top stories here on press tv army says is targeted an american ship in the gulf of aid and warning against any new aggression against the country or the past week there's been a series of us that strikes on yemen over what washington described as threats again. shipping in the red sea. iraq's prime minister reiterates his government's opposition to the presence of us forces. muhammaddani says american troops must leave as daesh is no longer a threat to iraq says ending us military presence is crucial for iraq's security and stability. 17 palestinians are killed in latest israeli air strikes on gaza. five lost their lives in a

strike on a residential building in hannis and the other 12 were killed in an air raid near alsifa hospital in gaza city. overall death toll since october 7th in gaza's top 24,600. a un rights expert slams to israel's measures in gaza as violation of international law describing them as highly illegal and highly unlawful. un special repertoire on occupied palestinian territory says regime is used. 12,000 bombs for the first two weeks of its aggression alone and another polician journalist is killed following israeli strikes on the gaza strip. wail abu fanuna, the chief executive officer at politz today satellite channel, was killed in israeli strike in the central gaza city. nearly 120 journalists have been killed by the regime's occupation forces since october 7th.

as the west israely genocidal war continues to claim civilian lives. the emmy army has continued its plesh to support the palestinians by targeting israely-bound vessels. but the mastermind of the genocidal war in gaza, the us, is reacting by striking yemen's mainland. why does the u.s. target yemen, which is only fighting for the sake of in palestinians, calling for an end to this genocidal war, and why would it name a yemen zarola a terrorist organization? in this edition of the spotlight, we will look at the military aggression by the us and its allies against yemen, and how militarizing the red sea, as they have done in dangers of the world economy. first, let me introduce our guests. is an activist and political

commentator joining us from sona. also joining us daniel kovalak is author and human rights a lawyer who joins us from pittsburg pa. welcome to you both. i'll start with you. since you're in sona, let's look at the latest u.s. aggression and uh if you can tell us what you think about it where you have uh the 14 strikes that the us has uh uh executed and uh this was uh... preemptive uh move by the us because it said that there were missiles ready to go by the yemenese, i'm wondering how they would know that, and whether that even constitutes a reason to strike another uh country's army. uh, what is your reaction to the way the us did that, and of course how it has been acting against yemen, which has accelerated it strikes against the yemeny army. i'm... it has been

clear that the united states in all attack, the main purpose of those attack is actually to support israel for to continue its junide and blockade and the mass killing uh in in gaza and when yemen take these steps, all the international community, i mean most of the country has came with the united states because they want germany not to help the palestinian, they want the palestinian to stand alone and it was really clearly if when they after they designate the uh ansarullah as they called dahoti as a terrorist organization here they were actually really of really calm and they said this actually will not make a difference because united state during the nine year of war against yemen which was actually ordered and supported by the united states and uk it hasn't done anything even though when trump has put uhuti under the so the so-called terrorist list list and uh today the speech of sayed abdul malik he was really really really clear and he insisted that team will continue its

attack and he has sent a clear message especially uh to britain which as he mentioned is the one that has actually uh built the zin state uh before the united state like cape. into our region and he insisted that the yemani will actually not only continue their attack against israeli linked or israeli or ships that hidden toward israel they will target actually even united state and uk ship so i mean this is a clear message to the united kingdom because they already have targeted to uh us own the ship yesterday and i believe two days ago and i believe that the next step it will be uh to target uh this ship belong belonging uh to the united. to the united kingdom and he he has said as well that if the united states knew what type of weapons that in in the in the latest attack against uh the ship yesterday he said if they knew what type of weapons they will actually know that yemani they have weapons that they don't know and

that they are upgrading uh these weapons thank you for that um we're looking at uh the grim milestone that has been passed now we're looking at about 104 days here daniel i mean it's really ' uh, something else, i don't need to tell you or the viewers maybe, because uh, for what we have seen, this genocide has been unfolding a daily basis, um, and the death doll is really shocking. at the same time, we we're looking at the us that has given israel unfittered access to uh military supplies and my question is, if the us is willing to do that for israel and willing to uh go through the expense of uh striking yemen whose purpose. behind the targets of the red sea or israeli bound linked ships, which now the us and the uk are part of that, it's to stop the genocidal war in gaza, why isn't the us for example focusing on trying to get for example aid into the gaza strip? do you think, but is willing to go through the military uh

approach to this whole thing? well, it really does show the priorities of the united states, right? i mean, if the if the us really cared about human rights, it would have set up no fly zone over gaza to prevent this gen yes i can hear you l and clear this is much yeah i can hear this is much better sorry about that okay we have you hussein we can hear you but daniel caval go ahead sorry about that daniel no that's fine so uh as i say this shows the priorities of the united states right mean if the us cared about human rights it would have set up no fly zone over gaza to prevent this genocide instead it's been sending 2 pound bombs to israel which they're using to wipe out entire neighborhoods uh in gaza and as you say um the us is using its military might to attack yemen uh why because it cares more about shipping lanes and commerce than it does

about human lives that's what they're saying mean that's it doesn't matter what biden and blincon and these other folks say what that they care about civilians you have to look at their actions and are saying we care about our global dominance in the middle east and we care about shipping lanes and we don't really care about civilians, that's exactly what the bied administration is saying through this condo. what do you think about that? our guest makes the point that their actions speak louder than words and that what they care about is the global dominance and shipping lanes. do you think it's just it is focused only on that? or maybe as some have said that they have ' gone ahead with their military um action in order to uh divert the attention from the defeat of the israeli regime forces on the ground there in the gaza strip. to be honest to be honest with you that they only care about the shippin lane is

because uh yemani has actually formed the blue cate against israel. i mean all the other ship they were really safe and at the beginning we remember of the attack yemani army. has only attacked israeli ship or israeli linked ship and this is a clear message that yermany doesn't want actually to interrupt the shipping lane but of course it is the united state present in uh in the red sea is the one that actually uh has brought all the danger to uh the red sea and to all its shipping because of the present they have uh they have ordered many ships or almost all the ship not to reply to yemani calls or yemeni navy request for those ship and is under international law, if you are in a war against a country which is yemen, now they have declared war against israel, they have a full right to search and to to stop and to search uh any ship, even to take any ship, and they have the for right if it's a commercial ship to sink that ship if it's not

actually replying to the calls from the yemani army, we are at war and they don't think that yemani will let the red sea to be used to support the z. state of israel in their killing against the palestinian people and as well to be used to have and to target yemeni forces and to target yemen. that's why sayid abdul malik today has insisted. and he said they will not allow any country to have a military present in our region and he said that the palestinian have the right especially now in gaza uh to uh to have a port so they can get their food directly without going through israel and rafaah border crossing should be opened and their attack against gazza should stop and they should withdraw as well from gazza and then at this point is up to the palestinian people who can decide what to do next or i mean the resistant in his speech today he called millions of yemani to take up to the street

tomorrow uh friday in the afternoon and i believe or i have a feeling there might be an important announcement uh tomorrow uh because said abdul malik today when he spoke he was really calm and he have told the yemen people not to worry and he said that we we are honored with this designation from the united state because the history of the united states and uk is just a criminal and tyranis and they have actually have done many many crimes across the world and he said how come that they are allowed the uk and united states to come 900 mile away from uh from palestine to come to support israeli to send them all the money all the all the weapons all the munitia all the bombs and then they cry out loud when yemani actually do exactly the same to support. the palestinian which he said and described them as they are one of us. yeah, i mean, daniel kavalik, you know,

when when you take a look at the premise of this whole thing, uh, the yemanies have made it clear that uh, they want to stop, they want to do something to stop this us is really genocidal war. uh, that is definitely what they have stated, and that is something that is the um, the their motive, uh, but this is being painted in another way, which does distract the world opinion against uh, against yemen. um, and what i want. i ask you is um the yemen has stepped up to the plate, um, this kind of mirrors what the r2p is uh, the right to protect, where when there's a genocide that happens in another country, although the right to protect uh has been misused by the west, but uh, when you take a look at the actual uh theory of it, if there's a genocide happening in a country, another country can actually come in to try to prevent this genocide from happening, well it looks like yemen is the only country that's trying to do that, isn't it, and there they have to be punished for it, they have to... yes, well i totally agree with you, and

i want to say this in front of my friend from yemen, that i honor you for what you're doing, yemen has invoked article one of the genocide convention, which specifically says that countries are obligated to do what they need to do to stop and prevent genocide, that's what the genocide convention is about, it's not just. that's supposed to be, read and fetishized, it's it calls for action, and is you say yemen is the only country in the world that is stepped up in this kind of way to stop this genocide. i think yemen in fact should get the nobel peace prize for what it's doing, and maybe share it with south africa who's also doing incredible work at the international court of justice to stop the genocide, those are the only two countries. i see really uh, as you say, stepping up to the plate to do something, to

stop, what i believe is the is the most important moral issue uh, since the holocaust, and you know, as people have said, if you want to wonder, if you wonder what you would be doing as a german during the holocaust, you know now, because you're doing it right now, all of us have moral obligation to do what we can to stop this genocide, yemen is... doing that and i applaud them for that uh the speech made there by abdul malik al huthi uh hussen as you mentioned uh is now um makes it sure and clear that the us and the uk are part of now the targets of uh uh the yemeni army um and we know what happened just days ago uh where you had the us and the uk actually strike uh yemen um not only in terms of the location. of where the military perhaps assets were but towns inside of

yemen, but the new york times came out and said that they really didn't uh impact the yemen military capabilities, that 90% of what the yemen has is still there in terms of their military capacity, what are the chances that the us and the uk miscalculated their military adventure against yemen? i mean said abdul malik when he mentioned today about this topic he said that those attack by united states actually were not obstruct their milit. military power because and he remind the united state that they have launched nine years of war uh by the saudi and the united arab emirate, i mean uh there was more than 250,00 air strike and what was the result? yemani army now is the one who is conducting actually attack against israel facing united kingdom and united state in support of palestine forming a blocate

against israel as well and he said that this aggression and this nation, if the united state will learn, they should actually think that those actually are making the yemini army very very strong and i'm sure that in the coming hours or days we going to see huge attack against the united states and uk uh because first of all in support of palestine and as well to revenge those people who has been killed the united state has targeted uh nine yemen solders in the sea and they killed them as they have in the in their attack has killed six people uh in the first attack against german and there are people who were who were killed as well yesterday uh which it has been said that there might be a funeral uh for them tomorrow so yemen now is actually is at war against the united states and there is one more thing today in his speech he has mentioned the word jihad more than 20 time

like advising people about jihad and important and if we gonna go... to jihad which is the holy fight now when we going to go, so that's why i expect maybe at one point if united state will extend its attack at uh against yemen, we might hear a total mobilization and total call for jihad for all yemens and at at that point you're going to see that millions of of yemani will join because i don't think of any other enemy uh that is like worst than the united states and the uk that's why i believe. tomorrow will go in their millions outside to the street and yemani actually have seen they were so actually happy with the announcement by united state to designate thehi or is not designation of thehi is actually is designation of yemen because yemen is trying uh to stop the the israeli genocide so like i said they were so happy because they said if what we called the greatest satan which is

united state and uk and israel if they say that you are terrorist and you are... their enemy, this mean that you are in the right way, and one final thing, people here are saying the situation is bad, so let's make it a good cause, let's make it in the cause of helping the palestinian people. taking a look at uh the transit route that the boble band has um there in the red sea uh daniel kavalic in terms of the significance uh we're looking at around 6.2 million barrels of oil that travel there daily uh overall we're looking at uh 10% of the world petroleum and of global trade, if the u.s. is really concerned about uh uh this aspect of it, why doesn't it come up with a temporary ceasefire of some kind to help the palestinians to show good faith, to show that hey, this is not just what we care about, somehow to meet some of the desperation of the palestinians, the ones

who are in the hospitals and the ones who need medical attention, and also... to stop from uh shooting itself in the foot in a sense, because you know if you have energy prices go up by the day that i'm really worried that those prices are going to go up, so why does it conduct itself that way in the red sea area? well again it shows what the us cares about, and i think the us shares israel's genocide on 10, i think the us and israel are concerned if they let up on the gas uh, if they if they let up on this brutal assault on gaza that gaza will survive, and they don't want that to happen, they want to push all the gazans out of gaza, and the u.s. cares more about that goal than even about its short-term economic interest, and that's an incredible fact. i mean, joe biden is

clearly willing sacrifice his entire political career over this, because his poll numbers are dropping and... especially amongst democrats because of this war, most the democrats, most of his base doesn't support what he's doing, but he's doing it anyway, because it he values it, and um, the fact that israel and the us value this genocide so much, again is very scary to me, it shows something about those two nations that most of the world, i don't think realized until now. you mentioned uh that he talked about jihad hosen uh over the 20 times in his speech. i want to ask you, what is he implying there? can he elaborate a little bit more on that? can you repeat the question? yeah, you mentioned howthi talked about jihad in his speech uh hours ago uh, what can you

elaborate a little bit more about what he meant behind that? uh, i believe he was encouraging people that this this fight actually is holy fight, i mean uh, we don't think that yemen uh will at one point have this uh... type of of aggression, especially uh during the attack of palestine, this is actually he he meant that all muslim, all arab nation, this is like the the final battle, they should unite now, if we don't unite now, if we don't help the palestinian now, this mean that the united states and uk and israel will focus on palestine and then at the after that they might come to yemen, because they don't accept actually that there is a government in yemen that's actually abose united. state and as well israel and uk and then they will go to another country one by one, that's why they will try to make us divided, and i believe it was not a total

call of of of jihad, but i believe he kind of advised yemeni people, because he does expect that the united state might try to take major attack against yemen, and at that point all yemeni must take up arms and they must go all to fight the... united state and uk and all all its ally and one final thing he has as well warned germany not to follow in in the step of united kingdom and as well of united state and he said something uh like that they should actually stay away and watch what's going to happen to the uk and and to the united states as well he he had warned italy and any other european country because to be honest with you their shipment now is safe united state ships were only attack after the... attack against yemen, so if they do the same, this mean that the shipping line of this country will come as well under attack, who control the land is the one who control the sea? i got about minute or less, daniel

kovalek, the european parliament coming out saying we want a permanent cease fire in gaza, but the precondition, the military wing of hamas has to get dismantled and all the captives to be released a parliamentarian in the us, so you're giving a green light for israel to continue this, what is your thoughts on that, what are your thoughts on that? well, i think at least it's a positive step forward that they've called for a permanent ceasefire. i certainly support all the release of all hostages, but i also that means israel releasing the thousands of hostages it's holding that they call prisoners uh, but in fact their hostages. i would support all of those being released on both sides uh as part of a cease fire. i don't think the demand for hamas and related militants because... "there's a number of militant groups fighting, um, i don't think that their disarming should be a precondition unless the israelis disarm, which of course most people would laugh at, the very idea of

that. okay, um, all right, thank you very much, daniel, author and human rights lawyer from pitsburg pa, pleasure, activist and political commentator from sona, thank you to you both. with that we come to an end for this edition of the spotlight from the team, it's goodbye.

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i believe that uh working together we can make history.

christian family: most of my family left jerusalem because they had to, and it was an area that fell to the hagana in i think february of 1948. the idea of being a fugitive is just like being affected by leprosy. all palestinians feel the same sense of exile. the charge which created outrage when it was first raised, i think um, they tried to dub. racist thing, but you see, unfortunately, i think there is something in it, so for him, the writing of orientalism was actually shaped by his engagement with the question of palestine. our homeland was lost in history and right in front of people's eyes.

tops here on press tv, over dozen palestinians are killed in new israeli attacks on gaza where the death tools already passed 24,600. mexico and chile. refer israel's war on gaza to the icc over escalating violence against palestinian civilians. the emmy army says is targeted an american ship in the gulf of aden with appropriate naval missiles in response to us let error strikes on the country.