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tv   Gaza Under Attack  PRESSTV  December 25, 2023 12:02am-12:31am IRST

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so now yemen has for a while been the only muslim country to intervene directly to end the bombardment of gaza, but now malaysia has imposed a docking ban on israeli cargo ships in solidarity, they say with gaza. earlier today we spoke with business and finance students saraj karim who joined us from subang jaya in malaysia, and we asked him about the malaysian government's stance. the of malaysian government is opened. proclaimed it support of palestine and and the seas fire. there have been active creations of protests and just around last month there was aid of about 21 million dollars sent through to gaza from malaysia. and just this morning there was news article that said malaysia will ban all israel ships and cargo in their support with palestine. so the malaysian government is definitely doing things to support and to help gaza and palestine and the current war and situation. this whole idea. on looking up
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to the west and or the west are doing it, so it's now becoming a trend. i think specifically for my generation and the coming generations this whole ideology is going to shift, because from my perspective and from my agemates, what from the audience what i think is that the west is no longer becoming beautiful place and no longer becoming a place that we want to copy or that's becoming nice anymore, it's now just become issues and war, that that's that's what we see, that's is what i person see it does saraj further said that the mood in malaysia is very strongly in support of palestinian self determination and people here are openly condemming the war and pushing for an end to it so in general people are very people are very sad and very disturbed but there is things that are actively going on in on our side there is multiple different protests happening all around kualalumpur and just recently there was a massive protest. which
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happened in the country's national stadium where the prime minister himself was present and openly in the national stadium proclaimed the support we are with the support that they want to give palestine and how much they are advocating for sease fire along with that there is lot of people within my age category and other age categories who are doing the boycott and the boycot definitely has made a difference because starbucks in specific in malaysia has sold most of his shares and is dropped by from around 25 to 40% sent in of sales, which is which is which is really crazy, considering malaysia, they love starbucks. i think malaysians all in all are trying what they can to boycott, because the thing is in malaysia there is a presence of lot of these, lot of these brands that are required to be boycotted, so i think actively people are trying what they can, and since starbucks is known and since starbucks is also luxury good, it's been seen that it's reduced, so now people are also boycotting basic things like m and pizza hurt and all
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these things and definitely also dropping, you will walk by pizza hurt in the evening or kfc or starbucks, starbucks already said but mcdonalds and it will be empty not like normal, so people are story trying not only to achieve at starbucks, but to achieve more than that, you're still with me, this is gaza in under attack and my guest jonathan chadweak and dr. ali husseini have remained put uh thank goodness uh we just saw a little bit there, jonathan, about advocacy in places that perhaps didn't feel they had that kind of agency, your reaction first of all to the boycott movement, but also this idea that malaysia is saying, listen, your your ships and your cargo can't dock here, we we won't intervene in other ways, but right now we're hitting you in the pockets, yeah, no, it's a very, very, very significant movement, and actually i only learned about this earlier today, and i'm grateful to the program.
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program for putting it in front of me, and i think that it's unsurprising that these countries and these societies, they know what colonialism is, they know what imperialism is, and that certainly is shared between the malaysians and the yemenis. i mean, you have to consider that during the 50s and 60s both these um places were fighting against british imperialism, they were fighting the last remnance of british imperialism, and they share that history, and they presumab... share an identification with people struggling for its liberation in the palestinian people, and it's not, i think on the one hand, it's it's it's it's a good movement to see happening, you think that commercial imperatives are going to rule the world forever, but what actually is beginning to appear is moral principled stands by governments and certainly by people throughout the world and in favor of the oppressed. the oppressed of palestine and i
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think that that's um that's to be to be to be welcomed and i think that a part of it must be accredited to the um... the control and dignity that the axis of resistance have deployed in the struggle to the ansa ulla in in in yemen being so uh firm in its in its rejection of any kind of scare tactics by the americans or or the other powers that surround them, they themselves know about the kind of bombardment that the palestinians are undergoing because they had it at the hands the of the saudis and the saudis were using... same weapons that the israelis are using backed by the same western powers so they understand all too well they understand all too well indeed and i just want to bring you back in dr. husseini because this is all made possible because there has been a public awaitening how are you seeing it? i think
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what western politicians are missing out here is are the fact that... process of young people awakening throughout the world, mainly in the western capitals is going to backfire greatly on how they can conclude this episode in gaza in the region, not only that, as you said like people like yemen which been under war sanctions and invasion and famin for seven years stingly wake up and say any shipment of weapons or goods or oil to the israeli aggression is going to be stopped to go through the red sea despite the limited
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resources so these people have woken up to feel that this colonial control of the world politics can be challenged and itself is demonstration of the weakness of the western superpowers if you like as a whole and that subsequently will push these countries so got all the naturals and because the word needs in the future in the near future is going to be shifted or forced to towards china, russia and other third world countries who... are emerging as local superpers in their own rights and obviously that will gradually make the imperialist or colonialist supremacy and hegimony much weaker and probably sign the
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early failure of these policies if the current leaders continue to believe they can continue dominating the world politics and dictating the internet on law and order which is beginning to be seen as think of the past as what's happening in malaysia, in asia, in yemen and around the the middle east, it's demonstrating, indeed, well, um, in some more worrying news, we've known for a while that the healthcare system in gaza has been decimated and world health organization and un partners visited. chifa hospitals in northern gaza where teams delivered medicines, iv fluids and supplies for surgery, treating the wounded and of course to support women giving birth. however, aid workers struggle to describe the immense impact recent attacks have had on these health facilities, and the catastrophic
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conditions remaining patients and health workers face. let's listen in. what we found here is hospital that's really... almost completely stopped functioning two days ago number of staff were detained um just last saturday we visited al shifa and they were telling us how they were sending surgical cases here becauseli had some of the only operating theaters left in northern ghaza in gaza city and those are now no longer functional they don't have specialist they don't have surgeons uh they don't have power they don't have water they don't have food we brought some medicines and medical supplies today um and we're going to go see the 80 patients who are still here who are sheltering in the church on this site and in the orthopedic building but they're not able to perform surgery they're able to only provide pain management some wound care uh some trauma stabilization they're doing their
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best uh with very small team of only about 10 clinical staff left at this hospital. well fahim muhammad is back with her second batch of stories on the... media coverage of the gazan genocide, and i think uh, something you'll touch on down the line will actually piggy back off that statement very, very nicely from the world health organization, um, representing. positive there, but what would you like to start with? again, you know, it's really surprising, like i've been reporting obviously, just like with everyone else from the beginning of this uh, this genocide war, and it's so hard to sort of understand people that don't have the heart and the emotion, but here we can to hear another minister speaking about the palestinians and they have to obviously in be indoctrinated in order to think in a particular way to believe that the palestinians are terrorists for her to say what she's about to say. is i don't care about gaza, i literally don't care, for all i care, they can go out and to swim in the sea,
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i want to see dead bodies of terrorists around gaza, i don't care about gaza, the clip is short, but i think it does its job, yes exactly, and that's why i feel that um there is a difference of um human heart between them and the rest of the world, i think it's it's very difficult when i was looking at some of the comments. under this statement, the overwhelming amount said, you know, unfortunately, even in some parts of israeli political life, she's the woman's minister, yes, maygolan, that she is still an outlier, but more and more of voices are saying, oh, she was right all along, and we need to, instead of repudiating this entire ideology, yeah, she uses the words terrorism. so you see with that sort of way of you know reasoning, it gives them excuse to continue
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doing what they're doing, so they have a story. well, you know, as my angelo say, when people show you who you are, believe them. absolutely. your next story. this is an interesting piece by uh, someone who is from nepal who is an artist, and he basically does few slides, which we won't really get to see maybe in this one, but i'll go and paraphrase, and he basically outlines what you've been saying, actually, jonathan, with regards... to a book about the palestine laboratory, and again, overall, what his lies are actually saying is some of the um, almost every genocide, dictatorship and anti democratic repressive country in the world since the birth of israel has been supported and armed by israel, so that's why you will see that wide support, it's not just the israel lobby, it's the fact that israel has actually been part of lot of the actual um overall. countries that do give support to them with arms and with uh general support,
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like we'll have even zelensky saying that we will become a big israel and israel is an example for ukrainians, so there are many slides in this post if you have a chance to go and look from many um sort of like voices, big voices who support israel and why they support israel, even as far as the time of germany um as to how their input has created the... this kind of support in the west, and i think it's well worth look, the zelensky one had particular resonance at the moment, um, and just to do that full circle time that we talked about, about the overwhelmingly dire conditions that medical practitioners found themselves trying to operate, save lives, and we have very brave doctor here who's just going to talk us though, paraphrase a little bit about dr. amira and speaking about how she is in the elnas. hospital trying to revive the mother, just run it, we can see the the subtitles, it's
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worth it, so basically she described one incident of many unfortunately where um they try to revive mother and her son during birth and while they tried to revive um her she obviously did not last because obviously the sanitation and the medication is not enough so they thought okay we'll save the sun but unfort. the mother and the son had uh passed during you know normal labor birth which should be seen to be normal procedure, but because of the fact that they don't have the basics, the conditions are really dire, they prone to disease even if they were to survive because of those conditions not being sanitized, and they were on the floor trying to operate, so these are day and day out, everyday things that are being seen and heard, and unfortunately um, this is not one of... unfortunately, and i think what perhaps is sometimes helpful to this narrative, we
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have other voices who are having the ability to look and say, this is not a sustainable condition, and as she mentions there, we just saw that, this should have been in a sterile space, exactly, this should have been a situation where both mother and son could have been, yeah, we've got unicef, we've got doctors, we've got press, we've got people on the ground, journalists, everyone's reporting giving us as much evidence as they possibly can in order for people to understand the real situation there, and yet here we are, fahema, we'll talk again tomorrow, and uh, dr. al- husseini, you're still with me in. thank you so much for hanging on there, um, i just want you to put your your medical hat on for second, some of what we just saw in terms of what this means for patients and and and healthcare workers under these conditions, may i have a quick comment on that from you sir, yeah, it's it's unfortunate, nobody
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could you could have imagine in this day and age, there would be... doctors operating in the way they were operating without any light or any sanitation as fahim was saying and the l these injured people for any reason and the great danger and to allow them to die in front of their doctors and nurses who trying their best including risking their lives to save them and it's really something goes against all the geneva conventions in in war situations and obviously it's a shame on the humanity to remain silent to allow such situations to happen or even to prevail, unfortunately. indeed, i sometimes words fail us when we're trying jonathan chadwick to to just really paint picture for the audience there as if some of these images were not
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enough, but i'd like to bring in a slightly different aspect to this, um, your background is in the arts and we were... remiss not to talk about some of the amazing collaborations you've had with palestinian artists and theater groups inside gaza and how perhaps we might not just be morning the loss of some of those artists, but in fact the loss of the industry in general. um, we're still in touch with our um partners in in gaza, i heard from them this morning um, which is good, they're alive, and uh, i wouldn't know whether they're well, but they're certainly alive. since the escalation of the genocide in gaza, we've received messages from hosan madun, we've received maybe 30 messages that are accounts of what he's going through and what he's been through in the evacuation from the north, his experiences in nuserat um refugee camp, his contact with his friends, his
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helping at the local medical facilities, his wife's work for um an ngo there, his relationship with his families, his very, very sick mother and his coping with with that, his reactions to the other events that are happening around him, and we've been able to put on three readings of these accounts a a small art gallery in in north london, and we've now created a film of those readings, which we're going to make as installation in that gallery, but we've collected around ourselves a group of extremely talented... wonderful artists and they put on event um the night before last at the arcola theater in hackne where they brought together lot of people from um accounts from genene from different uh sections of the palestinian population doing readings and then engaging a kind of discussion live to keep keep it
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live keeping contact look at the quality of the writing that hosam has managed to achieve. the descriptions that he's managed to make and ask people um to listen to them being read by other people and to just kind of ponder and try to take in what's happening so we're going to of course that's mainly um the work that i'm doing so resistance in a different form jonathan we just have time for maybe one last thought here about the end game in this we spoke last the toll has doubled we're thinking sees fire, but perhaps not right now, your final thoughts, what, what do i think is going to happen in very dangerous for in 30 seconds to even, well, i think that what we'll see is we'll see eventually the end of the zionist entity in that part of the and the big question is, can there be an israel without zionism? can we
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envisage the people there living in peace with each other? "the end-game, the end vision must be of peace, democracy and justice, and i think that's what's in everybody's hearts, and it's just the embargo on tenderness and the embargo on human feelings that the israeli population undergo and carry out, that we've seen evidence of earlier in the program, indeed, those beautiful thoughts, jonathan is where we'll have to leave it and wrap for this show." " my many thanks to the guests for their contributions. gaza under attack will be back tomorrow with more. until then, continue to keep palestine in your hearts.
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وحضرني على ارضي صامده لاخر نقطه دم في روحي لاخر نفس فيا لما يعني خلص هيك يبطل في نفس انخنق اموت بعديها بندفن حتى في ارضي بندفن تحت بندفن تحت الزر الزراعه في ارضي بدي انا نزرع. انا ما بدك تسيبي ارضك بالمره بالمره رغم انك هلا كثير بردانه ويمكن جوعانه وما في ادويه والوضع صعيب برضه مش حتطلعي برضه مش حاطلع
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حضرنا صامدين هالقد بتحبي فلسطين اه هالقد اطفال فلسطين ما بتخلو عنها زي ما حكت الاغنيه انا دمي فلسطيني انا دمي فلسطين israel says they're not going to bomb any hospitals to israel's bombed every single hospital in gaza but it was justified because there's maybe tunnels and oh that was an elevator shaft our mistake, but it's still justified. we went from all palestinian civilians need to flee south in gaza because israel's targeting the north too. yeah, we did end up targeting the south as well and in fact we targeted some of those civilian convoys that were fleeing south after we told them to do so, but it was justified. we went from israel will never, never kill a journalist, you think we're barbarians or something to israel. killed over 80 journalists, in fact they're doing this in targeted strikes, they admit this, even targeting the families of journalists and targeted strikes, but it was justified, we had to do it, we went from israel never
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take civilian hostages because obviously that's a war crime to israel this week now, taking hundreds of civilian hostages, stripping them naked, making them sit out in the freezing cold on the beaches of gaza for hours on end, only to let some of them, some them return home, but oh wait, we looted their homes and we burned some of them down uh, but it was justified. we went from israel would never ever kill our own israeli hostages that are being held in gaza right? there's these ridiculous reports that israel accidentally or or maybe even on purpose bombed over 50 of the hostages that were being held uh in gaza to, yeah, you know, today we shot three of our own israeli hostages and it was a, it was horrible, horrible. tragedy, but it was justified because this is a war zone. above all else, we went from israel is just targeting hamas in this operation that we've launched to.
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israel has killed over 18,000 civilians in gaza, israel has destroyed over 40,000 homes, israel has caused the forceable displacement of probably, you know, north of like 1.4 million gazans. but of course it was all justified. at what point do the justifications not matter anymore and these are just horrific war crimes that are not being prosecuted.
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dedi arkasını döndü gazeteci, boğazını sıktı ve yere yatırdı, görmüş olduğunuz gibi çok sert müdahaleler var, çok sert müdahaleler var, çok sert müdahaleler var, işte gazeteci, müslüman, sivil ayırt ayırt etmeksizin buna benzer silahın ucuyla çok sert vurdu, halil geril geri çek, halil geri gel, halil geri gel, gel halil, okey. şu an silahın tetiğini bile bize doğrultmaya başladı şu an
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sağlıkçılar geldi. ne yazık ki çok üzülerek söylüyorum ki bir meslektaşımız çok.
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your headlines on press tv, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says the gaza war has exacted very heavy price on the regime, emit the rising number of israeli fatalities in gaza. the human rights monitor says israel has turned gaza schools used to shelter, displace people into makeshift military barracks and sites for field execution.