital. israeli forces stormed, alshifa hospital, largest medical complex in gaza where people have taken shelter, regime claims is conducting a targeted operation against tamas. the palestinian resistance movement has rejected that saying attack on shifa is not an achievement for israel.