of of hello and welcome to spotlight. in more than 10 months of israel's genocidal war on the gaza strip at least 40,000 palestinians have been killed. that's about four. thousand

people per month. israel has violated every norman rule of engagement during these months of of unabated onslot, all international attempts and pressure to bring about a cease fire in gaza have failed due to the unconditional support of the united states for the israeli regime. now mediators say the latest round of talks in doha have been constructive. will these efforts eventually bear any fruit to alleviate the sufferings of the people in gaza who are facing the worst humanitarian crisis. in the world, joining us tonight spotlight, we have palestinian scientists and author mazen romer joining us from bethlehem, and we also have activist and political analyti joining us from the british capital, london. well, welcome to the program, to the both of you, let's start off with mr. sia and bethlehem, a dark milestone,

unfortunately has been passed, over 40,000 palestinians, mostly women and children, have been slaughtered in cold blood since last october as the israeli attacks across gaza continue as we speak, what's really gut wrenching and appalling here is that um there's still not anything been done by the global uh community, no global intervention to prevent more innocent deaths and all the condemnations. have fallen short of any tangible action? indeed, this is a remarkable phenomenon that i've never thought i'd see in my life, that such injustice can be allowed to go on, basically indefinitely after 10 months of this slaughter, and the 40000 that have been registered as dead in the hospitals of course do not include the... thousands and

thousands still buried under the rubble who have not been issued death certificates or the many thousands missing who might be in israeli jails being tortured to death and we already know of at least 50 palestinians who died under israeli torture, rapes in jail etc. the horrors here in the west bank where i'm speaking from ' continue a pogram just yesterday in the village of egypt where basically settlers are allowed to rampage under the watchful eye of the israeli soldiers, so the level of terror, basically state terrorism is unprecedented in world history, starvation of an entire people and the allowings by the united states for israel to use starvation. and denial of medical aid

as a method of coersion, this is a massive war crimes and crimes against humanity, one it boggles the mind that this is allowed to continue, and second is it really reflects badly a world order set up after second world war that's now being dismanted regularly. "missowaiti in london schools and shelters in gaza have been serving asuh as makeshift camps for families displaced there, but the israeli regime continues to attack them. just recently, a school in the outdarj neighborhood in the heart of gaza was attacked, killing over hundred people were taking shelter there. what's clear now more than ever is that the israeli onsud and massacres not just against uh the resistance, but a genocide against all the people of gaza. see it in that night as well?

absolutely. the war is not against the resistance per say, it's against the collective palestinian people, because the of palestinians are effectively the... resistance, you know, a palestinian, just as someone who identifies as a palestinian is considered a terrorist uh, in the israeli occupations book, just their identity as a palestinian condemns them to death, and that makes sense if we consider the very essence the israeli contradiction, and that is with the very existence of the palestinian, because the settlers know that they are thieves, and they know that the israeli occupation entity came about through the massacres of the palestinians, threw that displacement, so the real enemy is effectively the palestinian people in their mother's rooms. all right, israel is using starvation and hunger as a weapon of war, that's been clearly documented, talk to us about the motives behind that, how is

fighting hamas and the resistance, which the israelis have claimed since day one, in any way tied to inducing famine and hunger on palestinian children in gaza. well the zianist movement considers, as your guest showed or mentioned that basically they consider all palestinians our enemies and it's part of the training they receive from childhood to see indigenous people, palestinian people, christians, muslims, bai, drus, whatever they are as the enemy regardless, if they are not jewish, they are the enemy and must be removed from what they consider a land given by god to the jewish people. this is the ideology of zionism. this is what drives zionism and has so for over 145 years since it was founded as a european

ideology, that's mimicking the worst of the worst of colonial ventures in europe, and so this this is... what drives it and what drives it is something we we thought we knew it, we parestinians thought we knew it, but we never expected the extent of it, the extent of the brainwashing, the extent of the dehumanizing that they do for our people, the extent of lack of humanity of any sort, mean it's hard to even think you know mass rape of the soldiers. soldiers of palestinian dethanies that is supported by 47% of the israeli public who support rape of to and torture to death of palestinian prisoners. this we never expected the level of the

brutality and the level of the malevolence basically of this regime and it's and it's brainwashed public, but also as i said, what we didn't expect is the level of the zionist infiltration of western media and western politicians to the point where one zianist just donated to donald trump 100 million dollars and 50% of the donations for the democratic party in the us comes from zianis to ensure that the us continues to... support them even against us own interest, this is we didn't expect this level of infiltration, this level of global malevolence, if i may use that word horror, so terrorism and

occupation, colonization is not just done against us palestinians, but it's done against people regionally and global. missobai, the us, qatar and egypt held a new round of talks to mediate a ceasefire deal for gaza. hamas says any agreement must lead to a comprehensive cease fire and the complete withdrawal of israeli forces from gaza. there's been a lot of back and forth with the truce talks, but the fact of the matter is the israelis don't want a peace agreement, do they? just look at the recent assassination of senior hamas leader uh ismail huni, especially uh, when we look at the... case of benjamin netanyahu and the warmongers around him were basically extending this massacre as their political careers will surely end when this war does. absolutely. netanyahu's insistance um is really on continuing the war and netanyahu himself has become the real existential

threat to the israeli occupation entity because the continuation of this war is only consolidating defeat for the entity. even um the minister of defense evalent um has challenged. the manhood and the supposed bravery of netanyahu um by not uh you know signing this deal, because everyone in the entity knows that the continuation of war is simply a consolidation of... defeat uh netanyahu is willing sacrifice the israeli occupation entity his own personal interests and he's also hoping and beting on the fact that you know they might be able to discover you know 10 months on you know the tunnel networks within gazah or to locate yahya sinwar or just to achieve something anything before the war concludes and ends with the israeli occupation entity having achieved not a single military strategic objective on the ground of uh ghazza and in addition netanyahu of course. his main strategy, as we've been discussing, is to continue to create the most unbearable condition for palestinians,

because of course um they they unanimously the occupation entity don't agree with two-state solution, um, a one-state solution uh is also not possible um, they are not able to reoccupy again or consolidate their control post war because of the shift in the in the power balance on the ground, so um all they can really do is is inflict and create the most unverable conditions for the palestinian. so netanyahu is resorting to the utmost degree of delay in this matter, because he knows that america will not abandon the israeli occupation entity, america uh will not let its own project be defeated, given israel is america's project, so america holds the responsibility for protecting the israeli occupation entity, and for that reason it's not jeopadizing putting and exerting too much pressure on netanyahu to achieve these. fire, because the reality is that it is in america's interests to um achieve this cease fire and to not continue

the war, so in reality netanyahu himself has become an exist an existential threat not just to the israeli occupation entity and causing its mass fragmentation leading to the point of civil war, but this is also crucially jeopadizing america's whole interests um in the region, and so the israeli occupation entity is in a real uh deadlock and it's unable to achieve anything right now. because it wasn't able to defeat uh hamas on the ground and consider the fact that hamas is the weakest link within the whole resistance access. mazen rumsia, the us constantly claims it doesn't want a broader war or any dangerous escalations, but its words and its actions surely are in contradiction. on wednesday was revealed another multi-billion dollar military aid package was approved for the israelis described for us the us's shameful hypocrisy regarding. the gaza genocide and also regarding israel's regional crimes, indeed,

giving another 20 billion dollars worth of military aid, offensive weapons to kill civilians in in the gaz trip and in the west bank, on the one hand and on the other hand claiming they want to cease fire, this is of course illogical and the world sees it and they see this hypocrisy, they see that on the one hand, you're a partner in crime on in genocide, and on the other hand, you claim you want israel to deal more gently with the local population, if you want, that's the language they use sometimes to be more you know careful in not harming civilians, of course the us knows that they are partners in crime of intentionally harming civilians, intentionally killing civilians who have

nothing to do with the conflict, actually israel is losing its gorilla war with hamas fighters in gaza strip, so they clearly have nothing to do bombing schools and hospitals and and un shelters and tent cities is not certainly something against any res. forces, it's intended to liquidate the palestinians, i don't even say terrorize the palestinians, because terrorization can be done with with very limited strikes, but they intend to really liquidate the palestinians period. we have 8% so far of the palestinians in gaza who have been killed or injured. that's a huge number. "if it's equivalent in the us, it would be equivalent to about 24 million

americans who are injured or killed, and and this is unprecedented proportionally of course, and and there's no way to understand it other than a genocide intended to finish off the perestinians. mr. waj, the killing, raiding and..." mapping of palestinians is happening a daily basis in the west bank uh which has been a growing trend of israeli violence against palestinians since the start the regime's genocide in gaza so far over 600 and 30 palestinians have been killed in the west bank by both israeli soldiers and settlers alike, so an activist that we spoke to here on press tv believes that the settler violence is also a part of a greater plan to eradicate palestinians and it has intensified on purpose. do you agree with that? absolutely. um, the resistance is expanding

in the westbank in actual fact in all manners, in terms of its tools, its ways of confrontation, "if we remember, it began with the antifather of the rocks uh to then the cold weapons um that were utilized to now more advanced weaponry such as explosions. um, the west bank is turning similarly into ghazza with time and is being ramped in capabilities and capacities. um, if you remember few weeks ago, the knesset passed a proposal to not to unanimously reject the idea of palestinian statehood, um, they want to effectively end the uh american prospect of um two-state solution. they've never believed in the prospects of palestiny state to begin with, you know, during the uh oslo accords, um, the greatest amount of land and annexation happened during the 90s. mean it's to the extent that they don't even want the pa that is currently ruling in the west bank, they don't want that in ghaza. that's the extent to which they're rejecting this idea of palestinian statehood. so in actual fact,

what the occupation entities seeking to do is to create also unbearable conditions in the west bank in such a way that um, this idea of reaching a two-state solution compromise um is less likely, so all tools that we're seeing right now that are being mobilized, um, the crackdowns in the west bank and against the citizens of of that area is within the context um of a growing resistance there, um, and the israeli occupation entity of course, it doesn't need any uh pretext to practice aggression against the palestinians, um, the israeli aggression is systematic against the very existence of palestine. right, uh, israel, as we just mentioned, is ramped up its daily raids in the occupied west bank ever since the regime launched its genocidal war on gaza. there are no israeli hostages, in the west bank, there are in fact thousands of palestinian hostages languishing in israeli prisons. how come this part keeps

getting swept under the rug by mainstream western media? well, the mainstream western media is really owned by the zienist movement globally, there are very very few left independent mainstream media or media that are alternative media like democracy now and others in the us or in some western countries, what we see in the west is basically a breakdown of the system that was created post world war i that claimed the west to be democratic institutions, freedom of expression and so forth. the evidence of this is everywhere, the evidence of the breakdown, even denial of people, the right to demonstrate, even threatening to deport

and actually sometimes deporting people for freedom of speech, the us donald trump promised to basically end any kind of show of support for human rights, any kind of palestinians or supporters speaking out at universities and on the streets, this shared so callalled western democracy is shared, it's it's it's gone basically, the the masks have fallen off of it, "and the people of the west ironically see this and are very distressed about it, sometimes they feel powerless to change things, some of them feel empowered and go out in the streets and demonstrate as we saw millions on the streets, hundreds of thousands in london alone, etc., but i think that needs to grow

much, much more for it to make a difference at the political scene." sure, and uh, missobai, the lebanese resistance move in hezbollah has carried out fresh attacks against israeli military positions in the north of the occupied territories as part of the retaliatory campaign in support of uh of palestinians in gaza. how do you view the heightened tensions along the southern lebanese border, especially with hesbollah vowing retaliation for the assassination of its top commander fuad shook, can the is? these deal with the consequences of a full-blown war withbullah and possibly the entire resistance front at this point, absolutely not, the bigger the biggest crisis, an actual fact in the... resistance these radio occupation entities happening right now, if it cannot defeat the hazen resistance within 2006 within 362 square kilometers, um, how on earth is it going to

be able to expand uh that fireer conflict and and maintain it on several fronts um in particular when we're seeing the reality of um the firm rooted nature of the resistance you know in terms of its you know capabilities in terms of its organization in terms of its planning in terms of "the most important component is the fact that its forces have very deep faith in their lofty goals and they enjoy very high morale, they are ready for sacrifice, they're filled with anger that result that that is resulting from the occupation and the injustice, and so um what we're seeing in actual fact um in ghaza is gorilla warfare against invaders with light arms um and they demonstrated the ability to adapt to the most difficult circumstances. now top analysts say that um the resistance leban." islamic resistance is is 10 if not hundred folds stronger than that the uh ghazan uh resistance um so it's an a real existential threat and for sure the

islamic resistance in lebanon will retaliate and this is something that's not defined in time in actual fact the disturbance and the and the anxiety of the israeli occupation entity in my opinion is an even bigger punishment than the response um that uh they are awaiting just consider the effect that that is having that that is have. on the moral of the settlers uh across the entity. look at the investment projects um that are being dropped, look at the airlines uh that are being cancelled, the state of panic and hysteria and the ability to not uh live normally is really crumbling the entity and leading it to the verge of civil war because the settlers see netanyahu as responsible for this existential defeat and crisis. mr. lot of criticism has been directed. arab governments for their inaction and passivity in the face of israel's crimes, most notably the ongoing gaza genocide, which is now past

40,000 killed, if some arab governments would have showed a unified stance in the form of sanctions and canceling normalization agreements, it would have gone gone a long way in putting pressure on the israelis, why is that not happened? well, i mean, before i say why... did not happen, i will say that as a palestinian living under occupation, we know our enemy, although as i said earlier, we never expected they would be this vicious, the level of viciousness, we expected some level of viciousness, but not this level of viciousness and meanness, but to expect also that level of viciousness and meanness from the arab governments who are selling out their souls to the devil, basically, they're working hand in globe with the american government, with the israeli government, to undermine the palestinian cause and liquidate

the palestinian cause, thinking stupidly that this will protect their thrones and their positions on seats of power, it actually won't, because we've seen israel is not just interest in palestine, the zionist movement is interested in ruling the whole world and... they already rul rule a lot of capitals and they are impoverishing, and you can see even donald trump speech about saudi arabia, for example in the emirates, basically to him the are cash reserves that he can milk any time he wants to, and he's acting on behalf of zinus of course, he himself is gist, so i think it's it behoves us to understand. that the arab leadership really don't even understand its own future interest, their children, okay, you may end up staying a king or or a dictator like cc in

egypt for a while, but what about your children, they have to live under an israeli ruled system which impoverishes them intentionally. israel is even thinking of an alternative sways canal that connects the red sea to the mediterranean, they are thinking of new road connecting asia to europe through saudi arabia, jordan and what they call israel, sure, europe, so it's it's going to damage the economy of everybody, and they have to understand that in the long run their children will not live even in the privilege they get as dictators. all right, we're going to have to leave it there, thanks to palestinian. joining us fromhlehem and also thanks to activists and political analys joining us from the british capital london with that it brings us to an end here on this

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your headlines on press tv: more palestinian civilians fall victim to the relentless israeli attacks in gaza with the death toll tops 40,000. iran says the united states cannot be mediator for the peace in the gaza strip as it enables israeli crimes against palestinians by arming the regime. yemenese hold another friday of nationwide rallies to show their unwaving support for the palestinian people.