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tv   Gaza Under Attack  PRESSTV  December 6, 2023 12:02am-12:31am IRST

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see what's what's being said here, she's she's saying, you know, please just tell me, explain to me, is this real or i sleeping? is it, um, and he's he's just telling her, don't worry, don't, don't be scared, don't be scared, and she's repeating that question, just just let me know, is this a dream, like is this nightmare or my, or is this real, she cannot believe it, yeah, she's obviously experienced this for the last 60 days and she's at, she's a she's a stage where? it's unfathemable and she's a child and we know child's imagination and creativity farpasses adults abilities in that way yeah and even she is at this stage unable to discern what is real from what what would be nightmare because this reality it cannot it in what world do we live in where children have to how many times do you think this child has gone into hospital to be treated for injury and others like her. many times, um, and not
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just this round of the escalation, many others. um, and there are supposed to be the lucky ones, we have to ask how longer they will be alive, before they too get killed in in the next israeli um shelling, yes, um, just adding to that, the the number of children israel has killed in gaza so far, has surpassed the annual number of children killed across the world's conflict zone since 2019, twice over. that's the scale of the atrocities that israel is committing against the population in gaza. i hope what will come out of this at the very least is us, when i say us, i mean the world, the people of the world, questioning the relevance of these international organizations that claim to be there to keep peace uh between nations, i hope that the question is posed seriously and that um people disassociate from them. and
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they stopped claiming that these geneva conventions or these human rights acts of whatever that they have any actual relevance because since since the war began not one cup of water could have been brought in during the the atrocity one cup of water by all the nations in the world but instead we're seeing these kind of videos it's deplorable let's have look at this one. الصف واطمنت عليه وهيك وبعدين روحت عليه هو صف اول انا هي هو بيمشي كمان قعدنا نتغالز ومبسوطه عليه ابني واول فرحتي كانت يمشي. لا الفيديو هو
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هو بيمشي هيه ومبسوطه عليه كنت منظمه وقتتي على دراجته وعلى حياته صحي بدري هي جوابيا there are childhood memories and then there are childhood memories and and the difference the disparity cannot be bigger between the memories that this child will grow up having uh and and lots of other kids around the world where they don't have to go through anything like that to see wasteland that used of to be their home. do you know what's what doesn't make sense to me is that this is the childhood yes it's condensed and yes we're seeing it in real time now that technology is is allowing us to see it in real time but this this is the childhood that the freedom fighters in palestine had this is what they grew up in and people are now saying and it
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took what 60 days for people to seriously acknowledge this to say, if i lived that life, i too would be fighting for for the freedom of my land, and i too would be fighting the occupation in my land, exactly, so since we're fast running out of time, take us to your next story and and the difference between people in christendom as far as celebrating this upcoming festive period. um, the last image that i want to leave. us with is absolutely, you're right, we we are um approaching you know the festive season in the west where everything now becomes about christmas and buying gifts and consumerism and capitalism just you know is is on class say drugs almost you know everybody is concerned with this but what what we're forgetting and and hope i hope what we don't forget um people who are invested in in truth and honesty and dignity is the fact that not only a palestine suffering you now you've got
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all the um honorable nations of the axes of resistance that are also working hand in hand with the palestinian resistance that are also suffering during this escalation um because because solely of their cooperation with the resistance in palestine, um, let when when we make a prayer today, let us remember all of these noble countries and their people, in our press. okay, let's see, thank you. latifa will be back in the hot seed with more next time. now, in the uk, under article 10 of the human rights act of 1998, everyone has the right to free. freedom of expression in the country, however, that freedom is not guaranteed to those supporting palestine. earlier we spoke to fahima mota, was arrested as she left a recent pro-palestinian procession here in london. the protest had
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finished and we were making our way back towards where our cars were parked um and we saw two ladies getting arrested and what i did was. as you said something along the lines of girls stay strong um free palestine and lady police officer came and she pushed me um and i said to her um there was no reason for you to push me i was just um talking to them and i i had continued walking and she said oh you need to keep it moving so i said um can i have your badge number and your name after that point we were um followed by the police up until we got. to pickadilly circus um when we got to pickadilly circus we were playing music um palestine songs and you know we were all just having some snacks cuz we hadn't eaten since breakfast so we were really hungry um and we got um i'd say like about 30 25 30 police
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officers that came um and two of them went straight to my friend and two of them came straight over to me um and she said to me that the... is section 35 public dispersal alter over here so you need to leave immediately so um i said i'm not from london um so i don't know my way around here uh my friend who you're searching currently as soon as you're finished with the search um we will leave and she said are you refusing to leave and i said no i'm not refusing to leave i'm just saying right now i can't leave but i have full intention of leaving. um and then she asked me for my name and address and my details and i said to her um you know have i committed a crime uh legally i'm not required to give my details unless i've committed a crime um and that's when she said i refusing to give your details i said i'll give you my details if you tell me the reason that you
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that you need them um and that's when she basically said time of arrest and she put the handcups on um uh after that i was arrested um we were taken to a police station, i was booked in. despite the treatment meeted out to fahimma at the police station, where islamophobia was apparent, she says she will not be silent. we live in a country where they speak about freedom of speech um and we have the right to protest, so then why was i arrested? um, when i wasn't even protesting at that point, i just had my cafia on and i had a... flag, my parents came into the country to give us better future and because the british values, but really there's um lot of hypocrisy um that we're seeing that some people are, some people are allowed to um raise their voice and speak openly about their views and believes, but the other side
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is completely been shut down, um and you know we were um it came to light when the comments were made by the home, well the ex- home secretary um and racism that we saw, islamophobia - is on the rise at the moment as well, um, and racism, um, and also like i wear a hijab, and when i was at the police station, they asked me to take my hijab off, for my id, and i said to them, i've won this since i was a child, um, over my dead body, you're going to ask me to take my hijab off, i will never take it off, um, and i just sat down on the floor and i said, you know, i've been so cooperative along this whole along this whole thing. you've done, um, you, i didn't resist my arrest, um, but asking me to take my hijab off, i feel like that's you being islam of racist, and i won't take it off, even if you tell me that you're going to book me into a jail, basically, and she went and spoke to the scene and they agreed that
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they would let me keep my hijab on, and i think that just proved to me that if you stick to your beliefs and if you stay strong, then palestine will be free, inshallah. one day, you're watching gaza under attack, let's continue the conversation with my guests. um, let me start with this segment with hasanain, and we we briefly talked about this earlier in the program, and that is, as we saw there, people supporting the palestinians and their liberation and their quest for justice, at risk of arrest, as we saw and heard earlier, so there is lot of support among the masses around the world, on the other hand, we're seeing the even more. populated south of gaza facing brute israeli force in the coming
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hours, perhaps. is there a point that all of that, that understanding and this groundsw of support will have probably do you hope that that will lead to some kind of a policy change in in any of the western capitals that support israel? i think it will, i think ultimately seaspire will happen right, like whether it's because it became expensive, whether it's because um, because there's too much international pressure, ultimately we will get to seefire. i found that clip uh of the activist who got arrested the protest really interesting, because earlier we were talking about how 76% of people in the uk support fire, 76% of people support a ceacefire in the uk, and yet we can't get our parliamentarians to vote for seaspy, not even the left-wing, more left-wing parties like: the labor party in the uk, you know, um, and then so that whole episode, the seas five
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vote in parliament, sort of really woke us all up to the idea that this democracy that we have is a sort of illusion, like it doesn't actually exist, there is no, there is no prospect now of a party being in power that would even vote for a ceasefire, which is the very least that we're asking for, never mind, free palestine, and the same is happening with of speech, it's like this card, this idea of freedom of speech is what the western imperial powers have always used as an excuse, we are going to iraq to liberate the iraqi people, look, they don't have freedom of speech, or we need to liberate these african, they don't have freedom of speech, where is our freedom of speech, like the freedom of speech was always an illusion, it was always there, as long as it served the interests of those in power, as long as it served the interests of the capital. imperialist masters, and as soon as it doesn't serve their interests, it's gone,
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but importantly, i think it is, there's some hope there, this idea that they're clamping down so hard on these protests is because this fear, there is fear, and generally when you're doing something right, you are going to face the the the forces of the state, the military, police, you know, they will clamp down, when there is actually fear of something changing as a result of the action, so yeah, we need to keep going, we need to keep going, neil, what do you think, do you think there is any hope that that will happen uh because of the as i say support for the palestinian cause that's only increased over the past uh nearly two months, but also there is a time when these western governments will probably you know sit down and think, okay, that's not okay, you've killed more. people, you got to stop now, or are they so inherently racist and anti-arab and
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anti-muslim that they don't care how no matter how many palestinians are murdered by israels? well, listen, there's always hope for change that they will recognize it, there'll be enough pressure from the public, as we say see the numbers of people supporting this now increasing, people are waking up, people are seeing that, after years and years of this, october the 7th it didn't start there, in terms of the political agenda. "there are people on the back bench that realize and recognize what's going on, but it's the leaders, it's the ones at the front that are putting pressure on the smaller minority within the political parties, we saw the labour party in the threat that was made, if they did vote on this, they would be fired, so it's coming from above, whether those voices can, again it's all about unification, if they can unite and get their voices heard and push for this vote for this ceasefire, then that's where the hope turns into action and that action turns into real and briefly, how do we explain this disparity between the way, for example, the british government uh supported
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the ukrainian refugees and and you know everything that happened in the wake of the war there, and the way they have been responding to the israeli massacre in the gaza strip and the ongoing incursions in the west bank. listen, everyone that's being oppressed, everyone's facing this war, whether it was ukraine or whether it's in iraq before and now it's in palestine or in yemen, we see what's happening, what's the commonality between everybody, the all human beings, people need to wake up and understand that everything. together, we are human beings, just because the color of my skin is different to the color of their skin, just because my eyes are a different color to their eyes, you cut our skin, we bleed the same way, when human beings can start being more humane towards one another, that's when people will slowly start to recognize the damage that's being caused. very true, um, we're going to pause again just to look at
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this, other story of course, connected to the entire program, and that is gaza's health infrastructure that is on it. knees: the newly injured people are being rushed to gaza city's al-ahli baptist hospital, as israel ordered more people incrowded southern gaza to evacuate as heavy bombardment shifts there. a health worker at the hospital has said more than 15 children have been killed. bodies have been lineed on the front yard of the hospital even as more bodies are brought in. the head of the hospital, dr. fadel narim says the number of the injured has spiked since the end of the week-long truce between israel. and hamas. frankly, since the end of the truth and the resumption of aggression, we received in the past three days including today, scores of injuries and hundreds of marters. honestly, the injuries this time are much difficult than before, the truth. the injuries are complex, open fractures that need urgent intervention as well as
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operations. we also received huge numbers of cases that are injured in the head and abdomen and all cases. need life-saving intervention and is back with more on how the assault on gaza is being covered and uh fahim what else has caught your eye? we have kariem khan, the prosecutor for the icc who is in ramala, speaking um around the investigations that they hopefully trying to um enjure. today. this is the end of my first trip to the state of palestine, i'm here in romala, it's been a productive day, a long day in which i've met the president, mahmoud abbas, the prime minister, the minister of justice, the minister of health, the minister of prisoner prisons, i've had the opportunity to engage with victims and heard their accounts,
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their suffering both from gaza and from the west bank, it's a long um sort of like... suggestive way and action that they want to put forward, but i just did a quick search on the icc as to how many have they actually taken to court, and over the years they've had assistance from the us in order to convict um lot of these um sort of like criminal individuals, but they mainly from um sort of like places like africa or you know other sort of like non-western uh countries, so i don't know how strong this case can be, even with the evidence as we are still waiting to hear for... the criminalization of individuals from the iraq war, exactly, so we need to question that, and this is the only body that we have, some of whom have died without facing just like colin pow and runswell and all the rest of them, yes, um, we've seen a string of resignations in the labor party for the leaders refusal to
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support palestinians or for supporting israel, yeah, what's been happening on that front, well there's a continuation of the outpore and you know people. speaking up when they do have a chance, and we have this particular counselor, asma islam, but we'll hear what she has to say and how she's been treated for speaking up. on one hand, i feel politics has come a long way. we have a british indian for prime minister, a british pakistani for london mayor and a british bangladeshi for mayor of tahamlet, glass ceilings broken. on the other hand, i feel politics has failed when over 800. british people get out of their homes protesting and calling for immediate ce in the middle east but getting shut down right? yeah another um jb childry requests her to leave and to be silence and not even give her chance to speak, so this is quite alarming as to the
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amount of censorship that we are seeing in these really important meetings which should... allow people and individuals to stand up for their constituent and give these kinds of opinions? you would only have to ask if this would have been different if someone was speaking in favor of israel, absolutely in the same meeting, and and speaking of israel again, which is the theme also of this program, the myth of the israeli military being a moral one? well, here we going to see and hear the random phone calls that are given to certain individuals warning them. of when they have to evacuate and move, we'll hear a bit of that and i'll explain 36 38 39 40 so this is night call late at night by the israely soldiers that will send out messages
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to um the civilians in gaza which they have now also um set out some sort of map square numbers and so they reading out the square numbers in the middle of the night saying that you need to evacuate immediately and go not even saying where. so this is the kind of all right, warning that they are given and at the same time they are not given any sort of um sort of like ways of moving forward, it's in the middle of the night, they don't have anywhere to go, they have elderly, they have children, and again they have squared marked these sort of like areas and giving them really last minute warning in the middle of the night to sort of leave. okay, thank you, as always. um, let's continue the conversation here with my... guests in the studio as well as on skype uh hassanein is this whole thing made bridging the gap between certain groups harder than ever. i'm sorry i didn't quite
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catch that makeding the gap harder did you ask? i mean there are divisions between the different groups that in terms of their stance on the israel palestine for want of better word conflict over the years. does that does this help with unity um among the different groups out there around the world, even countries to form a united front ev either now or in the wake of the war when there is actually seaspire to put up a united front against israel? yeah, i mean, unity is an interesting concept right, like we can't take unity for granted in terms of we all want to be united no matter what, i think unity comes about as a result of us having our hearts together behind the same sort of
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cause, so when we look at what's happening in israel, palestine, we can see now how the jewish community, for example has been massively active all over the world in calling for seaspire, and these are jewish brothers and sisters were standing up and saying, yeah, stop using judaism. as an excuse for your zionist war crimes, um, these are the sorts of this is the sort of unity that we want to promote this unity behind the cause and not just unity for the sake of unity, so yes we want to get together with people all over the world, but it's difficult right, like the like we talked about earlier and the brother mentioned about ukraine, when everything happened in ukraine, obviously we want the best outcome for all humans all over the world, but it was a bit of a shock to us when we had seen syrian refugees, iraqi refugees, when we had seen the victims of all
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these other conflicts on that side of the world be treated completely differently in western countries, and suddenly when it happened in ukraine, you know, households opened up their doors to welcome ukrainian refugees, and we all wanted to unite behind that, but it's difficult when you think, well, how come we're all uniting behind this? cause and not another, but what palestine and what palestinians are helping us to do is to recognize this for what it is, which is that it is about white supremacy, it is actually because of the color of their skin, and when we can call it that and when we can recognize that there is people are treated differently according to the color of their skin, then we can start unpacking why that might be, and it's not just because we humans are inherently flawed, yeah. it's because these systems are in place to allow israel, states like the us and the uk to get away with what they're doing, using dehhumanization of their
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victims to get away with what they're doing, so when we talk about if that's i'm sorry to interrupt, but we're fast running out of time, i want to squeeze in one last question to neil, and that is the uk's unqualified support for israel, hamas, denouncing the uk for planning to conduct surveillance flights over the gaza strip, calling it, a partner in israel's crimes of complicity, it's ridiculous, isn't it? you know, it shows the level that they will go to to to show that support towards israel, to show support towards the cause, um, their partners in one bed, aren't they? yeah, you know, whatever they can do to support this cause to help their agenda to grow even further, and what's their agenda to eliminate all the palestinians in gaza to again take the resources, take the land, take away the sews canal and force everybody out of there, we're going to see increase in the bombings, we're going to see increase in the terror that's going on out there in the days to come, i'm sure it's not going to end, but we need to
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have that voice and we can have that voice again as i said, not just physically, but through our actions and have that united front with everybody, and and remind the uk government that it has moral responsibility because of the balful decoration, all the rest of it, to intervene and try and stop it, but we're yet to see that happen, yes, all right, and with those those comments we are going to wrap up this show, many thanks again to my guests, neil nasser here in the studio with me and hasanain jafer on skype for their contributions, gaza under attack, we'll be back tomorrow with more, until then continue to palestine in your thoughts, thank you.
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what did the palestinians do to the world? what is this global uprizing for palestine? fashion lovers decorate platforms in public squares and palestinian colors, musicians ignite the stage with palestinian songs. famous journalists resigned because they were not free to report events about palestine, activists, cartoonists, artists. academics, drivers, trade unionists, young and old, people from every profession and every speciality you can think of, are abandoning their silence and pasivity and rebelling and shouting out into the world, into the deaf ears of their own complicit governments, free palestine. intifada returns as liberation, this week on the mideast stream.
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your headlines here on press tv, at least 45 palestinians are killed in one of the latest israeli strikes on central gaza, as the un says the safe zones and enclave are impossible. palestinian resistance fighters launch retaliatory rocket attacks against israel, amid intense clashes with the regime forces north and east of khans and one lebanese army soldier is killed and three others wounded in israeli shelly for such incident for lebanon's army since start of the war on gaza.