israel's focus is on now we have a breaking news coming in the moments ago there was an explosion the syrian uh capital damascus resulting in what we believe at least five fatalities a residential building there in the syrian capital carried out by the israeli regime and we've believe we have our damascus correspondent that's trying to get to the scene to try to get us updated with respect to what is going on, this is a quickly developing story, you can see on the bottom of your screen there, five people have been confirmed killed so far, several injured an attack uh reportedly carried out by the israeli regime. joining us is press tv correspondent in damascus abraham, hello ibrahim, what can you tell us? good afternoon, this today around 10 a.m. 10 a.m. we heard loud explosions in almatze area.

which is a residential area in damascus, it was due to an israeli aggression that targeted building, if you can see behind me, the mosk, it's just between me and the mosk, there's a three stories building collapsed over its residence due to the attack, initial information indicated that there were five marters retrieved from under the rubble, of rescue and rescue teams and civil defense teams are still... searching for survivors at the moment, it's bit hard because it's a narrow street, the building is as i said completely civilian, it's in this same street of the south africa embessy in western maz, so far there's no information about any important triggers were targeted, the islamic jihad representative denied any of their.

were attacked or any of their offices, we as of you can see we are still far away from the scene because uh the security teams lock the seam completely, we are not allowed to go there because it might not be safe, they are afraid that some other buildings might collapse due to the explosion, as you can see this is a platent violation of human noms and international laws, this is a complete residential area, there's no... repace no military presence and any of any form, the the the marters are all civilians, you can see the damage footage of the damage, it's severe damage, this marks the first attack after the marone control air base was destroyed by the by the by the resistance resistance, as you can as you as you know

also the these attacks have been escalated since october the 7th, since october the 7th, i think we now have over 25 israel aggressions that damascus, international airports, alipo international airport, the latest attack ipto cost also three marters, three civilian martters and other wounded only civilians, israel, yes it's targeting sometimes military bases, but most of the time it's getting civilians or the at least they don't care about civilian lives, they putting them at risk all the time. this is, i think we are still in within the third phase of the israeli aggression where the assassinations, terrorist attacks here and there will continue, and some observers think that we are going through more escalation. and at this point you mentioned uh, you cannot get near the blast site, um, is that correct? you're fairly positive that the

explosion has resulted in the entire collapse of that uh building abraham is a completely civil i'll try, i'll try, i'll try to get a bit closer, think i don't think it's kind of possible, sorry, i'm sorry, we have been told to to cut off, i'm sorry, i'm sorry, it's okay, thank you for that update, press tv, abraham apparently authorities have asked him to turn off the... camera there he is near a blast site where we believe the israeli regime according to our um uh reporter there in damascus he said an explosion a three story building in damascus carried out by the israeli regime has resulted in at least five fatalities um he mentioned they cannot get near the blast site but believes the building has completely collapsed as a result of this attack saying it is in a heavy civilian populated area and he believes um those deceased are a civilian. and at this point we

do not know exactly who's in that building and um exactly how many injuries next to these five fatalities have resulted this is a quickly developing story. and these are um faraway images there, you can see the white ploom of smoke there off in the distance and that is uh from what we understand the building that has been leveled by the israeli regime, you can see there it is in uh in a civilian populated area of town, he said there is, i believe a south african embassy close by that um he just uh mentioned, ironically south africa has brought a case against the israel regime at the international court of justice for, genocide in gaza, and um, we don't feel at this point, we have any very little information, who is in that building, what the purpose of this attack has been, but our reporter said the israelite regime has stepped up escalations and attacks on syrian soil, we know that the

regime has frequently carry out attacks against resistance forces um in syria and the damascus government has time and again appealed to the united nations to put an end to these uh violations of its sovereignty, these attacks by the israeli regime against targets in syria often, they've been at resistance uh forces and resistance groups that have been um invited there to help the syrian government ward off foreign backed terrorism and insurgency for over 12 years so most of the groups that have been targeted on syrian soil have been there at the invitation the syrian government to restore peace to the country - after over dozen years of conflict imposed on the country uh backed by western and regional powers there. um, you can see it is part of the meza neighborhood on the bottom of your screen there a three-story residential building in damascus has been

leveled in a blast by the what we believe at this point is the um israeli regime resulting in at least five fatalities, number of... of injured exactly who is in that building and the purpose of uh this attack uh we have yet to um get to the bottom of, but we do know lot of regional voices and international voices have said recently that israel is desperate because of its genocidal war on gaza to try to um partake uh in activities that are going to draw its allies especially the us into this conflict looking for a wider regional conflict in uh west asia uh the jordanian government just last week said that benjamin netanyahu the israeli prime minister will not get away with trying to expand this conflict and asked western israel's western allies not to fall into this trap of allowing

the regime to expand this conflict beyond the besieg gazo strip where nearly 26 thousand people have perished mostly women and children do to this uh campaign of genocide israeli regime is carried out against palestinians there. i'm going to be following these developments very closely these are uh images you can see is uh the bottom left hand part of your screen there these are not live images but these are the latest pictures we have in this is developing story so these images although may not be live or not um in the far too distant past it's just a while ago this explosion took place. and we are getting information trickling in at this point we know it was carried out by the israeli regime and uh there are at least five people killed and it's in a uh densely populated civilian area, the mesa neighborhood of damascus. if you're just

tuning in uh we're live here um at press tv but your images are not. live but they're not from the too far distant passes the developing story moments ago images uh were received here at press there's been a blast in damascus um an explosion a three-story apartment building there in the mazon neighborhood of the syrian capital that has apparently leveled that three-story structure resulting in at least five fatalities number of injuries we mentioned carried out by the israeli regime, why we do not know the whereabouts, the mesa neighborhood of the syrian um capital, the time of just moments ago, it's a quickly developing story, you can see civilians that are poured out into the streets to see what has happened inside their neighborhood, the regime has carried out

number of um attacks just like this on syrian soil um to the surgin of the syrian government, none of them with a un mandate, all of them violation of syrian. sovereignty and territorial integrity, the syrian government has appealed time and again for international bodies to put an end to israel's um various activities are carrying out these frequent air strikes on syrian soil all to no avail, as soon as we find out more about this attack that happened moments ago in the meza neighborhood of the syrian capital, we'll get you updated here on press tv, but we know at this point five people have been confirmed dead as a three-story building has been leveled there in the syrian capital by the israeli regime. and we we just mentioned moments ago that there are a lot of

voices in the region of west asia believe israel is desperate to try to pull the west, particularly washington into its uh a conflict in the reason jordanian government said he implored the west, the us and uh its european allies not to let benjamin netanyahu the israeli premier sucked the west into a regional conflict and expansion of the genocide. campaign in gaza, soon as we find out more on this uh blast in damascus by the israel regime, we'll get you updated here on press tv, now meanwhile 106 days into israeli war on the gaza strip and the regime continues with this carpet bombing campaign across the besieged palestinian territory. overall death tool from regime's war is now passed 24,800, more than 62,00 others have been wounded and thousands are still missing and presume buried. under rubble, israel continues pounding residential buildings and refugee camps and hospitals and areas it said

would be safe, the hospitals are overwhelmed as well throughout the besieged enclave with people literally waiting on hospital floors for medical care. deadly raids are being conducted while the coastal slivers under near total communications blackout imposed by the tel aviv region. as a us manage is really genocide campaign. in gaza continues, new un figures indicate women among the main victims the regime's deadly onslot on gaza, according to the united nations entity for gender equality and empowerment of women, also known as un women, out of nearly 26,00 people killed in gaza, over 70% have been women and children. un women says two mothers are killed every hour by the israel regime's bombing and shelling campaign in gaza, agency says out of nearly 2 million internally. displays gosons, half of them are women and girls. the un women also estimates out of

these 3,00 women who may become widows or heads of households are in urgent need of protection and food assistance, figures by the agency comes nothing's been done to address the crisis concerning the women in gaza. according to figures, just 0.09% of un funding has been directed to national or local women's organizations. the united nations says that israel's are detain thousands of palestinians in gaza since early october when the regime launched its onslot on the besieg gaza's trip. during my time here i managed to meet a number of released detainees. these are men who were detained by the israeli security forces in unknown locations for between 30 to 55 days. describe being beaten, humiliated, subjected ill treatment and to what may amount to torture,

they reported being blindfolded for long periods, some of them for several consecutive days. i don't see any, so said the palestinians are detained in horrific conditions, he said he personally heard accounts of release detainees who said they're beaten up and humiliated the commissioner. also urged release of those held without charge and called for a transparent probe into all instances of torture by the israeli regime. multiple released palestinian detaines say they were transferred in trucks to open air prisons where they suffer different forms of maltreatment. they took me to the truck and the truck was crowded with detail needs. practiced the worst types of torture on us. it was rainy night, so they took us to

northern area and put us on the asphalt. it was raining hard and it was cold. we stayed in the rain for more than an hour and they beat us while we were tied up. now free prisoners also threaten to be shot and forced to insult palestinian groups and political figures. such accounts are backed by footage released by israel. troops on social media that shows their mistreatment of prisoners, videos often show blindfolded palestinians, among them a number of women and children. "south african politician and youth activist mohammed khalid sayyad has spoken to us about the israely genocide in gaza and he explains why the regime is imposing a full-out communications blackout buse this is a genocide, the pictures are here, the death tell speaks to it, but even within that context, the people of gaza and the

resistance and hamas in particular have put up a brave fight and they continue to..." resist and we want to commend them for that, without iran, this particular axis giving support to the suffering people of gaza and the resistance in gaza will not be possible. the aim of the israel regime in carrying out this particular blackout is so that they can suppress the information coming out of gaza, so that their crimes, their atrocities, their genocide cannot be sent out to the rest. the world, but still the information is at our disposal, so that's their objective, but also, you know, um, crazy regimes like the israeli regime, especially the one led by benjamin netanyahu does not always even think rationally, even in terms of their own interest, yes, the interest is to obliterate, to flatten gaza, to kill each and every

palestinian living in gaza, but the blocking out of commun. ation they see it as part of that, but they do not understand that this is simply backfiring, it's making the israeli regime yet again look like a regime that wants to close out each and every communication, a plot hatched by zinis to oc occupy, to disintegrate and to plunder palestine. this documentary tells in five parts how the israeli regime kickstarted its sinister project in palestinian lands through the gradual strategy of settling the

so-called jewish colonies. and welcome back everyone, you're watching a press tv world news, israeli forces have carried out fresh raids on several areas of the occupied west bank, including refugee camp near alcots, regime troops clashed the palestinians during raid ashufa camp, they... abducted several palestinians there. there was also another israeli raid on the balata refugee camp nearnapolis, military wing of the zami jihad resistance movement says its fighters from nabulous confronted israeli forces at the camp. another palestinian arm factioned the alaxa marters brigades also reported confrontations with regime troops there. since october 7th, israel's intensified its

raids and arrests across much of the occupied territory. the regime forces withdrew. from a refugee camp in the city of tutankharam on friday after raiding several locations there for almost 2 days. reid killed at least eight palestinians and left a trail of destruction. the israeli army comes to kill, not to detain or arrest wanted people, no, they come to kill young people, old people, animals are inanimates. if they see a shadow of a cat, they'll kill it. "at the beginning of the rate they entered this house and they stayed in it. there was a window there and they were observing through it. more soldiers joined them and they raided the area and destroyed houses. dozens of palestinians have been abducted during two-day raid onto carem refugee camp. according to an advocacy group of palestinian prisoners club. some of those

detained were severely beaten by regime forces. since october 7th, israel's military and settlers. have carried out incursions into different areas of the west bank almost a daily basis, killing and arresting palestinians during these raids. now we're going to swing back to uh damascus, syria where the uh syrian capital has been the scene of a blast and explosion in a residential area carried out by the israeli regime, that's resulting in what we believe at least five fatalities joining. our press tv correspondent on the ground there, hello abraham, what do we know at this point? there's still no more information, you've been asking about the building - it had to change my position as you can see, because the security asked her to evacuate the the scene, it's still dangerous to be there, because anything can collapse any moment, the

the the building behind me, if you can see at the end of the street, you ask if the building was completely collapsed, the whole building collapsed, nothing left of it, and it's unfortunately in a very narrow street, as you can see the you can't get two big machines uh so it's not really helping, the civil defense would take some time to extract to extract whatever still left under there, they're still searching for survivors, so far uh it's going slow because as i said it's very narrow place and the you can't have big machines at the scene, that's what we have - for the moment, if you have any other questions, yeah i do, how do we know when? has been um hit and when it collapses and it explodes and you mentioned the victims are under rubble, then how do we confirm at this point how many victims are literally under

rubble still? this is hard to tell at the moment, let's say it's three stories building and there's at least six to eight families, so we're talking about many people, but still we don't know if they're all. uh we've seen some civilians around the scene crying and you know it was emotional because some of the relatives were there and as you can see from the the explosion israel used some high explosive ammunition to take out the whole building uh they wanted obviously to make sure that no one survived this right but who gave us the report that there's only five victims that buried under rubble how do we uh once we once we arrived? "i've talked to one one of the civil defense uh guys um casually, we just had casual talk and he said we extracted five five marters at the moment,

civilians, all of them, but they're struggling, he was talking, he was emotional a bit and he was he was talking about the struggle of extracting the rest because it's really narrow place, they wanted heavy machines uh like buldozers." "there were cars in the scene also, they've been trying to contact the car owners to move their cars, some of the cars were completely destroyed, they had to bring elevators to take out the the cars from next to the building, it was really chaotic at the beginning, and this is not an isolated incident, is it? ibrahim, the israeli regime frequently carries out attacks on syria, don't they, definitely, definitely, this isn't the first time since..." let's say all at least since october the october the 7th, we have at least 25 attacks between

artillery attacks, missile attacks and air strikes, such that we such as the one we we've seen right now, most of the attacks usually targets civil civil institutions or facilities like the international airports for example, many... times over and over sometimes there are paces also we have these as you can as we all know we have entered this new phase of assassination since the assassination of the commander marter sayid a while ago and uh since then there were several assassinations in lebanon the terreist bombing bombings in iran but also they've been at least for assassinations of syrian arab army of sers in the southern area in the sun region in after israel throw leaflets threatening syrian arab army officers because they are supporting the

palestinian resistance who are targeting military sites in jolan so we've seen uh so far several attacks by israel and also its arms because assassinations of syrian arab army officers were carried out by terrorists uh within that region and the syrian government we know it's appeal to international bodies to put a stop to these israeli attacks on syrian soil where has that gotten the damascus government um the syrian the syr the syrian government as you can see the syrian government sorry the syrian government uh the syrian foreign ministry of the syrian ministry of foreign affairs usually sends messages to the security council and the un assembly asking them to

stop to put an end to these israeli aggressions, these israeli attacks and condemning them because they violate all international laws, all human norms, they're targeting civilians, putting them at risk, they're targeting sometimes heritage places and this is unacceptable, so far nothing of that uh didn't result in anything because the international community as we know supports israel and they will turn a blind eye every time israel do something, especially when we talk about uh the us uh veto and the security council, so basically as long as the us is giving a cover for israel, israel can do whatever they want, and there are a lot of voices also abraham that feel like the israeli regime is trying to pull its western allies into the genocide conflict in gaza and

expand the conflict, do you see signs of that considering these attacks not too far from graza a syrian soil that could easily ignite the region in a deeper conflict. this is exactly what's going on at the recently. you can see that the escalation began after as we said the recent assassination of commander marter commander musabi. since then we seen something different a new phase of. israel wants to go into war because netanyahu has nothing else, otherwise netanyahu will be sacrificed, that's it, because there's no any other solution, so he had to go to war, but obviously the us and the the eu don't want to go to war, they don't want a regional war, because this will affect all their interests in the region, still they can't abandon

israel, israel is their... military pace uh, they can't abandon it, they also can't ignore the attacks, they had to reply to attacks, as you can see, so - sorry for the noise, it's behind israel yes, is trying to ignite the whole region and drag everyone into regional war, but still, as we can see also, for example the iranian retaliation lately, it wasn't, invitation to original war, yet it was decisive enough to but uh to put to put to put israel uh in line, it's just just punishment, it serv to the revenge and the punishment at the same time, this is the wisdom of the access of resistance countries, they don't want to get the whole region into war, yet we are facing an enemy who doesn't

know... anything but war, this is the only language they speak, genocide, war, killing, that's it. okay, so for so far, before that you go, um, abraham, let's let's do a quick wrap up so far what we know for our viewers that are just tuning in, there has been a news trickling and there's been a blast in uh damascus, the i believe what the mezat neighborhood uh three-story building has been leveled resulting in at least five fatalities, do you want to give us a summary one more time, abraham? for our viewers that are just uh joining us, what we know at this point, when did this blast happen, who do who could who carried it out, and how many casualties and injuries have resulted at this point, what do we know? okay, uh, the explosions took place around 10 am this morning, loud explosions, uh, the explosion took down a building, it was due to an israeli attack, took down three, that took

down three, three stories building, in western maz neighborhood, which is a complete civilian residential area, no military paces, no military presence of any type in the scene, it caused multiple injuries and deaths, unfortunately, so far the civil defense teams and rescue teams are still searching for survivors, they retrieved five marters at the moment, they're still searching for more, but i said it's because of very narrow space, as you can see behind me the the street is very very very narrow so it's really difficult for them, we've heard that sayed ismail sandawi, the representative of islamic jihad, israel claimed that they targeted one of the islamic jihad leaders, which is which is false, completely false because the representative of the islamic jihad, ismail sandawi said loud and clear that no,