hello, welcome to the spotlight. in addition to the genocide in the gaza strip, now the west bank is blowing up. the israeli army has launched the biggest military operation there more than two decades, killing dozen palestinians. meanwhile, iof soldiers have murdered nearly 60 palestinians in the gaza strip in the past day. in this edition of the spotlight we look at how israel is conducting ethic cleansing operation in the palestinian territories. with us complicity, while the so-called international community sits idly by and conducts sessions at the un. in the early hours of wednesday, israely forces kicked off a large scale incursion into the of occupied west bank embarking on mass arrests and killing a dozen palestinians in an offensive fully backed by earth support. the iof targeted three areas simultaneously, janin to karam and tobas. following the

incursion, palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas cut short his visit to saudi arabia and headed back home. meanwhile, the of israeli foreign ministers compared the west bank incursions to the war in gaza. on a post on his ex account, israel cats said the iof must implement similar measures being carried out in the war thorn palestinian territory in the west bank as well. we have to deal with of threats in the west bank like gaza and implement temporary evacuations because this... war is about everything, reacting to kat's statement, hamas spokesman is zat al-rishik slammed israeli ministers war mungering rhetoric and called on the international community to take immediate action. the israeli minister's request is fascist one aimed at expanding the scope of destruction, genocide and ethnic cleansing of palestinians. it shows israel's insistance on the violation of international law and the israeli terrorist leaders impunity from accountability for their crimes against humanity. the international community and the

united nations should immediately stop us support for the israeli war criminals. the israely regime has conducted near daily raid in the west bank since october 7, but wednesday's offensive could mark the largest in more than 20 years when the so-called operation defensive shield was performed during the second intefada in 2002, over 650 palestinians including nearly 150 children have been killed since october the 7th. in the occupied west bank, this top of violent settler attacks and thousands of detentions by i of troopers, the military wing of hamas says israel's large scale military operations in the occupied territories would get the regime stuck in a new quagmir, the resistant movement has also vowed escalate retaliatory operations. let me introduce our guests for this edition of the spotlight: slepshop,

author and west asia expert, joins us from belfast. also joining us is assad abu shark, palestinian academic and activist from dublin. welcome to you both subsot, let me first start with you. so our worst fear is here, i believe it's been going on for decades at this point, but we're looking at this single day, being the largest military operation by the israeli regime forces, at this point a dozen palestiny. have been killed and we're looking at many areas gen to of have been targeted with drones, war planes and bulldozers. what are your initial thoughts on this? to begin, hello to you and to your guest, natanyahu's political power over this entity stems from the settler support, and we can notice his top cabinet ministers are too smart or bengavier or two settlers, both. both of these settlers are

linked to the boys of the hells, they call them these terror settlers gang group, and these are the people, both of them, smart rich and bingavir are handed over the to rule over the west bank by netanyou to so these guys are in in in a way they want to take over the the west bank and since 30 years since the signing of ' agreement with this entity run at the time by left or right, the palestinian authority showed this commitment to peace deal, which is a cheated on since 1930, 1993 till now, this the the zinest entities left or right, they beefed up the settlements in there and they make it expand to over 800 thousand settlers in these

settlements uh so uh and the latest move as well we noticed our judizing jerusalem even trying to take al aqsa mosque over by some not case settlers as they say, but it's a planned design even convert part of latsa mosk to become a solomon's temple, so what designist entity is doing is executing a predesigned plan to isolate the occupied cities of the north occupied west bank and its refugee camps, attacking them as we see from the last night by ruthless fire power similar to uh what, is taking a place right now in the north of gaza strip as well in the same sort of separation north gaza from the center or from the south since this military operation is trying to create a scenarios to achieve de facto demographic shifting and

people's displacement to lead to ethnic cleansing from the west bank okay well this is what the foreign minister uh israel cats has said israel launches large scale west bank raid is the headline actually and then the minister that i just mentioned is calling for a gaza style operation do you believe that we were looking a gaza style operation and this to be the beginning of it? yes indeed i think you see cats and not only cats avedik as well the both of them they made a statements today about the situation in the west bank and they said they are they were planning to dis place and evict the palestinians and they are focusing of course on the palestinian refugee camps and on the northern part of the west bank in order to expand the settlements and to evict and

ethniclings the parestinan people because the whole the so-called international community is is is doing nothing and america is supporting them and the arab countries are either letting the palestinians down or they are you know having relations with israel or they are they have inability to do anything or and nobody is helping the palestinians and the arab regimes are are doing neither the arabs nor the islamic regimes are doing anything so the palestinans are left to face their own faith and the palestinians of course will fight and even if you see all right, it looks like we're having problems there uh, what you hold to your thoughts, i said abu shark, let me come to you, um, if i may, um, i guess there in belfast, um, stop shot, if you were take a look at uh, what's happening here in the west bank, um, do you

think that maybe it was just matter of time, i mean, yes, we have this uh genocidal war that uh uh has been waging now for the past 10 months, 11 months we're into it since october. sevth and at the same time we're having the palestinians there who uh based on one count 160,00 of them are without jobs, they basically have their work permits revoked and the situation uh based on what it was before wasn't that great in terms of all the core issues, freedom of movement and all the different violations that took place, and maybe this was buildup and here we are looking at what we're looking at, do you think just like what happened in the gaza strip? this is the result of what's what's happening now very good question. what we notice is that this military operation in the north of the west bank is moving in the lines uh geographical lines say for the geographical settlement expansion plans which were proposed by smotric himself despite the

security justification this entity is given and security apparatus market in it as we noticed backing for this coming from the american officials who told arab officials that this entity army has the right to defend itself and it's their military operation in occupied west bank are targeting palestinian groups who are supported by the iranian revolutionary guard and hizballah this is the american narrative today and of course the events which the palestinian these events the palestinian authority or maybe some arab regimes are maybe indulging the idea, they are not afraid of the next move, this the according to the your question, the negotiations now which is happening about between qatar and cairo, and we don't know

what's really taking a place except delaying things to give the sign entity time to destroy gaza and to achieve what they want in the west bank, so they they facilitated. in the negotiator negotiation, the future reconstruction of gaza, and under that the settlers will take over the west bank in encouraging lot of people. whose rare work permits been provoked 16000 as you said in the west bank to go and work to help this in the gaza brunanza of reconstruction, the international community will encourage people to rebuild gaza and the focus will be at the reconstruction of gaza, while the settlers will exploit that and push a lot of business people, lot of workers toward the gaza and we are not allowing them to go back to the... bank so it's it's another ethnic cleansing from the west bank, they look at the west

bank is the prize uh for their the settlers and the zionis and the religious forces since they call it juda and samera for both so it is the the price who they are and looking for the zin entity religious parties right well we have um our guest from dublan bag so uh basically continue where you left off guess and and we're looking, i'm trying to understand from you, what are we looking at when it comes to the landscape now in the occupied west bank uh, this was again an operation the largest in 20 years, are we looking a continuation of this? uh, there have been some certain incidents that have led up to this, which i'm going to ask later, continue where you left off, i guess, i think yeah, we are looking, we are actually, the palestinian people are suffering from the same genocidal action, the west bank and ethnic. lensing because you know the whole des project is to pump out all palestinians

from palestine and to bump in jews from all over the world and this is what they are doing and they have their chance now because you know the whole world is supporting them especially europe and the united states of america and the nato countries and the arabs the arab inability and so the palestinans whether they are in the west bank or gaza they are besieged and nobody helps them, especially neighboring countries, and so this encourages those fanatic zionists, ultra right-wing, ultra religious, to continue their project, which they take from the tor, actually, because according to the torah, they will, this is what they say, they will inilate all the palestinian people regardless whether there are young, old children, destroy or houses, infrastructure, so what they are doing in the west bank is the same what they had been have been doing in the

gaza strip ever since the 7th of october and this is this is going to continue but the israel is keep it in a low profile but they are continuing to do that and they are sending troops more and more troops divisions they are sending even the air force security spinage units unit uh 8200 all all kinds of evil soldiers and divisions and brigades and security and intelligence in order to expand to buy more land to to ethnically more palestinians one bit by bit what is done in the in the west bank is a whole is a retailer genocide but in gaza it is a wholesale genocide, but at the end of the day it is a genocide and they will do in the west bank

what they have been doing in in the gaza strip sure, because you know they are being helped, nobody is forcing them to to stop, neither the united nations nor the so-called international community, nor the arabs, nor the muslims nor nothing, and nobody cares, even you see the... international court of justice, the international criminal court, the international law, so on so forth, they are not doing anything and they are just watching id by as the palestinian people are being butchered by european weapons, american weapons, israeli weapons and they are doing nothing to save even the children of palestine, in addition to that, they are destroying the school infrastructure in the are destroying schools, hospitals, homes everything they come across, they destroy it. because this is e ethnically cleansing the first of the world which is genocide by by

definition as textbook definition. indeed, you both have mentioned ethnic cleansing and indeed that this is what it looks like uh also a force displacement is also i think in the picture too. subsot, there were two incidents uh that happened in the past two weeks uh that i'm curious as to whether they uh rank alarm bells for the israeli regime in order to do what it did today. one was the fact that he had bombing that happened in tel aviv in which less than 24 hours you had hamas um come out and claim responsibility almost immediately it looked like and then you had that assassination that took place of a senior fat official uh um that uh happened in a targeted assassination um he was um i think uh targeted because israel uh had in its uh thoughts that he was responsible for perhaps uh arming some of the positions groups inside uh the west bank do you think that these two led to israel to do what it did today? excellent excellent question

intelligent question as well the the two operations are linked in 2 2002, the first invasion, large scale invasion of jinin and its refugee camps and the eastern neighborhood which is adjacent to the camp, it took nearly 14, 15 days to demolish most the refugee camps to uh root out the resistance from there, the resistance at the time you're talking about islamic jihad about brigade which is fat, you're talking about hamas, the pflp which is... brigades and such force today when the zin entity at the time the second intefada there is to be lot of suicide bombing as they call it against them and the the the zianist entity lived on the edge they were shamoners at the time were begging the international community the arab regimes anybody just to stop this campaign

and we can reach solution to reach the two state solution within the... bank the assassination in in in the in lebanon of of almaqdah it's it's vital since this guy was instrumental in arming al aqsa brigade which is the fat brigade and there is another new brigade appeared in the west bank called abu ali iyad brigades named after the military commander of the fat groups or the plo in 1970 in in jordan this indication of the movement, the largest political movement in the west bank, which is fatah, its own troops are neglecting, disobaying the palestinian authority and engaging in the resistance, that is the catalyst was for that is the genocide in gaza and the resistant understanding as well, they are the second

move, as asad mentioned, the wholesale genocide in gaza. the part genocide is in the west bank so they understand the object is one and the zirus entity as i mentioned earlier to them is the the the the big prize is the west bank since it's biblical land for them judah and samera but your question was spot on this is what they are worried they are worried since the west bank is maybe hundred times bigger than gaza and it's have the the terrain it's have the uh the people, it have the power if it's developed to to to really hurt the zinis entity, and as i mentioned earlier, they are worried since the engagement, as they say, the iranian revolutionary regard supporting these these military groups within the west bank and hizballah as well, so the alarm bell in the united states of america and the zinest

entity are ringing right now, so does that explain why if you think in terms of what has transpired in the past? the us role in terms the military assistance, we heard about the uh $20 billion dollars in military assistance which included these fighter jets, and then we heard about these uh 500 trucks that were delivered in terms of what was a 500 500 us military supply planes uh that had delivered weapons to the israel regime top of the almost 4,00 um billion dollars that we that we hear uh that that the us gave israel a yearly basis, is the us aware and cooperating and complicit in what's going on in the west bank? did they send these shipments knowing that uh this is what israel wanted to do in the occupied west bank? let me tell you something, the united states of america is

totally complicit and there is no exaggeration if i say the united states of america is leading... this genocidal war against the palestinian people as you just said 5000 tons of equipment of ordinance of weapons were sent to to the israeli to the apart israeli state they were not only this the aroshing war the this at the palestinian people on different fronts economic psychological. a propaganda, veto a pressure, siege, name it, and they are launching the war against the palestinian people and they are sending experts spionage so on so forth, so america is actually totally involved and they if if you watch the scene, the landscape

in america, all of them said, i was watching you, the this campaign, they say finish them off, kill all the palestinians, wipe them off, this is what they say, this is the american, this is the american language, and and and this has been published, so america is totally complicit in what's going on, the the the blood of the palestinian children are on the hands of the americans and on their heads genocidal joe or genocidal biden or genocidal blincon as well this in addition to that the european countries germany is sending weapon, britain is sending weapons, most of the european countries are sending weapons, this is a... global war against the palestinian people in order to help israel carry out its zionist project which is not

only to to occupy palestine but to occupy from the fratus to the nile as the israeli flag symbolizes. this is what they are actually doing and they are making full use the inability of the as i said of the arab regimes and the muslims and and the recklessness of and the apathy of the whole world. so israel is doing that, but if the arab regimes and if the muslim regimes, if the arab people as well, and the muslim people are just standing id by and they are doing nothing, i think israel is going implement its project, because it has a project, and what's happening, what's what's doing, what israel is doing in the west bank, is not just as a reaction, it is a br zionist, a project which has been, carried out from herzel to netanyahu, sure. all right, well we're left uh with hardly any time here, so subshath. i'm gonna merge two

questions in one, though uh, maybe related, but unrelated, and that is the fact that we're looking at an ethnic cleansing, as you mentioned, um, do you think the aim is to have palestinians displaced all-together, which is a war crime, both from the gaza strip and from the accubide west bang into uh, possibly jordan and egypt, is that the m, and and of course, all of this happening, then you hear about cease fire talks that are still ongoing, which is quite incredible. yeah, the design entity reach a stage now after the 7th of october elite operation, i want to call it, which shaked its military ability and security ability to the core, and that's what it the whole united states of america and the west who rushed to reassure the... entity, there they will be supporting it, in 18 hours the the west and the united states of america were there sending airplanes, they sending aeroplanes carriers,

warships and open all the arsenals to sustain the the the designist entity, this is they don't want to their advance attack dog in the middle east to be destroyed or shaken since the sphere of influence of the... america over west asia is given it the power today, which is given it the the upper hand in the international arena, so yeah, unfortunately fresh out of time here negotiation, they use the negotiation right now to advance the the as well the project in the west bank so in the future they can shift lot of people from the west bank to gaza, sorry to interrupt you, we're just fresh out of time sub and west asia expert and thank you abu shark, palestinian academic and activist. with that we come to an end for this edition of the spotlight. thanks for tuning in.

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for i believe from that place by sing him and introducing imam to allah subhanahu wa taala and asking him because of imam give me this and give me that for your liberty i was fighting for peace i was. finding to keep my

family safe from you and your family, but in reality i was fighting to destroy everything you know and love, and so i ended up cutting myself lot to physicalize the pain to make it something that i could deal with. the war affected me personally by taking away, i guess what i thought our married life would be like, the way that our family would be and the things that we would would enjoy and the opportunities we would have, my family was getting broken, so in order for me to keep it strong, i have to put aside career.

press to be headlines, in addition to the genocide in the gaza strip, the west bank has now experienced an israely regime force offensive. iof soldiers kill nearly 60 palestinians. and injured more than 130, others in the gaza strip in 24 hours and diban and turkistan signed several cooperation agreements, pave the way for a strategic partnership in different fields.