tv [untitled] November 16, 2023 4:30pm-5:01pm IRST
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the headlines this hour, the un agency says only one hospital is not functioning in the northern part of the besige gaza strap as israel presses ahead with this attacks on the alstra hospital. us police attack propastanian protesters rallying outside of the democratic national headquarters in washington making number of arrests and resistance molla has carried out new strikes against israel's military positions along the lebanese border.
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4:30 pm in iran's capital tehan, this is press tv news, thanks for joining us. the israeli genocide in the gaza strip is in this 41st day as the regime keeps pounding the blocaded territory with air strikes. israel is now pressing ahead with this rade on alchufa hospital which is turned into the focal point of his deadly raids. according to gaza health officials, israeli army's bulldozers and tanks have destroyed parts of the southern. entrance to the medical complex. local sources said israeli bulldozers and tanks have also rated the complex is western entrance. the regime's military has confirmed that is raid on the facility, which started on wednesday, is still going on. hospital officials and doctors say the complex is water reserve has been nearly depleted, putting the lives of patients and people sheltering there at risk. we also rejected israely claims of delivering medical aid to alshifa, saying the regimes forces are deliberately sabotaging the existing equipment. israel forces enter the complex. claiming that it was top a military
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command center of hamas resistance movements. hamas however has categorically denied the regime's allegation saying that israeli or israeli lies is lying about finding weapons of the complex. the director general of the world health organization has denounced israel's recent incursions in the al-shifa hospital in gaza. tetros adhannam says the israeli regime is restricting access to vital fuel and aid, exacerbating the already dark. conditions and hindering the operation of essential medical infrastructure. israel's military incursion into al-shifa hospital in gaza city is totally unacceptable. hospitals are not battlegrounds. we are extremely worried for the safety of staff and patients. protecting them is paramount. who has lost
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contact with health workers at alshifa hospital. but one thing is clear, under of international humanitarian law, health facilities, health workers, ambulances and patients must be safe guarded and protected against all acts of war. earlier today, a truck with 23,00 litres of fuel intered gaza, but israel has restricted its use to only transporting aid from rafa. at least 120,000 liters a day are needed to operate hospital generators, ambulances. almost six weeks have passed since israel launched its war in gaza, leading to the destruction and the shutting down of even health. facilities, the un
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agency says only one hospital is not functioning in the northern part of the bessieg strip. the un office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs says out of 24 hospitals and clinics in northern gaza, only one is receiving patients. this says 18 hospitals have shut down and evacuated, while another five only provide limited care to patients already admitted, including the al-shif hospital. the lack of power, oxygen, medical equipment, bombardments have all been cited as reasons for their closure. according to the un, three hospitals shut in the past three days alone. the situation has left medical workers struggling to keep patients, including premature babies alive. the one says even the palestini red cross is unable to respond to calls for help to save those who remain trapped under the rubbles. pakistan's former ambassador to the un, ali sarahli says public outcry is the only way to push a ceasefire in gaza, as the uni has proven to be. effective in that regard, the
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basic problem is that the united nations can be effective and functional, only if all its members desire to do so, then in the security council there is the discriminatory process of those members who are permanent and they can vito any resolution, so effectively they make the security council totally, mean i impractical and ineffective to work with, you know in the... vietnam war, the reason the us administration was forced to sue for peace and to hold peace talks in paris in the 60s and early 70s of the last century was because
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of public protest, because of the fact that people came out on the streets, students in the universities came out in protest and demonstration against the policies of the government, so there was such a massive change in public opinion that the government had to also alter its foreign policy. now here the situation is very worrisome and very bad, but unfortunately the israeli and the jewish lobby in the united states is using all resources. and keeping the media its side, the media in america is still talking about israel's right of defense and israel's dealing of the threat that it come that comes
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from gaza, so the media war has to be fought also, and i think if public opinion turns against israeli action, then the media will also have to follow suit and change its stance. the israel military says it has killed three palestinians near alqs after they allegedly open fire at his forces. according to the israeli military, at least seven troops were wounded one critically in the palestinian's shooting operation. the incident took place at a checkpoint guarding access to road tunnels linking the occupied west bank and outlets. the regime has intensified as attacks on the west bank. more than 190 palestinians have been killed by israeli forces and settlers across occupied territories since october the 7th. that is when the regime began its onslot against the besieg ghaza strip. the international
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outquiry against israel's brutal war in gaza continues to grow with people holding new mass rallies worldwide to show support for the palestinians. in washington protesters and police faced off outside of the democratic national headquarters as pro-palestine groups flooded the vicinity. the protesters were calling for a ceasefire. police evacuated the area after making some arrests. an anti-zionist jewish group has accused the police of violently assalting peaceful. protesters. elsewhere in the british capital london, protesters rallied outside of parliament, demanding lawers back at seasfire in gaza. carrying palestinian flags, the crowd criticized the politicians for their inaction. also, in jortan's capital aman, security forces mobilized to guard the us embassy, as
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hundreds of pro-palestinian protestors gathered near the facility. the protests condem israel raids on alchuva hospital, as well as the us support for the regime's atrocities. lebanon's resistance moved hezbollah has carried out another strike against israeli military positions along the border. hezbollah fired rockets and missiles towards four israeli military sites. injuries have been reported among israeli soldiers. hisbollah and israeli troops have been engaged in direct flashes since the 7th of october when the regime ignited this bloody war machine to bombard the besieged gaza strip. hisbula says that it will continue striking israeli positions until it stops the crimes against palestinians. iran's for minister says the social humanitarian pause in gaza means nothing but the continuation of the killing and the starvation of the
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defenseless palestinian people. why abdullah said israel and some of its backers are proposing humanitarian pausas to buy time to commit more crimes against palestinians. he urged the international community. to work toward immediate and unconditional end to the israeli genocide in gaza. he also called for unhindered humanitarian aid delivery to gaza without a delay. the top irani diplomat reiterated palestinian's right to self-determination. amy abdullahyan is in geneva to push for diplomatic efforts to end the ongoing israeli onslaut on gaza. he has already met with several un officials and other influential figures.
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we're going to cross on over to khan yunis now to talk to ashref shanan who joins us to give us the latest and we're also going to be joined by susana khalil, politologist, researcher and activist who joins us from montreal. all right, first over to you, ash, tell us the situation with al shiffa, we understand that the raids are still ongoing. yes, the situation. inside the chief of medical complex extremely dire as around 11 pm last night israeli forces and their tanks withdrew from the hospital after riaking havick there, then around 2:30 am this morning, his vedy tanks and buldozers barged in through the uh southern gate of of shifa hospital, the first rate cames through the eastern and the or the main gate of... of the biggest gate at hospital now around 2:30 am they went back started shooting inside the uh
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patients rooms and started interrogating the medical staff and also they blew up almost every locked door inside the uh the shifa medical complex in addition they blew up the uh the main uh water supply line to the hospital to make sure that no one receives water inside inside shifa hospital. according to uh the ministry of health, there are around five 600 staff members inside shiva hospital, 500 patients and close to 5000, i believe 500 internally displaced uh persons, so all these people, around 700 people now have no running water and definitely of course no drinking water or food. and they're appealing to to all everyone to come and help them, they uh, no one is helping them, no one
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come can come close to shefa hospital and no one is allowed to leave shefa hospital, the israeli regime also installed electronic gates and dettectors near the the gates of the shifa hospital, especially the southern gate, i believe they going to start uh moving people out of the hospital and bring them through. metal detectors, they also have uh facial recognition cameras, apparently to decide who is that person coming out of the the hospital, already several people have been arrested, we know for sure before the before the israely forces entered, there were around 100, 130 bodies lying on the ground inside the shifa hospital areas, doctor the director of the shifa hospital muhammad said earlier that uh there were dead bodies inside some of the rooms and the israeli soldiers
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drag them out. it is possible that some people inside the hospital or patients or internally displaced persons who maybe you know they got scared and they freaked out and they went to the patient's rooms, they have possibly been executed by by the israeli army who may claim that they were resistance fighters or militants, but so far the israeli military. has not found any anything that proves that the hamas leadership is hiding under the chief hospital. all they allegedly found was some guns and machine guns and maybe explosives, but hamas seniors official, dr. basim naim said that the israeli regime has brought these weapons and explosive with them to to pen it on on the on the palestinian resistance factions to. to uh to make an excuse for the israeli military to enter shiffa hospital. they are continuing
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their rate though, and they have made announcement that they have more evidence that they will actually uh present. that even that statement goes against the the logic of what it's trying to say, why doesn't it just show all the evidence that they have? uh, they have mean is there, is is there any signs of what they are looking for? okay, let's move to uh our guest, what do you, what do you call a real? that uh commits the um and breaks the international law when it comes to attacking hospitals and medical facilities uh that doesn't listen to un resolutions which one has been passed now finally uh which is binding and uh exercises as a policy of terror when it comes to uprooting civilians breaks international law
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comes to rules of engagement and war and basically commits a war crime by starving a population. yes, thanks for having me, and all the barbarism, horror, terror, panic, cruelty, subjury, brutality, this is not something new, this has been going on since 1948 when europe imposed a colonial regime in palestine through the movement, the fascist movement called sionism, the new thing is that all this cruelty was hiding and now... it is seen in the social network and the media like you like a priestv al mayadin aljazira and the arab for example the arab persian speaker to the world about this and and then they were accused of antisemitism now the world is watching and with the indignation so much perversity this is
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perverse this is degradation this is de the murdurous depravity, this is the opposite of a universal love, the world is watching, and they are a psychopath, this is a human day composition, and the world is in the morning, and this is why we must come honest, call of honesty, this is time to talk about the abolition of... the colonial regime that was imposed from europe in 1948, this colonialism extermination against native palesty palestinian people, and it is a colonialism that is not only limited to palestine, but it is also an expansionist colonialism, the
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whole arab persian world is is is threatened, that is why the most um uh why the the most just and honest thing is to to to do is is to talk about the abolition of the israel colonial fascism a slavery, it was abolished, crusade were abolished, nazism was abolished, upper high in south africa it was abolished, slavery for example was an engine of the world economy, it was a super powerful, the crusade was that were born in europe exactly in in france exactly it's it was vital for marry time economy also was a part of this supremacist spirit and it was part of the of europe identity nazism with the whom the he had a good relationship good relation with
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the united state as a nazism for the the marxist it was also about by the red army of the former soviet union, the upper high regime of south africa and adante regime against the native black population, that up regime was closely related to the colonial regime of israel where where through the international sionist movement, it has the monopoly of gold and diamond trade among others, the colonial regime of israel had already developed a platform of for nuclear power plant for war purposes, when mandela came to power, he immediately dismantle it, the united states has solid relationship and a link with the this obsen up high regime. ruli landela, the symbol of against the cruel upper high regime was on the us list the
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terrorist list, look at that, the the the colonial regime of israel will continue. to commit atrocity as it has the support of a us empire and the power of elite of europe and this is this is time at this time it will further deepen it extermination against native palestinian population in conjunction with the united states to instringe its control control and dominance in middle east humanity. is in a moral morning, seeing psychopath, criminal degradation, the most reckless for me, the most reckless of such de property is to see part of the... this colonial society, how they celebrate, glorify the slouter, the dismemberment of children, this is morally appealing, this is morally,
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morally morally shameful, this is an and outrages to humanity, today we have an appointment with history and it is the liberation of palestine, liberated against the colonial anachronism today and the 21st century, the liberation of palestine is the liberation of the world, since we would be abolish the most barbaric fascism, of our time, and this is this powerful fascism of our time as as sionism, sionism is the engine of imperial imperial inhumanity, sionism is imperialism itself, we are we are all responsible, it is dignified to see people around the world in the in the street crying out for humanity. um, the academic delinquent
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of harvard university, samuel hantington is to to blast the war falsy argued that that we are now in the class of civilization. today what we see is that is the embrace of civilization when we see people in the street calling for... justice for palestine, calling calling for free palestine. what we see is a is a class of of people against their own fascist, racist, colonial and imperial elite. to conclude, we must continue and concretize this struggle to achieve the the abolition of israel, eurocentric colonialism, and the power also received in the people in the street, the people or the organized. people and this this is why the the gand the legacy to boycott for example, boycott must be reborn, boycott, this is an urgent and vital,
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it is it will contribute to the downfall of israeli colonialism, it will, i would like only to mention three items, three article that we have to to as a people to to boycot, mcdonald, boycott mcdonald. coca-cola, boycott coca-cola, boycott the starbuck, we have to do that, this is action and this is a responsibility of each human being, we must protect humanity, and that is why this colonial regime of israel must be abolished, and once abolished the the abolished, the united states as imperial factor losed all control in the in the middle east, therefore it will be the decline. of american empire. how do you figure that you can um dismantle design this regime? in less than a minute
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please. we we have to to continue to to with this with this struggle. we have to use all all all mobilization that we are seeing in the world. all people are on the wall for example to call for a boycott, but even for example to to use the the the... the are the the armor arm struggle is also possible because there is lot of people who want to to feel a huge moral shame of our time to to to abolish this this colonialism, i think many country gonna gonna gonna participate in the ability of this in this colonial regime because we we can see it in history also how the struggle we have to believe in struggle, our faith have to be in a struggle, look at how slavery it was abolished, nazism it was
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abolished, crusade was abolished, upper hide in south africa, it was abolished, and i want i want i want to precise, i am not saying that we have to abolish the the upper high regime of israel, i'm saying that we have to abolish all this colonialism, colonial regime of israel and we have to do it, this is a compromise, this is a date that we have with history in our time, this is moral day that we have in our time to abolish the colonialism in our history, to put it out of our history. thank you very much for that, we do appreciate it, that's suzana khalil, politologist, researcher and activist from montreal, thank you so much for your for your thoughts, with that we come to an end for this edition of world news, thanks for being. with us, i'll be back in just few minutes time with a recap of the top stories, it's bye-bye for now. october 7th marked new
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israel presses ahead with this attack on gaza hospital, which has turned into the focal point of its deadly raised in the beseest territory, according to health officials in gaza, israeli army's bulldozers and tanks have destroyed parts of the southern entrance to the medical complex. the un agency says out of 24 hospitals in the north of the warton gaza strip, only one is now receiving patients, says 18 hospitals have been shut down, while another five are providing limited care. the palestinian red cross is also unable to help those who are trapped under the rubbles. in washington profiles.
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