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genocidal war on gaza, the apartted regime has neither been able to annihilate hamas, nor force gazans out of their motherland, now in response to it savagery, the israely regime has faced retaliatory operations by the resistance front in the region, that is yemen, iraq and lebanons hisbollah. yemen navy is the fight a us planet regional coalition against its seizure of israel bound vessels in the red sea. yemen is stressing its operations will go on until tel aviv halts its genocide and gaza. welcome to the spotlight. i'm your host berruz najafi and this episode we're going to review retaliator operations and their impacts on the israeli regime. let's invite our guests to the program. daniel kavali human rights lawyer is joining us out of pittsburg. also what is steve bell activists with the stop the war coalition in coventry. "welcome to the show,

both gentlemen, not beginning with daniel, let's uh begin with these retality operations uh by the yemeni armed forces and also in addition to firing those rockets and missiles, they've also been stopping intercepting and seasing uh israel bound vessels around the bauble mandeb and red sea let's see how effectively this could impact the israeli economy that's already in chamber." yeah, well i think it is already having an impact. i think this could cost the israeli economy billions of dollars, because these ships are going to have to be diverted around the entire continent of africa, so actually this is very astute move on the part of the yemenes and a brave one. i mean, we have to point out that yemen itself has been a victim of war since 2015, led in yemen to

the greatest human uh humanitarian crisis in the world according to the un, probably gaza has now exceeded that, but the point is yemen is barely recovered from that and it's engaging in these acts of solidarity with the palestinian people, so i think one has to be um to pay lot of respect to that. now steve, do you agree that uh this is actually maybe the most uh effective reaction that resistance front in the region is showing what the yemeny armed forces have been doing? well, i think there's no doubt uh about that, certainly that's the view of the financial press, whether it is bloombergs or the financial times. after all, already five of the top six shipping countries in the world have said that they are going to divert their traffic. i mean, some of them have gone even further. o ocl from hong kong have said they will end all business with israel.

immediately, so this is very big deal, 60% of the world um containerships would now be avoiding the red sea if all of these companies continue in the manner in which they started, so is very substantial, and the cost of um ensuring vessel in in the red sea, according to louds of london, it's doubled, reuters said it's nearly trebled. and so this is very big impact indeed and for the israel is i think that um uh is port is the third largest port and um basically it has the advantage of any any vessels docking there haven't don't have to go through the sewis canal so consequently um is a shorter journey um and it's port two million. tons of dry

cargo annually, 75,00 vehicles annually, if this is shut down, which appears to be the case, that it is grinding to a bit of ho "that is very serious concern for the israeli government, right? now daniel, you know that steve austin was uh meeting with israeli officials yesterday in tel aviv, it just uh pledged whatever they wanted in terms of you know money, logistics, military hardware, and you name it, and also he spoke about a us plan on forming this uh uh coalition if you will, to kind of uh stop and cur." uh yemeny vessel seizures uh in the red sea, how serious could that be? what should we be expecting? well, obviously that could lead to regional conflict, mean obviously um there's a lot of fears that this could impact other

countries, there's fears that the us could retaliate against iran for this, in fact they've threatened to do that, so you know again the the the chances of really a world war. you know sprouting from this are very real and and people need to be concerned about that, meanwhile the us promised to give israel everything they want for war, even as they continue to double down atrocities in gaza, every day there's news of of of atrocity worse than the day before, and while joe biden has claimed that, oh, netanyahu and i are not on the same page, i'm trying to get netanyahu to you, go... on civilians, meanwhile, as you say, they they're giving israel everything they want to prosecute this war, even as they're carrying out crimes against civilians, so clearly uh, we cannot take biden's words, it face value, the us is behind this genocide, and that's what it is

in gaza 100%. uh, stephen responds to uh, this idea of coalition to stop the yemen operations, this senior yemen official announced uh and he has promised painful response in his words in case his country's sovereignty is threatened by the us or others, so how likely is this actually turning into a conflict, as daniel mentioned, and then what would the ramifications be? well, i think first we should stress that this coalition is a bit of a failure for the us government, aside from the seshells. and bahrain, every other uh country taking part is a european power, there are no states bordering the red sea which are taking part and bahrain is the only arab country taking part, so there were reports over the weekend

that the us administration was in discussing with jordan, the emirates, saudi arabia, qatar, oman, egypt and bahrain, clearly it's failed to um... align th those countries and um it will be this coalition, let's be clear, this is about protecting israeli ships, this is not about protecting any other ships, um, this is about protecting israeli um ships and in that sense is a direct intervention in support of the um israel's war. i think that the um uh yemeny armed forces um will um be prepared to sustain um their attempts to prevent uh uh vessels reaching israel and they are after all - a extremely capable and battle hardened um body having survived eight

years of uh war by better-armed um coalition supported by three members of the un security council and yet still they they are in control of the majority of the population, so they will not be pushed aside easily, and i think that um, this is a bit of setback for um biden, he was hoping to uh generally line up an anti-um iranian coalition in the past year, and this is completely failed, and this now the operation prosperity guardian is a further expression of the failure and decline of... us uh influence outside of um it support for israel uh daniel, apart from yemen, we also have in lebanon we have hisballah resistant movement, they are also conducting their own operations, anti israeli operations, they're using their precision guided missiles and they have also evidence

of what they have done you know taken out israely soldiers, their so-called undefeatable you markava tanks and and all that. and so uh, how successful has been to prove its capacity and capability of actually standing against israel, and is it possible for? for this to turn into a full flage war, because you know, almost a quarter or some people say a third of the israeli military actually in the war machine is deployed to uh borders uh uh close to lebanon to deal with heizballah attacks. yeah, well i mean hespol has been very effective even though they have not really engaged uh you know all of their capabilities. um, i think they've they've been. very careful to calibrate their activities because they do not want sacrifice

lebanon uh, which is a real possibility that israel, this gets any, if the conflict along that border gets any more serious, israel might launch a full-scale war against lebanon, which has it does not want, and they're being responsible to try to avoid that, but at some point that may not be able to be avoided, but in the meantime..." is doing incredible job of pinning down a large portion of military in the north and it away from gaza, which is a big help to the people of gaza and to the resistance there, so um, i think hasb, you should get lot of credit for that, yeah, definitely, so steve, your take on this, buse, lebanon has already been... facing with lots of problems and issues on home turf still and it takes a lot of courage

and resources that hisballah is actually using encountering israeli actually crimes and god this is the retaliation that they're actually giving so let's have your take on that well i agree with daniel that this is tying down the number of israeli forces i think however that it is one thing to have cross border. artillery and missile exchanges, which both sides are engaging in that moment. it is quite another matter for the israeli army to enter lebanese soil or hez b to attempt to enter israeli um sort, so i think that this um tension um will continue for a considerable time. i think the problem for the israelis is well illustrated by their demand. in the negotiations about prisoner

exchanges and a possible settlement with the hez, they are demanding that withdraws its forces six miles from the border between the two countries, now that shows how difficult this is for the israelis to envisage successful intervention in lebanon, they've learned from the experience of 2006 that this resistance is very very serious and that um a surprise awaits them if they try and um enter so i think they're look to neutralize rather than engage. now daniel, iraqi resistance fighters have not been setting adilabai either. they've also taken up action and they have conducted more than hundred operations, 100 plus operations - using drones uh and uh targeting actually us bases inside iraq and

different parts and also some of them in uh syria. let's also talk about that. yeah, well again i think again a lot of these uh i think are restrained um activities uh they haven't done a lot of damage um to us forces or material, but i again i think it's a what it is is message to the united states that it is vulnerable in the region, that that it is not wanted in the region. recall that in fact the us is occupying one-third of syria and stealing its oil out of syria, and um iraq some time ago told the americans to leave and they haven't left, so i think the messages, they are not wanted here and they... uh that the people of iraq and syria also uh reject

the war against gaza, so i think it's important and i think what it's a message also that uh things could get much more serious for american forces there if this continues, um, you know, remember beirut where uh, ultimately the ronald reagan pulled out forces after a uh um bombing of of number of troops there. uh, in the early 1980s, and i think this is a warning that that sort of thing could happen again. uh, steve, uh, if this uh, genocidal war... goes on and this is what tel aviv saying that they are going to go on, they're just moving to the next stage, that was what they were telling their american allies the other day, so and with these reality reprisal attacks by yemen, by iraq, by labanas, iran also has given warnings multiple times that we do not want a

regional war, but if this goes on, we may well... a regional war, how likely would that be? well, i think that there is attempt to contain, united states is certainly anxious to, it wants to see the resistance defeated in palestine, but it doesn't share all of the same war aims as the israeli government, it does not accept the idea that the israel his government has previously promoted, which is removing all the palestinians from gaza and annexing and recolonizing. um, so i think that the for the united states that is not acceptable, it's it is losing influence in west asia, and um, it stands by and allows a second nackbar in gaza, then um, it will

destroy its influence in the region for many uh... years to come, so i think it's try to contain it. however, matters aren't guaranteed at all. i note that yesterday um, there was a cyber attack upon iran um, which uh originated in israel and took out 70% of iran's um gas stations petrol stations, so i think there is the possibility of all sorts of uh uh developments, particularly are if and when this um may. forces deployed in the uh red sea um so um we we shall we shouldn't exclude uh the possibility of serious escalation as daniel indicated and daniel what do you expect to happen if such a thing really takes place? well mean the fear of

course is the fact that israel has nuclear weapons right which they... of course have not properly disclosed, but everyone knows they have them, at least 100 nuclear warheads, um, one minister in israel has already suggested in gaza, of course, which would be right, in sent, not only immoral of course, but also self-destructive for israel, because it's you know within israel's own border, so that would be insane, but you know, when we're looking at netanyahu, we see someone who..." seems not be acting rationally, at least not for his own country, he seems to be willing to burn his own country to the ground in order to protect himself from from the corruption charges that are hanging over his head, so he's a desperate man, it may turn to desperate measures, and that should be the big fear is the use of nuclear weapons potentially um

against countries like iran which don't have nuclear weapon. steve, do you share the same opinion? um, yes, and i think that it's interesting that one um israely minister rather incautiously did suggest what perhaps we should nuke um uh gaza, so it there is enormous constitutional crisis inside israel itself, the vulnerability of netanyahu has for the moment been covered up by the fact that there is a war going on, however "there will be a reckoning um from within israeli society, there is no doubt about that, and it will not necessarily be very easy for israeli society, given the way it continually is basing itself on the activity of illegal settlers and the settler movement, it would not be easy then to consolidate its position

internationally, already you have had number of its so-called allies." highlighting the um uh issue of settler movement in the west bank um so i think that the constitutional crisis has been deferred um and the israeli government and netanyahu in particular is going to face problems further down the road which i agree that's one of the reasons why he's so unpredictable in these um uh circumstances but i wonder ' is crazy enough to do this cuz iran is not only they they were not able to you know uh fulfill their goal of the radicating hamas just one small resistance movement is not all resistance fight. actually and then how could they deal with iran anyway uh let's let me ask another question uh before we finish we don't have much time so uh daniel where is europe in

here cuuse at the security council when the us vetoed you and that has happened tens of times over the past years any now we have these a couple of times some countries offering urgent and battle in need of truce to be established in gaza you know what the situation is like and then europeans simply abstained from this or they opposed it now the we have the uh troika uh two days ago they were saying that okay let's have a truth too many civilians are died 20,00 people lost their lives and now they just woken up to this reality or is this only lip service? well it's hard to say, mean europe is not as committed to this war as the united states for sure, but at the same time europe does not act independently of the united states. as we saw and have seen in ukraine where you know countries like germany have sacrificed their own economies um in support of us war

aims which have you know cut them off from badly needed from russia so they they seem to act not in their own interest but in the interest of the united states but that is gonna have to come to an end at some point those countries will not be able to afford to do that anymore and the question is whether... "they feel they can't afford to continue supporting the us and israel in this genocide in um in gaza and i think the european leaders in my own view their patience is probably running thin uh with because their own populations are absolutely furious uh with what's happening particular in particular the population of the united kingdom which is a had record demonstration." against this war and i just think the governments they are going to have to respond right okay steve we have only one minute some people are saying observers saying that the us wants this genocide in gaza to end by late

january they want to use it as kind of some pr or something toward the you know some benefits toward the presidential election there your opinion i think that the uh biden administration is beginning to feel some serious pressure. "the most recent term uh opinion polls um demonstrate that his position is collapsing and he's facing an election uh next year he needs to produce something from uh from this slaughter uh and at the moment he seems incapable of doing that as you say there is a fragmentation in in his allies the european union initially aligned completely with the us voted three ways in the general." assembly so that unity has gone, so i think that this is from biden's point of view, time is running out for him to uh result this. okay, thank you so

much, we're out of time. daniel kovalec, human rights lawyer in pittsburg, steve bell, activists with the stop the war coalition coventry, uk. thank you for watching this episode of the spotlight, i'm your host berrus najafi, i'll see you next time.

the israelis have a plan to destroy the palestinian economy in the gazo strip and keep it attached to the israeli side. this is

an israeli occupation. systematic program to destroy the structure of the economy to achieve political goals.

that's all from israel's relentless aeral and artillery strikes on gaza is approaching 20,000 mainly women and children. palestinian resistance fighters fire barager rockets deep into israel, reports pointing to sounds of explosions in tel avive and surrounding. areas the senior hamas official tells pr, israel has said no significant battlefield achievement in gaza and can by no means wipe out the resistant movement.