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as well as target aerial surveillance space in the opera region with 40 rockets and this target being deeper inside the occupied territories this time. the attack was in response to the monday israeli strike on the lebanyese city of balback that left two civilians dead. the resistance group has also shot down an israeli drone over southern lebanon. as well and israel have been engaged in clashes since the israeli regime launched its genocidal war on gaza early october. mean time true stocks are also ongoing in the... katari capital over the genocidal war in gaza, so what's the future holding for gaza? what is the hezbulah israeli conflict heading for? welcome to the spotlight. i'm your host najafi, and these are our guests in this edition of the program. elijah magneer, journalists and polica analyts is joining us from brussels. also with us will be marsman, journalist analyst and made his stream

program out of beirot. now let me welcome both my guests to the show. beginning with elijah. this genocidal war that the israeli regime has waged the elijah on gaza has impacted the region. it has kind of a spread. you know that resistance fighters have not been sitting idol byy, they haven't performing their own retaliator operations. now uh, we're talking about. in this episode more is one of them and it seems that some analysts maintain that even if the war in gaza stops the tension between tel aviv and hisbolah could linger on, do you agree with that, and if so, where could that end up in? in uh, thank you for having me. sure, i'm not sure that israel can afford to see the war continuing on the lebanese borders because of the... capability that has manifested in the

last four and a half months and we have seen how hisbullah gradually used sophisticated missiles, drones, heavy rockets and prove the capability of selecting specific and precise military targets all along the 100 to 110 kilometers all along the lebanese borders. moreover, "we have seen also drones going more than 90 kilometers inside palestine, the bypassing even hifa, and we have seen how the hezbullah bombarded the golan hight, safad and other targets, showing that it can keep up with the israeli challenge. however, what has been introduced recently was the anti-air missiles that..." the israeli totally out of

their balance when the drone the hermes 450 that can fly up to 2000 feet was down by the hisbullahi. anti-air unit, this is why hizbullah is showing its military capability and is hiding even much more, the met the hizballah started the war and hizbullah is saying that is ready to f it, israelis are only saying that they will continue if the diplomatic mediation has failed or will fail in convince. to stop the war, therefore it is always conditioned with an element that the israelis are making sure they offer it to the audience that they really don't want to engage in all-out war immediately and have only this option, even if they have

instructed their people that the war will last until the beginning of the month of august. okay now of course there is this division among the israeli officials? "know about that, and we have some radical, one of like the israely war minister uf galan, saying that there will be no decline in his words in israel action against hisbollah, even if the cifile is agreed upon in gaza, we'll talk about seas file later in the show, so do you share the same view as elijah? i share nothing as elijah, and elijah knows very well why i share nothing as elijah, i didn't know that he will be here, if i knew that he will be here, i wouldn't accept." the invitation, but anyhow, since i a daughter of press tv and a worker at press tv at the same time, and being as a guest today, not as part of press tv, i'll continue out of respect for the producer who had me here, but did not tell me that this will be the second g, and as you know, berz, i cannot just stay calm

about anything in my life, and this is one of the stances that i should say that apparently your second guest now finds it possible to be on press tv after years of being very critic. against hisbullah press tv, the access of resistance, i'm really surprised he here. anyways, talking about, yeah, i will get to the point. talking about um, what is happening, especially what youav galant said, i think you've heard yalan say the same thing in the first ce fire that i was announced in the war on gaza, i think it was the first after the first month and a half, and "i think that it was not necessarily uh message towards uh his own people as much as it was some sort of message towards uh the uh internal lebanese society by trying to threaten them not to go back to their houses

in the event that there was a cease fire uh announced because uh even if a cease fire gets sold of lebanon as well after it gets all of gaza uh the uh zionist israeli settlers" will not go back to their settlements and the reason why is that they have made it clear that they will not go back even if sess fire is made with lebanon because they don't feel safe, this is what they are saying, so yuavgaland is trying somehow to keep also the lebanese border out of, keeping the lebanese people out of the lebanese border as well, because he knows very well, even if the seasfire takes place, the israeli settlers are not going back. they are demanding a conclusive truth, some sort of a peace plan with lebanon, or else they will not return, and we have heard lot of issues, lot of issues being discussed about this matter over the fact that there are some political people being sent to intermediate

in lebanon, especially from the united states of america, tending hisbolah that there might be some sort of a political solution that they might reach with ' designist entity, a political one rather than a military one, and hisbullah said that repeats what they keep saying, repeats what we heard hasan nasallah say uh since the beginning of the war on gaza up until now that hisbullah will stop when the war on gaza stops, and say hasan nasar in his last speech he made it clear that in the event of sess fire in gaza, hisbullah will stop fire, but if designity continues to fire, hisbollah will file equally in a deterned manner, the same manner that we have. been seeing, yes, it has been escalating, but at very, very slow pace, but at the end of the day it is being confined to certain areas to certain targets and not getting involved, for example with the capital or with major residential areas, despite the fact that zinast israel always

bombards residence, the residential areas and claims that it is targeting hizbullah depos, when in reality and after the lebanese authorities investigate, they find that they are either... privately owned companies or residential areas where literal lebanese civilians were just living with their families there okay now uh elijah lebanese resistance fighters, you have mainly targeted israeli military positions, but you see that the israeli regime has targeted residential areas in lebanon and causing the death of number of civilians there, so it's not only the gaza strip that you see, this is disregard is everywhere for civilian lives no matter where, now you see this also noticeable in lebanon, because israels are careless about civilian lives, we have seen how little at importance they give to the geneva convention and to the international

laws in gaza, they have done that in the past against lebanon, in the many previous wars. this is why it is not surprising when we see the israelies trying to target the uh lebanese civilians and trying to drag hisbullah into a wider war. this is something that hizbullah is very conscientious about and this is why hizbullah. is limiting always the fight and the war in support of gaza, so the palestinian cause is always in the center of attention and bringing back the israelis to the same rules of engagement and imposing deterrance on the israelis, even if sometimes what the israeli do is quite painful when they kill civilians that are supposed to be spared, but at the end of the day the uh world is dealing with the most immoral army in the world and we have seen how the

israelis are behaving, have behaved in the past and are behaving today in palestine, so i am not surprised for to see this behavior the israelis and trying always to hit those who are the weakest in any war, right? and marwa, lots of people have been uh displays uh from both sides of the... border, especially uh from the israeli side, thousands of people have been displaced in this exchange of fire between the two sites as well and the iof, and i remember chief warning the telaviv regime just recently, maybe a couple of weeks back, that if they take further steps and if they move toward further escalation uh will do something so that the you know israelis have to be actually forced to evacuate maybe two million israelies uh close to the border, so i want

to ask you, do you would you expect this in any way to turn into a full fledged war, and if that happens, who would be the loser at the end of the day? um, that was, i think the only option that this might end up being a full-fledged war is directly related to the preliminary results of the us elections. "it has nothing to do whatsoever with what the israelis want or can do, because if it's only about the israeli capability, it is definitely a no, the answer to your question would be no, but uh, we have to look at it from a wider angle, if the bidon administration is not gonna be able to stop donald trump from returning to power, i think the us might go ahead and in order to try and use code 606 for their own country." which means stopping the elections because of major war that might take place that would end up

having the united states of america get involved, then yes, the answer to your question would be yes, but at the moment, reading what's happening, looking at the regional politics, the international politics and the us politics, and also diving into the internal israeli politics, when you see how the protests against netanyahu and the war cabinet in general, is escalating, people are going back to the streets same as they did before, the war because if you remember they were in the streets for like 54 to 56 weeks trying to get rid of the netanyahu government because of the reform plans that they wanted to impose on their judicial system. now we are seeing a return to the protest, not with the same intensity, but it is being said that in the event that the cease fire happens, we will see protests in the streets the same way we did before, so that's a more pressure on the israeli government to stop the war, so if it is only according to... to the variables that are found inside of the israeli entity, the answer is definitely not. okay, now let's

now take a glance of this situation in the gaza strip and related developments there, kattery form ministry spokesman maj says that delha is optimistic that the deal on the seas five will be achieved before ramadan and also we have us president joe biden hoping that this will happen by next monday, but i'm also speaking of uh some big gaps to be bridged before. deal is reached, is deal around the corner in your opinion? i think the ce fire is something that everybody wants at the moment. but what benyamin netanyahu is trying to do is to bring a goat in a farm at the last moment, because he feels in a strong position and he feels by starving the population, by continuing the bombardment in gaza, even if he has not achieved any of the declared objectives at the beginning of the war, he can twist the arms of the palestinian

resistance, because he doesn't care about the 130. six israeli prisoners, so what he's trying to do is he's trying to accommodate the american pressure, at the same time the families of the prisoners by releasing a small number, there have been a talk about 40 prisoners to be released in exchange of a certain number of palestinian prisoners that has not been agreed upon yet, but at the same time it is important to keep the muslims away from fighting during the month of ramadan that will end also by the beginning of the jewish feast that would last for seven days on the 22nd of april, so this kind of combination, it is suitable for the israelis and for the palestinians to breathe a little bit and to have less bombardment a daily

basis against the civilians, allow the civilians to go and see what happened to their belove. one or if they can find something still standing or perhaps have more humanitarian aid, because the israel has been violating the icj uh order and the international laws and committing war crimes and crimes against humanity, by denying the population, the basic service, basic need to survive and denying them water, food and electricity, so for that i think it the problem are the details of the deal and netanyahu is trying to squeeze as much as possible to give less concession and to offer himself as a good negotiator to his people and at the same time plan to continue the war on gaza after the seas fire. now marwan, you

know that has also threatened to launch this military assault on rafa and you now what the situation is rafa like, more than million palestinians have been forced into displacement there and some of them are being starf to death, another weapon that unfortunately israel is using, apart from all those you know us made weapons and all that that they are using against them, they're also being starved to death, dying of some preventable diseases, so uh netanyahu is just saying that the attack on rafa will happen, definitely that's for sure, and a possible... uh seasfire deal would only postpone it, so let's have your assessment of the situation, i think that he means it, and i think that the biden administration uh, despite the fact that they keep saying that they don't like it, they would see a catastrophe coming out of it, or that they have many times uh asked

the israeli entity not to uh harm any civilians while uh the arafa operation is underway. did not tell the israeli entity, they're not allowed to initiate any sort of ground invasion or air invasion against rafah, which means that the united states of america actually gave the green light for such horrific uh operation that might end up a second vase of the genocide that we witnessed before, and we are still witnessing massacres that come out of this genocide, so i think that um, if there is something that would stop netanyahu, it would have to be... some sort of internal pressure or elevated resistance coming from palestine in specific and the access of resistance by default, but if netanyahu is to break the cease fire, which is also a possibility, because we saw how the the first part of the paris talks just went down the drain because felt like it and decided that he wants to finish off with

khan units and probably start something, but was then stopped by the americans for the sole purpose of... approaching ramadan and what ramadan means, the whole month of ramadan means for all muslims and especially the muslims of palestine who would go and pray in alacta and not allowing them or continuing the genocide during the month would only elevate and escalate the situation against the entire axis of resistance, but in case netanyahu decides to break the cease fire or wait till until the cease fire which is supposedly according to certain sources coming from egypt and qatar that it would be around 45 to 50... days, if he's going to wait 45 to 50 days and then relaunch that uh attack on uh rafah, i think the first thing that he would be doing is pushing the uh current displaced people. the refugeees rafaah north either to gaza or northern than that, but under the condition that he's been stating several times right now, whether in the science media or elsewhere, that he will

not allow men to go with the women and the children and the elderly, so i think what we saw in the northern part of uh gaza where the israeli entity occupation forces entered forcefully with mercava and what not to uh basically just incarcerate everyone there, including uh... the paramedics and the doctors and nurses and everyone involved in helping directly helping the civilians will happen again in rafah and he might take advantage of this 40 to 50 days trust to uh maybe let off some of the civilians who will either accept going back to the north under certain conditions or completely leaving into the sinai desert and either way it's a catastrophe it's a second neckback for the palestinian people okay elijah how do you look at this what's going to become i don't think the uh israelis can afford not to occupy rafa, because benyamin netanyahu have

said already that he has still four hamas battalion to deal with in the area of rafah, however he needs to look after the 1979 um come david agreement with the egyptians because he's not allowed to put more than four but on the borders with egypt, that will require a lot of effort, international effort and pressure from the americans. nevertheless, the resistance can never be defeated, because we have seen how he claimed to have occupy the north and occupy the middle, but occupying is something and controlling something else. the resistant is still bombarding the israeli settlement from the north, the israelis are still... uh bombing the north with artillery and airplane, which means that this there is a still significant resistance in the north, and he is still engaged in hanjunis.

therefore everything he's saying is just to keep the battle as long as possible, allowing him to sort out his domestic affairs and make sure that there is no strong appetite for a very early election where he is going. to be accountable for all the mistakes that he did according to the israeli society on the 7th of october and also the corruption charges, therefore it is not a promenad that he's going to go to rafah because the palestinian resistance is still strong, moreover, the international community, although they are finding excuses for israel, saying you need to displace 1.5 million internally displaced palestinian. from rafah, it is not that easy to send an army operating on the ground with so many civilians around, even if he doesn't care a lot about civilians, so between what

he's saying and what he can do, there is still a huge gap, and this is why this is fire will allow him to reorganize himself, or perhaps something new can be presented during the time of the seasfire when longer neg's ation can be presented and available and that can relieve both sides. okay, that's all the time we have, let me thank my guest, elija magnier, journalist and analyst in brussels, osman, journalist, public analyst and my colleague at press tv in beirot, and thank you for watching this edition of the spotlight, i've been your host, i'll see you next time. palestine has risen from the ashes, the

nation has gone a long way in its struggle against the occupation regime of israel, from throwing stone to flying drones. but who can deny iran's decades long support in this arduous journey. today in the studio we are joined by one of the members of the political buro of the palestinian islamic jihad movement ali abu

shahin. since the israeli aggression, there has been no safe place in gaza. the world today is saying enough is enough. the american administration is a part of this aggression under the pretext of slogans of democracy and confronting dictatorship.

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