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of international media who allowed in well you say that, but actually i'm going to argue that uh more so now than before, we are seeing it, there is no corner that they are hiding, they can hide any longer, the act of atrocities, the act of of murder and and um violation of human rights and and war crimes against humanity, one the that we're about to see now um speaks of such heinous situation, but one that occurs all too often um unfortunately, i'd like to read it out ' someone said my mom spoke to her family in yesterday and her niece said my uncle was fleeing with h children onf and israeli army called out to him hey you with the beard come over here many israely speak arabic fluently so they interrogated him in arabic he said that he's been walking for many kilometers and he's just trying to get his family safety the israeli soldier smiled and here take this so you don't get too tired it was a bit to his head wow um in front of his family.
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watched um he had seven children and they had walken tielessly um as you mentioned just before we started talking about this particular story that uh kind of stuff they have been accusing the palestine resistance of doing the die style execution yes that we just excellent for sure my my earlier point was that um israel is under great amount of pressure to the lie they are the victims and that they feding themselves when these kind of stories are emerging that narrative those lies that they have to pedal um have to be even greater and so they will exaggerate um even more the uh atrocities that hamas or palestine resistance against one such one the recently marttered doctor the poet and writer and academic um he was only marted yesterday it was an pardon me it was attack that was target him and his family um and uh meant
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that he had died uh uh that he was killed pardon me um and one of the lies the reason why he became so com in in this discussion and why i brought him up is because there was one such incident uh the lies were against the palestinian resistance said that they were cooking babies in oven and his response was oh without baking powder what's the recipe to make light of the to exaggerate um further the lies that are trying to be padled by the entit exactly, but clearly he was gaining too much prominence in in the message that he was uh sharing with the world about palestinian cause, and speaking of children, a this war is having the most impact on the most vulnerable, the children have lost limbs and legs under their lives, the trauma that they will be bearing their lives. what is of your next story as far as that? um, let's have look at the image that that we prepared,
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my next story has to do with the fact that we are looking a generation of palestinians um that are having to bury their own siblings, children barring children, i i've never seen this in any um history lesson, i've never witnessed this in any uh genocide or attack against the people without precedent, this is this is new level of horror that that of humanity is having witness um and it reminds me very much again to to bring up the the late doctor, dr. he he wrote a poem, which i think is so beautiful and something very much related to the hope that these children will never have again okay, and something that these adults in gazza wanted desperately um to instill bef in their dying moments in the work leading up to their inevitable death and their inevitable martidom by design state, they wanted to leave legacy, and i believe this poem is going to be one of the legacies briefly if you can. 'if must die, you must
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live, to tell my story, to sell my things, to buy a piece of cloth and some strings, make it white with a long tail, so that somewhere while looking, while looking heaven in the eye, waiting his dad to left in place, and bid no one farewell, not even to his flesh, not even to himself, sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up above, and for moment, an angel is there, bringing back love, if i must die, let it bring hope, let it be tail, it has become a tale that will be shit by millions around the world to keep this alive until the palestinians achieve victory. latifa, thanks for now. latifa will be back with more next week. now, school and university students converged outside the uk prime minister's office this week to advocate for a cease fire in gaza. they were also there to protest against k. college in london
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ostizing those spoke against israel, one question they asked was why freedom of speech is selective in the uk, we are demanding our university. to rein the student officers that were um let let go due to the support of palestine and we are demanding them to ties with the israeli universities and to invest the money into spreading peace and helping palestinian goes you soon i don't want to say anything about him you know but he he says our people and uk is with israel but we're not with israel we listen to your people that's what it is that's our government it's a social contract you listen to your people and we keep you in power listen to your people we don't want seesfiring we are addressing. government, more specifically rusi sunak, we were to call for sease fire, a permanent cease fire, not just a temporary one, in order in the suffering. there's a lot amongst the students, i know this for sure, do know that lot of people are scared to speak up um in university, um, i have many seminars, do politics, i have many seminars,
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only one really we've spoken about it, the other ones they're trying to quiet about it, and one of the reasons we here today as well is that um king's college student union, the officers have been sebed because they spoke up about um i'm trying to say no, they represent us, we believe in palestinian rights our country is giving israels to fight, you know the weapons are not going to bring the peace, to bring the peace need to talk and listen to them, what they feel, they are children, both of the parents are lost, the parents kill and children on the street, looking for their parents then cying, how come you like we ignoring all of this, it's not nice. every child matteres matter what the color, background or you know the the religion, we are all human being after and as human we should feel simpathy for them, you know we should have empathy for them, they say israel is protecting themselves, but they aren't they're bombing that and they're saying they're protecting themselves and that's not called protecting and they've
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killed at least i think 300 children, the fact that there's a crackdown on freedom of speech is it's probably my motivation to actually come here, i think if someone's stops me from speaking, i'm just going to speak, if they tell me to stop talking or stop holding flag, i'll talk louder, i will scream and i will, i will raise that flag even higher our age are being killed, so we have to put for them because if you live in palestine if this, this was this is this is going to be happen to we're here because children are being killed like like adult and children, like every single type is killed, and there's so many international laws that say this isn't allowed, but everyone's ignoring it and they don't care about. our message is to all the corporations that profit of of of the massacre of gazan, best bank children and to our leaders who have
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like supported from who are the descendants the people colonize, my people colonize all all african people, caribbean people and all the political... leaders who like benefit of this who are silent, fighting with your with the oppresses and our we are against all of that. arab students have been particularly targeted for showing solidarity with the palestinian cause. we spoke to students who have been on the receiving end of islamophobia. as someone who one of those people been threatened by univer my university as an arab student at this time uh... "my message is that you know this is not a victimless crime, this is not any type of neutrality, not um, there's no sup for our students and our student body and they cannot silence us anymore and they cannot get away with their financing of these war crimes, we
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demand transference on where our tuition fees are going, we demand support from our universities that we're investing in, and we demand our curriculums to represent this as well, think in terms of the subity there is..." the poor, there is a voice for palestine on campuses, but we are actively being silenced by institutional policy, by institutional actions against palestinian solidarity. we've been dehumanized, we've been institutionally, systemically, legally dehumanized for decades throughout so many conflicts in the region, and that's what has permitted all of the atrocity is taking place in palestine now and cannot continue today i came to the peaceful protest. uh in uh down the street and as i was peacefully protesting for palestine an old white woman came up to me and uh racially abused me saying that i'm a terrorist and she called my juba night dress as i approached and asked her to uh say sorry she said no go to your country and obviously i came here to do a peaceful
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protest for palestine as you know so many people have been killed up to 20,00 people have been killed by the israeli force so obviously i asked her to say sorry but as we were speaking to the police officers she said she said so obviously the police officer in the uk treat us differently, but i put it in perspective and i came up to a jewish person and told him i will get arrested and given a f, so why can't the police treat me and? the same as but i just came here for peaceful protest so i forgive that old woman you've tuned into gaza under attack my guests are still with me and let me start with you uh sheikh want to pick up a couple things that we heard those young men and women say out there one was we want to see more transparency in terms of tax money goes uh we know for example uk is hosting elbit systems that is the producer weapons a lot of which are used against palestinians, the double standards as far as freedom of speech, if it
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comes to ukraine, it's a whole different story, you get running the risk of getting rest if you speak up for palestinian, yes, your thoughts on that, because we earlier that i think the palestinian cause has now become a litmous test for many people in the country, that means the litmus test extends to politicians, it also extends to the ways in which the people see members from the... community reacting for a long time uh people who are activists or of that nature have always been sort of um sidelined or belittle it was sort of the image of the tree hogger or you in the in the wake of the the environmental crisis those people were gluing themselves to the road activism is now becoming part and parcel of people's identity in this country and you can see that they're manifesting that either through the way in which they are speaking social media uh their whole weekend is based upon the the causes. yeah uh or participating in boycott and sanctions movement, so my my reaction is that
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this has has created a spirit within people that are now thinking differently, 70,00 massacer individuals, marters um shouldn't have to be the price for that awakening within civilization, but we've seen that as civilization has changed and grown over centuries and millennia, sadly it's taken cause like this to be able to do that, it could have been the ending. of slavery, it could been the civil rights movements and we've seen that these have been moments where it has thrusted these causes and taken humanity at large to the next pedestal of it consciousness. i feel like this is the sort of we are living potentially within this moment. if we continue it, tomorrow they may end the genocidal movement, the united states may say that you know we've been found out and let's stop the boming in a permanent cefire, what will change on the ground? going to ask you that if this is a tipping point. how do we maintain this momentum? exactly, this this is the question that needs to be raised in ourselves, because if tomorrow a
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permanent cease fire is raised, we've got a humanitarian crisis, you got a health crisis, rebuilding crisis and you've also got the crisis of people that are going to be traumatized for generations to come, as well as the spectra of the occupation continuing, what changed? we can't go back to that, we can't go back to that, so actually this needs to be a boost moment where we actually say, fine, we've achieved this phase of, which might be a permanent seasfire, whatever you want to call it, but that should be the the liftoff to the next phase, which is to remove the occupation and actually to dismantle the occupying state all together and in the dustbin of history, and this is what the conversation needs to be as well, um, in all platforms, so be it sermons, be it academia, be it on the streets, that's the next phase the conversation, the next phase indeed, now two israeli airstrikes that kill the... six other journalists in south lebanon nearly two months ago, were an apparent deliberate and
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direct attack on civilians, which two international human rights groups have said must be investigated as a war crime. the investigation by amnesty international and human rights watch was released simultaneously with similar investigations by reuters and france's international news agency at france press, which sat two strikes that were 37 seconds apart targeted the journalists working for international media outs near the village of alma alshab on october 13th. have look: our months long investigation into the two israeli strikes a group of journalists on 13 october in south lebanon indicated that it likely the strikes were likely a direct attack on civilians, therefore be investigated as a war crime. all the evidence that we collected shows that the israeli military either knew or should have known that the group of of journalists were cilians. amnesty international found no indication that there were any fighters or military target in the vicinity of the journal. and once again fahima muhammad is back with sequel to her first stent packing
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the coverage of the gaz genocide fahim starting with uh how holocaus guilt is believed to be the reason why the german police and government are clamping down on palest solidarity yes and it's great that it's highlighted by um iris heffets who's an anti-zian jew um israeli cycho analyst so her video highlights the specific sort of incident in berlin where she was actually holding up a placard and she was also questioned and threatened to be arrested, this here she has to say is acting according to the primitive art of guilt, of having guilt, they try to... us with new jews and the new jews are the germans, they will tell us what is antisemitism, they will be new synagoges, they are not just in there, so they are trying, we call it german, undo, this is primitive way of of dealing with guilt, and do something and to say, okay, you know, these are the muslims, these are the
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palestinians, the are the b guys, we know already we are clean, we know how it is, yeah, guilt for holocast in the past, but also taken over to blame the muslims and the palestinians and doing another sort of you know genocide as well, i would say moving to more on the um conscientious objectors in israel, people don't want to join in with israel's genocidal campaign, yes we heard students saying they don't want to participate in um this kind of like government system they already living in in israel and we've also got the um anti-zist jewish prisoners now um uh because they're refusing to join the army, so they're brutally handled as well, and the video will show you when they are actually protesting against us. we have to understand there's a clear distinction then between the religion,
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the state, the agenda, i think that's where you know people in the mainstream media calling for antisemitism and we need to..." you see more of this. speaking of media, if you're a western uh journalist, no matter how good you are, high profile you are, if you speak up for palestins, if you push back against an israeli narrative, you might lose your up. yes, he's doing his job to try and be impartial and push in question, an israely spokes person who we've seen several times and he was fired for questioning him in this way control the images coming out of gaza, have you seen one picture of a single dead khamas terrorist in the fighting in gaza? not one. is that or is that can control the information ask a question you said you would be brief, i have haven't, you're right, but i have seen lots of children with my own lying eyes being pulled from the r because the pictures wants you to see exactly the pictures killed, you accept that right, you've killed children, i do not, do not, do not first of all, you don't know how those people died, those two, first of all denial,
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not taking responsibility and accountability and even when evidence is... is there, not just from journalists, but people reporting on the ground in ghazza, this is what the response is, so it's really, you know, and even also talking about what was alleged that was hamas, was these uh calendar that was, they made it out to be some sort of military sort of like assignment or something like that, so even that question is like, no, we haven't got evidence for that, we haven't seen that, and that's a response and it's acceptable. all right, fima, thank you, you're welcome, let's continue the conversation with my guests in the studio and on skype, next question to ol, lot of people are saying, rightly so, i guess, that this is benjamin netanyahu's war uh on the palestinians, he was used to be called mr. security, he is fighting for his political future, how long do you think netanyahu will drag this war out to get what his supposed
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aims are? uh, you know that he's been already charged. within israel by his co-citizens that in fact what he is waging is is never ending war, of course cannot actually be never ending, but what they mean is that he is hoping to that this war will get till at least november 20 24 and there are the next american election. and he is hoping that having trump again as united states president, he will be able to do something analogous concerning gaza that he did at 2018, when i am sure that if it wasn't for
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donald trump, it wouldn't be easy for him to make so called united jerusalem, the israel's capital to draw up the basic law that makes the state of a state only for jewish citizens and not for anybody else, he wouldn't be able to make an unschulus with the syrian golan heights and the only things where the american and stopped him was where... he announced that uh, i, if i remember correctly, on july 1st, 2019, he would join one third of... west bank to israel, that's only where it stop, because you know that there is a very serious talking concerning
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new nakba, the israeli agricultural minister, although already said that today we are leaving the 2023 nakba and this is how things will finish, and of course... is already happening because millions have been moved from the north of gaza, have been forced while still being bombed uh to to move to the south, lot of them on foot. i'm going to squeeze one last question to to the sheikh and that is your vocal, you have been speaking up about what's happening there, but correct me if i'm wrong, but your appears in the uk, not the exact busifersness on their part, why do you think that is? i think there is an environment of fear as... to how their views will be taken, as you said earlier on, journalists who speak out, they are targeted, teachers who facilitate conversations, they
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are targeted, people in universities are targeted, it's like i think wackamol as you was saying earlier off screen where someone raises their head, they're whacked and that's the end of them in in most cases, lot of the scholars are also fearing this sort of reaction as well that it might be the charities commission that comes after them or it be the police that come after them and so often the mosks or churches or the synagogs that are employing these individuals crack down on them out of fear of losing their license or whatever freedoms they have been given. so the the the outcome of this has been in many cases, not only the sols quiet, but as a result even the congregations don't know how to be able to raise their voice in the right way. where do i think this goes next? i think that if scholars can show the way, if actually... people can give the example of how to um either if you want to remain within the framework of the law or if you feel like now the civil disobedience when
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you see peus of them no longer can we just sit quietly and only give sermons there has to be next step what is that next step? i think these are also conversations that are being had behind doors as well because the scholars are very frustrated that not all of them are able to speak the way in which they want to be able to speak and it's important for that leadership to be there because young people looking to... leaders for direction, otherwise those people, they no longer have value, if they're supposed to be leaders and others are looking to them and they're quiet during the genocide, where is your value as a lead? exactly, we're going to have to leave it there, um, with those comments, we're going to wrap it up one more time, many thanks again to my guests for their contributions, gaza under attack will definitely be back next week with more, until then continue to keep palestine in your hearts, goodbye.
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the headlines of president israel be founding the gaza strip including its refugee camps and made mountain consens over the humanitarian crisis in the territory. palestinian resistance fighters say says they
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are inflicting heavy losses on invading the occupation troops in the vestige guard. and the un secretary general deplores the secured council's failure to stop the war in gaza at the washington veto the resolution calling for sease fire.
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