this is gaza under attack coming to you from the british capital, london. my name is sied puriza, your guide to unpack some of the biggest talking points emerging from the bombardment of gaza by israel and its ongoing raids in the west bank. but first, a quick look at some of the most recent developments. day 89, and the israeli regime continues its us- europe-backed bombardment of the central and southern regions of blucate. gaza, more

than 22, palestinians, among them, thousands of women and children, have been killed since the slaughter began, and more than 52,00 have been injured. palestinians in the occupied west bank have shut down businesses across the territory and taken to the streets to condemn the israely assassination of a hamas commander in lebanon. south africa submits a lawsuit at the international court of justice in the hague, accusing the israeli regime of. committing genocide in the gaza strip and the crackdown on expressing pro-palestine solidarity here in the uk, a staunch ally of the apartite israel. the uk has seen some of the largest pro-palestine protests since the start of israel's genocidal campaign in gaza. of at the forefront of those demos, young people driven to political action by images and stories of palestinin suffering. joining me in the studio is patricia taleb. she's a

undergraduate psychology student here in london who has lived most of her life in lebanon, alongside her from ontario, canada, is anti-war activist dr. ali malah. welcome to you both. i'll start with you, patricia. of um, new year, old genocide, um, do we the three month mark? uh, first of all, thank you for having me on the show. um, so i think i was... no one was expecting such huge retaliation, i think from the zionist entity. upon reflection, these have been i think some of the harshest three months that any muslim, arab or human being um in the world has experienced for a while now, and the fact that we can see a genocide and folding in real time um with the blessing of the technologies that we have, so we can actually get to point where we see the truth of what's happening um is just it's something that's i

think has been unprecedented, this is the first time we can actually witness genocide happening in real life uh time, think upon reflection that is probably been the main thing that has changed public opinion uh, because before we would not be able, the 2006 war in lebanon for example, that was something that was not documented on that to to that level to that extent, the damage that the zionist entity was doing was not, we were not capable of documenting that uh we were not capable of sharing our voices on those social media platforms. uh and reaching millions of people around the world, so i think israel so far has completely lost the pr war, um, public opinion has completely shifted, and whilst before i would mostly see uh muslims supporting the cause, now i see people from all sorts of ethnic backgrounds supporting uh, and this big zionist propaganda machine seems to be failing and seems to be failing against this decentralized media, essentially because everyone on ground is a journalist, um, i

think in terms of the atrocities that the zionist entity has committed, i don't, i would not say i'm surprised given its track record in the middle east, um, that's something that was expected, um, the way that the events of october the 7th were presented to the west in order to justify the atrocities committed by designist entity as well as not something that i'm surprised by, or the failure of journalism in the west to challenge the narrative the designist entity has pushed out uh "and those attacks on october 7th were retaliatory uh against years of occupation and disposition and apartite and let me move to dr. mala. dr. mala, the israeli occupation forces have suffered heavy losses inside gaza, the numbers vary, um, has the resistance been more steadfast than originally thought, no doubt about it, no doubt about it, as the resistance has been brave. be confronting the occupiers and

causing heavy casualty for the people of gaza and the resistance in occupied palestine and gazah. has shown the world that you know you cannot be defeated if you believe and committed to your cause, the resistance have learned huge lessons from the previous experience in a ways and tactics and strategy on how to confront the zionist occupiers and and how... much of an indication are the events of the past few days that the so-called israeli military operation is going so badly uh from you now killing the israeli the iranian commander in syria the hamas commander in lebanon and today's as we came on air the suicide bombings inside iran in in

kerman provinces people gathered to uh commemorate the four-year anniversary of the assassination illegally by the us the iranian it's force commander general sulaimani, well you know any of history would find out the history of the zionist state is a history of a terrorism and murders, but due to the heroic resistance of the people in gaza and the resistance in gaza, the zone state has found itself literally trapped. and defeated, so there are couple explanation to the terrorist attacks whether in syria or lebanon or even in iran to explain what happened, one the scenario is the azer state wants to cover

its defeat and lass in gaza and want to shift the public opinion inside the israeli society to outside the borders and inflame the region, another one is it is done with you full coordination with the united states which is the main supporter and enabler of the zion state in addition to some western countries and third explanation is israel this day state may may have been trying and continue to try to drag the us and europe into a larger regional war. nobody knows. implication and its effect in the region and the people as a whole, so you know time will tell, no doubt, no doubt inknow this state, illegal state has been committed massacers before even its inception, the zionist

organization back to the military and onward have committed massacers after massacers against the palestinian people and also against... people in syria or lebanon or even egypt, you know, if i want to name the list of of the massackers committed by this illegal state, we need more time in this show, and uh, patricia, um, tel aviv has already spoken of bringing in news reservists, there was also talk of pulling some of the troops out, there are 40,00 of them in the gaza strip, some of them out, but then they have intensified the bombardment ' um, what does that mean? what message is that send? you know, first of all, um, given this recent escalation, you have the fate of the captives and also a cease fire. what will happen to that? the cease fire that the whole world, save some countries uh is asking for.

so i think that that's not surprising. i think from the very beginning, even on october the 7th, israel, which designist entity, which has one of the biggest and most well equipped military. armies in the middle east actually needed america and the whole world to come and stand beside it because it's a it's an entity that's quite um easily shaken uh you also see this rise of uh soldiers killing themselves suicide rates amongst uh the iof and um lot of um psychiatric um issues that they're going through so this is an army that does not really know anything uh it does not really have any tactic its own tactic even when you see uh the offense uh the retaliation that happened on october the 7th, the response from the iof was essentially to bomb anything inside uh, whether they're uh israeli citizens, the settlers or uh hamas members, so you see this is an army that just panics and uses its extremely um it's brutal force,

yeah brutal force and um it uses that brutal force to just annihilate everything in its site, so that's one of the things that um i think is... happening now, they're not really good, every single attempt a ground invasion in gazze has been an absolute failure, you see uh hamas fighters being able to get to markavas up to point of... zero where they put bombs on them, while the iof with all of its um train military training is freaking out and you see soldiers shooting at walls, if you look at um footage even from the iof itself, so i think that that's something that's absolutely expected um in terms of seasfire, i think um the zianist entity is used to to do doing what it wants and not abiding by international law and this is something that the us has backed. and has allowed it to continue to engage in that sort of behavior for years, so the fact that uh

there is absolutely no regards towards international opinion and towards international law, that is something that is not surprising. netanyahu is a warmonger uh, and this right extreme right-wing government that we see right now in the zionist entity is actually probably one of the craziest and most extreme governments and the only government that can keep on going with this genocide despite this uh huge. shift in public opinion, it wouldn't have been able to go on for another minute without of course, yeah, western backing top of it, the united states. um, just a quick reminder, you're watching gaza under attack with me, saiza, where we unpack some of the biggest talking points emerging from the israeli genocide on palestinians inside gaza, my guests, patricia taleb and dr. ali malah are still with us of course, but watching a live genocide on our screens daily. result in fatigue, in the empathy for the oppressed. earlier we spoke

to muhammad hadi juji, a university student based in birmingham, uk, and asked him if he sees this fatigue. right now it does feel like uh, everyone's getting a bit mentally and emotionally exhausted from constantly seeing everything we're seeing on social media and reliable outlets that have been giving us information on what's going on. um the palestinian reporters on the ground who have been giving us all this information first hand, it definitely is causing a lot of fatigue in the general population, especially on like social media, you can see a decrease in like the amount of active posts and i guess it doesn't help that lot of accounts are getting shadow banned including like individuals who aren't like major creators so like i myself have seen uh... impacts on my reach on social media and it does come discouraging and i think the constant viewing

of all the atrocities that we've seen in palestine are leading to an emotional exhaustion amongst the general people. muhammad hadi also said that despite this fatigue he appreciates the activism for palestine that exists in the uk as he hasn't seen much support in other countries has been traveling to. i have seen a drastic level of support from the communities in the uk um and it's it's a it's a nationwide thing so it's not just limited to a city because i've seen massive support coming out of london, birmingham and few other cities um so i think in terms of the uk there's a there's a large support coming through and it's not just coming from like one um one generation i feel like it's across generational thing you're getting uh support from youth, millennials alike, you know, everyone's involved, i think

the uk has a really good support base for free palestine right now, um, my time in dubai was a bit different, i didn't see as much representation for free palestine, um, it's a bit discouraging, but obviously while i was there - you don't really see it out in the streets like you do in the uk, so like in birmingham for example, on the bus as you're going, across the town you'll see like um art of like free palestine painted on walls and flags hung up, you don't really see that in dubai really, it's if there is support it's very silent support, it's not vocal per say, and i've been home for few days now, been out once or twice, i don't think that the, i don't think people are being vocal about it in tanzania either, i know there are like specific groups that are like trying to... push the message, but in terms of like a public support level, i don't think it's

there in tanzania or dubai right now, um, and i think even in the uk people are starting to get exhausted, but i must say that the support in the uk is um, i have felt that it's been a bit more than in other locations so far, but in dubai and tanzania it does feel almost nonexistent right now, solidarity with... and freedom movement takes on many different forms earlier we spoke to katie miranda, fine artist and illustrator based in oregon, usa, who told us how she uses her paintings to... exposed the oppression suffered by palestinians a daily basis. the subject of palestine is a common theme in my work because it's consumed me, it's consumed my thoughts for the last 17 years of my life, and people often ask me like, why don't i paint this subject or that subject or something else, and i paint what i think

about lot, and i think about palestine lot, because i lived in the west. bank for three years and i witnessed lot of palestinian suffering and that's what i think about, so that's what i paint. one of the paintings i'm sharing is called the p and most people are familiar with this image because of michelangelo's marble p in the vatican. the p is a universal, universally identifiable symbol of... internal suffering, and i as i said, i think a lot about the palestinian struggle, it's really consumed me, and the question i would like to raise to the united states is how much more of palestinin suffering are you going to allow? you know, the world has said enough, the world has come

out against this wholeheartedly, americans have come out against this, jewish americans. have come out against this, but right now it's the united states enabling the israeli government to continue bombing and slaughtering children and women and civilians in gaza, and it's got to stop, the daily petty humiliations that palestinians are subjected to, and this is not the kind of stuff that is a big media story, but it's stuff that happens every day to palestinians, sometimes they're... tained for hours at checkpoints for no reason other than the soldier is exerting his power on the detained man, and if these people were actual resistance fighters, israel would have arrested and charged them or arrested and put them in prison, but these people are not,

they're just regular people, and israeli soldiers just humiliate them, a daily basis and imagine how this has built up in the palestinian conscious for the last 75 years. that is what i'm illustrating in this drawing. this drawing was inspired by a time i was in the west bank and i was driving in a car past the palestinian village of baite omar and i saw a bunch of israeli soldiers on the roof of somebody's house. now this... is not an uncommon site to see in the west bank, but it is another part of this daily petty humiliation. why are palestinians supposed to accept this as part of their life? why are they supposed to accept soldiers going up on their roof? they have no recourse for this, they have no way to stop this, and when they

try to stop through non-violent demonstrations, the israeli army... comes in and brutalizes them. katy miranda, fine artist speaking with us before. um, patricia, i want you to get, i want to get you to respond to what we heard little earlier, which was emotional fatigue. uh, some people have spoken about psychic numming, as we are exposed to a barrage of these horrifying images of genocide, you may want to switch off, or how do you over? come that really to to continue to be tuned in? i think one of the main um issues that we need to realize as young people in particular in the west is that uh buse i have heard this lot from my peer group in particular is that this is not just an emotional reaction that we need to have to discuss, this is something that needs to be a part of our thought pattern, it needs

to be something that we have deeply thought about and it needs to be moral stance and it apart from uh this coming up and going down of of emotions, this fluctuation of emotions, and uh, it's not just about feeling inspired all the time, regarding numming and stopping with the response, with the emotional response, i think that is the thing that would would fix that issue uh, because we as young people need to realize that this is our duty and it is our responsibility, and especially as youth in the west, especially as citizens of the west, one of the things that... "we need to make sure is that we don't forget this atrocity, we are blessed in a way to be able to carry that burden of that atrocity uh, and we should never forgive our governments and..." "we should take a stance against our governments, so i think realizing that it's not just about um feeling emotional, realizing it's not just about sadness and feeling empathetic, there's

something beyond that uh, and we need to act out that behavior no matter uh how we feel, uh, and we do need to think about neur strategies in which we can convince people, because emotion doesn't, all right, let me uh, this next question to dr. mala, dr. mala, on the south africa's decision to..." refer israel to the icj, the international uh court of justice. um, of course, we saw the reaction from the israelis. uh, spokesman um, eli levy lashed out saying south africa history would be judging south africa without mercy. your thoughts on that? well, it's funny to come from a representative of a state who has well document in committing war crimes for many decades, it's a brave move by the south african government to go the to the

international court of justice, international criminal court of justice, but the question remain what type of power this court has and what they can do to stop israel from committing this genocide. against the palestinian, mind you, in the field of the public opinion, this is very important step, and also i'm sure you heard about more than 300 plus lawyers across europe and mainly in france, they are documenting and working on legal documents to condemn israel for what have been done, here in canada, we have we have a... who actually served the prime minister and couple ministers with complicity and aiding israel to commit those genocides

and and main massackers against the palestinian, but if you allow me to go to the point about fatigue and the public opinion, very briefly, i think we are, yeah, i think we are seeing new phenomen here, because you know i don't describe it - the fatigue, but people are wondering, you know, is only you know hitting the streets, it's the only way or not, as you see that in london and in us and in in canada, people now are occupying public spaces, transport stations and even highways, and to me this is escalation of the action and reaction of the pro palestinian people, plus hundreds of thousands now, you now have been educated and gain a lot of knowledge about what happening in gaza. thank you. all right, um, very quickly, um,

patricia, the state of pro-palestine solidarity in the uk, and the way the state is reacting to it. one of my colleagues recently was going to winter wonderland with her family members and should it the innocuous thing of wearing lapel uh badge with the palestinian flag what was pulled over, but by security and has to remove it. um, i want you to react to that, the fact that you can't wear something as simple as that in britain at the moment? i think i think it's being marketed as trying to avoll to avoid this escalation um and uh issues arising from people showing their political stances, but uh, more than that, i think, um, so the uk government is has a huge conflict of interest because this... lobbists have infiltrated every single one of its industries and there seems to be issue of sovereinity i would say um with the british

government and the relationship that it has with the designist entity and every single act that i've seen from the beginning including the demonization of pro- palestinian marches um this uh attempt uh to to find any legal reason to shut us down um this attempt to um back pro- palestinian voices into legal corners, in particular through mainstream media shows by asking them very insightful questions, um, that's something that i don't think uh, i'm surprised by giving the giving the nature of the relationship, i mean this country was the reason for the foundation of designist entity, and this country has looked after designist entity, um like it's his own child in the middle east and try to secure, but i think this shift is mostly because we outnumber the pro israeli sides by far and

they're trying to shut our voices. down in any way they can, we're going to have to leave it there, and with those final thoughts, we've come to the end of this edition of the program. many thanks again to my guests for their contributions. gaza under attack will be back next time with more. until then, continue to keep palestine in your hearts. goodbye for now. some 20 million. that's the estimated number

of followers of the islamic movements in nigeria. so join me as i talked to the founder and the leader of this movement, sheikh ibrahim zakzaki. if there have been no islamic republic of iran, those resistance in palestine will not have been able to do what they are doing. "we'll discuss the message that led to its growth and what it has in common with the palestinian resistance, so make sure you join us right here on hidden files at press tv. hello everybody, um, iranians are uh carrying out mass protests

today after weekly..." prayers throughout the nation this friday in iran when funerals will be held for victims of the terrorist attack in southeastern city of kirimon almost 100 iranians perished almost 300 have been uh injured some in critical condition from one the protest sites in the iranian capital tehran we're going to swing over to uh farason our press tv correspondent on the ground there hello farazana what could tell us about the protest you're at? where the friday prayer was held and after that the actually procession of the body of...