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 safety 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 7,00 still under rubble. now welcome to the spotlight, i'm your host najafi, and these are our guests. this episode of the spotlight,

activist and commentator in torano, also with this is daniel shaw academic and political commentator in new york, welcome to the show, gentlemen, beginning with uh khalid described the collapse of al shafa hospital in northern gaza as a track its 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 100.

2000 internally displaced palestinians who were forced to move because their homes were destroyed or israel forced them 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. 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... minated 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 hopes that in the end egypt might open the borders and allow them into sina, even though egypt has said clearly we will not allow. are not going there either, yeah, all right, daniel, you now hospital specially those in northern part of gaza are being ignored fuel, and when i talked to our correspondent there on the ground, he says, fuel here means fuel equals life, you know, because you know medical equipment, machines, they all run on electricity, and they don't have electricity, they they use generators, generators run on fuel, and this truce is in place, it's got extended for two days. so aid

is truckling in a 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. uh they want to continue to displace, this is a 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 outlets in the mainstream here in the west, have continued to vilify hospitals and what's extremely sad is that much of the medical staff is they receive hundreds and hundreds and thousands of of

children and civilians who need help, the medical staff is checking if it's uh their families and and how many medical workers uh at this point over 105 un workers have been killed in gaza and over 53 journalists, so we can see that the israeli regime is absolutely no respectful life, exactly, so khalid, how could this humanitarian catastrophe in the real sense of the word, caused in 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 rich arab countries and the united nations, but 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 lead a normal life, so this is terrible humanitarian crime, and as the under secretary general of the united nations for humanitarian affairs said, martin griffith, 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 carmage, and that has to stop, and even if it stopped now, you still have the problem of fixing these

human souls which were affected, especially the children, yeah, truly, daniel, another damage done to gaza during this. recent israeli war, 1.6 million dollars of losses a day in gaza's agricultural produce, you know, this is a result of health and production due to the war on gaza, and you know even even, this is not possible because of contamination that khalid also mission, as un was also warning about, so they cannot have their produce maybe for years, so this is a big blow again. to the economy, this is the same policy that the us 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, it's an all-out assault on survival in gaza to attack agriculture, the little bit of... culture that still existed because most of us here in the west have no sense that gad already been through is just emerging from two decades of full scale israeli and us uh blocade is only two ways in and out of gaza which are completely monitored and patrolled uh by the idf by the forces of apartide 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 a 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 in context here in the west we really don't have

a sense of what's been transpiring the past 53 days and 75 years right and khalid you know there is there are many more problems caused by uh the war on gaza you know... you mentioned some of them, there are some other as like unexploded ordinance, you know, they're they're unexploded and they are a threat to everybody, especially kids, the sewing 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 instrumentantable amount of help. from the 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 that was done to

to the infrastructure, the to the hospitals, the schools, the clinics, all of that is going to take lots of time and 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 humanity 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 and many of the of these countries who supported israel like canada, united states, the uk, the public was calling for sease fire, but

the politicians seem to listen to another, to another master, and this is this, 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 hpa city at that time, it had a population of 70,000 palestinian arabs, only 2000 remained after the creation israel, we ended up as refugee camps and we suffered and some of us are still suffering in refugee camps, i was luck enough to find my way to canada, but you know we have. two three generations have suffered from the from the catastrophe in 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. afrikaners believed in south africa and that came to an end when sanctions were imposed on upper side south africa and the upper side regime was dismanted and this is the only solution to the crisis uh in in in palestine. now danielle uh us and israely spy chiefs are in doha qatar. they are there for talks on extending the so-called humanitarian pause. "you know 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 reads cnn in the new york times, there's small murmers of humanitarian concern, but the us intelligence, kabal and the pentagon and the state." state department and true ruling class and the foreign policy establishment continue to control uh all of the information um plastered across the front pages of the news are just horrific stories of what the israelis have been through so the ongoing dehumanization of the palestinians continues now you have the bricks 11 who have formed the ghaza contact group shijan ping and other world leaders have said there 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 neo-colonial 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 in true rebuilding and injustice, in a 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. africa and brazil and india and these countries are truly have a say along with the muslim countries right now, the powers that be have turned their back on gaza uh, leaving 2.3 million people to survive uh on their own, including 1.1 million children, but certainly yes reparations will be in order, directly connected to the rise of multipolarity throughout the world. okay, khalid, what's the prospect of a lasting ceasfire that? what palestinians and many others asking for, even an end to the israeli

aggression occupation against palestinies, today the palestin envoy today that tel aviv wants us to either surrender and subjugate or die. well, you know, the many israeli officials have been stating over the last few days that the aim is ethnic. is to really get rid of all these human animals, and they mean by that not only hamas, they mean the palestinian population, gaza, because because of this big concentration of two million people who have risen up and resisted this inhumane siege which has been going on since 2006 had to be taught a lesson because if if they are not put the lesson then the people in the west bank and in israel proper the

palestinians in israel proper would then demand their uh freedom, equality and justice, including the right of return of refugees. however, as long as the united states is backing this apartside genocidal regime, and they have just mentioned recently that they're going to resupply israel with bombing material, and by the way, these bombs, 2000 pound bombs have... never been used before in any residential neighborhood before, and they are the cause of this huge damage which will take a very long time to fix, the americans still insist on supplying israel, which means they are encouraging the government of israel to continue in its

mission, which they have stated publicly that they will eliminate anybody. in gaza who poses a threat to them, and by that they mean actually any palestinian, the presence of palestinians will always be a threat to israel's hegemony and racism which they have been practicing for the last 75 years, so so this is going to be tough struggle, especially since the backing from arab countries and muslim countries has only been verbal, but there's really no, no practical way, her action undertaking so far to support the resistance and the people of gaza. now, daniel, the iranian for minister has sent letters to the iccc, urging, a prompt

investigation on prosecution of israeli war criminals. what kind of performance do you expect of the this international troop? would it prove to sit on defense, be impartial and independent and resist all the pressure? uh, very, very difficult, i think that would be wishful thinking again in this uh era dominated by us, unipolarity, us dominant hegem throughout the world, the icc, the united nations, these things have existed as fig leafs, uh, they're small international camouflages, so the us can continue. uh to try to dominate uh throughout the uh world, i think it's really only the world's people that can stop this genocide uh in motion uh we see massive massive resistance across the world uh civil disobedience led by our jewish sisters and brothers here in the united states and of course uh palestinian uh

resistance uh we're doing everything we can uh but we have a us public uh that has has been exposed to lies, lies that equate the palestinians with terrorism uh for 75 years, so it's really an unequal informational war as well. it's important to highlight that the south africans have invoked uh the geneva convention along with uh other governments, but it's important to say that israel is fascist state uh in this country where they claim to care about uh racism and xenophobia. israel has uh one type of quote on quote democracy uh for its are citizens and then the palestinians can't even be called second or third class citizens, they've been defined and treated as sub-human now for 75 years and how horrific that it takes a near genocide or genocide in motion uh to wake up the us population to the reality of israeli fashion okay and of course they're waking up you see the rallies there okay thank you so much

gentlemen for the contribution khalid mamer activism commentator in toronto daniel shaw academic and political commentator in new york. thank you and thank you for watching this episode of the spotlight with me your host najaf. i'll see you next time. and welcome to this uh next roll.

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