there is risk that more people could die from diseases than from bombings in gaza, if the health system there is. not put back its feet quickly, this is a stern warning by the world health organization who. now save the children also saying that the international community's failure to agree in a permanent seasfire is costing thousands of lives. the truce is in place with some israeli violations of course, but people in gaza are still dying due to diseases, lack of medical care etc. not to mention some 700 still under rubble. now welcome to the spotlight. i'm your host najafi. and these. guess in this

episode of the spotlight. activist and commentator in torano. also, what is daniel shaw academic and political commentator in new york. now welcome to the show, gentlemen. beginning with uh khalid chose described the collapse of al shafa hospital in northern. as a tragedy, it's voice concerns about the detention of some of its medical staff by israeli forces, so i want to ask you on what basis has israel hit hospitals directly and arrested medical staff? well, what, what we should understand is that there are about 35 hospitals in gaza which are not only dealing with patients, but also sheltering about...

120,000 internally displaced were forced to move because their homes were destroyed or israel forced to leave, and now they are being forced to leave the hospitals, which which shows that israel's intention is ultimately ethnically cleanse not only northern gaza by moving people into the southern part of gaza, but also to finally attempt ethnically cleanse even the people in southern gaza because it's being bombarded constantly, the hospitals there are also targeted, and at present 27 of these 35 hospitals in gaza are damaged and not operating, so you can see people who are sick or people who will become sick because of the contaminated water and other diseases. which

are spreading, the white phosphorus which cause injuries, all of these people will find no place to be treated and they are being pushed further into the southern part of gaza and israel hope that in the end egypt might open the borders and allow them into sina, even though egypt has said clearly we will not allow this, but this is not going either, yeah, exactly. all right, daniel, uh, you, especially those in northern part of gas are ing ignored fuel, and our correspondent there on the ground he says, fuel here means, fuel equals life, you because you medical equipment, machines, they all run on electricity and they don't have electricity, they they use generators, generators run on fuel, and this true is in place, it's got extended for two days, so aid is trilling in, drop in the ocean of course, but fuel, fuel hospitals are being ignored with fuel. how

come? because the israeli plan from the beginning, for the past 75 years and for the past 53 days in particular, has been the complete annihilation of life uh in gaza. um, they want to push all palestinians into the sane peninsula. they want to continue to this place, this is 75 year project of uh of dispossession, of displacement. these are genocidal intentions. and that's why shame on cnn and shame on fat fox news and the full gammet of uh media outlits in the mainstream in the west to have continued to vify hospitals and what's extremely sad is that much of the medical staff they receive hundreds and hundreds and thousands of of children and civilians who need help, the medical staff is checking if it's uh how many medical workers uh at this point over 15 five

un workers have been in gaza and over 53 journals, so we can see that israeli regime is absolutely no respectful life, so khalid, how could the... humanitarian catastrophe in the real sense of the word causes and gaza be compensated, is the damage done reperable in any way? well, i mean if if we're talking about structures which were destroyed, they can be fixed with money, if the money comes from certain other countries and the united nations, but you know the lives, the lives of all these people. "especially the children who are traumatized, you have to remember many of them, about 600 25,000 children have not been going to school for the last seven weeks, many of them are injured, they have

lost their parents, they some of them are sick, and this trauma that they went through, it's going to take a long time to overcome that and need the..." life, so this is terrible humanitarian crime, and as the under secretary general of the united nations for humanitarian at first said, he said, never in his life, and he's been working with the united nations since the time of cambodia, he said, i've never seen so much injustice and suffering and garnage, and that has to stop, and even if it stop now, you still have the problem of. fixing these human souls which were affected especially the children. yeah, truly. daniel, under damage done to gaza during this recent israel, 1.6 million dollars of losses a day in gaza's agricultural produce. this is a result of

health and production uh due to the war on gaza. and you even even uh, this is not possible because of contamination that khalid also mentioned as you want. was also warning about, so they cannot have their uh produce uh maybe for years, so this is a big blow again to their economy. this is the same policy that the u.s. government used for 13 genocidal years, from 1962 to 1975 against the vietnamese people. the plan of genocide is a total plan in the sense that um there's an economic bloccade uh, is an all of assault on survival in gaza to attack agriculture, the little bit of agriculture that still existed, because most of us here in the west have no sense that guys had already been through, it's just emerging from two decades of full scale israeli and us bloccade, it was

only two ways in and out of god which are completely monitored and controlled by the idf by the forces of apart side and occupation, and that's why here in the west no one could ever have a sense. that october 7th, as tragic as it was, uh, represented massive prison break of 2.3 uh million human beings that have been treated in apartide like conditions that have been ethnically cleansed now uh for 75 years and of course uh it was an act of resistance, but because of the lack of education context here in the west, we really don't have a sense of what's been transpiring in the past 53 days and 75 years, right? and the you know there is there are many more problems caused by... uh the war on gaza, you know, we mentioned some of them, there are some other like unexploded ordinance, you're they're unexploded and they are a threat to everybody, especially kids, the sewage system isn't tatters, there's contamination and water, as you also mentioned, diseases are spreading, so well

what does it take to make up for all this destruction and loss of life? it's going to take an and amount of help from international community, and unfortunately we cannot count on countries which are supporting israel like the united states and even some european countries and canada, because the damage done to the infrastructure, to the hospitals, the schools, the clinics, all of that is going to take lots of... effort and we we are not sure at this moment who is going to step in and make up for that and it's going to take a long time for this to take place, so this is this is really a crisis, not only for ghaza,

it's a crisis for that this was allowed to take to go on for 50 days without any interruption, even though the united nations was calling for seasfire from the start even though the public many of the of these countries who supported israel like canada, united states, uk. has calling for ceas fire, but the politicians seem to listen to another, to another master, and this is this, this is what is so criminal, about this whole situation, is that it was allowed to last that long, and the victims will be the population of gaza, the same thing happened by the way, 1948, and i suffered that, i was living in high fast city that time. had a population of 7000 palestinian arabs, only 20

remained after the creation of israel, we ended up as refugee camps and we suffered and some of us are still suffering in refugee camps, i was lucky enough to find my way to canada, but you know we have two three generations i have suffered from the from the catastrophe of 1948, and the same thing will happen for the people of gaza. two or three generations will suffer, until the cause, the root cause of all the violence is ended, which is an upperside settler colonial regime, which believes that they are supremacist the same way that the white africana afrikaners believed in south africa and that when sanctions were imposed on upper side south africa and the upper side regime was this matter and this is the only solution to the crisis. now daniel, us and israely spy

chiefs are and therefore talks on extending the so-called humanitarian pause. the we had the first initial one four days and then yesterday it got extended for two days, so wednesday it will come to an end, so what do you expect to happen next? "there's no sign within the ruling summits of the united states when one looks at the mouth pieces of the ruling class, when one read cnn, new york times, there's small murmers of humanitarian concern, the us intelligence, kabal and the pentagon, state department and true ruling class, the foreign policy establishment continued all of the information, um, plastered across front pages of the news are just stories of what the israels have been through." the ongoing dehumanization of the palestinians of the bricks 11 who have formed

the ghaza contact group, shijen ping and other world leaders have said that has to be two-state solution, but the problem is that this truly international community, because we can't say that the us, canada and the other neocolonial powers, they are the antithesis of a community and they have nothing to do with internationalism, but the bricks 11, we have to understand that palestine can only imagine uh reparations and true rebuilding and in in justice and return to the 1948 land that was stolen from them within the context of a multi-polar world with china and russia and south africa and brazil and india and these countries are truly have a say along with the muslim countries right now the powers that b have turned their back on gaza uh leaving 2.3 million people to survive uh on their own 1.1 million children but certainly yes will be in order, directly connected to the rise of multipolarity throughout the world. what's

the prospect of a lasting seats fire? that's what palestinians and many others asking for, even an end to the israeli aggression occupation against palestinis, you today the palestina envoy today said that tel aviv wants us to either surrender and subjugate or die, well you the... many israeli officials have been stating over the last few days that the aim is to ethnic is to really get rid of all these human animals.