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tv   News In Brief  PRESSTV  January 8, 2024 4:00pm-4:03pm IRST

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news and brief of press tv: the gaza strip faces major health crisis as israel continues to pound the territories hospitals, taking the overall death toll to nearly 23,000. health officials in ga say, hospital is coming under heavy israeli drone attacks, they say the regime wants to disable the hospital. at least two more journalists have been killed in israeli air strikes in gaza. mustafa toriyaya and hamza dahto were killed when a missile directly hit their vehicle west of conunis in southern gaza. at least 109 journalists have been killed in gaza since october the 7th. an international charity organizations. says over 10
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palestinian children lose one or both of their legs in israeli attacks on gaza every day, save the children cited statistics released by unicef, saying over 1,0 children have had one or both legs amputated since october the 7th. israeli forces killed three more palestinians including four-year-old girl after shooting at two vehicles and a checkpoint near the occupied city of kuds. the islamic jihad resistance movement says the killing proves that israel is waging a campaign of extermination, ethnic cleansing and displacement against palestinians. the islamic resistance in iraq says it has recently targeted vital site in the city of haifa in the israeli occupied territories. the resistance group said it launched the attack with a long-range cruise missile. earlier the group said it also targeted us bases in syria and in iraq.
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assalamu alaikum, peace be upon you and welcome to eye on islam, the show where we look at current affairs through an islamic lens. each week we evaluate a trending new story and we break it down from an islamic perspective. the world, and in particular the muslim world in the global south, is marking the fourth anniversary of the assassination of iranian general qasim sulaymani at baghdad airport in january 2020, a murder that took place on the orders of former us president donald trump and at the behest of the zionist regime.