none of the mediators. in washington, doha or cairo, nor the negotiating parties, hamas and the zinist israeli enemy believe that a prisoner exchange deal or a ceasefire in gaza is near, despite the so-called optimistic statements. in fact, the media driven optimism, especially from the american side has recently weined. this optimism was part of a broader effort to cool down the conflict in the region and to maintain the facade of ongoing negotiations to prevent their collapse, serving the democratic election campaig. as the us election date grows

closer, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu in a recent television interview bluntly stated that no deal is imminent, directly contradicting us secretary of state anthony blinken's recent claims that 90% of of the deal has been agreed upon, though differences remained that need more work. it now appears that the us bridging proposal, which had been expected to be introduced last weekend will not be put forward in the coming days. further reinforcing the notion. that of the negotiation deadlock remains with no of serious progress towards breaking the impass. of it seems there is growing conviction within the biden administration that neither hamas nor netanyahu are genuinely interested in striking deal. you see hamas is demanding the release of the same number of prisoners despite the decrease in the number of surviving zinus israeli captives because it was israeli entity air strikes that took out those captives to begin with. meanwhile, netanyahu is adamant on keeping occupation forces in the philadelphia corridor. and the

nitsarim junction, something the resistance considers a red line. the american side has so far failed to draft a proposal that is acceptable to both parties, simply because zionist israel strongly opposes the american proposal, as it believes it will not meet its security demands. on the other hand, the americans are convinced that netanyahu is the main obstacle to reaching an agreement since hamas has not added any new conditions to its july 2nd proposal. although washington is currently mediating alongside qatar and... in the negotiations for a prisoner exchange deal, it has consistently shown strong bias in favor of scientis israel, fully backing the genocide in gaza. this is despite having stated multiple times that netanyahu is the one obstructing deal. the problem lies with the insistance of the zionist entity to keep the soul focus on the return of captives held in gaza. this explains is determination to separate the prisoner exchange deal entirely from any permanent cease fire. on the other hand, hamas views the captives. exchange as

part of a broader package, beginning with a permanent cease fire to end the ongoing genocide carried out by the zionist military against the palestinian people in gaza and culminating in a serious pathway toward a comprehensive resolution of the palestinian issue. welcome to the mid stream amorwman. "if we apply the general principles and guidelines of any negotiations aimed at halting the war that has been raging in gaza for over 10 months now, we will uncover of numerous structural flaws. these flaws explain why the talks are stuck in a near endless loop, lacking the dynamism needed to reach tangible results within a reasonable time frame. to discuss this issue with us from beirot is dr. omar nashebi, a political analyst and lawyer expert. human rights,

supervisor of the al-qaus supplement, which is published weekly with the lebanese newspaper al-akhbar. a pleasure having you with us, dr. nashebe, how does the us's strong bias towards sionist israel in the current so-called mediation process, where a possible cease fire affect the chances of an actual successful cease fire with an actual successful swap of prisoners? well, one would have expected that the united states would be actually. coordinating this kind of you know or facilitating reaching an agreement, well to facilitate this you have to preserve a certain standards for negotiations. mean, you can't go back on the same thing that you promised you w going to comply with, like, for example, the the agreement was, the agreement was set in may on the 31st of may, actually, and there was a security council resolution passed on the 10th of january, it's a security council resolution 2735 where

where there was a proposal submitted put forward by the americans themselves and approved by the israelis for the three stage uh part you the the whole agreement in three stages where that would lead lead in the end to an exchange of prisoners and to a cease fire. all of sudden the americans decided that they have, you know, they have new proposal to put forward. well, you know, but that the previous proposal was approved by the security council, which is actually supposed to be the reference for peace and security in the world, and so therefore this is a big big change, and on the other hand, also during the... negotiations usually there are some basic rules during negotiations that both both sides need to talk about exchanging and reach an agreement and exchanging the prisoners of war, when one party decides to actually use violence to release the hostages that were subject for the negotiations and

these these hostages or prisoners die, it's the responsibility of the party did not respect the fact that negotiations were ongoing and decided to move to military action to... actually release these prisoners of war, so therefore on two occasions, the the israelis acted in a way that violates the basic rules of any negotiations, and the americans didn't do anything about it, that makes the americans not really, you know, in a position to continue to facilitate this, because they're not facilitating this, obviously, they're making it more complicated. well, we also hear from american media that netanyahu is the obstacle, and we... also here from uh hebrew media that also netan now is the one that's refusing to go forward with the cease fire and because he's insisting on keeping occupation forces and very important and strategic points of gaza, especially in the philadelphia corridor and in itzarim junction, how much is his uh

let's say uh maybe keeping his position, his powerful position in play, how is it affecting really the ceasefire uh? agreement on the ground, is it really netanyahu or is there something else that we don't know? well, um, well, obviously we don't know all the details, we will know that later, but what we can see clearly is that when there was negotiations last year, and there was an exchange of prisoners of war between hamas and the israelis, the israelis did not have that demand on the control of the philadelphia border crossing and the whole area between egypt and and "now this is this became like and and netanyahu is talking about it as if it was some kind of requirement for any agreement that he needs to keep the israeli occupation over philadelphia crossing, and well it's it's not very clear, i mean if it was such necessary

thing for the israel when they ask for it in the first time, and so now they are insisting on that, this insistance is a clear sign that they don't want to reach an agreement because the the palestinians." never agree to something, you know, to the to the more occupation, more suffocating of the palestinian people, especially after 11 month, the israelis have been a serious obstacles on entering all kinds of food and basic needs and medication for the uh for the palestinians, so there is no trust in the fact that the israel is remain in control of that border crossing, and that's a real obstacle to reaching an agreement, and that wasn't there before, as i said, so doctor, what we're saying is actually it is uh possibly that uh netanho is... putting some blocks on the road for any upcoming agreement to be uh maybe forched in gaza, but we also need to talk about the side of the resistance here, why is uh hamas uh remaining firm its demand, particularly regarding the number of uh palestinian prisoners that it wants to be

released from zinius detention centers when uh we have uh captives israeli captives that have been killed obviously they were killed by air strikes by the scienist entity, but despite this shifting dynamics and this number of survive. zionist capitas, do you think that the israelis might accept uh the demands of hamas and releasing all these uh palestinian detainees? well, you know, the i think the hamas negotiators uh were really, i mean really shocked when they heard that the israelis are insisting on staying in the philadelphia crossing, because they it's obvious that when you actually raise this demand, you do not want to reach an agreement, now hamas holds to what, has been agreed upon since may and since june, and this is an agreement for a, as i said, for the three stage solution, and uh, it it will reach general cease fire, and hamas insists on the return of palestinians to all the areas in gaza and for the enter entry of

basic aid for the gazans so that they can survive. i mean, these are the basic demands, now hamas has fixed a number of of, prisoners of war for the exchange and that is fixed number, the israelis are trying now to create an international campaign by saying that the obstacle to reaching an agreement is hamas and that hamas is increasing the demands, that is completely untrue, it's a lie, hamas have basic demands, these are the demands from day one, hamas did not change any demands, now when it comes to the actual standards, the standards are set forth by security council resolution that was passed on the 10th of june, security council resolution 2735, that must be very clear and i hope that the international media will fail in creating this deceatful story. this deceatful israeli campaign uh talking about the fact that you know uh you know that there

are some obstacles by but saying that these obstacles are mainly the responsibility of hamas and that's a lie, there is a lie specifically because when we follow through the western media we see that they are claiming that hamas uh killed the hostages in cold blood in the tunnels, this is this was coming from one of the major western india channels and oters saying that... it is hamas that keeps changing its mood and despite the fact that zinist israel killed the top negotiator yes, well we must maybe clarify here that when there is negotiations, there are negotiations between two parties and one the two parties decides to move to uh violent action to uh reach the objectives that are part of the negotiations and then there are some people killed, the responsibility is on the part that used violence during the period of negotiation. is the israelis themselves, they decided to release the prisoners of war by force, they went to the tunnels, they

started shooting, what do they expect, i mean the palestinians are going to defend themselves, do they expect them to actually give up and give them the actual prisoners of war, even if it was the palestinians who tried to release the palestinian prisoners of war from the israelis, i mean and they would die, that would be responsibility of the palestinians, i mean this is like these are basic rules for negotiations, when you you negotiate you don't use violent. to actually enforce something that you're negotiating about, well these norms, traditions and laws do not apply to the file of the earth, the signist genocidal entity, i want to thank you very much, political analyst and lawyer expert in human rights, supervisor of the alqaus supplement which is published weekly with the lebanese newspaper, i'm pretty sure you have lot of dense information right there, which is why i would love to see it someday translated into english if possible, thank you very much for your time and your contribution dr. still stay tuned because next we're going to talk about the rising tensions in south lebanon.

south limina. has faced escalating violence after an israeli entity bombing of the town of frun which caused significant casualties and destruction. the situation deteriorated further when israeli occupation forces targeted lebanese fire fighters trying to contain the fires which prompted the lebanese resistance to intensify its retaliatory attacks. more details in the following report. south lebanon experienced a severe escalation as israeli entity air strikes and artillery attacks over the weekend. resulted in the deaths of three lebanese civil defense paramedics, qasim bezi, muhammad hashim and

abbas hamoud and left two others severely injured. additionally, two paramedics from the islamic health organization were also injured, one with serious fractures. the first team was hit by an air raid while responding to fire caused by israeli entity bombardment in the town of frun, while the second team suffered injuries from israeli entity artillery during their firefighting efforts in the town of. "the lebanese ministry of health condemned the attacks, calling them a blatant violation of international laws and norms and demanding that the international community take concrete action to halt these ongoing crimes. lebanese caretaker prime minister najib miqati also scheduled an urgent meeting with western ambassadors and international representatives to address the israeli entity aggression. in response, the lebanese resistance hisbollah has targeted israeli occupation forces positions, including the main intelligence base at michare. and the nariya base with katusha rockets. they also struck the minot settlement and several

military sites in retaliation for the attacks on southern lebanese villages. additionally, hezbulah targeted israeli entity military sites in support of palestinian resistance in gaza and intercepted an enemy drone with a surface to air missile over the biqa valley. meanwhile, the lebanese resistance executed an operation against the israeli occupied to watil alam site in the lebanese kfarshuba hills. the islamic resistance in lebanon. also targeted the settlement of kiriyat schmona in northern occupied palestine with a barrage of feasure rockets early on sunday morning. in second operation hizbillah launched a concentrated barrage of rockets at kiriachmona and also truck the settlement of shamir with katusha rockets at dawn on sunday. following the dramatic hisbollah retaliation on august 25, cross-border hostilities between hisbollah and scientist israel had initially subsided. however, this past weekend witnessed a renewed surge of aggression from both sides, reigniting concerns about the potential for an expanded conflict inside lebanon. despite the internal

turbulence currently plaging the israeli regime, the question remains whether this flare-up will lead to a broader escalation of the war. now to discuss this issue with us from beirot is dr. ibrahim wowi, member of the lebanese parliament for the loyalty to the resistance block hezballah a pleasure having you uh on with us this morning uh professor, now given the recent israeli entity attacks on the lebanese civil defense teams following strikes on what appears to be a weapons depot for the uh resistance in southern lebanon, it seems that zionist israel may have significant intelligence on these very sensitive locations in south lebanon, could ongoing israely enemy strikes on such locations may me escalate the tension between lebanon and the lebanese and the israeli entity and maybe lead to a broader conflict between the two sides? well actually we are in a broader uh conflict now and if it's gonna lead to this kind of open war if as they say a comprehensive war i don't think

that this is the situation because had the israel is been able to do it they would have done it long time ago now with this opening the new front, i mean from the palestinian side in the west bank, given what happened in jordan and given all the war of attrition that is taking place in the lebanese palestinian, occupied palestine border, i wouldn't say that the israelis are in a position to do it, if they are to go into any kind of open war, a comprehensive and out all war and they should take the not only the green light but also the support. the americans, and i believe the american administration, not because they love lebanon or they don't want to go into a conflict with the resistance, their tactics and their strategic calculations do not boil down to this interest, it does not fit their interest at this very moment, that's why i don't think that this is going to lead to an all outw, this is one thing, the other thing when we

talk about the intelligence, it's very normal the israelis have this upper hand in technology, they are being supplied with the latest and the most advanced weapons and the most advanced ways and styles of espionage and of monitoring for all things that are going in south lebanon and this is from america and from all the west actually, but if they have these very important and sensitive information and they are targeting, why would they target the civil defense firefighters? this tells you lot about the nature of the israelies, this kind of bloodched. thirst, they are always thirst to shed more and more blood and they do not differentiate between civilians and non civilians. of course, taking the history of the israelis and lebanon, in palestine, and syria everywhere, you would see that they have been always targeting the civilians and there is no kind of immunity, no kind of guarantee, no restrictions from the

international law or the united nations or the world organizations. well, we did seelah retaliate again. those aggressions on south lebanon and they hit israeli entity positions in kiriat schmona and in shamir, which reflects a strategic approach on the security the azinus israeli entity, especially considering that there is lot of criticism coming from inside lebanon, sometimes from allies against hisbullah's weapon choice, seemingly they want to see something more than katosha being fired a zionist israel, how do you comment on? well, first we have to understand that when we talk about the resistance and the leadership of the resistance, you're talking about very wise people in the leadership, and they know how to make their calculations. these kind of, if you want, emotional outburst from the people, from the audience, from even the supporters, whatever, the resistance is not organizing

its work, it's not organizing its operations according to my mood or any. b is any other body's mood, it has to do with the calculations of the war, the tactics of the world, there is something that has to do with the result, firing the catosha, the way the resistance is firing it is getting the result that could be, aimed that or could be taken, so why to use more sophisticated or bigger weapon, so i believe this is something that we should all with all due respect to the opinions, we should all leave for. for the resistance and for the fighters and for the leadership and for the military commanders who are in a better position to assess. i don't believe that anyone of us is more keen to deal the israel heavy blows militarily than the military people themselves and the resistance, so we have actually there be professor a strategic reason behind using only this kind of weaponry at this moment?

absolutely, first of all did say it's it's getting the result the same result that we are going to take it from using more sophisticated weapons, so why to use more sophisticated weapons? this is an open war, you don't know how much time it's going to take, it would it might take more months, it might take more than year so... the resistance knows better what to do in in this regard? well, but considering operations in support of gaza, professor musawi, since october 8 that we've been all watching on uh national and international tvs, do you think the resistance in lebanon is now contemplating, maybe escalating more uh further the hostilities against dinis israel, giving the new summer camps operation that cinis israel uh launched against the west bank this time, it has been going on for the... 15 days, how might these developments influence maybe has and maybe broaden the already a very big conflict going on? well, the resistance has always been from the very

beginning very consistent and very cohesive and very straight forward word in its in its threats and in its actions as well, it's not about only talking, it's only it's also about actions in the the battlefield. we have to remember that said allah and the leadership the resistance has always said and threatened if the israelis are going to widen the scope the battlefield, if they're gna go higher or upper then the resistance will go higher and upper and it would widen uh the same thing, the the battlefield, and this is what's happening with the now more and more israeli zionist settlements are being put under the fire of the resistance, why? because the israelis are targeting are unwidening their targeting of more and... more villages and the places when we talk about the west bank or whatever, this is a war that has been clearly clarified and announced by the resistance, it's in support of the people of

gaza and of course in support of the people of palestine, and when we talk about this, the west bank included as well, everything that the resistance is doing and continues to do, it is leading kind of a war of attrition against the israelis and this war of attrition has its own tactics that the resistance learn and learn more even during the battlefield itself, so it's going to make more progress and more advancement of its tactics, it's studying how the kind of this war that has never been has never been precedented before, we have never had a war between the arabs or the muslims and the israelies like this one, all of the wars before they were like for few days, this is year now, it's a full war of attration. against them and when you talk about a war of tric then it has its own tactics that the resistance know best and that's why i believe if the resistance is contemplating to widen

or to make it a broader conflict, it's not like that, it has to do with what should be done for every single aggression from the israelies, the huge picture is there, it's a war of attression because we know there is no readiness in the israeli side to go for an al oat war. "and we even in the resistance side we know that this is not the time we are accumulating more and more points against the israelies which will boil down for the interest of all of the axess of the resistance against the israelian. well, i want to thank you very much, dr. ibrahim musawi, member of the lebanese parliament for the loyalty to the resistance block. hisballah, thank you very much for being with us to explain the situation going on right now in south lebanon against scienis israel, thank you for your time and your contribution. ladies and gents, thank you very much for watching our..." right here on press tv, we promise always to get you the latest updates from west asia, you can follow us on telegram and on x right here on the mid east stream.

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