welcome back to gaza under attack, a deep dive into the ongoing us enabled israeli genocidal war on gaza and its regional and global implications. before i bring you our panel, here is a quick review of what's been happening. the funeral ceremony in doha, qatar for assassinated hamas leader ismail hania, the continued fallout from his assassination in the iranian capital, tehran a targeted kill. with israeli fingerprints

all over it, his killing came day after israel murdered a commander of the lebanese resistance group hezballah in the southern suburbs of the capital beirot. both iran and hezbollah have promised a harsh response. tehran has also said the us bears responsibility for supporting israel. the americans say a broader war in the middle east is not inevitable, but have reaffirmed us support for the israeli regime. to many, the recent killings raised the spector of an out war in the middle east, but how will iran, hisbollah, and hamas respond, and what does all that mean for the ongoing us-israely genocidal war on gaza, and uk foreign secretary david lamy, a surprise visit to lebanon, proportedly aiming to deescalate growing regional tensions. and also, in this country, britain's gear up for another national demonstration calling on the uk government to stop the two-way arms straight with the israeli regime, 10 months on. we

take stock of the achievements of the palestine solidarity movement in the uk. as always, planning to get our teeth into joining me for the discussion in the studio, british palestinian student and activist tarek othman and via zoom also from london, glenn secker, national secretary of jewish voice for labor, a british organization whose aims include a commitment to strengthen the labor party and its opposition to all forms of racism. including anti-semitism and to support the right of the palestinians to self-determination and to oppose the oppression of the palestinian people by the apartite state of israel. welcome to you both. let me start with you um tarek, from the very start of this genocidal war, um, we have known sort of where this thing was headed, but at this juncture everybody knows, it's clear to everybody that the region at least does not want a full-fledged war,

except for the israeli regime, it has violated iranian sovereignty, it's violated lebanese sovereignty, there will be a response, no doubt, as we've heard iranian and hisbullah officials say, but what options do they have in terms of the shape and form their response will take? uh, they have lot of different options uh, and there's been a little speculation, uh, one, some of the signs, some of the hints... be from the last time something like this happened so uh of course israel hit the consulate uh the iranian consulate in beirot in lebanon uh not in beirut in lebanon syria syria sorry in syria and uh in retaliation there was a barrage of i believe some 300 missiles rockets and drones uh from iran to various parts of israel uh the sort of assumption is

that it would be something similar uh, but of course it wouldn't just be iran, it would include ezballah from the north, potentially the heuties from the south, potentially uh some iraqi groups as well and of course hamas uh, so in general that is the expectation, but any it's all up in the air, anything could happen, you now for all we know this could could be a strategic um a strategic weight and you know it could be months or years before we get a response, it could happen literally this moment, yeah, so it's it's it's all up in the air, there's a lot of anxiousness, lot of fear amongst everyone, there's a lot of disappointment i think amongst everyone, there was hope for a cease fire, yeah, there was hope in the kill man, who was involved in these uh cease spire negotiations? didn't they? um, glenn, it is,

of course, believed that israel wants to drag the us into a war with iran, if we were to believe of course, for one second, that the americans had no idea. that israel was planning these assassinations and and that the bigger the war uh the bigger the opportunity for ethnic cleansing, do you agree with that, and is that do you think or has that always been netan yahoo's plan? yeah, netanyahu has always wanted to expand the war to include iran, it was always his agenda to try and... take out the iranian uh nuclear facility and of course if he manages to create such a conflict in the middle east uh his calculation is that america would have

to come in on israel's side and that would apart from many other things prolong his presidency so... um his presidency, his prime ministership uh, so he's held bent on maintaining a war footing, exactly, and and as we heard say earlier that you know the response from iran and hesbollah and hamas could come as we speak, or maybe in weeks or months from now, but there are there countries who are already going again as they did last time to protect israel uh, what is your reaction to jordan to? egypt, the uk, the us, all saying that they're going to intercept any possible iranian uh attack on israel. yeah, that this is the the old accord, uh, this is um, the americans want to

reestablish business as usual, and uh, netanyahu is, because of his extremism being led by the extremists, uh, 'the neofascis and the settlers uh is creating such a conflict uh that it's destabilizing what was the status quo for many decades, and uh egypt and so on um are still wanting to maintain that status quo, they were all being uh roped in on the plan to establish the arabian accords and uh that's still'. agenda at the moment, the the so-called abrahams and you uh heard um glenn talk about netanyahu and and his the fascist elements in his government strategically, how do you think these

assassinations benefit um netanyahu, his fascist government and indeed israel, in the short term they they do have some sense of benefit, it will... you could say about distract hamas for a for a short period of time in order to find a replacement and in order to uh reorganize and reshuffle and uh it would it also represents for them a sense of victory uh of course is one of their top targets yeah uh although i don't believe he was named specifically it was known that all hamas members would be targeted worldwide and this is a comp in that sense, long term, it's hard to see why this is going to be any different than dozens and dozens of assassinations that have happened before. mean, there was a period of time in hamas's early history where i believe they had some three or four leaders within a space of year or so simply because they kept getting

assassinated. um, and what we saw then is that hamas for whatever reason is is very very um resilient to these type of attacks and it's on. likely that you're going to see any sort of long-term change from this act itself. of course, the the the biggest concern of the moment is the chances of a larger regional war, which is what netanyahu has been craving for a long time, because by getting that, getting dragging the us into a regional war, he can enscons himself in power a little longer. um, how long um is nobody is anyone's guess, but uh, now let's shift our attention. if we may to the unimaginable human suffering in gaza that shows no sign of alleviating. andrea de domenco, head of the un's office for coordination of humanitarian affairs, has called for international journalists to be allowed in gaza. he's also issued a plee for an end to the us israeli

genocidal war that's killed nearly 40,00 people and wounded more than 91 thousand others. have listen. i call once again to to the need to have international journalists in gaza, we need to have representative of member states in gaza, only breathing the dust and the smelling of the orders of the living. in gaza, the world will realize what's happening there, the secretary general in november said that gaza was becoming a graveyard for children, unfortunately was right, and this is what gaza became, the international community, the world has to answer the question of how much human suffering can be tolerated in the name of security, how many children have to be orphaned, how many elderly need to die, how many? children need to be deprived of their childhood, how many civilians have to pay the

ultimate price for it? okay, let's get some reaction to that, so the mention of journalists tarek uh, from the very start of this genocidal war, well up until now 165 journalists have been murdered in the gaza strip, but from the very start, many international journalists wrote an open letter calling on israel and egypt to provide a quote free and unfettered access to gaza for all foreign media, to this day that hasn't happened, what is the israeli regimes calculus here? why? the truth is is there there's two things to it: first of all, of course, they don't want footage coming out and they don't want uh western journalists going in seeing what's happening and reporting it uh to proported to reporting it on supposedly sort of independent and trusted sites uh... but the truth is, i think part of it is a reluctance to accept and uh

appreciate the journalists who are in gaza, like as you spoke of, there's some 165 who have been murdered up until this point uh, and this insistence on allowing foreign journalists of course is necessary, and of course you you appreciate that we want as many journalists as we can, that's never going to be a problem from as many different positions the as as as as we can get, the issue is that part of... "the part of the calculus is that israel knows that the world don't listen to palestinians, they won't listen to palestinian journalists, they don't care what palestinians on the ground having lived there for decades will say, even if it's all you know on video footage, it's all proven, it's all very obvious, they need to see it from a western perspective, they need to have a white person in there and you know have a bbc logo and then they may then they might trust it, and in that case..." has succeeded in uh giving everything that comes out of gaza a sense of uh incredulity, so no

one, no, lot of people in the west don't believe anything that come whatever you see with a pinch of salt exactly, they they force that pinch of salt so to speak, despite the fact that there's no reason for that to to to be the case. um, glenn, do do questions like, you heard the un officials speaking earlier, do questions like how many children have to be orphaned, how many elderly need to die, how many civilians have to pay the ultimate price uh for this atrocity in the gaza strip, have any impact on israeli society or on politicians who have supported and enabled this genocide, or or is palestinian blood cheap? yes, what is amazing uh about what's happening, here in the uk is that this absolute horror is now down on the agenda of

the news stories, it's become just part of the ongoing reporting, and uh, it's not making the impact that you would expect when uh similar um horrors of... occur individual and small scale horrors occur elsewhere uh they get a mainstream media coverage um and that's correct, but the palestinian suffering is just relegated to uh secondary, tertiary status and it's unbelievable that this is the... case, correct. i still believe that majority of people in the uk are really

exercised about this. i think the numbers uh that wanted to cease fire the last national pole was in excess of 70%. i still believe that that percentage of the population are horrified at what's going on in gaza, but there's a sense of importance that they... can't do anything about it and uh it's just become part of the the background news stories, it's horrendous, definitely. of course the protest movement has helped keeping uh keep the momentum, we'll we'll talk about the protest movement here uh later on on the show, but tarak um these allegations, let's say of um rape and abuse and torture, um, the un of course has done a report from uh testimonies or evidence that

victim palestinian victims of torture have given happening in israeli prisons uh one man having been uh raped with iron bar and another one gank raped and now i hear that the rabbi has issued an edict saying that it's okay there is and of course that's depraved yeah it's incredibly depaved and of course as i'm sure you know uh there were protests at the facilities where this was happening yes uh but it wasn't to protest against the the the rape and the the torture of of of. from gaza, it was instead to protest the fact that select few of those soldiers were brought in for questioning, they weren't charged, they weren't even, harmed in any way, they were brought in for questioning, and that caused such upset amongst certain subsect of the israeli population that they rioted, they broke into

israeli military campuses and and and uh places and i think imagine for second if palestinians were to try and riot and break into an israeli military uh uh detention center every single one of them would be shot in the head you know there there's no and i don't think an israeli person would disagree with me that's undeniable but of course when it's israelis who are protesting for the right to rape then they are allowed in whereas when it's palestinians protesting for their basic human. then they are shot and killed um and guess i think that's just such a small microcasm of the whole situation, it just describes everything so perfectly, you have one side vying for their right to rape and being allowed practically to cause disorder to control government and of course many of the people writing were members of the connessit, many were members of the

government whereas on the other side you have those who are being raped in... in in in many cases who are being oppressed in many cases abused and tortured abused tortured and uh denied any semblance of dignity, any ability to defend ourselves uh whatsoever uh yeah all right um stay with me um we're going to attend to this other story but when we'll come back and and discuss it further in the past 10 months israel has proven to the world that it will not stop anything or anyone? even aid workers in carrying out its genocidal intent in the gaza strip. the government of australia has condemned israeli air strikes and three world central kitchen vehicles in gaza in april that kill six foreign aid workers, including an australian and their palestinian driver. typically the israeli regime has held no one accountable just yet. here is australian foreign minister

penny wong, speaking about a government investigation into the incident. the australian government. continue to press for full accountability, including any appropriate criminal charges and we will continue to advocate the views of the frankcom family and the australian government to israel, we do agree, we do believe apology should be provided. i've also said that clear practical action is needed to ensure this this tragedy is never repeated. the report by mr. binskin has identified some steps taken by the rdf since the incident, but more is required. gaza remains. the deadliest place on earth to be aid worker. this was not a one-off incident. the un reports that more than 250 aid workers have been killed since the start of this conflict. and in recent weeks a number of un vehicles have come under attack. this is not acceptable. this is why the government is implementing all of a chief

marskin's recommendations including working with the un and the international community to press form its coordination and deconfliction with humanitarian organizations working on the ground. in the north of ireland, palestinian activists have marked 300 days of the us-israeli genocidal war on gaza by placing a massive palestinian flag on black mountain in the capital belfast. from belfast, author, journalist and anti-imperialism activist frag hugs explains why they chose to mark the day. this on friday morning, the uh 2nd of august. will be about 20 local activists, including palestine, ireland and the uh gil force art, and we're going up to the black mountain, which overlooks the... motorway from belfast to dublin, we're going to erect a flag, a palestinian flag, 120 feet uh by 60 feet, and we are going to put on the number 300 above

the flag, this will be up in time for the people traveling to work and will stay up until people come home in the evening during the roshore, and that will be seen by approximately 100 thous people traveling to and from belfast uh the... idea is to mark the 300th day of the genocide in gaza and it's very important that we have this uh visual aspect upon the mountain to remind people of exactly what's happening and in conjunction with that between 5 pm and 6 pm on one of the major bridges that access the motorway network we will have what's called a bridgel and we we have banner saying endogenocide with 300 days on it and we will have approximately 50 to 100 activists on the bridge with palestine flags and the idea is that as many bridges as possible in ireland

uh are occupied uh with people showing their uh their solidarity with the people in gaza but also reminding the rest of the people on the island of ireland exactly what is happening uh and the shameful nature of the irish government and doing nothing to prevent this genocide. i would only add that it's important to people mark the 300th day of the genocide in gaza, this war on the innocent will continue uh, but people in the west, especially must stand up against our governments and we must stand in solidarity with the people in palestine, and it's important that these visual representations of support and solidarity for the beseged people of gaza and indeed the west bank and yemen and iran and and lebanon uh, we we stand shoulder to shoulder with the people living under opression. fry hull speaking to us all the way from belfast. let me go

straight to uh glenn secker. glenn, one of the aims of jvl, jewish voice for labor, as i mentioned at the top of the program is to fight all kinds of racism, including anti-semitism, how has the actions of the israeli regime fueled anti-semitism? around the world in the past 10 months, well firstly just because their actions are so horrific, the such blatant violations of basic human rights, that those actions in themselves, which people see on their televisions every day, on al-jazera on free view and even the mainstream news. uh uh programs bbc, itv, sky and so on, carry, carry these pictures in the news and so that in itself has been turning

people away from their sympathy with israel, but there's a another problem which is that israel perports to speak for all jews and ' of course there are hundreds of thousands of jews around the world um organized sometimes in in big groups like jewish voice for peace in the states and our organizations here in the uk and european jews for a just peace across europe who say very loudly not in our name and uh many people are beginning to understand the distinction between israel as an identity and jewish identity. excellent finish there, uh, gentlemen, i had plenty of questions to ask you, but we have run out of time, i'm afraid. that is all for this gaza

under attack everybody, special thanks to tarak othman and glenn secker, and of course, to you for watching us. catch our earlier episodes on pressv.co.uk, and until next time, continue to keep palestine in your hearts. the west bank economy is in a crisis. israel wants to take over the west bank and they also want to take over whatever is left of gaza and they want to rebuild and make it

their own. "the us-israely genocidal war is taking a toll on the economy, many shops and businesses have closed down. what if palestinians were shut off from the banking system? i'm particularly concerned by israel's threats to take action that would lead to palestinian banks being cut off from their israeli correspondent banks. these banking channels are critical for processing transactions that enable almost e billion dollars a year in imports from israel, including electricity, water, fuel, and food.

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