hello and welcome to press tv spotlight, i'm marza hashimi, thanks so much for being with us. well, after more than three months of waging geneside on gaza. the israel regime of has not reached any of its goals in the strip, it has not destroyed the resistance, nor has it been able to free its captives and the resistance is inflicting bitter bitter battle upon them, so what... should the

regime do next? well, it must find a way to get out of this while trying to save face. how about waging a war on lebanon and hezbollah? could that even be a possible option? well, we're going to look at this on tonight's spotlight. i'd like to welcome my guests to the program, julia casim, journalist and political analys out of beirot, and zakir ahmed mayat, attorney activists and political analysts out of johannesburg, thank you both for being with us. i started off in beirot and julia, according to the washington post uh article, us secretary of state anthony blinket is in the region to decrease tensions and the possibility of israel waging war on heizbullah. do you think that blincan really wants to dissuade the regime from expanding the war, are your analyses of it? the...

constant flying in uh from uh us officials, eu officials like uh joseph borell, eu's uh foreign affairs uh representative uh coming in and out to lebanon, primarily the they're they're coming for the purpose of uh begging hazballah to uh to basically conceeds to israel's demands of um you know withdrawing from its own territory and its own border, which it is protecting from zionist aggression, um, and we've seen since october 8th, um, the hazballah has been effective in, basically destroying all of the zinus entities security infrastructure across the border, and um, that has made the the zinus entity furious and of course more insecure than ever. with 250 thousand of its over half

million settlers in the northern area of occupied palestine alone forcibly um you know left the area evacuated the settlements and they're not coming back um unlike the temporary evacuations of at most 100 thousand or so on the southern border of lebanon so of course with this security infrastructure in completely destroyed ' with lot of thousands and thousands of soldiers, which it's not admitting to, um, injured at least 12,00, which uh, we can estimate up to 4,000 killed, lot of that has been the success of the lebanese hazballah resistance from the north, which is put the occupation an extremely insecure and extremely strained position, um, fighting on another front at the same time, um, you know, getting... destroyed it is

getting destroyed in gaza, so now that there is this defeat in gaza that um that has had the occupation withdraw from from the gaza strip um now it wants to focus on trying to um recover the the inevitable losses from what it calls the northern front the area with hazballah okay say i'm going to look it a little bit more in the show. uh get a little bit deeper involved than that, well zakir, according to reports, blincan is concerned that the expansion of the war would bring in iran and the united states, your thought about your thoughts about this, i think it's already a global war, the islamic republic of iran has established numerous people in the region, we're talking about shabi, hazballah, the brothers of ansar allah to... the palestinian people, we know that of

the establishment of the quds force with its primary mission as described by sad hasan nasara is the army of cods, it's for the liberation of palestine, and this is... point that unifies not just the people of the middle east, but all peace loving people that believe in justice, there has to be justice, there can be no peace without justice and no justice without return. that being said, when we look at what is happening with the united states, this particular war that has been waged on the people of gazza has been funded, supported and planned by the united states, this is very clear from the military support, the large numbers of ships. that have been providing military supplies to israel and the backing of two of carrier battle groups to support israel's genocide on the palestinian people, so to argue that they don't want it escalate whilst they are fully engaged as one the global superpowers, is falsehood. what it

is doing right now is that israel is depleted, israel is lashing out and as a result we saw reckless actions on the part of the zinis entity by assassinating commander sahuri in beirot and by doing so it naturally expands the field, we see the expansion taking place as we speak right now, sirens are going off in the golan, there is possible infiltration of drones from that quarter or missile, so and we know that iraq has fired... a advanced cruise missile and there were explosions in the port of hyfa today, so the war has already expanded and this argument that they trying to contain it, i think it's false, because israel is a wild animal that cannot be contain. well, julia,

secretary general of hezbollah sassan nasrullah has said that if israel wages war on lebanon and the resistance will remove all of its limits to wage war against the israeli regime. what do you think that means? so what we saw yesterday for example is uh hazballah through hit 62 rockets on one of the highest point surveillance bases that is responsible for every one of these genocide or war planes um their location and uh and uh basically the their reach from lebanon to cypress to to syria to occupied palestine um so uh as said similarly speech over a month prior, all options are on the table, if the zin entity wants to to provoke and wants to expand its expand its genocide and and completely have no limits to how it's going to um how it's

going to retaliate um in in the wake of like this huge loss in gaza, of course there is going to be necessary. against that, there's going to be necessary resistance to that, while moves are calculated, it doesn't necessarily mean that there's going to be no equal force or no retaliation for these string of assassinations or or the non-stop aggression that the zin entity is going to take, so made that clear, he's made it clear a previous speech where he set the civilian for a civilian equation, it doesn't mean it's going to uh be necessarily the the predictable and immediate response, but it is definitely he is setting the equation for there to be um a response and in showing um from the attack on the um hernon intelligence

base that has capable of wiping out all of the design entities intelligence, security, air bases, air fields. um so this is this has got them thinking twice and and i think that right now the zientist entities a stand still um as to if it wants to immediately uh put pull america into backing um this uh rabid frenzy that it wants to take out on on the resistance forces in the region as a lastige effort uh to remove their their power or if it wants to uh try to find and and scramble for some kind of an exit strategy. hm, well, zakir, the american defense intelligence agency has said that if the regime was to wage war against lebanon, it would be very difficult for it to win, because his forces would be spread to thin due to the war in gaza. i mean, your overall thoughts about the regime trying to go up against hazbullah?

hazballah is much stronger than the brothers of qassam, saraya and ghazza. in fact, hazballah's capabilities are listed as some the law. weapons cashers are held by a non-state actor in the world and we look at the measured response of regards to the transgressions committed by the zionist entity we look at the accuracy with which hazbullah has responded, perfect example is the targeting of the iron dome battery and they fired basically two guided artillery shells, these artillery shells struck the iron dome battery that completely took it offline and exposed the north in part to fire from hazballah, we look at the response now with regards to the miron site and and the intelligence headquarter and we look at how they struck that particular site with

artillery, with 80 gms in tank guided missiles, by the looks of it looks like the cornet missiles as well as rocket fire, and the precision with which hazbillah hit is an indicator to israel that this is not going to be one where they can carpet bomb area and try and achieve some degree of deterrance, it's not possible with hazballah, hazballah. has precision guided munitions, we know it's been a concern for israel for many years and to go up against hazballah in a head to head fight would be suicidal for the zionist entity, however what we are seeing now, the escalations of aggression against lubnan is merely to appease the zianist population, the political movement, particularly individuals such as itim b and b, although they're not part of uh the war cabinet, they have been creating a huge fus and rukis that hazballah

is getting away from is really reprisal, hence this is attempt to try and appease the population from a military perspective israel is losing on the ground, in fact they almost lost one of the senior commanders, the commander general moshe chik, he was almost struck with an atg so the qasam brothers almost wiped out the leadership of the israeli military planning force in the south. if this is the capability of qassam, we can be rest assured that any fight against hazballah will spell the end of the zionist entity. however, that is already on the cards. we see what is happening with regards to ansar allah, we see the opening of the front with the brothers of iraq, and i think that israel has other option. uh, but to self-destruct. well, julia, for three months now, we've seen hezbullah, uh, attacking the

israely regime targeting soldiers and bases as well as other strategic areas in response to the regime's genocide in gaza. how would you assess hezbollah's role this last three months and helping to open another front um and and basically trying to help leave at least some pressure uh on gaza. your overall assessment of that it's performance, yeah, as mentioned earlier, we can we can see the results for ourselves, half million settlers that are not coming back from occupied palestine, um, the northern uh, the border between north by palestine and lebanon completely desecuritized, hezballah demonstrating its ability to wipe out um israel's air fields, air intelligence um, and so on so forth um now that the zience entity has resorted to uh basically flying drones

and cameras on on parachutes uh because it it's it's cameras in security are are have been completely destroyed um through a course of at least uh 637 um i'm sure it's it's been more now the 700s attacks by hazbil lock uh which have been incredibly successful um to the extent that that this is primarily avation for the the the science entity to want to um pull america into backing an aggression against lebanon um if it doesn't get its demand of of hazball pushing back um past the latani in its own territory so this has all been incredibly successful and this is only at barely over of hazbullah's capacity so one can really... um, imagine if it if it goes just above 10%, 15%, um, how

much that would really overwhelm the zinus entity in in its current state? and and this is primarily you know, it shows it's a testament to the not only the strength of hezballah, but the the the weakness of the of the science entity. well, what's your overall assessment of the united states regarding tel aviv? trying to expand the war even more so into lebanon, do you think washington uh uh actually is okay with this, or do they want to prevent it, or how do you see washington's real role? this: as i stated earlier, this entire plan to genocide the population of hazar was planned, supported and funded by the united states, the fact that they had brought aircraft carriers under the pretext of deterring the islamic republican and deterring hazballah is an indication that they had globalized the fight from the getco,

however the united states is very quick to strike and to create the impression of deterrents, but they would not want it to turn into a battlefield, this is why they are struggling so so much so in the red sea with regards to their coalition and securing the assets for israel, they have not been able to contain ansar allah and the possibility of opening a fight up in the north if the wildness of israel is allowed to rampage through the north this would automatically draw the united states into a new confrontation, they do not have the capabilities, they do not have the manpower, they do not have the supply, this has all been depleted due to the ukrainian war, and the status of the ukrainian war is clear for all to see, the united states together with the european allies have lost that particular year, the strategic reserves have been depleted, israel was asked to give the strategic reserves to ukraine, that has been

depleted and used up, and if they have if there has to be an expansion. both in iraq, in yemen as well as with regards to labanon, i believe that will bring the end of the empire. we have to look at the united states and israel through one lens as one entity. this would bring about the end of the higem germany, and i believe this is a deep concern for the united states, however, because of the error that they have made at the very beginning, they've globalized this fight, and it's not a trajectory that can be changed very quickly or any time. soon, it's already been stated by sad hasan nasaralah in his most recent speech, he said that this is a historic opportunity to liberate the lands and that means that we are heading towards a globalized fight, battlefield on all fronts and the united states is acutely aware of that, that is why they are trying so hard to have some sort of a peace deal, they talking

about the day after after hamas after the governance of hamas in they are trying desperately to bring in to this conflict, however israel due to its arrogance will not allow that, it needs to establish deterrants and it's not possible. julie, your perspective, where do you see this going um, if this war explodes even more than it has and involves more and more parties, i like to hear your assessment of what do you think is possibly to happen? yeah, so um, the what's the the current step is trying to escalate, by bringing the the united also to leader, i actually expect a couple days ago to be

attacked, but so far and... the the united in the face of a failed that it even lost its deterrance power against the the hoothis um the the united states's bases just like the the zins entity is being blinded in the the south lebanon north palestine border you also see reduced capability of the us to... um reinforced the the science entities occupation in the region and its own occupation in iraq and syria um because those bases have been hit um at least 110 uh plus times um and finally it looks like the the the last step on this uh this whole ladder um of confrontation um as the us right now is

relegated to a supporting and a reinforcing role um for uh the zinis entity um is in in the event that things would escalate to where itself is brought into directly confront iran. um this is something that israel is desperately trying to get to. it wants to bring in the the us uh to this direct confrontation because ultimately iran is uh its target, it sees it as like the the head of um all of the the forces of resistance that are that are curring and taking away existence um and so that's that's kind of how things are. it's expected to play out and and escalate um if if we see it uh going forth as it is. okay, we're keeping our eyes of course very closely on that. appreciate both of you

being with us on the spotlight. julia cosum, journalist and political analyst out of beirot, zakih ahmed my yet, attorney, activist and political analyst out of johannesburg. and thank you viewers for being with us on another spotlight. i'm marza hashimy, hope to see you right here next time. goodbye. 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, if there had 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, so make sure you join us right here on hidden files at press tv.

اذا هناك ازمه كهرباء انا اقول يعني انه الاحتلال من اطلق الرصاصه على الكهرباء وجعلها في حاله مرضيه كبيره منذ فتره طويله لم يسمح. او لم يدخل الى قطاع غزه ولم يسمح الاحتلال بادخال اي بالتالي عدم اتاحه هذه المياه للتدفق داخل حدود قطاع غزه طبعا هذه كلها تعتبر سرقه من قبل الاحتلال لمصادر المياه الفلسطينيه المي حتكون مالحه جدا يعني تقريبا مشابه لميه البحر ومع ذلك نستعملها يعني مضطرين للاستعمال اليومي ماحدشها ماحد بيستصيغها نهائيا

rest of the headlines, the gaza strep faces major health crisis as israel continues to pound the territory's hospitals, taking the overall death those nearly 23,000. international charity organization says over 10 palestinian children lose one or both of their legs and israely attacks on gaza every day and the us military bases come under more attacks by the resistance groups in syria and in iraq, retaliation for the american israely genocide in gaza.