tv News In Brief PRESSTV December 23, 2023 11:00pm-11:31pm IRST
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placed by new vision for peace coming from the young. the leader of iron's islamic revolution has lashed out at the us for what he calls shamelessly vedoing a un resolution on the ceasefire in gaza. hi. says washington's video means it is accomplice in israeli bomberments of defenseless palestinians. iran is hosting an international conference over the american is really genocide in gaza. in an opening remark, the wining president rais said the us, which has provided financial and military support to israel must be put on trial for the crimes against palestinians.
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the un agency for palestinian refugees says friday's security council resolution falls short of calling for an end to death and destruction in gaza and does not enable effective delivery of aid. doctors without borders has said the resolution has been watered down to the point of becoming meaningless. resistance groups in ivar and lebanon keep up their operations retaliation phrase was on slot on gaza. the islamic resistance in iraq says that his target. at the karish natural gas rig operated by israel. also hisbullah resistance group says it has hit six israeli military targets across the southern lebanese borders and the drone strike has damaged an israely linked ship off the coast of india, what appears to be the latest in a wave of anti-israely operations in the region or is gaza genocide. maritime agency said the attack caused the fire on board the vessel because no casualties. there is been no immediate claim of responsibility for the strike.
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we form a joint committee with israel to convert the conceptual man. القضيه الفلسطينيه ولا صفقه القرن صفقه القرن لن تنفذ على اجسادنا سوف ممكن ممكن في حاله واحده ان لو احنا على اجسامنا نحط اجسامنا هيك وتمر صفقه القلب from من technical point of view it is impossible to survive under discipline simply. you don't
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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 acquifers, jordan river already diverted and dried out, so under this plan palestinians 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 goods, settlements, the annexation of the jordan valley, and took a brief journey into the history of the... peace process along the
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way we witnessed the murder of palestinians and escalated environment of violence throughout the occupied palestinian of 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, 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, israel b the... segregation wall between
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bethlehem and jerusalem, which divorce the two cities from each other, and you know the historical twins between bethlehem and of jerusalem, historically, religious level, economic and so... 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 10000 israeli colonis 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 settlements by by pass roads as natural reserves for the israeli
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occupation, and from the north it has been already isolated, as you can see in this map history. 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 will not be able to use only for settlers or by the settlement. 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 tensions between muslims and christians in the city. the richness of this diversity, the
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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 palestinian muslims and christians who live
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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 unimable 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 state 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 stay in their land for for now more than a century. many
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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... the sieged 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 million people living in the gaza strip, of which 52% are children, 70 plus%
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are also refugees, all packed into area more densely populated than tokyo, with water supply which is 97% undrinkable. and the people having to live with only few hours of electricity per day. in addition to this, israel controls the airspace, electromagnetic sphere and water. according to experts at 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 investigative report adopted by the un
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hrc 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 was that of 20-year-old razanar. رزان فتاه فلسطينيه تبلغ من العمر 21 عام 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 هي ترتدي الزي الاسعافي؟ رزان تطمح مثل اي فتاه فلسطينيه او
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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 رزان. قامر رزان الشاهد على جرائم الاحتلال الاسرائيلي. هو ارتدائها لهذا الزيه 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 في الحمايه لرزان the demonstrations had slowly phased out prior to the announcement of trump's plan with gaza. presidents informing my team and i that the people had suffered a blow to their morale after their non-violent resistance had
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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 netanyahu 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, in a village that had one of the longest running weekly protest movements in all of palestine. we've come here to the west bank village of bellain, which has been non-violently resisting the illegal israeli occupation. for 15 years after most of their land was taken away from them by the wall and the
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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 uh... another neckba for palestinian and for this we as a activist for non violence resistance in palestine we ask all 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 settlements behind the wall for this it's not as the israelian says "this is for security reasons, this is for confiscated more and more and more land from the palestinian, the throwing and shooting
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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 removed, was ruled by the international court of justice. 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 wish... 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 forces had come to arrest children who they
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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 detain 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 announcement 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 land, it's how they will get electricity, how
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everything works here is under occupation, and see 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 settlement. 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 powerf to get more. light into how the occupation of water would affect the 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 traveled to natural spring called jaruth, where i was
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shown around by local palestinian farmer named abu hatim. 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 gazza, and also you cannot utilize any because underneath your land which is very limited, you don't have any water resources storage in the airquifers and the jordan river already already diverted and dried out, so under this plan palestinians should live with water, which is impossible, the land you were 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 jareut's water resources, one of the few springs that is still under control of palestinians. israel is controlling all the water resources from jordan river to tiber lake and the
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ground water equifers and nowadays even springs, so out of this conclusion is that they can't 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 per capita consumption for domestic use moreover israeli already israel side already did many wells thousands of wells around gazza strip and this of course will cut the natural flow into the gaza equaf'. that already will decrease the deterioration of the aquafer, which means that it will not be replenished or not be recharged with new or yearly recharge that could come into ghazza, and under this mining of course it will bring seawater entrogen, which will have irreversible effect. even in the main city of ramala, water is regularly
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cut as israel has complete control over the areas water resources, taking water from palestiny. land and selling it back to them a higher price than what israel are 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 without 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 huck finding that israeli settlers get six times more water than west. bank palestinians average. according to the un-ochha, at least 180 west bank communities are completely without any direct supply of water. around 200 thousand
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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, sarah roy from harvard university has essentially said that. 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 19. 49 when zionist militias such as the hagina, stern gang and urgun massacred thousands of palestinians and expelled around 800 th00 people from their
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lands. another ethnic cleansing of a further 300,00 people also occurred in june 1967 when israel illegally occupied the west bank, gaza strip, the syrian jolan and the egyptian sinai. the palestinian right have returned to their homes that many still. 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 of 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 peace solution cannot
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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... 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 administrations like donald trump's america and the current israeli. leadership was addressed famously in 1970 by gasen kanafani when interviewed by richard carlton and even though canafani was killed by an israeli carbong two years later
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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... 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 forbidden to use even the name palestinians,
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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 occupy. 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 privileged israels in a permanent state of apartide. and if this is to be the case, what will separate the condition of humanity from the barbarism the past, which we like to think we have since changed and progressed from. احنا هدفنا
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واحد هو بس انقاذ واخلاع ونوصل رساله للعالم انه احن بدون سلاح قادرين نعمل كل شيء اهل حب انتمانه للوطن يعني هذا عمل انساني ما بدنا عليه مقابل نحن بدنا نقدر تعبنا الله بس مش مستعد مش يعني ما بدنا مقابل من اي حدا لا رواتب ولا توظيف بدنا كثير سالوا بابا بنتك هي طيب ما بتاخد راتبه هيك حكى لهم انا بنتي بفتخر فيها انها بتقدم شيء انساني لابنا لابناء وطني يعني كمان بنت وخصوصي احنا المراه عننا منتقده كثير في المجتمع بس المجتمع لازم يتقبلنا غصب عنه لو بده يتقبلنا بارادته بيتقبلنا غصبا عنه لان احنا عندنا قوه اكثر من اي راجل القوه اللي احنا بنمتلكها القوه اللي استرجلت فيها اول في اول مسعفه في الاسبوع الاول بتحدداها بتحدى الاقيها عند اي شخص يعني
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in eastern iran, friendly relations with iraqi kurdistan, the effective role in the 33-day war in lebanon and training forces who stood up against daesh militants and defended iraq and syria. kassam was present wherever he was needed, even amid floods in southern iran. we cannot permit a resource so vital to be dominated by one so ruthless and we will عندما هزم الجيش العراقي الكويت راسا حصلت انتفاضه في اسبوع واحد قتل
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المجرم صدام اكثر من 200. الف شخص الامريكان كانوا واقعا يسمعون كانوا يشاهدون جاءت عمليه غزو الكويت وفرض حصار دولي جائر على العراقيين دام اكثر من 12 عاما طحن عظام العراقيين we have heard that a half million children have died is the price worth it. i think this is very hard choice but the price we think the price is worth it. our war on terra begins with al-qaeda, but it does not end there, one, you're watching.
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news and brief for this hour, the leader of iran's islamic revolution has lashed out at the united state for what he called shamelessly vetoing a un resolution a cease fire in gaza. said ali khamenei says washington's veto means it is accomplice in israeli bombardments of defenseless palestinians. iran is hosting an international conference over the american israeli genocide in gaza. in an opening, remark. iranian president ibrahim raisi said the united states, which has provided financial and military support to israel must be put on trial for the crimes against palestinians.
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