news and brief for this hour on day 41 of israel's onslot on the gaza strip the shifa hospital is founded by israeli tanks and buldozers, no one is allowed to leave the medical complex, regime forces have bombed the hospital's waterline, they have also stolen several palestinian bodies. hamas has of presented evidence rejecting israeli allegations that the palestinian resistance movement to operates under hospitals in gaza. the senior representative of hamas said the united states and israel have their baseless of allegations against hamas. un experts say

there is evidence on quote increasing genocidal incitement against the palestinians in gaza. the experts have denounced the grave violations israel has been undertaking in gaza since october the 7th. the group also of censored governments for the failure in achieving ceisfire. in washington pro palestine rally turns violence as protesters and police face off outside the democratic. national headquarters, the protesters call for a ceasefire in gaza. also in britain's capital, london and jordan's capital, ammon, protesters condemned the israely rates on al-shifa hospital as well as the us support for the regions atrocities. a lebanos resistance movement hezbollah has carried out another strike against israel's military positions along the border. hezbollah fired rockets and missiles towards seven israeli military sites. injuries have been reported amongst israeli soldiers.

this is gaza under attack, coming to you from the british capital, my name is amina taylor, with you for some of the biggest talking points coming out of the region. now explosions and plums of smoke were seen rising over northern gaza strip on wednesday as israeli air strikes continue on the besieg territory, and israeli occupation forces battled resistance fights. in the enclaves

north. israeli forces raided gaza's largest hospital, al-shifah early wednesday, where hundreds of patients, including newborns have been stranded with dwindling supplies and no electricity as the army continued its bombardment of the strip. independent accounts of the fighting in gaza city have been nearly impossible to gather as communications with the north have largely collapsed. worsening weather conditions have raised the fears of... risking the lives of hundreds of thousands of people who have fled gaza city to the southern area. the death toll now tops 11 and rising with the british parliament expected to vote a ceasefire motion later on wednesday. now joining me to unpick this is shaber rasvy the economist and political analyst and alongside him and joining us via skype is the author, activist and blogger tony greensteen. now tony, the son of an... orthodox jewish rabbi is the

co-founder of palestine solidarity campaign and the author of zionism during the holocaust. welcome to both of you gentlemen, even under these circumstances. shaber, i'll i'll kick things off with you. we've entered the second month of this bombardment. how would you assess where we are today? well, firstly, condolences to all the marters in in gaza and the west bank. we often forget the west bank, what's happened? a daily basis, but of course the focus is at this moment as to what is being called the humanitarian crisis, but it's not just humanitarian crisis, as we all know, it's genocide, it's collective punishment, it's all kinds of international rules, regulations, laws have been broken, not just broke. as let's say

when when we were talking about ukraine, because putin wasn't saying that this is amlak, putin wasn't saying that these are human animals. putin wasn't saying that you know we are going to uh sort of eradicate the the palestinians from gaza. putin wasn't saying about ukraine i'm talking about, but the uh zionist entities leadership have quite categorically said and articulated what their intentions are. therefore, in law, if uh, if i have a conversation with some... one in the pub, which i don't go to, but you a coffee shop, saying that i'm going to go and kill someone, the police, if that person does die, will question me first, of course you've made quite a public threat in that account, and tell me if i, i bring you in on this, i mean it must be very difficult to be living

through, perhaps one of the worst moments we've got to witness through our phones, how are you assessing what we're seeing? well, think israel's cabinet, and indeed, not just its cabinet, but its body politics, is taking the opportunity of the october the 7th in order to fulfill longstanding dreams and they are the ending of gaza, uh, i mean, this is premeditated, they look for an opportunity and they took it, and what we're seeing is total importance of international law. because without the agreement of the united states, just about anything goes in gaza and is going, we've seen the invasion of hospital, the bombing of hospitals, the death of patients, we actually have seen the hamas headquarters, of course, because this is

another weapon the mass destruction moment, of course they were hospital, but the americans will green light just about everything that their racist drop. in the middle east will do, that is the reality, and the tragedy is of course the collective arab leadership has done absolutely nothing other than entertain anthony blincon, it was left up to the tiny south american country of bolivia to cut diplomatic relations, not the uae, not egypt, not jordan, or any of the... barain i believe it was a bolivia, this shows lack of any morality amongst the arab ruing class. indeed tony, i think jordan has recalled its ambassador uh to tell aviv, but it it does beg a belief that not more has

been done should be, but of course i think the key issue that our friend raised is the uh um you know moral factor. that it seems that we are living in moral oblivion if you like, that you know people sort of talk the talk as they say, it's nice to have the rhetoric and the and the language being used whether by mr. erdogan or x, y, z leader, but at the same time it's not just the arab leader, as we know, turkey has got a very good, wonderful economic relationship going with with petrol being transferred from... azerbaijan a regular basis to israel, so it just seem, and then of course the sort of language use that yes, we must have open sort of communication channels available, how can you have open communication channels when the

other party is perpetating crimes a daily basis, not daily, but actually hourly basis, so the moral folk, the moral anchor i think in the global community and i say when i say global community, i don't mean the whole of the world, because obviously from bolivia, even belies, believes a tiny country which is a former british colony, again as you has decided to sort of withdraw the ambassador, from from you cut of the diplomatic, so tiny, small countries, weak countries, financially insecure countries have the courage to take this step. so it's it really is is a tragedy that you know the morality of the world leaders is no longer to be seen, we are living a moment amina whereby you can see after this, whatever happens day after, it's very clear that humanity will be sort of

tested with side of the fence did you stand, are you with the oppressor or the oppressed, that i think is becoming very abundantly. i think some people, shaber might have a hard time looking in the mirror after this one. now, let's stick up in the conversation. stay with me here, tony, because gaza is in the grip of humanitarian catastrophe as we're here. this, not my words, but the red cross society there, now resources have dwindled and more than half the population have fled their homes, and although limited aid has trickled into the coastal enclave, israeli bombing continues to compound the situation. more than a month ago, these palestinians in gaza had a home, somewhere to sleep, to cook, eat, for norhann and others, now life is in the open, in the streets. a daily struggle simply to survive. we are suffering, every

day we are suffering. we are no longer familiar with vegetables, tomatoes, cucumbers, potatoes, have all been erased from our lives completely. more than million palestinians have been displaced from northern gaza and forced to move to the south. bakeries across the strip have been closed because they've run out of fuel or flour or out of fear of israeli air strikes. several have been destroyed by direction. are closed, the world food program says before the start of the israeli war on gaza, a third the population here was already food insecure, now their definition applies to every single palestinian in gaza, people are living in a horrific nightmare, food and water are running out, a steady flow of aid is needed to meet the desperate need. now humanitarians must be able to deliver it safely and civilians must be able to reach it

safely. without this lives will be lost and conflict will spread. as israel continues to hammer gaza with air strikes amit a ground offensive on the territory. a sige cutting off access to food, electricity and fuel has overwhelmed organizations such as the un refugee agency for palestinians trying to assist those displaced and wounded by the fighting. thomas white, the gaza chief for anrua, took to x, formerly known as twitter this week, saying, one cannot would think of the experience of 1948 and the collective trauma, now the intergenerational trauma carried with these families is being relived here in 2023. while humanitarian aid trickles into the gaza strip for the palestinians living in it, life here is now a daily ritual of survival, in a place ever more. stated by israel's unjust war on the besieged territory. tony greenstein, uh, they're over

11,00 dead, and that's a conservative estimate. how would you assess the humanitarian crisis that's clearly unfolding? well, it's horrific, of course, and it probably will get even worse, and we don't know the number of death because of thousands and the rebel, i mean that must be very conservative. and yet we see the west is continuing to support israel's genocidal attack on gaza, i mean this presents that we're attacking and trying to destroy hamas, well you don't raise tower blocks, you don't bomb her whole communities in order to get rid of habas, this is a war against the palestinians in gaza uh with all the consequences that flow, and it's quite clear that the west. is quite prepared to tolerate any breach of humanitarian law, any breach of

international law and any amount of death bloodched in order to prop up the israeli status, armed watch dog in the middle east, it it really is quite that simple, if russia was doing half of this in the ukraine, if russia said it was going to bomb the hospitals, because that's where the leadership of the ukraine armed forces were, there would be outrage, and yet darma, sunat, biden, they're happy to go along with it, i mean never has the hypocracy been so clear, shabir never has their hypocrisy been so clear, yet here we are, i think we have to find a new word in the english dictionary, because the word it does quite feel strong enough, does it, exactly, it just sort of feeds. as though everything is hypocritical or or or sort of you, i think the red indians

of or or the north americans, the indigenous population before the europeans went there, they used to say that the white man speak with folk tongue, so i think that's what it is, it's really fork tongue, and as our friend quite rightly pointed out that if russia would doing this, there will be you complete sort of media saying that how terrible they are, but the reality is that israel is a military base for the colonial imperial powers, i'm not saying this. better analyst than myself have sort of pointed this out, so it's the last bastion if you like of the colonial power in west asia as, gidian levi, another israeli journalist who has said that in algeria, million algerians were killed by the french during this sort of

liberation war that took place, so is it that the europeans want to kill another million people in palest? are we going to come to that state? what i think is really important for us to realize is that israel designist entity has lost on two fronts: one militarily, they have very clearly lost, okay? they may kill thousands and thousands of people, they have militarily lost, because everyone who is an expert on military warfare shows that or tells us that the reality is that no matter what they do, they're not going to win. secondly, the other aspect was the pr campaign that the zionist entity used to have, even two years ago when they attacked gaza, which as you well know has been attacked for the last seven, seven occasions over the last 14, 15 years since since the resistance took power in in gaza,

so it has been continuous battle, so the narrative that was presented that this all happened on 7th of october has been thoroughly debunked now saying that you know for the what's happened for the last 75 years? you now an occupy army has been there with the occupiers trying to sort of kill the people and as you said in my opening comment we forget what's happening in the west bank a daily basis where there is no hamas exactly their guys are in charge as it were uh tony very briefly on this one even allies of israel must be finding it difficult, publicly at least to stand by them with this mounting death toll, because 11,000, the al-shifar hospital, we're seeing babies having their incubators withdrawn, that's a hard cell, isn't it, tony? it's a hard stall, but it'll be forgotten in a few weeks, biden, tsuna, starmer, and the rest of them have their way,

buse memories fade, i mean, remembers the massacre. in beirout, sabrunchiela, i mean, these things fade in the memory, but i think the main thing is that there's been a massive outporing of support and sympathy for the palestinians, we have to turn that into concrete political games, we have to get rid of once for all, the notion that israel is just like any other state, with it, the ihra definition of antisemitism, no longer must be deterred from criticism of israel because it's anti-semitic, no, it's not, and i think on the positive things of what have happened has been the mass mobilization of in particular young jewish people in america, britain and elsewhere who are saying not in our name, but we also have to say that a

jewish state, is a jewish settler state, there's nothing really jewish about. it uh, it is a state which is based on either ethic penting or extermination, and uh, in israel today, the word exterminate with all the echos of the nasty era, are now common, mean, yeah, leave it there for now, tony, uh, stick with me here, because defense chiefs from the association of southeast asian nation, asion, on wednesday call for immediate cessation of hostilities and worldwide. collaboration for the setting up of corridors for humanitarian assistance in gaza, but they also struggled on how to address the prolonged civil strife that was a little closer to home. indonesia is deeply sedden by the deteriorating situation in gaza, particularly the horit

humanitarian conditions. needless to say, we are closely monitoring developments in gaza. against the population, the civilian population must stop, conversally, efforts to achieve sease fire must continue, and the safe passage of humanitarian aid must be wided and accelerated. life coach and media personality for himahammad is with us for the first installment of palestine in the media, so much to get through faham, what would you like to start us offiles? i'd like to start with kuds news network, where we have the palestinian children calling. boycots of certain brands and i think it's really interesting to watch this video um and it's basically calling on for those that support the ongoing israel campaign in gaza. قاطع عشان غزه قاطع عشان غزه قاطع عشان غزه قاطع عشان غزه قاطع عشان غزه قاطع عشان غزه قاطع

عشان غزه قاطع عشان غزه known b absolutely that do donate and support israel mean boycott diversement and sanctions bds the social movement um it does may not you know have the... economic back sort of log, but it does work, it does work with raising awareness, promoting discussion, debates about the conflict and also exert pressure on internationalization, i feel personally having fallen foul of some of these either knowingly or unknowingly fallen into the all, i had no idea these guys were supporting, it's it's a pr disaster for them with enough their customers or formal customers saying, i can't support you and your... company whilst you are actively involved because they care about the money, they're not particularly, bothered about which side, you know, if it's green it's fine, yeah, it's making a

difference definitely on certain companies and you know we do need to sort of promote this even more and keep up the pressure, absolutely, okay, your second story has a particular resonance here we have, yes, absolutely, we have yara eed who's a war journalist, human rights advocate, who reports daily in her tweet, um, honestly it speaks for itself. with regards to reporting the daily events of their lives and the position that they're in and how not just about the bloodshed but the exhaustion of people that are still trying to maintain and trying to carry on even without electricity, water, food, the basics, it's just um more than heartbreaking to hear and we know that dozens of palestinian journalists have been killed, yes, trying to bring this conflict to us, trying to show us the reality. in the most difficult of circumstances, knowing for hima that there can be a target on their backs, absolutely, because we've seen people in full press regalia, yes executed, yes, and

their families that were kept, mostly supposed to be kept in safe places and zones were also, the algaera bureau chief in gaza on camera, having to identify members of his family, nowhere is safe and no one is safe. all right uh, let's see what we have, the next one, we have hamza yousuf responding to a uh sort of letter by david lamy, the mp, the shadow secretary of state for foreign, commonwealth and development affairs, as he calls for a long pause, but hamsuf sort of you know, counters that saying that the long pause is not enough, we need seasfire, so we have the letter there from david lamy, and then we have hamza yousuf speaking. saying that this is not a proposition, but can we just unpick something here, for labor party member to be calling for a humanitarian pors,

whatever that means, you know, just patch them up enough so you can just drop another bomb, i have a personal horse in this race, because this man used to be my constituency mp, so it's a very, i know his politics very well, and must say for someone who would have represented vast number of ethnic minor'. constituents, this is actually quite a surprising stance for me, but not one that is shocking when you consider on the television, he said, i cannot call for a ceasefire because i hope one day to be foreign secretary, and this is not a position i can maintain, imagine losing your conscience for a job you may or may not be given, now we see clearly where people stand, and even if the un is calling for ceasfire and they're not backing that, so it just really goes to show you where these faces. like and their sort of careers are much more important than human lives, and very briefly on this one, hamza yousuf, of course, the first minister of scotland and had very personal relationships

with this, yes, i think it was only last week, his mother-in-law and his uh father-in-law, plus number of other extended relatives actually came out of the war zone. fahiima muhammad, thank you, more from you later, and of course it's very difficult to go through this entire conversation without seeing what's happened. online and latifra breaks it down for me with this one. latifa, so much to unpick. i mean, some of the stuff we're going to see right now is quite frankly beyond the pale. what would you like to start with? i'd like to start with the efforts of the zionist entity to really prove themselves to be on the moral high ground. they've they are clearly losing public opinion and the lud. efforts that they are putting in now is just laughable, i can talk and talk about how terrible um the the methods that they're resorting to are, but let's just watch and

decide for yourself, there is a list, this list in arabic, in arabic, this list says, we are in a operation, the operation against israel, started in the 7th of october, this is guardian list where every terrorist writes his name and every terror has his own shift, i'm here in gaza city, my arabic is obviously rusty latifa, but i have it on good authority uh that particular list is calendar, explain? yes, all it says is you know the battle of the floods and it's a calendar of of the days the battle, monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, and the week goes on, um, i find it hilarious that they are, this is supposed to be conclusive, yes, of something, right? you know, we we've we've killed over 15,000 people, half of which are child. we

have reduced their homes to rubble, but look, there is toilet in basement, look, there are diapers, terrorist diapers, there is a bottle, there is a bullet in a motorcycle, there is, there is a carton making a room look better, surely this is suspicious, um, i don't understand their strategy, but i'm so grateful for this video, and the the others like it, because they are showing themselves up for just how uh small-minded they must think we are, you know, let's let's say that these weapons were left there and this rope by the chair was conveniently just, you know, do they really think that that we will take their word for it at this stage, after they have made lies about the 40 beheaded babies, after that they have uh released all this misinformation and then taken it back, let's say half the things that they are trying to

insinuate in this video is true, do the... really think at the stage we are going to believe them, um, because part of this husbara, this propaganda campaign was in the beginning to delegitimize the people, when that hasn't worked, it's let's try and show you why we're here and justify or genocide, if this is supposedly justification for genocide, hate to break it to them, no one's buying this, and let's be real, so what there's an infrastructure underneath the hospital, you mean a basement? you mean a basement for a where staff can go in and and sleep on the sofa or have some downtime and use toilet in peace so that you know and let's be honest in a situation like this in the genocide there would have been thousands hundreds of families sheltering here with need for toilet if if the top is getting bombed of course they are going to seek shelter underground um the fact that they are using diapers as some sort of evidence to insinuate that hostages were there rather

than actually this is a palestinian hospital in ghaza, most likely it was palestinian babies seeking shelter in this all right and normally latif we wouldn't have spent so much time a particular video but i think it was so important to debunk some of this quite frankly foolishness that's doing the rounds here uh let's move to our second video because if that one didn't get people completely boiling froting at the mouth i think this second one will guys we are here next to the border, laundry, why guys guys, we're booming gaza right now, i'm trying to take my popsicle, i would our best soldiers here, this is crazy, this is not normal what's going on, but guys we are going to win, we are together, we're strong, look at their smiles, look at the smiles, this guys

didn't sleep, how you didn't do laundry um about two weeks, three weeks, yeah, well that important question when you are bombing and ethnically cleansing an area, how long since you've done your laundry occupation soldier? he's you know, he's he's really trying to smile through the pain of three weeks of no clean clothes, you know, and and the popsicles, just to lift up morale, because the biggest concern of the zianist entity at this stage surely should be to make sure that moral is high amongst the soldiers and giving them refreshments and looking after their laundry is top priority, not observing human rights for the palestinians, and of course if you could just have a quick look here, someone's you using fuel that is run out in hospitals, babies have been taken off their incubators, but as long as the zionist occupiers have nice freshly started shirt, we make light of this latif, but i think the jugst