the headlines, un agency says only one hospital is not functioning in the northern part of the besieg gaza strep as israel presses ahead with this attacks on alshafa hospital. group of experts in the un say that there is evidence of israel's quote inc. genocidal incightment against the palestinian people and resistance moved hisbolla has carried out new strikes against israel's military positions along the lebanese border.

7:30 p.m. at ivans capital safron, this is press tv news, thanks for joining us. on day 41 of israel's onslot in the besieg gaza strip hospitals are the focal point of the regime's deadly raids. gaza city shifa hospital is surrounded by israeli tanks and bulldozers, no one is allowed to leave the medical complex. the director of the hospital says the israeli military has bombed the waterline, he said the region forces are present in the hospital and have stolen several palestinian bodies. the regime's military has confirmed its parad into the hospital, which started on wednesday. israel forces unter the complex

claiming that it was top a military command center of the hamas resistance movement. hamas is categorically dismissed the allegation saying that israel lies about finding weapons of the complex. meanwile dr. gaza has said the situation at shifa hospital is catastrophic. the situation at dalshifa of hospital is very dangerous and catastrophic. army invaded the al shefa complex last night and since then we have lost contact with our colleagues, patients and everyone inside the al-shaffa medical complex. we are enabled to assertain the events inside the alshafa complex, including violations against the medics and patients by israeli forces. israel has also bombed the surroundings of the indonesian hospital in gaza. the palestinian b cresent says israeli tanks have surrounded.

arab hospital. the nusera to refugee camp in central gaza was also hit, killing nine people, mostly children. israel has killed at least 11,500 palestinians in gaza since the 7th of october. the un human rights chief has said widespread outbreaks of disease and in hunger are inevitable on the besieged palestinian territory. almost six weeks have passed since israel launched his war in gaza leading to destruction and shutting. down of uh seven health house facilities. a un agency says only one hospital is not functioning in the northern part of the bas strep. the un office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs says out of 24 hospitals and clinics in northern gaza, only one is receiving patients. it says 18 hospitals have shut down and evacuated, while another five provide limited care to patients already admitted, including hospital. lack of power, oxygen, of medical equipment, bombardments have been s

the situation has left medical workers struggling to keep patients, including premature babies alive. the un says even the palestinian red cross is unable to respond to calls for help save those trapped under the rubbles. the senior representative says. resistance fighters are not operating in any hospital. there is no, no center or control room for hamas in this hospital. we avoid all the hospitals all the time. the israelies, they have said that about rantis hospital and they were lying, they've said that about al-quds hospital and everyone realized that they were lying and now. everyone is watching

their lies, even with the support of the united states administration, which is very silly and stupid support. osama hamdan said the us and israel have aired bases allegations against hamas. he underscored the israely military's failure to provide substantial evidence to prove hamas's operation under the shifa hospital complex. hamdan also examine the footage israel's military has put on the net, the senior hammas official accused the regime of propagating untru stories about his bloody war in gaza. hamdan mentioned several cases of such israeli propaganda. in one of the cases, an old palestinian. was killed after israeli media showed him being helped by the regime soldiers. human experts have condemned the quote grave violations israel is undertaking, saying there is evidence of the regime's growing genocidal incitement against

the palestinians. the group of experts also censured governments for their failure in achieving a ceasefire. israel's bloody campaign in gaza has been going on since the 7th of october. the group of un experts also expressed concern over the support of certain governments for israel. meanwhile the euro mediterranean human rights monitor has documented is was use of internationally banned white phosphorus and more than 1,000 strikes on gaza. 300 of such attacks were only conducted on wednesday targeting beitlah in northern gaza. the monitor said resorting to internationally banned weapons proves israel's ethnic cleansing campaign in the besieged gaza strep. pakistan's former ambassador to the un, ali sarah says public outcry is the only way to push the seasfire in gaza, as the un has proven to be ineffective in that regard. the 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 veto 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. and to hold peace talks in paris in the 60s and early 70s of the last century was because 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 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. lebana's resistance mudball has carried out another strike against israel's military positions along the border. hezbulah fired rockets and missiles towards seven israeli military sites. injuries have been reported among israeli soldiers. hezbollah and israeli troops have been engaged in direct flashes since the 7th of october when the regime ignited his bloody war machine to bombard the besieged gaza strip. hez says that it will continue striking israely positions until it stops the crimes against palestinians. minister says the so-called humanitarian position gaza means nothing but the continuation of the killing and starvation of the defenseless palestinian people. abdullahyan 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 and to israely genocide in gaza. he also called for unhindered humanitarian aid delivery to gaza with the delay. the top i diplomat reiterated palestinian's right to self-determination amian is in geneva to push for diplomatic efforts to end the ongoing israeli onslot on gaza. he has already met with several. officials and other influential figures. iranian foreign minister hossain amir abdullahyan is on an official visit to the swiss city of geneva. the top iranian diplomat has described the aim of the visit as pursuing the process of delivery of humanitarian aid to palestinians in gaza and the end of the israele sige of the coastal territory. we are pursuing process of delivery. of humanitarian assistance to people in gaza. we will have meetings with un officials and international red cross

organization. some of the meetings have been held while others are on the agenda. definitely the humanitarian situation in gaza is embarrassing. also censured the us military support for israel, saying washington's claims of providing aid to palestinians are just words without actions. we have heard from the american. minister saying washington seeks to send around 500 trucks of humanitarian aid to gaza daily, but currently between 25 to 40 trucks are only entering gaza, one-third of this aid is water, lacking the essential food and medicine urgently needed by palestinians. the iranian forum minister made the remarks, following talks with the un under secretary for human rights affairs, martin griffits. during their meeting, amir abdullahyan stated hamas resistance. movement's preparedness to release israeli civilians in exchange for the end of the regime's onslot against

palestinians. griffith for his part highlighted the importance of this topic and thanked iran's efforts in preventing the war from spreading. amir abdullah hian then held talks with walker turk the united nations high commissioner for human rights. following that he met with mariana espoliariger president of the international committee of red cross. all revolved around ending the sijang gaza and the opening of the rafa border crossing. for the last 40 days, israeli war planes and tanks have been pounding the gaza strip. for the last 40 days, thousands of civilians including women and children have been killed in the gaza strip. for the last 40 days, the international community has failed to propose solution to end the war. now many are wondering whether the united nations and other human rights organizations can do anything more to protect palestinians other

than just issuing condemnations. press tv, un headquarters, geneva. go on our talk about ramala and speak to a corresponder first monican about the ongoings there, also for an analysis, wesley seal, an international relations expert joins us from cape town. welcome to you both. muna first over to you, tell us what you have. well - let's speak about the the operation that was carried out today at the tunnels checkpoint near bait lahm and al-quds where palestinians arrived a vehicle at this checkpoint, israeli soldiers stopped this vehicle to check it, immediately three palestinians were inside, they clashed with the israeli soldiers and initially the israeli military. had said that eight israeli soldiers had been wonded, later they said that one of those soldiers had

second to his injuries, the three palestinians who were shot and killed by the israeli forces, the israelies claim they were trying to enter al-quds or the lands that were occupied in 1948 to carry out an anti-israeli operation there, however it seems that the when the israeli forces have stopped them, they exchanged fire with the israeli soldiers there. we are speaking about three palestinians, the israeli military declared that they the three are from uh al khalil in southern the occupied west bank, israeli forces closed all entrances to al khalil, it has been already closed, but now all the entrances to al khalil had been closed, all the entrances to the city of betlahim has been closed, the israeli soldiers raided the city of al khalil and arrested the brother, the mother and two. brothers of palestinian martter abdulqadir qawasmi, one of those carried out the

operation, and he was in his the son of abdullah al qawasmi, one of the senior leaders of aizdin in the occupied westbank who was assassinated by the israeli forces back in 2003. the israelis had also arrested five brothers of palestinian martter, nasrallah qawasmi and he's also the... the brother of martter ahmadmi who carried out an anti-israeli operation in 2002 in ber. the third one, the third. palestinian who was shot and killed in this operation, the tunnels operation is hasan qafisha and he is the son of palestinian, one of the leaders of the al-qussami brigades, mamun qafisha and he was a former prisoner, he was released in the swap deal for the israeli soldier shalit and he was deport deported to uh to turkey at

that time when he was released. so family members had been detained, destruction and damage, let's say damage in the houses, the family houses of the three marters has been caused during the israeli military, and the israelis imposed kind of a closure on the city of of al khalil with increasing and escalating the military measures there, this comes at the time, today alone over 80 palestinians had been detained by the israeli forces across the... occupied west bank including today as well, university students, female and male university students, israeli soldiers are detaining everyone expressing their opinion, expressing the rejection of the israeli measures and calling for for stopping the israeli war on the gaza strip, the israels consider these acts as incitement

against the israeli regime, when you take a look at the... um palestinians um are they able to go to their jobs mona um or are they facing uh rejection there? how does that stone? we know the palestinians from the ghaza strip uh they don't have jobs anymore uh because of what happened on october 7th, but what about the rest of the palestinians? not in in in all the cities and the towns people are able to go to the to their jobs or to university, universities are not working at the end of the day, the university students are not heading to their universities in the occupied west bank, the schools, it's it depends on every government, they decide whether the students can go to the schools or not, because of the military checkpoints and the clashes that had been taken place and continue to take a place, the

the the the areas where are being closed by metal gates or because of the israeli military checkpoint. the people are not leaving the these areas and coming to the cities for their to their jobs, so the the people are going to their jobs only in the cities like in ramala, napolis in tulkarim, only in the centers of the cities, however when there are clashes, when there are israeli rads, then all the the the shops are being closed, if not because of the israeli measures then palestinians would be morning what's going on, in addition to the to the fact that some areas have been completely closed since the israeli war on the gaza strip started like the village of hawara, like the village of their sharaf napolis, like several villages in al khalil as well, and had been closed for several days, sengel

as well, so the israelies are doing their utmost to keep reminding the palestinians, they are under accu. ocupation and they are not, they are banned to to take part in any anti-israely activities, whether demonstrations, protests and to make it easy for the soldiers to detain palestinian fighters and activists at the end of the day. thank you very much for that, was the seal, when you take a look at what is happening there in the ghaza strip, um, the way that the civilians continue to be killed, you have that on the one hand, and it's putt into perspective. uh the goals of the regime forces uh which goes against the stated goal at least that they uh had from the onset and that is eradicating hamas. on the other hand uh there's a feeling just based on what our corresponent there said from occupied ramala that israel um and this is this is really not a surprise wants to displace palestinians wants to actually uh uproot palestinians not

only from the gaza strip but also from the occupied west bank um especially with this extreme cambiate that uh um is uh ruling over the occupied palestinian territories, do you get the feeling that that that is the ultimate goal by by israel? of which many officials recently have come out and actually admitted that uh that is one of the goals? well, there is, there is no doubt in the international community that indeed, mean what we are facing here is genocide and ethnic cleansing and and that there is deliberate plan by the zionist entity to as it were get rid of... palestinians, whether they would get that right is, it's not by god, is not going to happen, of course, but i think that what is important for us to to to really understand is that... some of us in the international community are certainly what we can, given the of this humanitarian, but this absolute human tragedy that is

happening in front of us. i think this must be the first time in history that such action by a state by the zionist entity is taking place and hardly anything is being done by western world leaders. so i think that yes, to answer your question, what we are seeing is. genocide and ethnic cleansing taking place, a complete displacement of palestinians and the driving out of palestinians in in in palestine. well, what are we looking at when it comes to um the whole notion uh that uh this aparthide regime uh the way that is exercizing um illegal um violations that's taking place of palestinians uh which is something that obviously is uh something that maybe you can explain for us uh some of the hallmarks of an aparthide regime uh and the similarities that you see there based on what uh for example

maybe south africa experienced i mean there needs to be a preventative measure to stop this from happening there is no international community there is no un or anything else that we can talk about here that has been effective we can say that for fact now because this war is going on now until the 41st day and the only thing that remains here for the palestinians, that is, um, and this is two-part question, actually, is for them to uh, to counterreact, and that could be an armed struggle, which is uh, legal under international law, but what do you what do you suggest needs to be done here? well, i think two things, i mean, the question that you ask is very interesting one, because we in south africa, given that we lived under apart, we did not even see such genocide and ethnic cleansing. um so this this clearly takes the concept of a party to a more traumatic and more horrific level and so so

this is this is this is absolutely devastating even for us as south africans as south africans you would know that yes we the majority of the people were pushed into 13% the land uh but even here in this case we are seeing that the zionist state is trying to push palestinians out of the land completely, south africans, those of us who were oppressed during the days of apart, we did not experience missiles, we did not experience, of course in the early days of colonialism there were cases of genocide, but certainly during the apartite years we did not see masskilings, there were massacres, but we did not see this kind of absolute horrific kind of action being taken by... the apartate state, so as i say, this is, this is, this is apartate on another level, a more horrific level, and as south africans, we are even shocked by by the kind of horrendous

actions that have been taken by the zionist entity, but to answer your question, one of the things that certainly did, you absolutely right, yes even as south africans, my parents, we continue to fight, we continue to take to the streets, we continue to engage an arm struggle in. in south africa, but what we did count on was the support of the international community, there should be no doubt about that, and i think that the pakistani, the former pakistani ambassador to the un, you had earlier, he was highlighting the importance of ordinary americans, of ordinary europeans taking to the streets and giving message that is very different to that their governments, the west did supported the apart state of south africa. as well, but it was once when ordinary americans, ordinary europeans took to the streets that we saw started seeing a change even in western

governments and i think that that international solidarity is indispensable, of course we also see the footage of the important role that the iranian foreign minister is playing in lobbing the un, in lobbing governments in the region, and this again this work is indispensable, because it is important that we rally that support despite the reluctance at this stage of some governments in the region and in the west and even internationally. okay, that's the that's a good point that you make there, uh, we were host to the south african foren minister just weeks ago, and she smoke obviously, i don't need to repeat what she has said, i'm sure that's pretty evident and clear to you her stance when it comes to uh what is happening there in the gaza strip, but i'm wondering if uh um we can see any more. which maybe you can tell us that she maybe has put into motion as member of the bricks grouping of nations to have ralling cry to go to to make

things um, guess somewhat to be proactive, to um at least have israel feel uh the repercussions of what it is doing, whether it's through trade uh or anything else that maybe you think that should be done, but if you see that her function there as a bricks member um to affect other members to do something when it comes to the carnage that's taking place that would uh stop israel in the hopes of stopping israel from doing what is doing? up until now the fight certainly for south africans has been for our own government to take some drastic steps and our own government on the african continent has been very proactive in this the immediately after the 7 of october naledi pando the foreign minister got onto the phone and spoke to the leadership of hamas and so we've been very grateful for that as we speak as i speak

to you now. our parliament is debating, closing the israeli embassy here in south africa, expelling the israeli ambassador, and looking at the possibility of boycots and sanctions and we are certainly hoping that that decision will be made soon, that our parliament will certainly take that decision by later today, this evening, and so that we can listen to that news and i think that once south africa has taken that firm stand it can then go to its bricks partners, because you're absolutely right, i think that at the moment bricks partners, as iran, as incoming bricks member has been doing its, but will be able to lobby other bricks and i think much more powerful bricks members, so you are absolutely right, at this point in time, south africa is waiting for south african government to take a much more firmer stance than we have already, even though the the

good work has been done to highlight the cause of the palestinians, but to take it a bit further and and therefore start lobbyng other african countries very importantly, but also other bricks countries. all right, thank you very much for that, we do appreciate it, that's wesley seal, international relations expert there from cape town, thank you for your thoughts, thank you, and with that we come to an end for our international news, thanks for being with us, i'll be back in just a couple minutes time with news and brief. crisis, devastating wars, terrorism, the israeli lobby, crackdown, diplomacy, child killing, unabated, make sure to join

the show. through facebook, twitter, only on press tv. after the occupation of palestinian lands and creation of the israeli regime, both sides came to realize the power of cinema in getting their messages across. israeli regime used cinema to show the... territory it had occupied as heaven on earth in order to entice jews from all over the world to migrate to occupied territories. on the other hand, although belatedly palestinians also learn to use the power of media and cinema to make their voice heard across the world. was new battlefield for

both sides. on day 41 of israel's onslot on the gaza strip, the shafa hospital is surrounded by israeli tanks and bulldozers, no one is allowed to leave the medical complex, regime forces to bomb the hospital's waterline, they have also stolen in several palestinian bodies. un agency says out of 24 hospitals in the north of the warton gaza strip only one is now receiving patients. this is 18 hospitals have been shut down while under the five are providing limited care. the palestinian red cross is also unable to help those were trapped under the rubbles.