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tv   Gaza Under Attack  : PRESSTV  December 2, 2023 12:02am-12:30am IRST

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was broken um and he hadn't seen any medical um trainees or any medical staff up until he was released and um shown to the red cross that was over a week of him um suffering with uh bruises and pains and and fractures that you know could have healed in a way that will give him lifelong disabilities and there are many other examples latifa it gets much worse a barbaric practice the israeli regime has been using over the decades to gain leverage in negotiations against palestinians, i'll let you explain what that is. it's a barbaric practice of um harvesting these bodies of of keeping, imprisoning children, imprisoning um dead corpses, instead of returning them to their families and it's something that they use uh for many things, in negotiations, they use them uh to stockp their skim bank so that they can go to the world and they can say that israel has the you know that the... most
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advanced healthcare in in you know skin cancer available, come to us, we are world leaders, we we are pioneers in this, when of actually the the samples that they have collected, the the cells, the organs that they have harvested illegally without consent from dead bodies that they have um kept in concentration camps for all these years and then you know upon their death they they are still useful really it's like um what those birds that that eat carcases? just picking apart every last crum, leaving nothing, um, they they utilize palestinian bodies to prove that their weapons are battle tested and they of sell them on the market, thusly, they they experiment on on our children, and now they are taking dead bodies. something that might shock the audience, which is that israel not only imprisons palestinians who are alive, they are also imprisoning, did people,
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marters, 398 palestinians who have already died in israeli jails, or in in because they were shot by israeli army, are kept in jail, those who die in israeli prisons because of a sickness or because of torture have to stay in prison, in refrigerators to, and that's a violation of course of international law as well as israeli domistic law. moving to the next one and the brief history of the palestinian fight for justice a wall somewhere here in the british capital. what's of really lovely about what we're about to see um is that people are taking to the streets to educate the world, they are no longer um, you know, it's it's not something that's just going to be on the news, it's not certainly not something that's being taught in schools or allowed to be spoken about openly, you know, even at protests there was a man who was arrested. selling a book about um how the
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zionist um propaganda narrative uh started and therefore what i love about this um is that people are taking to the streets uh making a stand, making a statement, this is where zionism started, this is where the war actually started, sorry, that's uh freydian slip of the tongue there, it's not a war of course, it's a genocide that's an apartide, and it did not start on october the 7th, it started um in the 1800s. um in late 1800s with the creation of the political zionist ideology, and there it is, all in chronological order, and it's efforts like that that is really bearing fruit in in terms of raising awareness, not just here in the uk, but around the world, as you're about to tell us? absolutely, what i love about this is that you don't have to be uh someone who's young on social media, you don't even have to be someone who's completely invested um in the palestinian cause for you to learn about it, it's... uh, you know, it's not just this,
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there's also mureals that are being painted all over the world, people are taking to the streets and making sure that they they are not, remaining silent, um, and it's having an impact on the elderly, it's having an impact on people who uh wouldn't normally be exposed to this content, it's becoming what they call as a kitchen sync conversation, people are talking about it at home, in restaurants, sitting down and having a coffee, it pops up in the conversation, absolutely, and and this young man document. to this in america, i'm in a restaurant just chilling, waiting for my food and there's like a white couple next to me, their middle age, just chilling, eating their dinner, and they're talking about how israel is so evil and wicked, how they're massacring babies in hospitals and they're saying how they are the settlers and the wife is educating the husband on it, he's like, oh wow, and i don't know if these are people who are even on tiktok, like they were an elderly couple, people are not who are not even on social media, they're catching up on what's happening in that part of the world and discussing it, and so... so in this way um
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the world finally uh realizes that israel is an oppressor that they are an aggressor that they um are have always been um in the murder and genocide of palestinians and it is in this way that we inshallah globally will create the movement and keep up the momentum to free palestine and to make sure that our countries wherever we are, the companies that we work for, are not complicit in supporting any businesses that operate in occupied territories. okay, latifa, thank you. and latifa, we'll be back with more tomorrow. earlier we spoke to retired brigadier waqar hasan khan a senior defense analyst based in islamabad pakistan who told us that the pakistanis are angry that muslim countries have not done much to stop the recent massacre of palestinians. public also feels
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that oic or the islamic world and especially the large countries could have done much better not only militarily but mainly economically diplomatically even if you look at the way you know israeli ship. has been targeted, so it means that in case you could choke the you know the choke points like babal mandab or state of hermus or the swiss canal and basically deny access to israeli or their backers, it could have created a lot of impact, so economic bycott was definitely one option, the other was you know pressing the energy bycot, lot of i think oil and gas for israel flows through some of the muslim countries, central asia and some of the middle eastern countries and unfortunately because of... i think the arrangement for normalization process with israel, there was a different projective which literally left the palestinian outside and that's why i think marman bashara, one of the al jazera journalist had mentioned that palestinian then decided to go out and fight on their feet instead of dying on their knees in their
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houses, so that's a kind of general feeling in the public, there are a lot of frustration also in general public that why governments couldn't do more than that. i just give example of chilafat movement in 1914. when turkey was being targeted by the west, lot of people wanted to go there and help turkey, but there was no right of passage given by the bordering states, so i feel the honors of any more pressure should have been on egypt, on jordan, maybe on syria and maybe the middle eastern countries, there could have been, i think much better arrangement which could have satisfied not only the palestinian, but also the general public and the people on the street in all across the islamic world. brigadier khan further said that pakistanis were keen to do something and have been trying to hit the economic pockets the campaigns supporting israel the boycott movement. yeah, just after 7th october there
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were calls for bycot of products which are either you know of the let's say a jewish businessman mainly connected with israel or even those who operate from the west because lot of food business. exists in pakistan, very big food chains, they make billions of dollar every year, and so there was a general bycout, but it was kind of i would say less organized, it was basically done through social media and people even going to the restaurants and telling people to not eat that, it has made some difference because people then started to visit alternate site, but there are more businesses connected with israel or jewish businessman across the world. which could have been targeted with more organized fashion, but i would say the feeling is there, people wanted 100% bycot, people wanted to shut down these outlets and also even be asking the governments and calling to the islamic world or the oic to bycott total businesses, the shippings like
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we have seen you know some of the ships targeted by ansarullah from yaman have created lot of panic and i think it has also contributed to the seas the temporary seas f lot of economic pressure, but had been done more organized man, i think it have brought more results. my guests, yusuflou and vanessa beele have stated the course. thank you both for sticking around. i want to continue with the vanessa, pick up on one john, what johnby had to say earlier on in the us's role in all of this. um, do you think vanessa that if the war resumes on goza? um, first of all, do you think that the... us, it is believed that it is the only country that can stop israel from continuing with this genocidal campaign, at least for the near term. um, do you think it can, do you agree with that, and and if so, if the war resumes, then what does that mean in term for the us and and the westled world for one of the better way to put it? um, i
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think the person that is best described the us relationship with israel was actually, robert kennedy - jr. who said very clearly that israel is like an aircraft carrier in the middle east for the us. he didn't by the way talk about the israeli people, he simply... talked about israel as instrument of us power in the middle east, he described them as basically their spies, um, their ability to interfere in middle east affairs, which of course we've seen definitely here in syria for the last 13 years, um and ongoing israeli aggression against syria, including two days ago, the bombing again of damascus international airport, um, and he described them - as um the us bullow in the area,
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particularly against the rising power of the east, in other words of iran, russia, china, so the importance of israel to the us has been very clearly explained by kennedy, and i think that goes across republican and democrat, i don't think there is basically any difference, so effectively us support and uk support and uh many eu member states support for israel is unconditional, as many them have stated and and we know within the conservative party in the uk, within the labour party in the uk, there's a high percentage, more than 70% of so-called friends of israel, right? and and i actually wrote fairly recently about the home secretary suella braveman, she's obviously been sacked now, um, whether her allegiance lies with israel or with the uk, i argued that it lies with israel, and i would argue
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that the majority of politicians in the uk and the us, their allegiance does lie heavily with israel because of the role it serves as their military outpost in the middle east, securing resources, economic trade deals, as with the normalization of course with saudi arabia, which is to try and protect uh the commodities within the... states um and so i think um eventually what we're seeing now of course is um an escalation uh to a regional war, i think that is definitely what the us is seeking, and that is why you're seeing very much a containment of that escalation both in syria and in southern lebanon. hezballah is engaging forces in the north of the occupied territories. in order to keep them away from gaza and the west bank. syria
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is opening up areas where the palestinian resistance and the islamic resistance iraq can operate and target us bases, because of course it's perceived in the region that the us is behind what israel is doing, it's supplying the arms, it's it's funding israel effectively for the reasons that i've explained, um, and so i i think really from from a us. perspective, israel is pivotal to its hegemony and supremacy in the region, so therefore, um, any resistance against israel is going to be destroyed basically by the us, and we we all remember the words of joe biden, the american president when he was uh, senator biden, that if there weren't in israel, the us would have to create one uh in the middle east, um, so that was, you know, um, the position of these western countries, the united states, as far as israel is
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concerned, but i want to ask you about how you felt, despite all of the support that you've seen uh provided to israel, the way people have responded, people in the streets of london, the hundreds of thousands who turned out under the streets, the outpooring of grief and emotions for the palestinian plate and for the massacre unfolding there, how did that make you feel? as as a ghazan, as a palestinian? yeah, well, it makes me feel really proud that the palestinian cause has inspired the whole world, to see this mass mobilization in the streets of the world's capital, um, boost the moral of palestinians on the ground, it open up many eyes, there is so much awareness, um, israel is maybe the only remnant of imperialism, israel is the closest allie to the united states and the united states have been dealing with israel as a... world brat and it says it cannot say no to israel, it feeds israel financially, military, supports israel
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with the latest technology and it has transformed gaza into a testing a ground, drobbing internationally banned weapons, so this mass mobilization around the world, i think it's going to change the perception of palestine in the west, so many people are showing solidarity on the popular level, and those people uh are be are imposing pressure on their governments on their... peace to take action um so many people are interested now to uh visit palestine um because they say not in our names the tax payers of americans it goes to israel to kill in. and civilians in gaza, so i think it's not of uh until we see a change somehow, because the world, the world cannot tolerate israel's vicious attacks on civilians, attacking hospitals, churches, mosquies, mosts and bakeries, it has, it has transformed gaza into an extermination camp, so i think this will stop
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and it will bring more support, yeah, before the war, it was described as the world's largest. open air uh prison. vanessa mentioned the rise of powers in in the middle east, this is no longer a unipolar world, more and more countries uh joining the league of powerful countries. china's top diplomat will travel to new york to lead a un security council meeting on the war in gaza on wednesday, that according to the country's foreign ministry, china holds the security council presidency for november. a spokesperson has said that the... country hopes that quote, by holding this high-level meeting, we can do our part to bring all parties together, the chinese government has joined arab states in calling for a permanent ceasefire. as the rotating president of the security council for november, china hopes that by holding this high level meeting we
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can do our part to bring all parties together for in-depth exchanges, build on consensus and further contribute to alleviating the human. humanitarian crisis in gaza, realizing a ceasefire and sessation of hostilities, protecting civilians and ultimately promoting a comprehensive, just and lasting settlement the palestinian issue for two-state solution. the pace towards peace, no matter how small should be encouraged, and the difficulty in protecting civilians, no matter how daunting should be overcome. this round of conflicts has lasted for more than 50 days. causing a large number of casualties and serious humanitarian disaster. we have repeatedly emphasized that violence cannot create real security and the use of force cannot bring lasting peace. china welcomes all efforts that are conducive to bringing about seasfire and deescalating the situation. all right, fahima muhammad is back with the follow-up to her first offering of palestine in the media.
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good to have you back fahima. your first story in this segment, the um rising is. yeah, i mean, we've always had rise in islamophobia, but obviously has quadrupled, and it's not just in the uk, it's also in the u.s. and around the globe, and here we have students who have been shot in vermont, um, we have to say that they are, they they have survived, but they are seriously injured, and it is hate motivated crime, and obviously it's reported by um, you know, gb news here in the uk, and the comments are just still atrocious, um, we know the kind of you, certain mainstream media. do regardless of this kind of hate crime when it comes to certain individuals and certain minorities then it's again it's probably you know what's the question behind it so um it's really sad to see and we have to be careful as um you know students and young people that are actually vocalizing themselves they have to take care and there has been an arrest perpetrated they're all alive and they were
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shot because they were wearing the iconic palestinian caffer. and speaking arabic, yes, and the palestinian descendant as well, your second story, introduction to zionism 101, yes, and it kind of like highlights as to maybe why people are feeling this way, as we can see in the campuses, we are hearing, you know, zinis instructing jewish americans as to how um, these are students they're talking to, how to defend israel in the us campuses, so this is outright, just showing them what to do, what to say, and it's quite polyling as to what she says, so you can't here a little bit of what she talks about, and you will say, what, you want us to make you look good, that's not my job, your job is to make us look good, our job is not to make you look good, american jews, what do you have to worry about, your job is to make us look good, and here's how you do it, every one of
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us has to serve three years in the army, two years in the army, some of us five years and then for the rest of our lives. defend themselves by attacking, clearly stated to university students in america, so we're not, we shouldn't be surprised as to what's happened even in the previous report and what's to come, and she um, is a harvard university prop, she's been criticized in the past for writing the palestinian arabs and i'm quoting, are people who breed and breed and advertise their misery, and not censored here, and not not hated here, yet that article you mentioned. previous segment, yes at the same university gets censored, and one of those three um young men who were shot was also student at harvard university. moving to uh, pause in the chelling in the gaz strip, but then those were injured or battling every day for survival? absolutely, i mean now that we have the pause, um, we can see some reports as to what's happening and what's the
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onslot so far and looking at the devastation, so this video highlights um some of the facilities or so-called facilities now that people are still at the hospitals looking for assistance and medic you know medical assistance, but at the end of the day there's no... nothing there and you can see they're in beds outside the hospital, it's a real um dire situation, even with the pores, it's just highlighting how much destruction, how much that's still needed and how much more they have to fuel, you need medical supplies and need anesthesia to be able to as we know this is just temporary so we're not really sure as to what's to come and if they are actually going to get the help that they require and as we've been saying it could be the loll before yet another storm only. thank you, as always, we'll hear more from you tomorrow. let's continue the conversation with my guess febili in syria, and here in the studio with yousuf el helou. vanessa,
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first to you, how do you think israel's international reputation, if any has faired in in light of the recent um eruption? i think, i mean, this is uh, one of the major victories for the palestinians and for the palestinian resistance. first of all the attacks of october the 7th and even previous engagement between palestinian resistance both in the west bank and from gaza with uh the israeli occupation forces and even um with uh rockets and missiles fairly rudimentary rockets and missiles that bypassed the so-called invincible iron dome. so first of all the october 7th operation demonstrated. that israel is very much paper tiger, it is basically survived on the propaganda that it produces and that the west backs up, that it is this this military and
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intelligence giant in the region will both its military and its surveillance capability were bypassed by resistance operations. secondly, of course, now what we're seeing come out, even in israeli media is the fact. that the majority of the civilians that were killed uh on october the 7th and on the two days that followed when the iof were trying to track down the resistance factions and the hostages external to gaza, the majority of those civilians were actually either killed in crossfire, so effectively being used as human shields by the iof while they were engaging with resistance forces, or by israeli apache. helicopters that carried out an operation that lasted four hours and targeted more than 300 targets, including civilians, because they've admitted they couldn't differentiate between civilians and
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resistance fighters, and then the two days after of course they shelled both by tank and by helicopter, the houses where the resistance and their own civilians were were sheltering, killing the civilians in the process, so that's the... operating according to that, sorry to interrupt, the the so-called uh hannibal directive that allows them to kill someone if they are being taken hostage to prevent them from uh from being taken uh captive. i'm going to put one last question to to uh yousuf here if i may uh and that is yousuf, we don't have much time left to be honest, but what are your hopes and fears passed thursday? well, international, the international system has been sabotaged by.... israel and the us stance has been always pro israel, so my hope is that um the uh we must we much we should reach a
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permanent cease fire in order to alleviate the suffering of the people people under the israeli siege and my fears is that israel will continue attack ghaza from time to time without an need to justification so let's hope peace prevail and let's hope that israel now uh will end its and sie and allow the people of of palestine, especially gaza to be free nation, resolving the core issues, at the heart of this ongoing israeli occupation of palestinians, thank you very much, and with those comments we are going to wrap up this show, many thanks again to my guests, yousuf alhulu and venesabili for their contributions, gaza under attack will be back tomorrow with more, until then continue to keep palestine in your hearts. thank you. thank you.
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الساعه العاشره و خمس دقائق بدات بنسبه. هذا كله كان معبى كمان عسكر ها بهذه الكميه بهذه النوعيه بهذه الهمجيه على مستشفى باعتبار انهجد بعض مسؤولي المقاومه في دار الحكمه لكن يوجد احد عندما لم تتحقق اهدافهم خربوا كثير
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المستشفى بطبيعه الحال لم يكن هناك اي شيء هو معروف لو كان هناك شيء كانوا مسائلين اظهروه للاعلان people in israel marked priem as a holiday to commemorate the saving of the jewish people from at the hands of the kemen empire in persia, as it is recounted in the book of esther. they've been using the occasion to play the victim, but what is the reality and is there truth in it? watch this documentary to gain some insight.
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killed in the first day of renewed israeli bombings of the gaza shrift after a weeks after a week of pause. the palestinian resistance movement hamas says israel is to blame for the resumption of the war on gaza shrift with the us giving the green light. and iran's foreign minister has warned israel and the us that the continuation of the war on gaza.