compliance. in of for par between hamas and israel will be enacted, albeit with delay of one day, head as the dust settles temporarily when it comes to this genecidal war for now, it has become very clear that israel has failed in achieving any of its goals. for one, israel has heated the resistance group's demand for the exchange of 150 palestinian prisoners, and exchange for 50 of the israeli captives. in this edition of the spotlight we will look at the different ways that israel has failed in this war and how hamas, the resistance.

groups are the winners, especially when it comes to the military operation. first let me introduce our guests. sub and west asia of expert joins us from belfast. also joining us of sakina.2 is an author, journalist and producer who joins us from london. welcome to you both. what? let me first start with you. so we are looking at uh this temporary humanitarian. fire or pause and uh looking at the way that this can be viewed, some are of the belief that israel has actually failed because it didn't achieve its stated goal at this point of eradicating hamas, the resistance missile power, that's still in place, a couple days back we had the barran missile that reached tel aviv as an example, and the resistance fighters w they're still there in the majority, and they are still fighting with the regime forces which have suffered heavy casualties. are you of the

camp the believes that israel has failed or has uh won when it comes to uh the seasfire and the progress or lack of it? the zist entity failed miserably here since today abubay the spokes person of qassam brigades himself stated that over a 350 uh tanks and personal carriers which is state of the art where destroyed in the in the within this invasion and 476 days, 48 days and as well the many videos we watched the qassam brigades and the resistant released to show and their targeting the zionist soldiers and eliminating them and killing them, it's it's a huge, so there is huge cover up within the zenis entity security apparatus and the milit. to covering up their casuality, we not

forget that the zist entity regime didn't achieve any of the declared ogols, first of all they want to destroy hamas, which means occubayan gaza and then freeing their prisoners, they didn't even and the headen one, the headen goal which is to push the palestinian people of gaza outside to egypt, so all of these four you know goals, where are they on the table when we look at them? hamas is fully intact and of course they will under this vicious bombardment, which is we never seen in history, they will lose some of their personals and some of their even hardware, and the other thing, we didn't see this entity able to free one prisoner of war, just one, and we seen the fiasco of them going to the... shifa hospital and targeting

all the hospitals in gaza and the claiming its headquarters of hamas and the international community itself and the people around the world made fun out of them on that. i know it's like a black comedy, but of it's it's that the situation was and then they they they declared target of eliminating hamas as well, they still didn't even secure a is like blahiya in north gaza which till now there is massive, this is the first point they said they secured when they land invaded gaza, and today we see today and yesterday and the day before massive clashes in there and they sustained huge casualties themselves, so all the declared goals of that they declared is failed and today netanyahu.

under the pressure of the west, even biden himself just couple of hours ago declared he is the one who secured this, who want to claim victory for securing the release of of this small tiny prisoners swap. netanyahu needed that to uh appease the pressure on on the street on tel aviv on him for that, but now accepting that and releasing 50, what about the other 200? then their families and the military and that will demand, they they have to to do something, and they cannot military, it's a prove the... they failed in doing that, so they need other ways. sure, well, that too, when it comes to the fact that uh, they have agreed, meaning israel has agree to this uh humanitarian pause, um, it is uh of the understanding that uh they have uh basically bent to the conditions that

hamas had set prior where and that was in terms of the captaes for example that would it would release 50 if 150 of them uh of the uh palestinian prisoners were to be released and uh hamas demands have been met. so, when you combine with some of the examples that are guess there from belfast uh used in terms the failure failures of israel. um, what do you think is going to happen here? are we looking at the ceasefire to maybe get extended or not? because uh, the only thing that israel has done um, more than anything else is the slaughter and the carnage in the palestinian in the ghaza strip. yeah, completely, i think there has been a lot of discussions about what is behind this temporary seasfire, because like you said, hamas had offered it way earlier, lot less would have people would have been killed, you know thousands more would have still been alive if this had taken place earlier, now

our research, we've been doing some investigations here and in our reports, what we are hearing is this this fire is because israel has been losing out lot and for example, the their reports that they are burrying one soldier every single day and they are running out of equipment, they are running out of lot of because mind you the west is supplying them, america is supplying all the war equipment, but at the same time there is a war going on in ukraine, so they have been depleted and the reason behind this temporary cease fire seems to be for them to be able to resupply their own um equipment and and their resources. um and in the process of course on the other hand, if you look at it, there has been a lot of pressure, people in all the capitals have been on the streets and in a way this western leaders have had to bow down to the pressure that they are facing, so to kind of show that they are doing something like you said you, biden

climbing this, but but i don't think you know the the reality is people are not buying these stories anymore, you're talking about four days of hold while you are still killing people and you know and and then what? so nobody is really buying into this story that there is anything that these western leaders have done or any leaders for that for that matter because they have failed the people of palestine, this four days sees sease fire i think is is just a ploy and and a game to for them to reassess, i mean they keep talking about hamas getting a time to getting a bit of leway and time to reorganize themselves, i don't think it is hamas who needs to reorganiz organize themselves, i think it's the israeli army themselves who are looking into reorganizing themselves and their resources. well, let's talk about the military aspect of this a little bit, which you did uh actually start, but when it comes to the hamas and the stated goal that they haven't achieved, and that is eradicating it,

how can they do that when hamas is underground? i mean, really, if you think about it, sabshath, that is one of the biggest obstacles that exist for israel, aside from the fact that you can't win a war. you're sitting in the tanks, we do know that some of the region forces have been out and about, but most of them are in those tanks, so uh, in the military point of view, given the fact that hamas still is firing rockets, are we looking any chance israel would have uh to beat hamas, which has been their stated goal, they from experience in gaza, the zinted themselves in 19 in the 70s from 19. 70 till 1973, they were first with the phenomena at the time, a leader belong to the popular front for the liberation of palestine, nick name the chegivara of gaza, his name is muhammad, for three years the zen

entity declared they control the ghaza strip at the time on the ground from the skies by helicopters and at night they lose control because of the freedom fight. at the time in the ghaza strip deny them access, denied them control, so the history of gaza is immense, with not just the zinty and other incubations before that. from the english or go deeper in history, so the people in there, they always in gaza, will surround their resistance, and they will always make sure the resistance, it does its job and will never ever, you hear some people trying to disturb the resistance when it's in the battlefield, and this is one the strong point the palestinian resistant have in the gaza street, so hamas in in there, they know the ground. when they are they appear and they attack the the zist tanks and the their personnel carriers and

and that and when we see from the the the freedom fighters coming with their improvised devices and stick them to the tank, this is this is is unbelievable, you you see people with that audacity and encourage these kind of people will go underground or on on ground and fight for the rest and this is the rest of of the days i mean to achieve at least a breaking that invasion force and this is what the zin entity faced in in inside the ghaza strip they seen they seen they accumulating many and many many losses in in personnel in soldiers and some of them is top rank and they were now worried about being some of the... their own soldiers being captured captured by the the the the the the ghosts,

they call them these these fighters are ghosts because they don't see them, they suddenly appear, attack and disappear. this is a gorilla uh fighter as symmetry battles and definitely the palestinians are causing them a huge casualty to the zist occupation forces. sure, well let's take a look at the um narrative here and in particular this really narrative, if i may, when you take a look at the way that the media, let's say through uh tv in particular came out trying to control the narrative, they really tried hard in the beginning, but the title wave of uh people who came out on the streets protesting against what was happening, along with the way that social media worked um just really buried any... uh pro israeli uh stances that were out there, and uh, it then

when it came to social media, that's where israel didn't have a chance. i mean, people around the world turn to social media, lasting israel, and of course standing up for palestinians. i mean, you can't deny the fact when you take a look at for example, one post, that has gained a lot of traction, saying how young americans are picking up the quran to understand the resilience of muslim palestinians, that just shows. how deep the narrative israel lost and it turned out to be a pro-palestinian one, so is that another front where israel actually lost when it comes to this war? mean on this front, the their defeat has been huge, i think more than mean when when we look at the pictures coming out of ghaza, it everybody is you know it breaks our hearts to see what is going on, there is a video circulating today about the you know lots of un identified bodies who have been buried so pictures like that on one hand make you you know feel upset in terms of

what what is happening there but the the gain for palestine has been immense in terms of media and in public opinion i mean in this week i've been interviewing people from spain from india from latin america from africa and it is unbelievable that they despite the amount of money that the... the israel is pouring into trying to control the media is just uncontrollable and social media definitely is one in the past we've not been able to to see images for example from palestine itself and honestly kudos to those people in palestine who are showing us in reality what is happening we are able to see it and witness it and the world is witnessing these images but not just that i mean here in london people who never. probably would have looked at alternative media, there is huge growth of the alternative media, it is now

common knowledge, not just for people who are pro palestinians, but people who didn't have views that you know on this front if you want to know the truth, you do not open bbc, you do not listen to sky news, whenever in the history ever has this happened, they are completely people are completely aware of what is happening, if anything this war has done, it has made it so clear. who is who, where is the truth and where is all this propaganda going on? there is rise of independent media, i've seen people starting out as filmmakers. they are on the streets, doing their own research, spreading messages, the growth within the jewish community, for example here is another thing that's amazing, we are having discussions that we've never had before, and all these people are turning towards palestine, so in the media, israel has lost it big time, sure, well, another, i guess failure on this whole thing, if you

agree so has to be the us, i mean, we understand that the us was providing. israel almost a daily basis based on some sources with military equipment of all kinds and we know that also when you have the us president joe biden to be in the war room then obviously there is uh some kind of planning that the us had when it comes to executing the war. the military equipment itself uh is quite uh important that basically enabled israel to execute what it did, but israel did not achieve the goals that it wanted to, and i think in particular if great doesn't the us uh entertaining and receiving this ceasefire uh so warmly as the us president joe biden has done of course given the fact that there's some captives that are going to be released showed that the us is also one that has failed here because they were not for ceasfire i mean we remember how the us was totally against it but now they're okay with it uh even if i agree with everything you

said here if you hear the uh former president the united states of america, jimmy carter was hearing what he said yesterday and is indicating and lot of the influential opinions in the united states of america from uh what they saw happening in gaza, they said this is huge failure for the united states of america, because today, a palestinian being killed or a palestinian being buried a child or mother or adult or any, they definitely. they been caused by kind of a weapon supplied by the united states of america and delivered by mechanism supplied by the united states of america and a plans and and led by some and advice as well by some of american generals and and soldiers in there and there is we

know the delta force uh they they tried at the beginning the united states of america of course denying that but some america's former military uh commanders said that they tried to attack from the rafah with amphibious landing and they were rebelled and sustained a huge casualties. this is america is involvement in the ground in the genocide, i don't want to say mass, genocide and extermination war against the palestinians in gaza, and they understood how gaza is become a focal point on shaking their empire, shaking the only policeman left for the naces of america in there to secure its own interest, so the united states of america and the west we seen the way they they they gathered all together and went together to sure netanyahu and his regime and to give them an open green light to commit whatever

to commit against the palestinians in gaza, now they find themselves are fair. with the crimes against the humanity, with with genocide which they are not even complicit, they are part of, indeed, well um, you know, another failure on this front, i must say, if you agree or not s too, is the fact that um, the there was a huge letdown when it comes to um international organizations or mechanisms, i think we lost our uh, sakina datu there, all right, let me ask this question from isab shath um, there uh is a failure when it comes to the international community, so called, i must say at this point, when it comes to these organizations and mechanisms that were in place to stop, this type of genocide to take place, but that failed, and i'm i'm searching for a way to see whether a future

genocide can be prevented, but uh, there is one that's taking place, and that's an west bank, if we were to take the events in the past 60 days uh and put it on fast forward, that would probably come very close to the way the genocide is happening in the ghaza strip, so that needs to be addressed, because uh god forbid if this copy cat from uh gaza were to take place in the west bank, because it is taking place right now, but not at the pace that it is in the in the ghaza strip, so what can be done here uh to stop israel from doing what it's doing in the... bank so we don't face a similar situation there, i'll summarize that with in in two points, the first point which is what happened today when the shefa hospital. head of the shifa hospital and and doctors and nurses leaving a convoy accompanied by the world health organization and the united nation and those

people supposed to be protected by united nation and health organization and suddenly been stopped by the incubation army who caus all that made him in the shifa hospital and start arresting the doctors and some of the nurses and kidnapped the head of the hospital uh doctor and kidnapped few other doctors and nurses and even the the the world the health world organization or the united nation didn't have the audacity to ring even and inform the palestinian health ministry that is happened, they didn't inform them, they didn't protect them, they just let it happen, and this is can show you how these institution are, i don't want to say they are complicit or i don't want to say anything, just cannot carry. their own functions, cannot keep their promises and at the same time there is my brother is a cardiologist in gaza and he said to me yesterday is a

statement when we were exchanging some some the the ideas and things happening, he said the western civilization in front of us is collapsing and it's collapsed and anybody will believe in any things coming out of them regarding human rights, even animal welfare, misleaded. thank you for that subsot there, author and west asia expert from belfast, also like to thank sakina datu, author, journalist and producer from london, with that we come to an end for this edition of the spotlight, thanks so much for uh watching this program, uh from mik and the team, it's goodbye until the next episode of the spotlight.

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