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tv   News In Brief  PRESSTV  December 24, 2023 5:30pm-6:01pm IRST

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by new vision for peace coming from the young. israel keeps pounding the basish gaza strip where every new air rate and shelling further worsens the humanitarian situation. according to officials more than 200 people were killed in the past day, the latest attacks targeted the southern city upon unis and the northern city of jabalya. israel staged new rallies في against prime minister netanyahu for his failure to secure the release of captives in gaza. demonstrations aimed to exert more pressure on the cabinet to bring them back. several captives were killed in the regime's air strikes on gaza. people across the world
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have held protest during the christmas holiday weekend to demand immediate cease fire in gaza. and new york ralliers said there should be no christmas business as usual. thousands of people in sydney also condemned the us is really genocide. the israel militator has released the names of eight soldiers killed in fresh fighting with palestinian resistance fighters in gaza. israel says 158 of troops have been killed since the beginning of the ground invasion, but hamas says the actual figure is much higher. meantime, a senior hamas official has vowed the movement want to allow israel to achieve any of its goals in gaza, calling threats to eliminate palestine resistance empty. osama hamdan says there will be no negotiations and exchange of captives unless the aggression against gaza stops.
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we form a joint committee with israel to convert the conceptual map. القضيه الفلسطينيه ولا صفقه القرن صفقه القرن لن تنفز على اجسادنا سوف ممكن ممكن في حاله واحده ان لو احنا على اجسامنا نحط اجسامنا هيك وتمر صفقه القلب from 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 held 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, 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 geoc'. 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 aluds, settlements, the annexation of the jordan valley, and took a brief journey into the history of the peace. process along the way
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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, israel bit the segregation.
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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 of 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 settlements by bypass roads as natural
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reserves for the israeli occupation, and from the north it has been already 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 will not be able to use only for settlers or by the settlements the... 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
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richness of this diversity, the co-existence that we grown up as muslims and the 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 side by side in unity here together, are
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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 unigmable 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... "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 return, beginning on the 30th of march 2018 in the beseged. 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,
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70 plus% are also refugees, all packed into area more densely populated in tokyo, with water supply which is 97% undrinkable and people having to live with only few hours of electricity per day. in addition to this, israel controls the airspace, electro-magnetic sphere 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 investigative report adopted by the un hrc
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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 razano nadar. 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 وهي ت دي الزيه الاسعافي رزان تطمح مثل اي فتاه فلسطينيه او
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فتاه في العالم رزان هي بنت في النهايه وعندها 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 بره ولكن للاسف الاحتلال قتل كل احلام رزان قامر رزان الشاهد على جرائم الاحتلال الاسرائيلي هو وارتدائها 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 في الحمايه لرزان the demonstrations had slowly phased out prior to the announcement of trump's plan with gaza resident 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 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 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
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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 removed, 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... rail 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 forced his arrest and detained palestinian minors 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
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land, it's how they will get electricity, how 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 power things. to get more insight 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
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called jariut, where i was shown around by local palestinian farmer. named abu hatan, 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 the airquifers and the jordan river already already diverted and dried out, so under this plan palestinians were... should live with water, which is impossible. the land you are seeing here would likely be confiscated under trump's deal, would result in the displacement of farming families here, as well as the loss of access to water for the surrounding villages benefiting from jarut water resources, one of the few springs that is still under control of palestinians. israel is controlling all
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the water resources from jordan river to by tibir lake and the ground water equifers and now. even springs, 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 per capita consumption for domestic use, moreover israeli already israel side already did many ones thousands of ones around gaza strip and this of course will cut the natural flow into the gaza equafer, that already will decrease the deterioration of the equafer, which means that it will not be replenished or would be not be recharged with new or yearly recharge that could come into ghazza, and under this mining of course it will bring a seawater intrusion, which will have irreversible effect. even in the main
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city of ramala, water is regularly cut as israel has complete control. over the areas water resources, taking water from palestinian land and selling it back to them a higher price than what israelies 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 al huh finding. that israeli settlers get six times more water than west bank palestinians average, according to the un ocha, at least 180 west bank communities are completely
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without any direct supply of water. around 200,00 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 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 knuck. or the ethnic cleansing of palestine between 1947 to 1949 when zionist militias such as the hagina, stern gang and urgun
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massacred thousands of palestinians and expelled around 800,00 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. "the palestinian right of return to their homes, that many still own the keys and deeds to, is a right enshrined 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 refugeees, whether displaced internally or externally
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from their homelands, and any 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 administrations 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 deble, maybe to you, but to us, it's not, to us to liberate our country, to have dignity, to have respect, to have our mir human rights is something as essential as 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. 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
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the past, which we like to think? انها بتقدم شيء انساني لابناء لابناء وطني يعني كمان بنت وخصوصي احنا المراه عننا منتقده كثير المجتمع بس المجتمع لازم يتقبلنا غصبا 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 اتحدها بتحدا الاقيه عند اي شخص.
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لو وافق صدام على كل قرارات الامم المتحده وعلى كل ما تريده الولايات المتحده لكان قد اطيح به وبدات عمليه انهيار للعراق تماما وسط فوظه خلاقه. saddam's regime, they don't want to
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see an independent regime, and worst of all, with close relations with tehran, close relations with damascus. بدا الحجي ابو مهدي مع حجي قاسم بترتيب ل انشاء فصائل جهاديه تقاوم الامريكان. الشهر السابع من عام 2007 بدات عمليه التهيئه لصاروخ الاشتر وهو. اللي قلب المعادله كم هائل من الصواريخ المدمره الكبيره قلبت هذه القاعده راسا على عقد هم ظنوا ان اغتيال المهندس في العراق وقاسم سليماني من ايران انهم سيضعفون حركه المقاومه الذين يسيرون
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israel keeps pounding the basis gaza strip wherever new air strike and shelling further warsens the... humanitarian situation, according to gaza officials, more than 200 people were killed in the past day. the latest rates targeted to southern city of conunis and the northern city of jabalya. israel stage new protests against prime minister netan yahu for his failure to secure the release of captives in gaza. the demonstrations aim to exert more pressure on the cabinet to bring them back. several captives have been killed in the regime's.