the headlines, the un agency says only one hospital is not functioning in the northern part of the beside gaza strip as israel presses ahead with this attacks on alstra hospital, group of experts in the un. says there is evidence of israelt increasing genocidal incitement against the palestinian people and resistance movement hezballah has carried out new strikes against israel's military positions along the lebanese border.

warm welcome to our studios in the capital tefan, this is press tv news, thanks for joining us. on day 41 of israel's onslot on the beside gaza strip, hospitals are the focal point of the regime's deadly raids. gaza city's shif of hospital surrounded by israeli tanks and bulldozers. no one is allowed to leave the medical complex. hello. the director of the hospital says this military has bombed the waterline, he said the regime forces are present in the hospital and have stolen several. started on

wednesday, israely forces entered the complex claiming that it was the top a military command center of the hamas resistance movement. hamas is categorically dismissed that allegation saying israel is lies about finding weapons of the complex. meanwhile doctor, excuse me, and gaza has said the situation at shifa hospital is catastrophic. the situation at alshefa hospital is very dangerous and catastrophic. the israeli army invaded the al shefa complex last night, and of since then we have lost contact with our colleagues, patients and everyone inside the al-shafab medical complex. we are enable to ascertain 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. according to the chief of the hospital, the medical facility is now completely out of service. the palestinian wet says israeli tanks have also surrounded the alahli arab hospital. the nessarad 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 wise chief has said widespread outbreaks of disease and hunger are inevitable in the beeged palestinian territory. a un agency says only one hospital is not functioning in the northern part of the besieged gaza strip. the one office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs is 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 alshufa hospital. lack of power, oxygen, medical equipment.

bombardments have been sited 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 palestinian red cross is unable to respond to of calls for help to save those to remain trapped under the rubbles. senior representative of hamas and lebanon says the palestinian resistance fighters are. not operating in any hospital, there is no center or control room for hamas in this hospital, we avoid all the hospitals all the time, the israelis, they have said that about ranti 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. osama hamdan said the us and israel have aired bases allegations against hamas. he underscored the israeli military's a failure to provide substantial evidence to prove hamas's operation under the shiva hospital complex. hamdan also examined the footage israel's military has put on the nets. the senior hamas official accused the regime of propagating untrue stories about his bloody war on gaza. hamdan mentioned several cases of such israely propaganda. in one of the cases, an old palestinian man was killed after israely media, showing him being helped by the regime soldiers. un 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 sensor at governments for their failure in achieving a ceasfire. 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. has documented israel's use of internationally banned white phosphorus, more than 1,00 strikes on gaza. 300 of such attacks were only conducted on wednesday targeting betya and 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 sarahway says public outcry is the only way to push. fire 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 v 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. 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 israely 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 uh 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. lebanon's resistance moved has carried out another strike. against israel's military positions along the border, as well have fired rockets and missiles towards seven israeli military sites. injuries have been reported among israeli soldiers. hezbulah and israeli troops have been engaged in direct lashes since the 7th of october when the regime ignited his bloody war machine to bombard the besieged gaza strip. hisbolla says that it will continue striking israeli positions until it stops the crimes against palestinians. you ask for. minister says the so-called humanitarian pause in gaza is nothing but the continuation of the killing and the starvation of the defenseless palestinian people. wasan amyan said israel and some of his backers are proposing humanitarian pauses to buy time to commit more crimes against palestinians. he urged

the international community to work toward immediate and unconditional anti-israely genocide in gaza. he also call for unhindered humanitarian aid delivery to gaza with delay. the top iranian. had reiterated palestinian's right to self-determination amir abdul is in geneva to push for diplomatic efforts to end the ongoing israel on gaza. he has already met with several. officials and other influential figures. iranian forum 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 israeli siege of the coast 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. amir abdullahyan also sensured the u.s. military support for israel, saying washington's claims of providing aid to palestinians are just words without action. we have heard from the american foreign minister say. 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 hamos resistance movements prepared. to release israeli civilians in exchange for the end of the regime's onslot against palestinians.

griffits, for his part highlighted the importance of this topic and thanked iran's efforts in preventing the war from spreading. amir abdullahyan then held talks with walker turk, the united nations high commissioner for human rights. following that, he met with mariana espoliar h. edger, president of the international committee of red cross. the talks all. around ending the sijon gaza and the opening of the rafa border crossing. for the last 40 days, israel 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, un

headquarters geneva. the israel military says it has killed three palestinians near alqs after they allegedly opened fire at his forces. according to the israeli military, one of his troops was killed and several others were wounded in the palestinians a shooting operation. the incident took place a checkpoint guarding access to broad tunnels laaking the occupied west bank and lets: the regime has intensified his bloody attacks on the west bank. more than 190 palestinians have been killed by israeli forces and settlers cross the occupied territory since october the 7th. that is when the regime began its onslot against the besieged gaza strip.

my am sall now from baibut to tell us more about the ongoings uh where she is at, and for an analysis we have uh peter ford joining us later, former british ambassador to assyria, who will join us from manchester. all right, mariam, what do you have for us today? it seems like uh, just like other days. unless i'm mistaking uh the exchanges are taking place. yes, well, of course, not a day has gone by without any israeli shelling against the lebanese border towns in addition to the fact that the resistance continues to retaliate against that shelling, today we had basically an testification of the resistance operations, we had at least eight um targeted uh baracks today, and that was something that was considered maybe. accidented, it was the first time that they uh launched that number of firepower and rockets against the israeli

posts, the focus for the resistance today seemed to be on the eastern side of the border, we had one or two maybe in the central part, although we did have lot of very significant operations on the western side uh of the border where the israelis actually said they lost um many of the israeli uh soldiers or they had actually casualties whether wounded or killed soldiers. and that is considered very significant, of course there are there is some damage in the lebanese towns, but still despite that you have also a lot of damage in the northern. whether the upper gilili or lower galilei of that region uh all in all basically is always under the uh rocket fire whether of the palestinian resistance groups or hizbullah's fighting and its targeting of the the military postballah has vowed of course that they will continue this uh this war um recently hizbullahs deputy secretary general sheikh naim qassim was asked whether hizbullah would enlarge or escalate the

situation he said that basically it is all the eyes are on on gaza this all depends on developments. in gaza and also at the same time on the israeli conduct, if they are the ones who launch a war against lebanon, then therefore hizbullah will fight with everything they have, and he also said something very significant that they are confident as hizbullah resistance, as islam resistance in lebanon, that they will win any future confrontation that the that they might have with this uh with the israelis and that was something that was considered significant as a political stance, they have full confidence, and that would show that hazbullah does have lot under its sleeves and they are ready for any scenario in the future, even if it is a full scale invasion or first scale um war waged by the israelis? you know the question always remains as to what that full scale is going to look like, the full scale um military confrontation between the two, because obviously uh from

the hezbollah point of view we uh unless i'm wrong uh you um can uh support that, it has not shown all that it has in terms of its uh military prows. um, but are we looking a gradual increase in terms of the intensity uh between the two, especially coming from the hezbollah side? well, there is a gradual increase, although it is slight, it is not as much as maybe some people would hope it would be, but hezbollah has very calculated moves of course, they know uh that what they are doing is the right thing, they believe that now the whole whole focus is on gaza, it is the the frontlines in the gaza confrontation that should be speaking these days, they are the ones that dictate the future and the steps of what lies ahead, hazballah saying they are a front which is a supported front, not a front which is at the front line, they have stressed it many times and they also

have said that what they have shown the israelis so far, what they have used against the israelis is very minimal, it's nothing compared to what they really do have, the israelis themselves have said this, us experts have also maintained uh the fact that they do not want escalation of the war uh in into lebanon since they believe that hizballah could show more potential um perhaps multiplied by 10 compared to what hamas can have, however despite all of this you also hear from the backgrounds from sources from hazbullah. officials saying that this is a battle for the people of ghaza and it is they who want to basically prove to the world that they can defend their land and they can defend uh ghaza, so this is what they are eying, but of course when that that that frontline is in any way threatened, the resistance has said that they will be ready to defend it, and of course like we said, i

think we haven't seen more than 5% of hazbullah's potential in south lebanon yet. uh, i'm reading the news, i don't know if you've seen it, i'm sure you have though, and that is the fact that uh, the uh us defense secretary austin has warned uh the minister of military affairs of israel about israeli military actions in lebanon, warning against uh it's being escalated and uh for israel not to do that. i'm not too sure whether we can believe that or not, or we can take that with the grain of salt uh, because we know the way that the u.s. has uh said that about... the way israel conducts itself in the occupied territories, especially when it comes to the for example hospital, but um, it goes into at length into how the us does not want to have another front open up in this case and point with hezbollah. do you think we can believe the us stands on this? well, it seems that

the us has lot its hands right now, of course they have the upcoming elections in the united states, they also... i think have really studied what hizbullah's potential is uh the fact that they are very much more muscular group than uh hamas of course they do have their intelligence the united states does have intelligence of hizbullah's capabilities they know that they have the precise rockets that can really target uh the home front of the israelis and target the israeli institutions whether that is the cabinet or the kineset and they can really inflict heavy losses upon the israelis and we can see that now even uh the israelis need a lot of support from the united states, from france, from britain, from all those world powers, the so-called democracies of the world, putting all their... efforts into supporting israel in order for it to stay standing um or else it would not be able to survive. we heard this from hazballah's deputy secretary general that saying that all

the support is artificial respiration uh for the israelis or else they would not be able to survive you don't know when that would stop so therefore the us can see that if it is only against gaza and they need to give it all those armaments all those the weapons the rockets the capabilities the the iron dome all that money that is being pumped into... this regime, and still they are incapable so far, as many many military experts say, of achieving one single military objective, then the case in lebanon would be even more extreme. they have in the past not been able to um inflict and have you losses upon has, they have been able of course to commit massacres, they have destroyed infrastructure, but have they uh realized any or achieved any military objective, they have not, and so therefore. in lebanon will be even more difficult with hizballah's promise, and i think that there's also the other issues that that play in this in this regards, if the us had to stand in and had to

step in in order to assist israel when it comes to the frontlines or the confrontation inside lebanon or any confrontation with hizbullah, then therefore there would be a more um a more enlarged uh, i would say uh battle battle zone, we're not just talking about lebanon, i think that then even the resistance in iraq and in yemen would have to step in um even more than what they are doing right now and they would be given the capabilities and they will be allowed of course to do so with the pretext that they are of course confront defending their own lives, defending the resistance in lebanon, and they together as one unified front in the in the region, it it has it's much more different than what it was in 2006 or in during all the israeli invasions of lebanon. uh now we see even as it is different in in palestine so for the first time we see that all the resistance factions in the region whether it is hizballah the hizbullah in in

iraq the ansarlahh in in yemen the yemeni army itself are all supporting and supportive fronce for the palestine which is fighting its own its own battle of course but i think that with hezbollah it's going to be even more a larger scale where you will see those resistance factions coming closer, we might even see and we heard this hint from the head the ansarullah movement, sayid abdul malik al-huthi, he called on the soodis and the emirates to only allow just to route for the fighters in yemen to reach the occupied palestinian territory, so then they would have to probably even invade those uh lands in order to reach palestine, if the palestinian resistance is in any way in need of that stronger support. uh which can definitely extend even if you do have destruction of lebanon and you do have all these threats by the israelis that they would be doing to lebanon and making the people of

lebanon suffer as they are doing in gaza, i believe the response then would be even larger uh than what they are seeing right now from the resistance inside palestine, as we said the what they have seen from hazbullah is minimal, i mean we're talking like like i said only 5%. what if we raise that to 50%? what could happen then? well talking, we're talking about perhaps an invasion of the guilili, we're talking about hazballah fighters inside occupied palestinian territory, in addition to their rockets which can be fired from northern lebanon into uh israeli sites and so that's that's something i think that the israelis and the united states need to be concerned about uh, they're probably doing their homework right now, they're probably of course seeing what they can. and cannot do, but it seems to be unlikely uh based on many perceptions of many analysts. thank you for that, mari there from beiroot, thank you, and with that we come to

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on day 41 of israel's onslot on the gaza strip, the shif hospital, surrounded by israelly tanks and bulldozers, no one is allowed to leave the medical complex, regime forces have bombed the hospital's water. line have also stolen several palestinian bodies. un agency says out of 24 hospitals in the north of the warton gaza strip, only one is now receiving patients. it says 18 hospitals have been shut down while another five providing limited care. the palestinian red gross is also unable to help those who are trapped under the rubbles. un experts say there is evidence on quote increasing