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welcome to the spotlight, i'm. 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 a 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 will look at how israel is conducting an ethnic 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 occupied west bank, embarking on mass arrests and killing a dozen palestinians in an offensive fully backed by air support. the iof targeted three areas simultaneously, jenin, 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 israeli foreign ministers compared the west bank incursions to the war in gaza, a post on his exit count, israel cats said the iof must implement of similar measures being carried out in the war toren palestinian territory in the west bank as well. we have to deal with 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 that al-rishik slammed israeli minister. towards warmongering 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 insistence 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

israeli regime has conducted near daily raids 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 27 in the occupied west bank, this top of violent settler attacks and thousands of detentions by i of troopers, the military. wing of hamas in says israel's large scale military operations in the occupied territories would get the regime stuck in a new quagm. the resistant movement has also vowed escalate retaliatory operations. let me introduce our guest for this edition of the spotlight. slapsoth, 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 subshath, 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 palestinians have been killed, and uh, we're looking at many areas, jan nobel tocarment to bus to 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 to smotric or bengavir are two settlers, 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, smartlich and the bingavir are handed over the to rule over the west bank by netanyou to, so these guys are... are in in a way they want to take over the the west bank and since 30 years since the signing of oslo agreement with the zist entity run at the time by left or right the palestinian authority showed its commitment to peace deal which is a cheated on since 1930 1993 till now this the thesign entities left or right they beefed up the settlements in there. "and they make expand to over 800,000 settlers in these settlements, so and the latest move as well, we noticed our judizing jerusalem, even trying to take al-aqsa mosk over by some not

case settlers as they say, but it's a planned design even convert part of mosk to become a sullamon'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 what is taking 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 says "this uh military operation is trying to create a scenarios to achieve de facto demographic shifting and people's displacement to lead to ethnic cleansing from uh the west bank. okay, well this is what the foreign minister israel has said, israel

launches large scale uh west bank raid is the headline actually and then the minister that i just mentioned is calling for a gaza style operation." 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, aved 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 displace and evict the palestinians and they are focusing of course on the palestinan refugee camps and on the northern part of the west. bank in order to expand the settlements and to evict and ethnic links the palestinan 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 the are you know having relations with israel or they are they have in... ability 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 palestinians are left to face their own faith and the palestinians of course will fight and even if all right looks like we're having problems there uh want to hold to your thoughts let me come to you um if i may um i guess there in belfast um if we're taking a look at uh what's happening here in the west bank um do you think that maybe it was just matter of time 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 7th and at the same time we

we we're having uh the palestinians there who uh based on one count 16000 of them are without jobs they basically have their work permits revoked and uh 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 zinus military operation in the north of the west bank is moving in the lines, geographical lines say for the geograph. settlement expansion plans which were proposed by smartric himself, despite the security justification, this entity is given and security apparatus market in it as we notice a backing for this coming

from the american officials who told arab officials that the zinis entity army has the right to defend itself and it's their military operation and occupied west bank are targeting palestine. groups who are supported by the iranian revolutionary guard and hisballah, this is the american narrative today, and of course the events which the palestinian, events, the palestinian authority or maybe some arab regimes are maybe indulging the idea, they are not afraid 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 facilitating in the negotiated negotiation

the future reconstruction of gaza and under that the settlers will take over the west bank in encouraging lot of people who was rare work permits been provoked 160,00 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 this 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 zionists and the religious forces, since they call it sure. and samira for both, so it is the the price who they are and looking for these zinest entity religious

parties, right? well, we have um our guest there from dublanback, asad abu shark, so uh, basically continue where 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 cleansing, because you know the whole design of the 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 palestinians, whether they are in the west bank or gaza, they are beseed and nobody helps them, especially neighboring countries, and so this encourages those fanatic zionists, ultra right-wing, ultra religious to continue their projects with..." they take from the torah actually, because according to the torah, they will, this is what they say, they will analate all the palestinian people, regardless whether they are young, old, children, destroy or houses, infrastructure, so that 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 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 units, unit,200, all all kinds of evil soldiers and divisions and brigades and security and intelligent. in order to expand to occupy 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, no the arabs, nor the muslims, nothing, and nobody cares, even you see the international court of justice, the international criminal court, international law, so on so forth, they are not doing anything and they are just watching iid by as the palestinian people are being butchered by europeans" 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 ethical cleansing, the first sense of the world, which is genocide by by definition as textbook definition, indeed, you both have mentioned that the 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 that bombing that happened in tel aviv, 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 f official um khalil makdah um that uh happeneduh in a targeted assassination um he was um i think uh targeted because israel uh had uh in its uh thoughts that he was responsible for perhaps uh arming some of the resistance 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 two 2002 uh the first invasion, large scale invasion of genine and its refugee camps and the eastern

uh neighborhood which is adjacent to the camp, it took nearly 14, 15 days. to demolish most of the refugee camps, to 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 pflb which is about brigades and such force, today when the zinus entity at the time of the second and the father, there is to be lot of suicide bombing as they call it against them and the... "the zist entity lived on the edge, they were shamuners 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 west 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 aliad brigades named after the military commander of the fat groups or the plo in 1970 in in jordan, this is indication of the movement, the largest political movement in the west bank which is fat, its own troops are neglecting, disobaying the palestinian authority and engaging in the resistance because 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 genacide in gaza, the part genocide is in the west bank, so they understand the object is one, and this 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 the the people, it have the power if it's developed to 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 god supporting these these military groups within the west bank and hisballah 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 um in terms of what has transpired in the past two weeks assad abu shark, the us role in terms of 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. um trucks that were delivered in terms of uh what was a 500 500 us military supply planes uh that had delivered weapons to the israel regime top of the almost 4ous 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 ship? i say the united states of america is leading this genocidal war against the palestinian people as you just said 50,000 tons of equipment of

ordinance of weapons were sent to to the israeli to the apartide israeli state they were not only this they are launching war the this at the palestinian people on different. france economic, psychological, propaganda, veto a pressure, siege, name it, and they are launching the war against the palestinian people, and they are sending experts, 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... they say finish them off, kill all the palestinians, wipe them off, this is what they say, this is the american, this is american language, and and and this has been

published, so america is totally complicit in what's going on, and the the the blood of the palestinan children are on the hands of the americans and on their heads, genocidal joe or genocidal biden. or john cider blincan 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 not only to to occupy palestine but to occupy from the fratus to the... as the israeli flag symbolizes, this is what they are actually doing, and they are making full use of the inability of the, as i said, 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 peoples 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 man is not just as a reaction it is a zionist a project which has been carried out from herzel to sure all right well we're left with hardly any time here i'm going to merge two questions in one though may be related but unrelated and that is the fact. that we're looking at ethnic cleansing, as you mentioned, 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 occupied west bank into possibly

jordan and egypt, is that the em, 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 uh elite operation, i want to call it, which shaked its military ability and security ability to the core, and that's worried the whole united states of america and the west who rushed to reassure the zinist entity, there they will be supporting it, in 18 hours the the west and the united states of america were there sending planes, they sending aeroplanes carriers, warships and open all the... arsenals to sustain the the the zinus 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 united states of america over the west asia is given it the power today which is given it the the upper hand in the international arena uh so yeah unfortunately fresh out of time here negotiation they use the neg'. ation 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 author and west asia expert and thank you asad abu shark palestini academic and activist with that we come to an end for this edition of the spotlight thanks for tuning in. this week on expose, western media promotes false hopes of a ceasefire as netanyahu stands firm on his

obstructive demand. halting progress, we also delve into new evidence from the northstream pipeline explosion investigation exposing the baseless claims of western digital media that blamed russia while indications now point to ukrainian involvement, and we'll uncover the truth behind accusations against the world's biggest social media platforms, top of which is youtube of disproportionately censoring pro-palestine content. stay tuned for expose, the truth is just a revelation away.

your liberty, i was fighting for peace, i was fighting 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. yeah, 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.

nearly 60 palestinians are killed and more than 130 others injured and is early strikes in the gaza strip in 24 hours. israel forces press ahead with the deadly aggression against the occupied west bank, killing a dozen palestinians in a single day, and hamas rejects israel's plan to designate specific areas in gaza for polio vaccination as blatent deceat aimed at continuing a systematic killing of palestinians.