tv Gaza Under Attack : PRESSTV December 23, 2023 12:02am-12:31am IRST
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uh make me proud as a palestinian to see my people persevere and as you said find ways of surviving and being self-sufficient, i think that's the main goal here for any palestinian and um let's have look at one of the ways that they've done that. so people are very smart, it is, it is, i think so too, um, people are needing. to work and they're needing earn and especially when they've been displaced from their homes and they have suffered so much, their clothes of course are going to go through somewhere and tear um and and there's no place to buy anything, aid is coming in slowly um and it's food mainly in medical supplies, so this is one ingenious way in which people are able to kind of upcycle uh what they have, um, you need to think about the fact that they're sleeping intents, that you know any holes that exist through any of these layers of fabric. would
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mean life or death at this stage because it's getting so cold, and as they sleep intense of and look upwards, what they see and here is drones and fighter jets flying over uh the gaza strip all the time, and so the the most vulnerable there children who have suffered trauma and lot of pain, seeing parents and friends and others getting killed, but what is happening is people in the gaza strip as close nit as they are taking a upon themselves to make sure that they do something whatever they can to alleviate some of the pain that these children have had to endure. i think it's a beautiful thing that we have seen over the past three months of course again born out of tragedy, but to see that everybody is looking out for each other, there are children who have been orffened, you are still unable to speak, unable to recognize, who their family are, etc. and they have been taken in by other families because they know that you know all of...
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children are their children, if they're hurting, so are they, um, their sons and daughters are also their own, um, and and this is a great example of that. the one way in which the palestinian people can win is by making sure that the... moral and their spirit remains high, and i think that we forget that element of the of warfare, that it's about moral and it's about keeping faith and keeping strength, and this is such an essential part of it, they have tried to take away all of children's resources, they have no schools to go to, they have no hospitals to seek shelter in, so they will find ways in which to look after these children, entertain them and keep their moral and their spirit high, just like they say, bloody but unbowed. latifa, thank you.
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latifa, we'll be back with more tomorrow. people from all walks of life have been using different mediums to express their solidarity with the oppressed palestinian people. earlier we spoke to poet fatima valgi who shared the poem she wrote expressing the palestinian struggle through the symbolism of the red poppy, native to palestine. route. flood of crimson puppies, soaking green fields, sinking soil seeps, as palestine weeps, blood, her olives land identity, like the scarlet enemy, stolen, colonized, appropriated, suddenly laugh of... israeli a
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wild ancient seed germinating in soil that buried many generations of palestinians past in and now recast israel's national flower kalenit erasing replacing her 12 arabic names long woven through. palestinian hair, literature, medicine, folk tales, as old as the narled olive trees tended by calisted arab hands for centuries, and yet in torturous spite of land and people colonized, the ancient hills of galilee still bloom wildly, defiantly, rooted in deep fertile
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pain, a palestine occupied, dehhumanized, slain, they deepen their sc scarlet flush, weeping tears of blood, solidarity, resilient hills of green and crimson flame, calling to all beyond the palestinian plane, from our fire distill unwavering love, collective will, sacrifice, until our colors... mark freedom's flag, sown from the scars of stateless, voiceless exiles, rise, until our tradition, history, identity, reclaim their rightful integrity, break distorted colonial
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narratives and set the truth free, rise, rise, resist: we also asked fatima about her artistic inspiration and why the sentiments contained in her work remain as relevant as ever? the one of the most painful things is that this is such a long, long struggle, it's been so many decades, it's and it's such total erasure of people and it it just feels like, mean i the first, i started writing poetry actually um... because of palestine, to be fair, it was about 15 years ago, and after watching an old documentary now, occupation 101, and i'm sure you might have heard of it, um, it just, i was so upset and distressed and guilty and ashamed and all those feelings that you have, and so i just
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started writing, and that was the first poem i wrote, it was called a mother in palestine, and basically since i started writing since then, but the first kind of... all feelings that triggered poem was was was palestine um and it just you just don't expect that the situation get worse and worse but it does it just does every you know each decade is worse than the last you're watching gaza under attack with me and my guestsman here in the studio with me and ibrahim jamal via skype also from london now um let me go straight to abraham we see there with that contribution earlier that resistance and solidarity are coming in in many different forms, what would you say of anything to someone who wants to get involved in the pro-palestine movement, but is afraid of the potential blowback? yes, that poem was a eloquent and um moving, so
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someone who wants to get involved, i would say write petitions, petition your local council, you can also download apps like no thanks, this is an app that lists boycott, boycotted products, any products that are affiliated with israel, um, so what you do is you would scan the barcode and it will automatically tell you if it supports israel by giving funds, if it's complicit um or not, more than that, the app uh you can donate money, now i've got friends in gaza and they are in the need of um assistance, food and water, but when when when i did go to give a money, he he he told me you know there is no food, so what are we going to do with the money, so be before anything um something has
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to change on the ground, and attending protests, raising funds, these are all ways that we can show. uh, we can convert our emotions into political action, they do have a place and they do matter, absolutely, and addition to what we heard ibrahim say, there are other people are saying one of the ways to keep the pressure on the government to take some kind of action would be to take direct action, yeah, as we have seen uh groups such as palestine action do so uh, which was to lay siege to elbit systems, the israeli weapons manufacturer that... has several sites in the uk yes to their sites and try to shut them down and they have managed to do so uh in the case of two yes uh what are your thoughts on that? um i i think it's it's very inspiring um i have um to one of those particular sites i was there with with a palestine action allied group it
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wasn't palestine action themselves but it was the same sort of idea um and i i saw with my own eyes how effective it was um you know it's it's it's the it's we're we're at the point now where no single one of us is going to have the ability to single-handedly um end the genocide um but there's a very interesting quote that i've heard that i always think about and it's um, i can't do anything alone, said 7 billion people, and that's the idea, um, and there's a lot, i think you know popular movements and movements directly targeting um factories for example, mean factory shut down for a day, that's one day's less of drones or or sniper um or drones or sniper um scopes that that haven't been made um and top of that i think it's more than that, more than whether it's effective, it's you know how, what kind of
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person would you be if you slept through a genocide, exactly, whether it's effective or not, doing something, doing interviews, um, but protesting, doing direct action for me at least is what allows me to is what i think i'll be able to say maybe in 10, 20 years when i've had my own children, i'll be able to say, you know, your dad wasn't entirely useless, or did what i could in my capacity to bring about chang exactly and that quote you mentioned was i saw this exact same code and a piece of paper pinned to a tree um saying that you know what you just what just said there amazing yes you know um many hands do light work like they say definitely um people if they came together as we saw in the hundreds of thousands in the streets of london over the past um more than two months of course yes um can bring about change, perhaps one of the reasons why we see a shift in policy at the highest echelon of power in
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the uk is public pressure. all right, um, think i can uh quickly go back to abraham as well. um, one thing and this the question that i've been asking everybody is just like because i have two very young people on the show today, one thing we have seen and witnessed ' in the different protests was the presence of lot of young people, um, i just wanted you to comment on that and and and think about why it is that we are getting so many people from the younger generation participating in these pro- palestine solidarity movements and and protests. yes, i think the future belongs to the younger generation. they are people with imagination. and they're not dulled by their experience,
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they still have dreams and they don't accept something that's gone on for so long as excuse, so when they see crimes of uh humanity being committed or displaced children, bombs on schools and hospitals, they say that's not okay, they will attend those marches and they will... they they'll they'll shout you know free palestine from the river to the sea and you can see the impact from the israeli spokes person and the politicians with their rhetoric now they're arguing stuff like oh this is anti-semitic that this means you want to wipe out all israel you know freedom they want to argue against - words and expressions so all of these um actions they are having an effect yeah and it goes to show that um those that challenge uh the status quo um happen to um
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create movement from behind it you know it's the radicals uh it's it's the people that change what others say no it can't be done or yeah so that's why i think um lot of um young children or or or individuals i will, i will later uh try and pick up on the allegations of anti-semitism - if we get the chance, but for now the head of the international committee of the red cross says the use of public denouncements hasn't proving effective for the humanitarian group, after israeli prime minister benjamin netanyaho urged her to put more public pressure on hamas. marianna spolyarek spoke to reporters in geneva after recent trips to both gaza where she visited the red cross hospital and to israel. she met with benjamin netanyahu, video released by his office of his meeting shows netanyahu brighting the red cross
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president. since last friday, as i was returning from israel, um, talks seem to have resumed in doha and that the two sides are talking again with qatar, we continue to talk to all sides to then be ready to operationalize the agreement that they. our conversations with hamas including my own, are very concrete, very detailed, very direct and ongoing on a daily basis and the same... happens with israel authority, we are constantly in touch at the current level of hostility, so meaningful humanitarian response women's extremely difficult if not impossible, you have to see the high number of civilians coming on the fire being either killed or injured, severely wounded with less and less medical capacity to preserve their lives. i have been asked to publicly denounce
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so many things since i joined office, if if i were following up on all of these request. i would be denouncing several times a day and imagine what authority would be left for the icse. public denouncements are not a tool that has proven effective. um, but it exposes us to lot of criticism all the time, because without neutrality we wouldn't be able to operate, without confidentiality when it needs to be applied, we wouldn't be successful. fahim muhammed is back with her. second batch of stories on the media coverage the gazan genocide. good to have you back. fahema, take it away. well, i'm sure we no, not surprised by this uh young female journalist and we are very, very pleased and honored to have people reporting from the ground, but unfortunately the stories are absolutely tragic and we're going to hear what she has to say about the bombardment at
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the moment and what is actually being faced by everyday people. and... even if we survived the white phosphorus, even if we survived the bombing in in the schools, in the hospitals in our homes, there is no food, there is water, there is no clean food, there is no clean water to drink, all what we have is the water, salty water from the sea, now the sea heartbreaking to watch and listen and here. yeah, and at the same time, even if aid is going in there, it's being blocked by the israelis, so the accessibility is also another thing that they're fighting in order to get the daily sort of aid that's been you know delivered, it doesn't end there with food and hunger, there's disease and there the winter chill that is threatening the survival of, it's just one thing after another, like she mentioned, and it's more
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than heartbreaking honestly to watch out, it's it's i know you're trying to fight back too, yeah, it's it's... horrendous absolutely, well we've also got um people going there from unicef, we've got james edler who's been constantly reporting and these are people who are doing the actual observations and actually knowing exactly what needs to be done and said and they are bringing out their voices for people to make these decisions in you amongst the leaders and ministers and again they're not being really taken seriously and you can hear the frustration and anger in his voice as a strip. is the most dangerous place in the world to be a child uh and day after day that brutal reality is reinforced over the past 48 hours the largest remaining fully functional hospital uh in gaza has been shelled twice. i'm furious, i'm furious that those with power shrug as the humanitarian nightmares unleashed a million children. i'm furious
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that children who are recovering from amputations in hospitals are then killed in those hospitals. i'm furious that there are more children hiding as we. well, anyone with heart who's listening to this, and as we are here reporting every single day, we still can't get used to hearing something like this, and it's just something that really needs to be done, and again we're getting professionals that are in the actual strip and in the actual areas to report this back, but still it's nothing that's been done, and is those images that are showing us that israel is bombing the gaza strip in a way that will impact lives for decades to come, absolutely, absolutely, and the next one even, the next clip even shows, um a school being bombed and again the responses from those who are actually bombing and it's like as if they're playing a game. was that the un school they bombed few days ago? yes, and again it's not filled with any sort of
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militance, anyone that is there to sort of give any threats and again they're just trying to destroy all the inf infrastructure so that even if they were to come back, it's in you know habitable, you cannot stay there, you cannot live there, you cannot go back and even rebuild, that's the the level of destruction that's being done right now, and add to that, the unexploded munitions that will some of them american made, that will continue to take lives for years to come, all right, fima, thank you, see you again tomorrow, welcome, all right, let's continue the conversation with my guests. um, as we have been for the past hour, um, i think um, i can go to ibrahim now and put the next question to him, one thing i've heard, ibrahim, is um, pro israel commentators and others calling into question the accounts that are being provided by the different un bodies uh the so-called professor alan
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deshuatz of the university of harvard if i'm not wrong um saying the red cross unicep they're all in the pockets of hamas um in in not is in his exact words but you know that's pretty much what he was trying to say um why do you think they're doing that discounting and undermining the accounts of the scale of death and destruction coming out of the gaza strip, the their rhetoric has become much more extreme, you know, anyone that's against them, and anyone that's not with them is against them and is a hamas sympathizer, also the medium in which people consume news now bef. where where in in the past it was just through the television, now we've got social media, we've got people with phones and you've also got israeli soldiers showcasing
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their deprivity to the world and smiling about it, so these are undeniable truths and people resonate when they see individuals um being massacred, gaza has lived through i think four four wars previous to this, each one is gotten worse, and the population has become younger and younger, and the rhetoric of people like allen duwitz is that um, hamas recruits child soldiers and the fault is on hamas, so and and we see a shift in their rhetoric becoming more extreme, you know, and these are... they don't hold up to academic scrutiny, yeah, never mind, they make those comments because they have no argument, they have lost the argument, sorry to interject
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there ibrahim, let me put some last question quickly to tarak, and that is tarak, given everything we're seeing now, lot of things, movements being made as we speak, how do you things see things transpiring moving forward? um, i think israel has two impossible choices, um, it can carry its... out and it will you know we're around two two two and a half months through and we we no one can see the light at the end of the tunnel in israel um we can carry on for another two three months kill maybe 50 60 thousand people half of those children lose public support internationally but achieve part of part of their stated aims um you know have deal a real blow to hamas which they have i think not done so thus far um or they can't 'step back and realize that even that will not achieve their aims and that they're only getting more internationally isolated um and in doing so um they start to work towards a
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resolution where they um change their policies and their mindset really yeah and end their colonial attitudes in palestine unfortunately as we've seen so far they've only taken the first option yeah yeah hardly the ladder'. all right, fascinating, fascinating conversation, gentlemen, uh, we're fresh out of time, with those comments we're going to wrap this show up. many thanks again to my guests for their contributions. gaza under attack, we'll be back tomorrow with more. until then, continue to keep palestine in your hearts. goodbye.
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every time the yemeni navy succeeds in preventing the passage of ships headed towards the occupation sports and thorts attempts to break the blockade on the entity, it reassures the free people of the world. the closure of the red sea to ships colluding with the enemy turns into a heroic festival teaching the us and zianis. israel harsh lessons and threatening them with more successive blows, capable of breaking their alliances and corsive global policies. despite the reluctance of global military powers, the balance has been shifting and the access of resistance is gaining strength as a regional force capable of defeating zionist israel, the united states and their allies. yemen humiliates zionist israel this week on the midiast stream.
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your headlines on pressv, the un security council approves the resolution, demanding faster delivery of humanitarian aid into gaza, but stops short of calling for season. fire. israel launches deadly attacks on refugee camps in gaza as death toll from 77 days of onslaught on the strip surpasses the 20,000 mark. and huge crowd of yemenese rally to show solidarity with the people of gaza and support aruralah retalitory attacks against israel.
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