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of hello and welcome to another edition of a spotlight as we shine the light on the gaza of war as it grinds into its 334th day of relentless violence with casual. is rising

and no end in sight to this war, we will be analyzing the latest developments, the human toll, and of course the increasing calls for a peace. so without further ado, let's explore the heart of this tragic situation, with our guests were joining us tonight, professor said nimr, who is a professor of political science at brightside university joining us live from ramala, and also m khalid barakot, a journalist and activist joining us live from vancouver. thank you very much to both of you gentlemen, let's begin with a professor nimer from ramalah. if you could please give us a quick recap, mr. nemer, not too long, about a minute, a minute and a half of the most recent developments in the west bank. it is the eighth day of consecutive israeli rates. well, yes, good evening for you and your guest. khalid and for all your

viewers, well the attack on genine, now it's for the eighth day, though it was also against karam and against refugee camp, what happened that they pulled out from and from also tolkarem, but they return back to tulkarem and now they are also doing you know some damages and and you know shooting at the people and snipers all over. the place so it's an ongoing process and apparently according to the israeli army and especially of gant the head of the of the arm or the sorry the minister of defense in israel he said clearly that we are going to deal in a tough way with the west bank and we have to eliminate all those who are thitten as he put it the security of israel uh it means that we are looking for an... ation in the situation

of the attacks on the west bank and we we we think that this operation is coming and it might be you know all over the west. bank not only in these refugee comes in the north but also everywhere totally, so i think that we are preparing ourselves for the next step, the aim by the end of the day is not only to eliminate the palestinian resistance, but rather to push the palestinians to leave the west bank also, and this is by their their own ideas, whether it's it's came from the foreign minister cats or from or or others in the in the government, all of them they are speaking in the same tone that we have to do something about the west bank and it's much better if we can kick them out of the west bank totally and anx the west bank to israel,

definitely seems to be the strategy of the israeli regime, so let's bring in mr. khalid barakat, and your opinion, what has been the impact of these israeli raids on the daily lives of the? who are living in those refugee camps in the west bank? yes, i think that the world needs to understand that the west bank is totally an occupied territory by israel in a military fascist fashion, and there is no areas that is not under full israeli control, particularly cities and... camps, every palestinian town and refugee camp in the west bank is surrounded by israeli military camps and israeli colonies and so israel and today we saw netanyahu's map as he was talking one the journalists ask him where is the west

bank on the on the map and basically what israel is doing is that is ethnically cleanse the west bank by repeating the massacers. they're doing even if it's on what some people say it's a smaller scale, but every day since october 7th, israel have been killing people in the west bank to about 700 marters, israel have attacked hospitals in the west bank, israel have put imprisonment over 2000 palestinians, now there is about 10,00 where there were 500 before. october 7 and israel is practicing every racist colonialist law in the west bank trying to make the west bank not livable for palestinians and they're doing it gradually. in fact, there is a consensus amongst not

just bingaver and smrich and these fascist settlers, but amongst the war council and this israeli fascist government that the west bank is judia and samari. and it is the promise land and therefore israel is pushing into turning the battle on the west bank into religious battle, particularly when add al-quds, jerusalem into the equation. now it is also these israeli crimes are exposing the palestinian authority that is showing how weak this authority is, and in fact some of the the palestinian security forces, they work and... and hand with the israeli intelligence and with the israeli army, and we know that there are tens of thousands of palestinian police and security forces in the west bank that they do nothing in defense of the palestinian people there. also it is

important to see that israel is doing all of this for a goal and that is to steal the vast majority of the west bank territory. and to basically end any kind of hope for any you know international so-called resolution on the two state solution, that is illusion, no one should believe that there is a possibility of two state solution because israel have killed that option on the ground, and so palestinians in the west bank are facing every israeli crime. alone, the population of them of the north of the west bank, particularly karem, genine, tubas in, including napolis, the the people are facing all of these, you know, with their minimum,

you know, ability, and the resistance is rising in the west bank, and i expect that it will rise more and more, and we are heading to towards a popular and an armed. yes, mr. barkot, you're absolutely right, and today there was a report by the un, ocha. ochha reports saying that uh lethal warlike tactics are being used by the israelis in the west bank and we had uh un officials actually confirming that so uh mr. uh nemer if you could please tell us what they mean by lethal warlike tactics and how does that fall in line with the scenario that mr. badakot just outline for us? well um as the the the uh report came out to from otcha, it's clearly, it's again, it's reports as usual, but what

do what do they mean by lethal tactics, the way that they are doing in in in the west bank today and especially in the refugee camps is definitely it's a kind of not only ethnically cleansing the palestinians, but it's also inflicting all kind of death because they are now repeating exactly what's going on. in in in gaza, today the reports came from ginine, the problem is again exactly like gaza, the drinking water is also mixed with the sewage system because of the israeli damage to all the systems in addition to the electricity and to the communications, so no communications, water, no electricity and the problem that it's now mixing with with each other, it means that this might be us also some diseases as it happened in gaza, we know that polio came back in gaza and

today they have been they finished the first phase of of vaccination in in gaza because of of this problem that created by the israelis and now they are doing the same more or less, and we have all these snipers top of all the buildings, high buildings surrounding the areas which is now under siege like the refugee camp, and these snipers, they are killing anyone, anyone who just moved five days ago, there was an elderly, he is 82 years old and he had hearing problem, and apparently the soldiers called him and he didn't listen to, he didn't hear them, so they shot them, they shot him, they saw that he's an elderly man, they could talk to him, they could you arrest him, they could apprend him so all the tactics that is used is is really killing the palestinians and it's that

what they are doing, in in another village we have a palestinian who was arrested for three hours, they arrested him from his house because his son wanted, so they are putting kind of pressure on the family by arresting the father, they return him back after the hours, but dead, three hours, three hours it was in... for the israeli security when they arrested him to kill him by torture, can you imagine that also? so when we are talk about the details, the problem that we look at the picture as a whole, but we live the the details, when we live the details, that's also kind of intimidation against the palestinians, so i afraid to get out of my house, i'm afraid to get out, to buy something or to do something, because now we hear all these stories with details and we know... how that you know this tactics by the israeli are really uh is is killing the

palestinians in so many different ways. exactly. so um mr. barakat, israel at this moment is fighting on many different fronts because of the retaliatory operations that continue by lebanon and iraq, and of course uh the yemanies have also vowed to continue uh their retaliatory attacks until the genocide in gaza stops. so how long do you think israelis can keep that up? "i think that designist regime is crumbling from within. israel is still strong and it enjoys the full support of the united states and that's where israel relies mostly on the us support and us position, and until now western forces like germany, uk, france, united states. holland, all of these colonialist powers are funding israel to the

teeth, military support, political support, and they're justifying every israeli crime, i mean baiden was sharing you know tears on one hostage who happens to be an american that israel killed him, and yet he did not condemn israeli war crimes and genocide until now, until this day we did not hear any condemnation of israeli. massacres and war crimes against the palestinian people in ghazza, and at the same time we see that the israel have failed on all fronts, they are divide. did we see that the um demonstrations across uh you know cities, especially in tel aviv and jerusalem, these are symptoms of division amongst the israelis. now they the military is becoming very fatigue and they

are failing in ghazza, they did not approte the palestinian resistance, they cannot... stop the rise of the palestinian resistance in the west bank, they are failing in doing anything in lebanon, literally the us and britain is declaring semi public defeat on the yemani front, and at the same time there is the you know the elephant in the room that the us and israel knows that it's there and that is the iranian position particular. that iran have about to respond to the assassination of hania, all of these are pressure on netanyahu, and now netanyahu looks very weak, even you know when he tries to defend his policies, this is not getting any kind of support in the military branches and the security and intelligence of israel

who understand very well that israel is heading towards a strategic defeat, i don't know how long netanyahu could continue his war crimes in ghazza, what i know is that we are close to a palestinian victory and an israeli defeat, especially that we are going to witness second wave of student apprizing starting september 7. thank you very much, yes you're absolutely right, and you touch upon a number of different issues that we were going to discuss anyhow, mr. balakot, so mr. nemer, if you could please tell us since mr. barrakot also mentioned uh the destabilizing uh nature of the protests that we see happening inside the occupied territories in tel aviv and jerusalems uh how serious do you see that in uh calling for an end to netanyahu's political career? okay, let me start from the end, i'm sure what mr.

barakat have said, it's absolutely right, we are going to win, and this is something... inevitable and israel is going to lose, but we don't want also to put some of the news, a little bit give it over of its value, we are talking about demonstrations in israel, that's right, but the problem is that these demonstrators generally they wanted the deal the exchange of prisoners and the deal of you know cease fire not to stop the fight and after that you continue the war, it's okay. most of the israeli public so far are still in in support of of netanyahu in going on with the war. we shouldn't underestimate in the israeli society also the followers of netanyahu and the the the supporters of netanyahu in this war, especially in the right wing. now, but this is creating another problem in israel and it's very very delicate

delicate kind of of a problem and some of the... officers and some of the israeli also writers talked about it, journalists talked about it that now in israel be have been a kind of fascist organizations being created by the settlers, supported by gave them all the weapon and also for smatrach who gave them the money and now we are seeing kind of a split this kind of split between you know right far fascist. groups versus the other israelis who are you know maybe they are against the palestinian by the end of the day and the whole israeli society is going towards the right, but generally speaking they don't like this kind of attitude and netanyahu with those who supporting him definitely he's going to continue and continue on and on with whatever he wanted to

do, the problem is as some of the writers said we are afraid that those um as they call them terrorist organizations now are doing that to the palestinians in the west bank, but we are afraid that they will do it against us later on, so this kind of a split which maybe will create a real problem in israel. i do agree with mr. barakat about you know that the israeli army is absolutely not only fatigue, but they are you know like a sitting duck now in gaza and... that's why the israel army wanted to get out of gaza and do the deal, in spite of the fact that netanyahu don't want that, and the they said it clearly and plantly that. corridor is not that much important for us, we can live without it, so even the army is now pushing you, even netanyahu, but netanyahu so far,

he's supported by his coalition with the 64 seats in the kineset, it's not going to hesitate to go on with his ideas, because he feel he's secure at least from this point of view, so we are you know thinking now more about something... happened in the army itself and it's for the very first time ever in israel that always the army have the priority, the army will think about things and they said we can do that, we can't do that, and then the political level will follow you and make make the orders, but in this case the army is saying differently and natanahu still insist to go ahead with this with this war for his own ideas and he wanted. to go on with the war because he think that he wanted to wait for the end of the elections in united states and maybe trump will come, especially and just to

remind you, three weeks ago trump in one of his uh election speeches he said israel is so tiny and it need to be enlarged a little bit. how could israel be enlarged? you know he's supporting the annexation of the west bank to israel. exactly. so in order to wrap up our disc. mr. badakott, you just mentioned that the pro- palestine rallies in universities have resumed, and of course in the columbia university, we do have reports that these pro- palestinian rallies are currently underway despite all the measures that the university has taken, so what do you think is the main message that is being conveyed? i think that the general public opinion. worldwide have shifted and also in this billy the beast in the center of the imperialist

you know western power especially united states and canada and europe. today we are witnessing totally new reality in term of popular support and in term of israel being exposed totally to the world. the united. states, some of the governments in the west, they are trying to wash israeli lies, they are trying to make designers, discourse looks better, they're doing everything in their disposal to defend israel, but on the street level, on the universities and labor unions and feminist movement and the black liberation movement, the latino movement, we see rise in the support of the palestinian resistance, and to be honestly a support to the access of resistance in the region, i mean just mention yemen in any of these demonstrations and you will see the response of cheering and supporting the yemani

position, the lebanese resistance, the iraqi resistance, and this is new reality for us, people are literally saying that you know israel is very dangerous regime, not just against palestinians, but also against the region and the people of the world. "and this second wave of student intifada, i expect that it's going to be even much stronger than the first wave, and that is because the israel is continuing its war crimes and genocide and it's enjoying the protection of their governments and they don't want to be complicit in this crimes and they don't want to fund it, because we all know that the money that goes to israel and it's coming from the..." american people pockets and the tax payers and so people are feeling more responsible that they don't want their money to be used in killing palestinian children

and palestinian people in ghazza and the west bank and frankly anywhere and i think that there is a almost 700 thousand you know uncommitted votes and this is you know a pressure on the camilla harris camp. and the you know democratic party saying that we will not vote for you unless you take some serious position against you know the genocide in ghaza. all of this is actually going to bave the way to the first anniversary of october 7th and the heroic historical operation carried by the palestinian resistance. there are calls of a week of action right on that anniversary of the aqsa flood. and this is happening across europe, canada, the united states, and there is also a great achievements happening in term of the boycut

movement and even on some of the government, like canada, removing the charitable status the jewish national fund and some of the zionist organizations, these are real important victories for the movement outside, and we think that it's going to have lot of impact in the coming months and years. thank you very much, mr. khalid barak, journalist and activist, joining us live from vancouver, and professor sad nimera, professor of political science at first university of... ramala, thank you very much for joining us on this edition of the spotlight and sharing your thoughts and views with us and thanks to all of you viewers for watching this edition.

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the headlines israeli occupation forces kill more than 40 palestinians in the gaza strip in only 24 hours. hamas warns the tel aviv regime that the only way for the safe return the israeli captives is to stop the genocidal war, and heavy clashes are reported between israeli forces and palestinian resistance fighters in the west bank.