over palestine and this is so clear, especially in palestine, between the indigenous religious communities, one video that i saw that demonstrated this and he brought a smile, part of me, it brought a smile to my face, the following clip that we're about to see, in it is on our terms how we interact with each other, we will not let the hate and the corruption and the turney divide us, so that you can conquer us, we will remain united and

and also what's beautiful is we need to remember that our abrahamic faith um the community abraham faith live together very peacefully well before the zionist entity came people would marry from each other you lived side by side they were communities that truly felt like family um despite the fact they were muslim christian or jewish um and so this is for me as a palestinian seing this just really reminds me of that truth that um no matter where you are in the world no matter what you believe uh if you are palestinian um you are are a friend and a brother and a comrade of your fellow palestinian, people of all abrahamic faiths have been living together in peaceful coexistence in palestine before the european settler colonialist project was created in 1948. your final story, well kind of just opposing what we just saw. um, we understand obviously not all um, so this last video really demonstrate how um the jewish community... weaponiz their faith in a way uh

to spill that hate and um and the and then it becomes very understandable to see why some people to conflate um jews with zionists when most often religious leaders use their platform to spew uh political narratives for all and we get when we're going to get all the people who are happy we're going to get them out and then life. continue as normal, not before that, we are going to clean up of until the end, the said even he said it formally on something else, that if we don't, then all of those who have lost their lives have lost their lives for nothing, so therefore in their honor we have to continue and make sure it is clean, no terrorism, everything is clean, and then we continue like as before and we get the terrorist, this is genocide talk, this is encouragement to commit genocide, and i'd like to just you now

point at the the setting of this um around this time every year uh people around the world they come together in a small communities and they they go to um lighting ceremony where they light up the local christmasy or in this case they're lighting up you know the the largest nora lighting park manhattan you know this is supposed to be very festive very joyous time of year where people are celebrating something very sacred to them you the birth of jesus or in this case you the the jewish um holiday and instead the using this platform. to dispue hate and genocide so open as if as if it's you know we have sacrificed and we have invested so much in this war so far we owe it each other continue how disgusting and how do they make light of it a joyous festival latifa thanks for now latifa will be back with more tomorrow now across the weekend tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of london to voice their outrage

at the lack of a ceasefire and the uk's continued support for the israeli aggression. we spoke with ben jamal, director of palestine solidarity campaign, and the leading voice in advocating for palestinian rights, one of the organizers of the demonstration. once again, people turning out in huge numbers uh, turning out to call for a permanent cease fire uh, to protest at the government's position and it's failure to call for sease fire uh, to call for an end to the indiscriminate bombing civil. in gaza for the implementation of international law, but once again people saying we know this didn't start on october the 7th, we are here to say we want proper action, meaningful action to address the root causes, which means ending the military occupation and israel system, so that's what's brought again over 100 thousand people streets of been a long, decades long of history, shameful complicity by successive british governments in israel's imposition of apart, yesterday. particularly shameful

episode and really empiz the isolation of the british government on the world stage when we have 13 members out of 15 who are voting for permanence voting for the hostages to believe and voting for. urgent humanitarian aid to be people are facing uh, the fact that our government is one of only two that fails to vote for that is utterly shakeful. the message of the british government at the moment to the palestinian people is not enough of you have died, we need to allow israel to kill maybe 10,00, maybe another 20,00 more of you, that's shameful, and the people watching today are saying you don't represent us, it's not ourv, they are here to show the solidarity with people suffering oppression. "we also asked benjamel about the future of gaza post bombardment. let's remember this, before october the 7th, gaza had suffered 17 years of deliberate policy of dedevelopment because of israel's imposed blockade, what was effectively a collective punishment of a entire people that the un

said had rendered gars are unfit for human habitation. now we've had more than 50% of the housing stock in gaza destroyed, more homes destroyed than during the fire bombing of..." and we've got two million people displaced who don't have homes, many of them to go back to, but are now sheltering, um, fearing the outbreak, sheltering in is winter approaches fering the outbreak of major epidemics, so what is going to be required is major reconstruction effort, but this has to be a turning point, this has to be moment where the international community says, we're not going to revisit this, if we do not address the root causes, the ongoing military occupation and system of apartite, then we we will be back here again allow to... unchecked and you end up in the place we are in, which is the election of a far right government prepared to unlease genocide expecting that the world were allow that to happen, enough is enough, so this has to be the moment where the international communities starts to treat implementation of international law seriously. benjamal palestine solidarity

campaign speaking with us on saturday. now let's keep all rolling with my guests in the studio, dr. nayetollah andrabi and muhammad desay in johannesburg, south africa. uh, mohammed, i want to put the next question to you, um, your reaction to the those that have taken place and will continue to happen, we have seen the rising sentiment among the people in the middle east, which is highest since the iraq war. i think that the protest, the demonstrations, the mobilization of peoples across the world in the in the african continent, in the middle east, in north america, latin american countries, is the reminder, is the reminder... of two things: one is the palestinians are not alone, it's a reminder that humanity does actually stand on the right side of history, and the other message is very clear, very clear message to the israeli regime and its endorses and its backers that your genocide and that your violence will not take place in

a vacuum, that you will be held accountable, and i think that what we are beginning to see is not only the mobilization of people, but also the organization of people, and so... we seeing people coming out onto the streets, but we are also seeing organization organizing of campaigns of pressure movements and various other activities, events and actions by civil society in the own country in south africa just past weekend we held a very important significant conference of of resistance movements from palestine, we hosted the top leadership of hamas, we hosted the leadership of the palestinian islamic jihad, we hosted hizbullah and this conference was hosted another than the grandson of nelson mandela, and this con import, this conference is importance is that while some countries like the us and uk may ban and may try to limit the expression of resistance organization from the that these

resistance organizations are actually welcome and and are actually at home in the majority other africa, other african countries, latin america, asia and elsewhere, so i think that the... ization, the organization and of course noting the actual resistance on the ground in palestine will not allow this genocide, will not allow this genocide to go on, will not allow those that are perpetrating the genocide to not be held accountable. um, dr. andri, um, gaza has experienced six wars including this one since 2008, at the hands of the israeli regime, and there's something different about this one, of course, the sheer scale of it. number of people have been killed and injured, um, do what kind of impact do you think it had this time around on the communities here in the uk as far as for example the muslims and jews are concerned, do you see any fractures taking place as a result? yes, fractures, i'm

not very sure about the facts, figures regarding fractures, yeah, but one thing that is, that has come up as something new in this, because it has been going on, israel versus israel versus hamas, yeah, but something which is which is coming up as as very good thing is palestine and talking. about palestine, support of palestine is widening, is not just limited to the muslim community, yes, yes, it's widening, and if you had to, i mean, if if you take a class view of it, if you, if you take this view that people with the good islamic motivations, hearing about muslim world, all this, if if you take as one class at the one end of the spectrum, at other end you can see something. highly different that is hollywood for example, in hollywood they had a very

difficult time to get a consensus on designating hamas as terrorist organization, and the fishers happened there, yeah, people stood out, no, we won't label them this, and academia, it's very apparent, the harvard university president is now being, they now being pressed for resignation, but the stof is coming in their support. so in academia also there is killer there the killer polarization uh so this is this support for palestine extending across board this this is a good thing that's happening now which was not which was not there before all right let's let's hear a first hand account from a person who has seen it all from up close a british palestinian surgeon who spend weeks in the gos during the israeli bombardment as part of doctors without borders medical team says he has given testimony the british war crimes investigation unit, khassan abuse, a plastic surgeon specializing in conflict

medicine, has volunteered with medical teams in multiple conflicts, including in iraq, syria and gaza during the first infada in the 1980s. dr. abu remained in the besieged onclave for 43 days, working mainly in the alahli and shifa hospitals in northern gaza and was sharing his observations, news conference in the lanese capital, beirut. even the wars in in iraq and syria. that have been involved in, this is the the difference between this one and and those ones is the difference between a flod and a tsunami, the size, the intensity, the ferocity, the fact that the des of the sector was central to the war effort, all of the all of all every aspect of this war was just magnified, i had complete access to all parts of shif and i would walk freely to go from one part of the ship to the other, and and there's never ever, even the presence, even the policeman. whose job was to control the crowds in front the department were not, you they were carrying truntions, they weren't even

carrying handguns. upon returning to the uk, i went to, i was asked by the war crimes unit at metropolitan police to give evidence in a possible war crimes investigation and and we provided the evidence. carnage needs to be stopped now, if we if if it's not enough that one tenth of the children of gaz have been killed, we know that all the components for catastrophic public. epidemics is there, then the world is is complicit in the genocide of the palestinians. all right, is back with the sequel to her first stent unpacking the coverage of the gazin genocide. good to have you back, and starting with an example of the israeli regime's disregard for international law. well, over the weekend we've seen various footage that has gone viral across the globe, not just the sort of like social media platforms. even on mainstream showing of um palestinian men stripped and

blindfolded and also sort of like handcuff type you know and sitting on the floor in the cold and taken away and they were questioned well the um israely spokes person famously known when you see him has been questioned about that and this was his response wonder if we might start the video and the photographs released to social media some of which were in stuart's report there showing dozens of men some boundd in blackfold stripped to underw. and we believe now at least some of that filmed by idf members, was the purpose of the exercise that was going on at that point in the part of gaza? first remember it's the middle east and it's here and espcially during the day when it's sunny to be out to take off your shirt not be pleasant but it's not the end of the world, but the fact that some of those who have were taken in that particular incident have now released suggest that they were not members of hamas and while you would entitled to round people up in that manner, what the idf is not entitled to under the geneva convention is breach the... ention, which you did, didn't you, when you filmed them, in those positions, but again, not decent or

reasonable explanation for anything that's happening right now, and again dehumanizing these young men and women or even people that have got nothing to do with any military sort of association, exactly, take us to the scale the killing of civilians in the gaza strip, well the guardian, which is again another mainstream newspaper has actually analyzed um sort of the proportion of deaths being higher than... all the world conflicts in the 20th century, and this article, i will just paraphrase and give you a little bit of a summary, showing that the civilians also make up for 61% of deaths and also the bings... were taking place where people were told to shelter and this again is all from guardian's analysis here and also talking about certain magazines and papers in israel showing that israel deliberately targeting residential blocks and they are definitely complicit in war crimes according to this guardian analysis and finally how the israeli

occupation forces are making it ever more difficult for palestinian to breathe literally. yes, we have a journalist who is actually talking um, as you can hear background of the dis and fact that it's choking and suffocating for everybody, because now there's tear gas being shell and thrown at civilians and children in jabal camp.

international reputation or infan if you will has faired considering the genocide of the palestinians. i think thatly regime attempted its usual pr spin, but i think that they've horribly failed, they horribly failed, and i think that the failure is and we really should commend organization and news and media outlets that come with progressive stunt like and various others that have been doing the terrific job. also the hundreds of thousands if not millions of people across the globe that have taken it on themselves to make sure into to and to guarantee that the voices, the images, the videos, the messages out of reach various communities, i think that on on the various social media platforms whilst israel is attempted a top level to try band content, try to shadow band, to try to

limit expressions coming out, i think that that that that that the communities across the world have really done a terrific job in terms of ensuring that they bypass, that they overcome and they find ways around various blocks and barriers that have been imposed, and i think that in every corner of the earth, and i don't really don't think that it's an exaggeration on every single continent, i think that the view of israel not only as an apart state, but also as a maniacal genocidal regime has really has really been unmasked, think that in every country we have seen increase not only of of standing in solidarity with the palestinian people, but also calling out israel for its policies, for its practices and i think that the increase in for example in south africa, i think that the increase specifically within the jewish community of people coming out to say, not in my name, has increased tenfold in

the last few weeks, i think that israel is really only probably being edged on by the. as by britain and by few other superpowers, but the peoples of the world have really given up on the idea that israel is normal state with within the community. i think israel has now come to that moment in its history, like the apartted regime in south africa once reached where the where the peoples of the world had given up on the idea that apart could be reformed and that it really needs to be replaced by democratic country for all people. i think that... now the end of israel is inevitable and i think i hope that we will see this very soon, it's only matter of time uh final question, you heard muhammed described israel regime bent on pushing ahead with this campaign on on the palestinian, what are your thoughts on what will happen in gaza next is? yeah, this time

it seems that some basic change, some real... change will take place, because israel is the stated aims of israel, when when you age a war, there are stated aims, the stated aims of israel are absolutely unrealistic, hamas cannot be destroyed, they say we have to destroy hamas, yeah, as hassanlah right pointed out, they could not cover one soldier in 2006, yeah, so how could they recover all those people in? hamas custody unless there negotiated settlement and they are sent back, so israel is pursuing unrealistic aims, yeah, and it will end up. desperate, mean having not achieved anything, but what i am saying it will be will be, we will have some real results is the basic foundations of israel

are gone okay, israel was no more safe place for world, because it might go into some, mean there might be some detail required for it, but to put it briefly, yeah, as i said beginning, isas an imperious project to pant an entity, in the best of islamic heartland, yeah, but to the jews, they sold the idea, the z sold the idea that look, you have been persecuted everywhere, now there is safe heaven where you come and live that has gone, so this this is the change, so israel foundations have in a sense been shake already, all right, that's all time we have for, with those comments we're going to wrap of this show, many thanks and to my guests for their contributions, god under attack, we'll be back to... with more, until then, continue to keep palestine in your hearts, bye.

this week's show we'll be looking at the relentless unflinching determination of palestinian people to throw off the shackles of science depression mentioned that um i was victim of the the nakba in 1948, the point about nakbah as and the same point today is the violence, is the violence that accompanism and so that violence meant that uh moving on from breaking just simply shoot the people dead, if you recall in that period we had the peace process, peace process mandela rele from prison, it looked like this

was part of a general tendency in the world to move towards resolving, of course that was a mistake marks 10 years since in december 2013 amit the israel regime absolute support the liberation of has come into focus this edition of africa today is dedicated to nelson mandela and palestine for analysis on this we have exclusive interviews with mandela mandela the grand of we fully support the efforts of palestinian resistance to oppose the zionist entity and his 75 years of mass south africa's the genocide that has been executed where this slash ethnic legion is unprecedented unparall.

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