tv News In Brief PRESSTV December 23, 2023 11:30am-12:01pm IRST
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and that the failure of the old is now being replaced by new vision for peace coming from the young. top stories here on press tv, the un security. passes a resolution on gaza to facilitate aid, the approval of the resolution comes though, after the original text proposed by the united arab emirates was repeatedly watered down due to us opposition for the inclusion of a cease fire in the clause. hamos resistance movement has called on or called the un security council resolution on gaza insufficient, demanding the immediate ceasefire that was left out of it. hamal says move does not address current catastrophic situation in gaza created. by
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what the movement called israeli terror apparatus. resistance groups in iraq and lebanon continue operations in retaliation for israel's onslot on gaza. the islamic resistance in iraq says is targeted the kharish natural gas rig operated by israel. also, hezboda resistance group says it's hit six israeli military targets across the southern lebanese border. palestinians and occupy west bank of voice support for their fellow compatriots. in gaza facing israeli genocide, carrying the palestinian and hamas flags, demonstrators rallied in the city of romada, stressing palestinian's right to resist israeli occupation. and france finally withdraws all of its troops from niger, ending its military presence under the pretext of fighting terrorism there. the nigeria military rulers had demanded paris pull out its forces and this is a third country. in the sahel region that has seen
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survive under discipline, simply, you don't have any water resources, there is no available water up hills and into ghazza, also you cannot utilize any because underneath your land which is very limited, you don't have any water resources storage in the air, jordan river already already of diverted and dried out, so under discipline in palestinians where should live with water, which is impossible by fragmenting. not only the palestinians politically, but also geographically by fragmenting the fragmented after oslo and now with this deal of century. in part one of this documentary series, we began a journey into occupied palestine in order to find out why donald trump's plan for new israel palestine was declined by the palestinian people. we investigated the issues of jerusalem al-quds, settlements, the annexation. the jordan valley and took a
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brief journey into the history of the peace process along the way we witnessed the murder of palestinians and escalated environment of violence throughout the occupied palestinian territories. we now continue the journey turning our attention to the issues of refugees, resources and what trump's assault on the palestinians has meant for the people of the gaza strip. after having traveled to jerusalems, i headed to the city of bethlehem to get better sense of what locals fought of the coming annexation of their lands as part of trump's plan. to find out more, i spoke with bethlehem, born activist mahmoud and asked him about what the future of his city would look like under the so-called deal of. the century, first of all,
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israel bit the segregation wall between bethlehem and jerusalem, which divorced the two cities from each other, and you know the historical twins between bethlehem and jerusalem historically, religious level, economic and social, and all this has been impacted by construction of the annexation wall and between bethlehem and jerusalem. moreover, the israeli government annexed the land north of bethlehem, and by the way, i, i am living in a small village in this area, which is surrounded by a big block of illegal israeli settlement called goshad sion, where more than 100 thousand israeli colonists are living in this block. and in the east side of bethlehem is like desert, which is like natural reservoir of this of the district, and it is, it has been announced as a military training zone, so 80%, 87% of bethlehem district will be either isolated by
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settlements, by by pass roads as natural reserves for the israeli uh occupation, and from the north it has been already uh isolated as you can see in this map historically how the palestinian territories has been shrunked and the last one is the trump plan where i am living here actually if you see the white the white territories are still under the israeli control which means my village which is a tiny village will be surrounded from three sides by the israeli under israeli control either by the apartide roads where we were will not be able to use only for settlers or by the settlements themselves or by closed military zones where we are not able to to be. a question that i was also seeking to have answered was how the situation currently affects christian palestinians and whether there are any
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tensions between muslims and christians in the city. the richness of this diversity, the co existence that we grown up as muslims and christians living in the city. is one of the richness of of the city, even we cannot talk about coexistence, because the seeds of muslims and christians grown up together in this city, neither muslims nor christians came as immigrants to the city, they are the indigenous people, from the same family you can find christians and muslims and both are arabs, they have the roots in this city, and this city that's where the richness where the most shameful question that you ask, a residence of bethlehem is what is your religion? coming here to a site that has so much holy significance that has so much historical significance and bearing witness to scenes such as this wall and the occupation here in bethlehem really almost brings a tear to the eye seeing how the
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palestinian muslims and christians who live side by side in unity here together are treated and are without dignity and if this deal is accepted we know that this land, which is part of bethlehem, the holy city, which lies behind this wall, which is taken by the israeli occupation forces, will be permanently separated from the heart of the city belonging to the palestinian muslims and christians here, the new unable borders that israel want to put on the ground in order to prevent the continuity between the palestinian territories in bethlehem and all over the occupied west bank, that's impossible for palestinians to have a... with this, yet this is not the end of the story, we see the hope, the hope that we are able to see is the resilience of the palestinians, the everyday acts of the palestinians that counter the israeli policies and the american bias with the israeli occupation, this resilience actually enabled palestinians to
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stay in their land for for now more than a century. many palestinians i met argued that there had never been a real genuine peace process. and any chance of one in the future died when the us government recognized israel's capital as being jerusalems in early december of 2017. the move was rejected by the overwhelming majority of united nations member states and motivated the palestinians to take further grassroots action against israeli aggression and the usurping of more land. this later led to a mass civilian mobilization in the gaza strip giving birth to the great march of return. beginning on the 30th of march, 2018, in the besieged coastal enclave, which had endured 13 years of blockade as well as eight large-scale military bombardments carried out against its population within that period, killing thousands of civilians. there are currently 2
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million people living in the gaza strip, of which 52% are children, 70 plus percent are also refugees, all packed into area more densely populated than tokyo. with water supply which is 97 percent undrinkable and the people having to live with only few hours of electricity per day. in addition to this, israel controls the airspace electromagnetic. spear and water. according to experts at the un, the gaza strip is now officially considered as uninhabitable. gaza's great march of return was a mass non-violent series of demonstrations which took place against the israeli separation barrier in which israeli soldiers killed over 330 unarmed palestinians injuring upwards of 40,000. no israelis were significantly injured beyond scratches and no... israelis were killed in what the likes of the bbc and cnn characterized as violent clashes. a un
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investigative report adopted by the unhrc has even accused israel of directly targeting and intentionally killing palestinian women, children, medics, journalists, senior citizens and the disabled. israel denies any wrong-doing and claims it only killed terrorists. one such killing claimed by israel to have been committed in self-defense. كانت تعمل في مخيمات العوده كمتطوعه في الاغاثه الطبيه والطواقم الطبيه كانت تعمل على اجلاب المصابين من خطوط التماس وتعمل على معالجتهم في المكان نفسه. وكانت متواجده في الميدان باستمرار وهي ترتدي الزي الاسعافي رزان تطمح
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مثل اي فتاه فلسطينيه او فتاه في العالم رزان هي بنت في النهايه وهي عندها طموحها مثل اي بنت انها تكبر وتكمل تعليمها انها تتزوج وتكون لها بيت واطفال وانها تعيش حياتها بكل اريحيه انها تسافر وتطلع بره وتشوف العالم الخارجي من برا ولكن للاسف الاحتلال قتل كل احلام مرزان. قامر رزان الشاهد على جرائم الاحتلال الاسرائيلي هو ارتدائها لهذا الذيه التي قتلت من اجله والدماء التي ما زالت الى الان في هذا اللباس لرزان وهذه رساسه القدر التي قتلت رزان بدم بارد وهذه هذه بطاقه رزان المعروفه دوليا انها هي لها حق الحمايه لرزان. out prior to the announcement of trump's plan, with gaza residents informing my team and i that the people had
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suffered a blow to their morale after their non-violent resistance had failed to cause any real action to be taken against israel. the world had left the palestinians to die. in the west, many countries co-signed the israeli justifications for their actions and attacked human rights activists as being anti-semitic for pointing out the crimes noted in the un and human rights watch. reports, since the trump netan yahoo plan was announced, israel has attacked and freattened to launch yet another military operation against gaza, which the population there feel will be enabled by the trump administration, as a non-violent struggle in the gaza strip had slowly declined in numbers, i wanted to see what the mood was like in the west bank, a village that had one of the longest running weakly protest movements in all of palestine. we've come here to the west bank village of belin, which has been... non-violently resisting the illegal israeli occupation for 15 years after most of their land was taken
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away from them by the wall and the settlements you see behind me, so we've come here to investigate after the announcement of the deal of the century what this means for the palestinian people living here. i met up with the leader of the local non-violent demonstrations for the village, abdullah aburahma and questioned him on the so-called deal of the century as well as what steps are going to be taken. to tackle it by this deal, i think another neckb for palestinian and for this we as a activities for non-violence resistance in palestine, we ask all of the places, all of the people to be in one group or to use this type of violence resistance to stop this deal, when we talk about the wall, the wall is separating between us and our land and the israelian plan to build more homes, more month behind the wall, for this it's not as the israelian says, this is for security reasons, this is for confiscated
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more and more and more land from the palestinian, they throwing and shooting and firing cars, homes, farms, by this way, i think it's difficult to continue our life with this criminal people, the wall built on palestinian land, which the demonstrators are protesting to have. was ruled by the international court of justice to be illegal and demanded its immediate dismantlement. as the day went on, the violence only increased with tear gas flying everywhere. it became abundantly clear that the israelis wished to send message to those protesting that they would pay a price for their resistance. in the early hours of the following morning we were awoken by the sounds of gunshots. my cameraman humdy sprung into action and we went down to see what was going on. i quickly came to realize that the israeli occupation
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forces had come to arrest children who they accused of throwing stones, a crime to israel which can land. you up to 20 years in a military prison. this child is only 14 and his arrest constitutes violation of international law. the crime that you are seeing was no one off. israeli force his arrest and detained palestinian miners a near daily basis in the west bank, with thousands of documented cases proving that israel will detain an arrest children even under the age of 12. the campaigns of arrests only increased after the announce. of trump's palestine israel plan, after rough night being awoken to the sound of soldiers entering and trashing palestinian homes, i turned my attention to another core issue which is often overlooked, water. if you ask palestinians here, the occupation is not just the soldiers, it's not just the settlements, it's everything, it's the water, it's the
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land, it's how they will get electricity, how everything works here is under occupation, and see the... "the water here that you're seeing flowing past us was intended for palestinians, but however, it has been diverted and goes to an illegal settlements. this is just one of many areas in the west bank where you will see something as simple as water, impacting the lives of palestinians a daily basis and making it so that they cannot live with freedom and with dignity, even to have their own water to supply themselves, to drink. to wash and to power things. to get more insight into how the occupation of water would affect a potential palestinian state. i spoke to rusland muhammad yasin, an engineer who worked on past palestinian authority proposals for peace deals, working on the plans for water allocation to a palestinian state. we also
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traveled to natural spring called jaruth, where i was shown around by local palestinian farmer named abu. it is impossible to survive under discipline and uh simply you don't have any water resources, there is no available water up hills and into ghazza and also you cannot utilize any because underneath your land which is very limited you don't have any water resources storage in theifers and the jordan river already already diverted and dried out so under this plan palestinians should live with no water, which is impossible. the land you are seeing here would likely be confiscated under trump's deal and would result in the displacement of farming families here, as well as the loss of access to water for the surrounding villages benefiting from jaruut's water resources, one the few springs that is still under control of palestinians. israel is controlling all the water resources from jordan river, to by
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tiver lake and the ground water equifers and nowadays even spring. so out of this conclusion is that they can give limited quantities to palestinians and maybe is around the 10% is going to palestinian side which is very or it is under the international quantities or who standards for the bear capital consumption for domestic use moreover israeli already israelide already did many wells thousands of wells around gaza strip and this of course will cut the natural flow into the hazz equifer, that already will decrease the deterioration of the equifer, which means that it will not be replenished or will be not be recharged with new or yearly recharge that could come into ghazza, and under this mining of course it will bring sea water entrogen, which will have irreversible effect. even in the main city of
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ramala, water is regularly cut as israel has complete control over the area his water resources, taking water from palestinian land and selling it back to them a higher price than what israel is required to pay. everybody will be just searching for water and then he will be struggling for a glass of water, and since we have no any water resources and it is mainly controlled by israel, so israeli side who is controlling the water resources, he can control the shape of our life in the future, which is you can imagine that the life with water is very miserable. for years, the amount of water allowed to palestinians has sat below world health organization standards with the human rights organization and hulk finding that israeli. settlers get six times more water than west bank palestinians average, according to the un-ochha, at least 180 west
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bank communities are completely without any direct supply of water. around 200 thousand people in the gaza strip are also without any direct link to water system, with the water there being 97% unfit for human consumption. the water situation in gaza is so bad that leading scholar on gaza's economy. roy from harvard university has essentially said that israel is allowing for the systematic poisoning of million children in gaza. many palestinians currently still live inside of palestine, but unfortunately the large majority of palestinians have not been able to remain on their lands after being displaced to all corners of the globe. many still stateless and living in refugee camps. the issue of refugees began with what is known as the nakba or the... ethnic cleansing of palestine between 1947 to 1949 when zionist militias such as the hagina, stern gang and urgun massacred thousands of
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palestinians and expelled around 800 thousand people from their lands. another ethnic cleansing of a further 300 thousand people also occurred in june 1967 when israel illegally occupied the west bank, gaza strip, the syrian jolan and the egyptian sinai. palestinian right of return to their homes, that many still own the keys and deeds to, is a right and shrined in international law, with recognition ranging from un resolution 194 to the recognition of the right to return by leading human rights organizations such as amnesty international, yet this right is denied of the palestinians by trump's deal, and after visiting countless refugee families, i began to understand why this final status issue as it is referred to as is unnegotiable for the palestinian people. this is because the large majority of palestinians are refugees, whether displaced internally or externally from their homelands, and any
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peace solution cannot reject these refugees. a just solution must include these refugees as human beings and must also recognize these refugees as being palestinian. something that the israeli regime and us now wish to deny of the refugees, their very... identity with the us withdrawing funds to the united nations relief and works agency set up to support palestinian refugees. it is clear that trump's deal is nothing more than an israeli and christian evangelical right-wing plan to inflict a final blow against the palestinians, making them irrelevant to the ongoing european settler colonial project. the issue of why palestinians have historically entered into negotiations with right-wing administration. like donald trump's america and the current israeli leadership was addressed famously in 1970 by gasen kanafani when interviewed by richard
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carlton, and even though kanafani was killed by an israeli carbong two years later, reflects the feelings of many palestinians until this day. you don't mean exactly peace talks, you mean capitulation, surrendering. why not just talk, talk to whom? talk to the israeli leaders, that's kind of conversation between the sword and the neck, you mean? well, if there are no swords and no guns in the room, you could still talk? no, haven't been, i had never seen any talk between a colonialist case and national liberation movement, to stop fighting, to stop the death and the misery, the destruction, the pain, the misery and the destruction and the pain and the death of whom of... palestinians, of israelis of arabs, of the palestinian people who are uprooted, thrown in the camps, living in starvation, killed for 20 years and
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forbidden to use even the name palestinians, the better that way than dead though, maybe to you, but to us, it's not, to us to liberate our country, to have dignity, to have respect, to have our near human rights is something as essential as life itself. one thing was absolutely clear from my journey through occupied palestine, and that was that palestinians were not going to give up their freedom anytime soon. so the question now remaining to be answered is, are palestinians and israelis to be considered as equal human beings and allocated the same rights in a real democracy, or is the current system of israeli privilege going to remain as palestinian rights are trumped by the claims of security and wants of the privilege. is in a permanent state of apart, and if this is to be the case, what will separate the condition of humanity from the barbarism the past,
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which we like to think we have. احنا هدفنا واحد هو بس انقاذ واخلاع ونوصل رساله للعالم انه احنا بدون سلاح قادرين نعمل كل شيء فهلا حبانه للوطن يعني هذا عمل انساني ما بدنا عليه مقابل نحن بدنا نقدر تعبنا الله بس مش مستعد يعني ما بدنا مقابل من اي حدا لا رواتب ولا توظيف بدنا كثير سالوا بابا بنتك هي طب ما بدي اخد رات حكى لهم انا بنتي بفتخر فيها انها تقدم شيء انساني لابناء لابناء وطني يعني كمان بنت وخصوصي احنا المراه عننا منتقده كثير في المجتمع بس المجتمع لازم يتقبلنا وغبا عنه لو بده يتقبلنا بارادته بيتقبلنا غصبا عنه لان احنا عندنا قوه اكثر من اي راجل القوه اللي نحن بنمتلكها القوه اللي استرجلت فيها اول في اول مسعفه في الاسبوع الاول بتحدداها بتحدى الاقيها عند اي شخص.
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you on security council passes a resolution on gaza to facilitate aid deliveries approval. the resolution comes after the original text proposed by the uae was repeatedly watered down due to us opposition to the inclusion of a cease fire clause. the hamas resistance movement has called the un security council resolution on gaza insufficient, demanding immediate cease fire. hamasa's move does not address the current catastrophic situation in gaza created by what the movement called the...
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