refuse to do that, my family refuses to do that, for the past month and five days everyone's been asking me, how are you? it's a question no longer know how to answer. how am i? how are you guys? i'm not okay, haven't been okay, none of us are okay, and yet we have to live and we have to move on and we have to go on with our jobs and our lives and see our friends and go to restaurants and move on as if nothing is. is happening and it makes my blood boil, because no one gets it, and i will sit at work or at uni and i will speak to my colleagues and the people that i work with and study with and live with, and they will say, don't worry, we understand, no, you don't, no, you don't understand, you don't understand and you never will, because you are not palestinian and you haven't been stripped from the right of living and visiting and seeing your land and seeing your people, i just want to go. in the streets of

madness, i can't, i can't, and it makes me mad and it makes us all mad and no one thing that i really respect about this young lady is number one just her her ability to vocalize that that pain and that horror um you know she she talks about the uh refusing to acknowledge the occupation by making that application by visiting um those uh airports and and having to pass through and legitimize almost the occupations authority to be able to allow her back into her land and and i um i appload that that's the vision that she sees it in. speaking, speaking of the right to return, this is something that is acknowledged in the universal declaration of human rights. you know, it's article 13, everybody has the right to return to their home country. and um, this is this is what i love about this image, because in this situation, this woman has lost everything, her and her family have lost everything, they the their home is in ruins. they she probably

can't find any clean clothing or garments or or machines to to use to kind of go about her day to day, but she refuses to leave, yeah, no kitchen to cook in or anything to cook, but she refuses to leave, she has sat that in her home, on her mattress with her child, this this spirit of we will return, no matter what you do, no matter how you destroy our land, it remains our land, this remains our home and we will not go willingly um, and stay and rebuild is the message, we will for sure, and yes, that that is the message that i see in this particular image, um, and i and i applade her and all the palestinians who are continuing on with this struggle of resistance, existing in gazza, is resisting the occupation, and where does your next story take us, what is that about? um, our next story takes us to um, a journalist who has been, suffering from obviously attacks in

her hometown, you need to remember that these ghazza and journalists are still civilians of gazza, these are not people who kind of enter a war zone and then get to leave and get to return to an office where they are safe and protected, these are men and women who have family and children and and and homes to return to that are currently being bombed while they are doing their job, so they they are living and breathing this nightmare and they still have to go to work, mhm. and unfortunately we are looking at mass um attacks on journalists specifically because we know that israel is meticulous about what kind of information escapes ghaza, they do not want the world to know exactly what atrocities they're doing to the extent that when el shiffa hospital was finally paraded uh for the um for the examination of of the foreign journalists you know they gave them specific times and they could only go specific locations and they could only take certain shots. and certain footage, if that's

the kind of um, if that's the kind of scrutiny that they are um or limiting the scrutiny that foreign um press are coming in uh and and taking of of the atrocities that are going on, what do you think they see these palestinians as other than a threat a threat? yeah, you know, to us what they're of branding, what they're branding these journalists as are hamas uh propagandists, when actually all they are doing is showcasing the horror. يمكن هذا الفيديو الاخير لالي اليوم الاحتلال القى قنابل فسفور على منطقه مشروع بيت لاهيا وقنابل صوتيه مخيفه و والقى بمناشير باخلاء المنطقه وطبعا كل المنطقه اخلت تقريبا كل الناس صاروا يزروا بالشوارع بشكل كثير مجنون ما حد عارف وين رايح ولا وين جاي يعني انا نحن مقسمين انا وكم

ضايلين في البيت والباقي كله اخلى وراح مش عارفين وين راحوا طبعا الوضع كثير مخيف المشهد كثير مرعب اللي بيصير كثير صعب ويا رب يرحمنا هذا what became of her after after this video? you know when when someone says the the phrase in arabic uh, it's saying may god have mercy on their soul, and it's something that um people say after someone has died, the fact that she's already stating, you know, she's already acknowledging this thing of allah, she's saying that may god have mercy on us, she in this moment she already knew her fate, she has been killed, she was the 66th journalist who had been killed by the israeli attacks. um, and you know, i can't, i can't imagine um, that feeling of knowing you're about to die, this is the last message, message that you are going to be sending to the world, and that you are still

doing your job, you know, you, you're fighting the occupation in in your own way, and if you may, um, if you'll allow me, there is uh, message from. yeah, a parent of um of one of these journalists who shared something so beautiful, so remember this is father of a journalist who had recently died, um, the el journalist, so he says, i salute all the journalists in south lebanon and gazza, i've always taken pride in our marters, and wondered how i could contribute, and today i stand, i stand proud of my daughter who is the latest journalist killed by israel. she would always say, it is god who protects when i tell her to be safe. every matter. makes us stronger and more resilient, we have been on the planet, on the path of resistance since we were children. i call on all journalists to stay courageous because they are reporting the truth. what journalists are doing is another form of resistance against israel. each human has role to play in the battle. i

call on journalists not to be discouraged. this is a man who has lost his child and he is still telling all these other people's children. stay strong, we are with you. what you are doing is a great act of resistance. and sure that message is received by the journalists out there. latif, we're going to have to leave it there for now. thank you. and latifa will be back with more next time. now, the absolute bias of the western mainstream media in covering the palestinian struggle has given rise to many alternative platforms. earlier, we spoke to an independent filmmaker in london, ash khan, explained why there was a need for more independent voices? we are playing huge role and that's because 19 years ago i used to watch the western media and i used to support israel because didn't know any better and then i met woman a homeless shelter who told

me about what was actually going on and she showed me some leaflets and she gave me alternative sources and when i read what was actually going on since then i've been campaigning for. because i now know the truth, and if we don't do independent media to show people the truth, people aren't ever going to know the truth, and the rich elite and the people are causing all these wars, whether it be in palestine, iraq, afghanistan, libya, or the ukraine, basically they're not going to know what actually is happening in in the world or the truth, and the truth is it's all about money and oil and there's always ulterior motives. ash khan also told us that though his interviews, through his interviews, he has noticed an urge, a huge shift rather amongst the jewish people who are increasingly distancing themselves from zionism. yes, i definitely

think there is huge shift now with the jewish people as well, because i myself was shocked when i saw the orthodox jews chanting free palestine, and i was there were so many jewish people because what? you've got to remember is, it's not about jews against muslims, this is zionism, and some, i mean, when i filmed the documentary, i learned myself so much stuff that i did not know, i mean like one man told me, judaism is not zionism, and zionism is not judaism, and there are so many jewish people who were victims of the holocaust, and one lady, katie colly that we interviewed, she said never again, and she said never again meant never again for anyone, and that's why she is out there campaigning for palestine, so there are lot of jewish people who were brainwashed by propaganda. i was speaking to one of my friends yesterday, and she said that she was from, her friend was from israel, and they were told that the whole world was anti-semitic and just trying to kill them,

and they hated jews and that's not the case, and the man who filmed my documentary, he's actually jewish, and he he lived in israel and he told me the same thing, as a child he was... basically they tried to brainwash him, but he didn't go for it, so yes, there are more and more jewish people seeing the truth now and are prepared to speak out, even in israel, and when they do speak out in israel some of them are being attacked whether they be uh zionist jews or orthodox jews. continuing the discussion with my guess desman james here in the studio with me and dr. alimala joining us via skype from ontario canada. thank you very much gentlemen. i appreciate your patience. uh let me start with um ali and that is um the question i want to ask you is that the uk and the eu have not been impartial brokers here, same with canada, the country where. you live who has con consistently sited with israel and

the american position on all of that. um, your reaction. well, it is very hard and difficult to convince old settlers to distance themselves from new sectors. you mention uk and canada even australia. uh they went many places in the world and they settled there and they campaign against the first nations and the aboriginal people from australia all the way to canada, but i want to comment on on something regarding the western failure to really expose the... there is huge hypocrisy and policy of the west when

they talk about civil liberties, human rights, freedom of expressions, they defended the burning of the quran, the humanization of muslims, the attack on the prophet, etc. and they said that is you know democratic right and it's a freedom of expression, but in europe, wearing a cafia for example. or raising a palestinian flag, it's a crime, you know, whether in germany or or france, and maybe you know we'll come here, however, the public reaction to those hypocracy and to the official positions of the government of the west and north america, yeah, maybe they congratulates themselves now for pause, but what is after pause, what is next, and how wouldn't they rain down on on occupiers have

been engaged in a campaign against native people of palestine for the last 75 years yeah and also sister talk about about the left and other things and where are you know the woman organization the feminism organizations when we have hundreds if not thousands of palestinian woman giving birth in jail, giving birth in jail, you know, jails i mean cross, cross palestine occupied palestine, 500, we understand are very close to uh giving birth in in current circumstances. um, let me move to uh disbon james and you know, we heard what ali had to say, but ireland has behaved very differently. uh compared to its western neighbors, to our viewers the may not know the history, how do you explain that

different approach? well, you simply look at her real history in ireland, which has been full of genocide and massacres since 1182, when the when the first english armies arrived there in in wexford under henry ii, so we have had over a thousand years of occupation with various. various genocide, in 1840s, the potato family is the official version, but that there that there was a famine that was engineered by the british government, so it's a lot of destruction that's gone on and and they certainly just work to destroy our civilization, so we can relate to what's going on around the world and certainly when with the palestinian we see so... similar actions that we ourself have experienced and still are experienced uh

in in uh in ireland so that's a one thing and also probably within us within within the irish nation we have this very strong for justice and um it's not that we want to see war and and this side beaten by the other but actually peace is is the main thing that we want, but there's one fundamental thing is never mentioned again, and that is theodore herzel, the founder of zionism, in the... charter, he is quite plain, it's written that the palestinian people must be removed out of palestine, and that's that's a fundamental charter, and that's exactly what's happening, and coming into today, and again we heard about more uh bombs on um on gaza city, yeah,

over 100 people called, the the zist forces call it landmoring. you know you load the the lawn so you cut everything down and that's exactly what's going on or the scorched earth policy yeah it's it's it's going on and with the modern weapons and technology the most advanced in the world that they have they're making it uh they're making it happen that's why they're pinpointing all these uh like the power plant the water plant the gaza city the universities the the the compons whether they're christian whether there any other un organization, they just pull them up and get away with them, and all lot of those weapons come all the way from the us and us taxpayers money also into firms of grant every year given to the us and london which is home to systems and israeli weapons many of and my adding with this london government and its various forms, the last year of peace where

they were not involved with any war was 1727, so for almost 300 years this so-called democratic government has been at war or involved in war somewhere, 300 years, three almost 300 years and that's that's the people that we're dealing with, and unfortunately that's the people that the public have voted to put in place, exactly. now while we're talking about the us and its role uh, its role in key negotiations has been highlighted by national security council spokesman john kirby, well this comes after israel, the united states and qatar, with which mediates with hamas have been negotiating for weeks over captive release that would be paired with the temporary sease in gaza and the entry of more humanitarian aid. now similar predictions of an agreement in recent weeks had proven premature. as for the president's personal involvement, he has been personally engaged uh in in moving this process forward.

um, including, i think you know he spoke to the amir of cutter while we were in san francisco and... just before that to prime minister netanyahu, he's obviously been in touch with his national security team and the team on the ground that have been helping negotiate this uh literally every day, getting updates on what's going on, in fact usually multiple times a day, um and jumping in as he felt appropriate to jump in personally, and and again you've seen that in the readouts that we've provided, so it it very much has been led by the president and and all throughout the national security team again at at various levels and we're hopeful uh, we're we're really hopeful that all that work will pay off and uh and lot of families will uh will will soon be reunited. well faah mohammad is back with the follow-up to her first offering of palestine in the media, fahim we heard what john kirby had to say there, but guess we have story uh featuring

leviy former israeli official saying something very different. absolutely, we have this official daniel said an american working to prevent ceasefire, that's what he actually states, we have a video to actually uh, give a little bit of insight as to what he's talking about. first of all, it's clear that the israeli government has america where it wants it, on the question of the military assault on gaza itself, to the extent to which maybe, and and i may have been part of that nativity. we thought there was american action behind the scenes to actually try and get to that ceasfire. i think it's been clarified that that's not the case. america is actively working to prevent a ceasfire. president biden has gone onto the pages of the washington post to make that clear. now in the gazault, i think america is already

part of this war. the trickle of humanitarian and aid is matched by a flood of... weapons going to israel, so america was directly in the war have long been saying that was the americans that were directing the war, well even our previous guest mentioned as well like you know how people have been brainwashed, he himself has said the same thing, and at the same time people are now realizing that you know it's you know a different type of narrative and story that is in the media that is been there as well as for them to show that at the end of the day america is directly involved. in this war providing those weapons to israel and you know having each and every home, there's billions being spent on weaponry so that actual you know israelis uh each individual home has weapons to defend themselves and more examples of that again, john kirby trying to change the narrative there, who is

the oppressor, who is the oppressed? i know, it's using the same sort of rhetoric, but turning around the world. absolutely, we'll hear him quickly, but israel is not trying to wipe the palestinian people off the map. israel's not trying to wipe gaza off the map, israel's trying to defend itself against... genocidal terrorist threat, so when we're going to start, if we're gonna start using that word, fine, let's use it appropriately. well, that's media for you in the mainstream, i mean we've seen so many israeli channels with so many officials from israel saying exactly that they loudly have repeated that they want to wipe out the palestinians from gaza, and there's so many examples of that, so we just seeing one-sidedness and we actually have you, obviously the allies and everybody there speaking, you know, again, defending israel and showing that you know at the end of the day what they doing is completely justified with the lies in the spin spewed by the likes of john kirby the white house western allies israel are not

lost on on all people no absolutely not um our next video is coming up showing clare daily member of the european parliament independent socialist and she fights very hard alongside quite a few people you know talking time and time again to prove that they have lied and we'll hear what has to say quickly as well. okay, israel expects us to believe that there's no genocide in gaza, they're only protecting themselves from terrorists, they're trying to limit casualties, and even that the palestinians are responsible for killing themselves. when israel controls every entry and exit point in that tiny occupied territory where half of the population are children. absolute lies, of course, and not for the first time, cynical distortion, wild. well it's a long video and she goes on as well to sort of talk about the israeli propaganda and how the media are letting down the europeans by not actually you know being fair and just in the way in which they're posting and giving the

correct information and a balanced view, so we have got you know sides that are completely fighting, we have got people that are trying to speak up and talk, but one by one they are getting eradicated, but there are still people that are popping up and you know giving their support and showing and highlighting what the truth really is. is talking truth to power, yes, like they say, thank you fahimma, see you again tomorrow, now let's continue the conversation with my guests and this next question to ali, um, thanks for sticking around ali, so how does israel step away from its position, it seems a pause would be a good way of implementing sea spire, i'll be it by another name, so what is next, you know, i think the the public. upison uh from uk, you've seen it in london all the way up to toronto and montreal and otawa, people are literally awaking to

the fact that the propaganda, whether zionist or the us is is based on lies, and just let me pass this, you know, like thousand of jews, brothers and sisters, whether in the us or in canada, being engaged in direct action, whether sit in or figuratly occupation of places from like transport station, to the area around the us, that's israeli consulat, they have been speaking up, they have been speaking up against against the zionist attack on gaza. if if if the us and canada and the rest of the world are serious about peace after this cause of this of fire, then

they should really have to consider a fair approach and address the historic grievance the palestinian people, in the same time and the congress who committed $14 billion dollar. dollars uh for the illegal state of israel, doesn't look into his own backyard and see you know thousands of people are homeless, people are dying on the street, people have no access to medicare, to housing to food, it it's beyond, it's beyond shame, and even in canada we have this, yeah exactly, i hate to interrupt you, but all those words as well as an end to the ocupa.

over the decades, many thanks uh to you, i apologize, i would have let you respond to that, but we're fresh out of time, with those comments we are going to bring this show to and ends, let me thank my guests one more time, dr. ali malalla in ontario, canada and here in the studio with me desmond james for sharing their thoughts with us. gaza under attack will be back tomorrow with more. until then, continue to keep palestine in your hearts.

october 7th marked new chapter in israel's history. they were stunned by the unexpected turn of events. now the big question is, can israel restore its shattered image? after the seismic shift in its narrative.

your headlines on press tv, qatar's foreign ministry as a mediator in the war on gaza says the truth is in the besieg territory will take effect at 5 gmt on friday. meanwhile israel thresses ahead with the deadly air strikes in the gaza strip despite agreeing to a temporary trous. now people have held rallies around the world to express their support for palestinians in the gaza strip and the occupied west bank.