on the intelligence in the military base of mishar, hizbullah says this military base specifically is responsible for the assassinations uh and it is the main military base in the north, northern occupy palestine that is responsible for conducting assassinations, and so that seems to be undeclared retaliation from hizballah's resistance, which was quick, we noticed how hizballah. directly less than an hour uh after this assassination and the strike of directly targeted that military base and we know that it is as they said the main base which is responsible for the uh assassinations throughout lebanon, we we also a know that the israelis uh have been launching of course their strikes on south lebanon, but this has not stopped hezbollah's operations, of course ambulances are going uh, many ambulances are coming to this area and going to the hospitals uh "we know that there are

definitely big number of injuries, but we do not have exact numbers still, of course we're still waiting for more reports from the health ministry, but just to talk about what is happening right now, i think that they are all somewhat linked together, the operations of that hazballah is targeting prove or are a sign, message from hizballah's resistance to the israelies that all these assassinations and all these strikes, whether the terror attacks and tuesday and wednesday of the pagers and the radio transceavers, or today's strike, which is as the..." israelis are saying a direct assassination, but an area which is densely populated by civilians, even if this person was in his home or in one of the offices which he uses and he was there, and this was assassination, still this does not excuse the israelis when it comes to the of targeting of civilians, but of course that has been the israeli way, and at the last wave of terror attacks uh on tuesday and wednesday proved that the israelis have absolutely... no concern for the civilians

when it comes to targeting the resistance, and now it seems the israelis have definitely put all their weight towards lebanon. now the last operation that we have is that hazbullah once again targeted the main intelligence base in uh that is responsible uh for assassinations in mishara with kachusha rockets and this is the second time that we have this assassination, this excuse me, this targeting uh, they targeted this base previously. as well as the mirun airbase also with kechusha rockets, they also targeted uh before that the main headquarters for the northern command uh, which is also very significant, that is an inzy team also saying of they used ketchusha rockets as well to target that base, and so that proves that all the israeli boasting in the last four uh 24 hours saying that they have been successful in targeting hazbillah launchers are uh baseless. uh fabrications from the israeli

military, we also know that hazbullah has targeted the recent base of the 91st division in elite hashahed, which is of course one of the bases that usually hizballah targets in areas uh when there are civilians that are targeted, but concerning the mishara military base, this is the first time that hisbolah targets that military base specifically, and hazballah has made clear and they have the intelligence to know that this is one of the main bases or the main base in the northern region that is responsible for assassinations. hazballah also targeted the golan uh headquarters 210 in nafah and so we have at least three or four of these operations, actually five of these operations that were conducted against uh the military targets of the israelis in the golan heights. of we also have the launching sights of the israelis in yarden being targeted as well as

has the yawaf baracks being targeted by hazbullah's kichusha rockets and of course we definitely see that there even other areas where for example the uh the main headquarters of the 188 armored brigade was also targeted in the alaliqa uh base which is also new military base that has not been targeted before using kechusha rockets the kila base had been targeted before but hazbolah also targeted that with katusha rockets so we definitely see heizballah upping the extend. their operations, definitely sending a clear message message to the israelis that any sort of assassination, even the southern suburbs of reroot will not stop those operations that are being conducted in south lebanon. hisbullah has previously also very clearly through its secretary general sassanlah stressed that the path of support for the palestinian resistance and the operations which are in retaliation for the israeli aggressions in south lebanon will continue unabated no matter what they do, for example the last assassinate. and so on, that will not stop

them, there's also another issue that the israeli cabinet has put forth very of significant new operation after they seem to have used up their previous objective. of launching a war on ghazza, none of those objectives have been realized so far, but the new objective that they have put forth, seemingly trying to push the weight from ghazza into the north in order to buy time, as experts are saying, and netanyahu is trying to buy time through this all objective, which is safe return as he says, for the settlers in the northern region, in the gilili region as well as in the golan heights. hazballah secretary general say hasan nasallah has taken this as a challenge has... he said that this is a challenge between us and you, we will not permit the return of the settlers. hez secretary general clearly uh said his words were, we will not allow the usurping, occupying zionist settlers to return to the north, and the only means that can return those settlers is a

full end to the war in ghazza, and of course that would include all the other details, hezbollah also uh through his secretary, their secretary general mentioned that hezbulah. support for the resistance for the resistance in gaza and gazza has not been only through the military means of forcing a war of retrition on the israeli military, it is also been significant in the political terms since hezballah has said that the issue the north has been used also by the palestinian resistance as leverage and a bargeining chip in the talks that were conducted in doha, which up until now the israelis have not uh abided by or have not agreed to uh and so that also shows the sign of hizbillah's endeavor since the 8th of october 2023. hisbullah secretary general had said that it was important for him to important to see in the one-year mark. he had lot of significant words to say, but it seems the israelis have waited for the close anniversary of this uh operation allox

operation to begin new wave of aggressions towards lebanon. of course, we are waiting and following up the situation very closely to know the numbers. of murders and injured here in beirot, and what type of a reaction we might see from the resistance in lebanon? thank you, mariam, uh, we're going to be in contact with you uh throughout the day as uh you'll be providing us with more updates on uh the situation from uh south uh levanon uh charlotte cates is now joining us from the samadun palestinian uh prisoners solidarity network from vancouver. miss kates, welcome to the program. let's start off with uh your thoughts and your views on the recent uh israeli attacks uh the attack that took place in south lebanon uh just about an hour ago and of course the terror attacks that were carried out on tuesday and wednesday the

pager and walkie talkie blasts in lebanon uh which have left um innocent civilians dead and injured. well one thing that has been very clear is the zionist regime is attempting to uh turn the tables and gain the advantage against the lebanese people and their resistance and and against the resistance led by heisbollah by carrying out series of attacks dedicated and attacking uh the lebanese people as a whole and particularly the popular cradle and base of support for the resistance and this is really the same thing that we've seen them carrying out in gaza during the genocide what we saw in these uh these terror attacks... targeting civilian electronics when we see the using of a us-made us supplied f35 uh airplane to you know strike in the center of beyrut southern suburbs when we see these kinds of attacks they are directed as threats and his targeting against the lebanese people as a

whole for continuing to take a stand with the palestinian people to reject diatism to reject uh zianost colonialism to refuse it by all means and to perf and to make very strong support front for the palestinian people, and this is something that the the zionists keep on demanding that they want to return their settlers to the north of palestine, but what we're seeing instead is that even more of their settlers are fleeing the north of palestine, they're never going to be able to achieve their military objectives, and so what they carry out instead are relying on airpower and technology provided by the united states in many occasions in order to conduct mass attacks against the... against the civilian population as a whole, whether that is the palestinian civilian population or the lebanese civilian population. this is the way in which the zionist regime conducts its attacks and i should be noted here that to the extent that this is or is not an assassination attack. um, assassinations, the

zitist regime has no right to assassinate the leadership of the palestinian people, the leadership of the resistance, it has no right to assassinate the leaders of the leban. resistance, it is the levinese resistance and the palestinian resistance who are justly defending their land and people from an illegitimate colonizing occupation regime, and it is the lebanese people, the palestinian people that have the right to to self-defend, not the zionist regime. it should be noted that the zionist regime continues to occupy parts of lebanon, that the lebanese resistance is still fighting to free, and not to mention that hezbollah and the lebanese resistance are leading along with uh their brothers in yemen, in iraq, in syria, in iran and elsewhere, and actually being part of the only countries that are actually living up to their responsibilities under international law, and the gen convention to put an end to the ongoing genocide that the zionist regime is carrying out in gaza, and that is why we are seeing in

the time-onored practice of the zionist regime, the attacks targeting the civilian population, the attacks targeting the masses, because when they are unable to achieve their goals against the resistance and its strategic military objectives, instead what they are able to do is use the technology that's provided to them by us tax payer dollars in order to uh engage in mass terror against the civilian population right, and we've seen what the resistance is capable of in gaza, miss kates and of course we've also seen the regional retaliatory attacks against uh the occupation. can the israelis uh, in your opinion deal with the consequences of a full-blown war with hezbollah and potentially the entire resistance front at this point. well... so it's very clear that they can't, i mean they have been unable for the past 11 months despite carrying out a massive

genocide, despite causing significant and massive harm to the palestinian civilian population, despite taking over 50,00 lives the palestinian people, despite causing uh many, many more severe injuries despite displacing people, they have been utterly unable to defeat the palestinian people's resistance. despite the fact that gaza is very small strip of land that has been subjected to unremitting siege by land, by sea and by air for the past 17 years. they have been unable to defeat that resistance, time and time again they proclaim that such such and such brigade of their resistance is defeated or that they are going to be dismantling hamas and they have utterly failed to do so. they have failed to break the resistance and every single time they make one of these announcements, there are shortly announcement. that their tanks are being exploded and that zianist settlers are being evacuated in a so-called security

incident, so what we've seen for the past 11 months is despite that technological capacity, they are unable to break the will the people to struggle for freedom and they're unable to break that very real popular backbone of the resistance that exists, because it is the people of palestine and lebadon that recognize that it is the resistance that is defending their freedom, their ability to live, that without the resistance there is no future for palestine, but the fact is is that there is a future for liberated palestine, there is a future for uh free, sovereign lebanon, no longer with no parts of lebanese land occupied by the zionist regime, and there is no future for the zionist regime in palestine or anywhere else in the region. and about the us's stance, uh, i want to, i want you to break that down for us, us position. uh regarding the israeli regional crimes and also the gaza

genocide. uh, how can washington at the same time push for a ceasefire and claim it doesn't want a broader regional escalation, but also provide the israelies with the tools, with the arsenal, with the cover, with the all-out support to continue killing innocent women and children, uh, and it's not just in gaza anymore, we're seeing innocent women and children dying across uh lebanon with the recent terror attacks at the uh israelis have carried out, break down this us and western hypocrisy regarding um israel's regional crimes, including also the gaza genocide. well, mean, let's just be clear, the united states is not pushing for sease fire, the united states is not seeking a ceasefire, it's sending uh billions upon billions of dollars in additional weaponry to the zionist regime. it's arming and funding the zionist regime. if it was seeking a ceasefire, it would stop doing so. it's the most direct and easy and simple way to do so. instead, what the us is claiming to do is it's saying in media that it supports a

ceasefire, but its version of a cease fire is one where the palestinian people have no sovereignty, no rights and uh no self-determination, and this is why the resistance has been very clear on that they actually accepted what was put forward as a proposal, but the fact is that the neither the us or israel were ever really serious about it, and it just seems like it was attempt to try to test the resistance, so the resistance. has been quite clear its uh flexibility, its courageous position, its willingness to engage, and the fact is that the us is not serious about seeking a ceasefire, it's arming and funding, the genocidal party in this in this battle, it's arming and funding the genociders. this attack today in beirot was carried out by an f35 airplane, that's a us airplane. there have been over 500 airlifts of weaponry to the zionist regime. in the past um two days, the terror attacks and uh targeting consumer electronics targeted against the lebanese

population as a whole. uh, the u.s. claimed that it didn't know about these attacks. however, there are reports that uh, defense secretary lloyd austin had phone calls with yav galant right before these attacks happened on both days and in addition, the us then declared that it was uh ready to defend israel against hezballah. well, if the us wanted to promote peace and security in the region, like it claims to do with its words, it would be talking about supporting hesbollah and defending lebanon against israeli aggression, but we of course have seen that you know the us essentially views the zionist regime. as its own colonial project in the region to extend its influence, to extend its power and to fundamentally serve as a mechanism of attack against the palestinian people, the levinese people, um, and really against the entire population of the region seeking self-determination and liberation from imperialist togeminian control. this is why

we see time and time again, the us using terrorist designations, sanctions, blockades, coersive economic... in order to attempt to uh starve essentially the population of the region into accepting uh zionist occupation inside palestine and to accept uh us hijemany over the future of the region and it's quite clear that the era of that is over uh the people of the region will no longer accept us domination of their future their resources and their lives and this is what we are seeing right now are the attacks wounded and dying beast that is car that is engaging in the most destructive uh assaults against the civilian population as a whole, but it is the dangerous, dangerous death throws of beast of this zionist colonial project in the region that does not have a future in palestine and

that does does not have a future uh anywhere because this is a project that has always been based on genocide and the... results of that genicide are very visible to every person of conscience in the world today. it's clear the us, france, britain, germany, etc., they have enabled and funded and armed the zionist project to carry out these massacres and in the end they will be held accountable for their crimes against humanity. right, and uh, palestinian resistance groups have called for serious action uh. from arab and islamic nations and from bodies like the organization of islamic cooperation to confront israeli crimes and violations. now some arab governments would have shown a unified stance uh in the form of sanctions, cancelling normalization agreements, uh, instead of their in action for almost a year, it would have gone a long way in putting pressure on

the israelis, wouldn't it? at least they wouldn't have dared to try to expand uh the uh the... genocidal war in gaza and make it into a broader regional escalation and and regional war, so why is that not happened? so we're seeing this of course this intense dichotomy in the arab region right, on the one hand we have the people, the armed forces and the ansarad movement of yemen that are playing an absolutely heroic role in confronting zionism and for confronting colonialism and imperialism by both shutting down the supply lines of genus. side in the red sea, not to mention uh targeting uh the hypersonic missile to strike the zionist regime, what we're seeing in the south of lebanon, which has you know been this uh tremendous commitment to continue the support front and empty the north of palestine of its occupation soldiers and settlers that has continued despite hundreds upon hundreds of

marters being taken whose lives being taken by uh by the zionist regime that has been this unshakable commitment, what we're seeing from the resistance movements in iraq, what we're seeing from syria, this is one side, this is the resistance side of the arab region, and these are the forces that are being targeted, by all kinds of mechanisms by the us and its co-conspirators, now then on the other hand, what we see are these uh subservient arab regimes whose purpose is not to represent the people of the region, but is instead to rep then the interest of the united states to carry out uh normalization with the zionist regime. we see this in jordan, we see this in egypt. we see the jordanian regime shooting down drones being sent from iraq. to target the zionist regime, we're seeing the opening of a land bridge, you of course not to mention saudi arabia and the united arab emirates, this is these forces, these regimes are aligned with us

imperialism, they see the future of themselves, not just like the future of the zionist regime and the future of us and germany, but their own future as tied up in that project, and so they are willing to do whatever in order to carry that forward, including attacking and imprisoning, their own people in order to suppress support for the palestinian people in their resistance. now of course we see the the real legitimate sense of the people for example coming out in jordan with the heroic operation carried out by mahar al jazi the former soldier and truck driver who um carried out heroic individual operation at the karame crossing and we saw the response, the popular response that this action was met with, because the fact is that the people of jordan do not want want see they want to see their country as part of the resistance front and instead their regime is keeping them as part of the defense front of imperialism and zionism and that is not the

will of the people and so there is obviously if there had been a unified position across the board to stand with the forces of resistance from october 7th 2023 onward then of course we'd be looking a different situation but nonetheless we are still seeing that it is the resistance force that are pushing forward the future of arab resistance, and that's a future that is very strong and very powerful and has met with tremendous popular support throughout uh the countries of the region, even where we're looking at regimes that see their own future, not the future of their people as intimately tied in with the ongoing uh protection provided to them and the weapons provided to them by um the us and its partners. we're bringing in now naziha's. academic and political analyst joining us from the lebanese capital beirout. miss saleh, welcome to the program. share with us your perspective please on the recent israeli destabilizing actions and escalations. the

attack in southern beirot and the recent terror attacks, the pager and walkie talkie blasts in lebanon, which have left innocent um civilians, children among them uh dead and injured. yes sir. established just yet, i'm going to allow my colleagues to to figure that out, um, but we're going to go back to miss charlotte kates who's joining us from vancouver, miss

kate, we've been talking about the double standard with regards to what the israelies have been carrying out over the past few months, over the past few weeks, namely about this double standard and hypocrisy. let's say an arab or muslim majority country did what israel has done um over the past just like let's take a... away the the gaza genocide, just what they've done over the past few weeks, murdering uh an american citizen uh in the occupied west bank, the assassination that took place of ismael hania in the iranian capital, tehron, then the assassination of flad shook uh in in lebanon, the attacks that were carried out against uh the uh diplomatic compound of iran in syria. then the terror attacks uh, the cyber terror attacks with regards to the uh pageers and the waakitakis, if any muslim country or arab country had done what israel did over the

past uh few weeks or so, how would the west respond to it in your opinion? well, first of all, the west and the united states constantly respond not to these kinds of attacks on the civilian population, not to the assassination of peace active. to our us citizens and participating in a demonstration, but to any uh expression of the sovereignty of one of the countries of the region as an attack on itself, and what it uses is its right to control the resources, the future and the people of the region. there is no equivalent to what the zionist regime is carrying out, because the zionist regime is not a part of the region, it is not a legitimate country, it is an imposed settler colonial project, that was created in palestine by the us, the british and fellow imperialist powers in order to protect and preserve their interests in the region, so we're not talking about a country

that's a legitimate. part of the region that is uh b that is representing its people and struggling for its future that is uh having an internal crisis or is having a civil war or some form of conflict within the country. what we are seeing instead is a colonial project that is b that is built upon and it's seeking to complete the genocide of the palestinian people and occupied palestide and this is something in which not only are the us and its imperialist partners uh failing to exercise. has any sense of control over the zionist regime, they're full partners in the genocide because they're sending more arms, they're sending more weapons, not just that, there are thousands of people in the united states and and not just in the us, we see every day the reports from germany where we see cops beating people up in the streets, we see the banning of organizations, of everyone from sami doon to an islamic center in hamburg, we're seeing people being uh having

cops raiding their... homes in britain for engaging in journalism and activism speaking about palestine. this is full complicity and involvement in genocide. this is the kind of uh, this is the kind of actions that are carried out by states that view their own citizens and residents that are standing with justice and against genocide as a threat to this colonial project that's that is uh attempting to protect its place in the region and in palestine through mass. violence, through mass slaughter, through carrying out a genocide, and it's never going to be able to achieve those goals. i mean, what we saw on the 7th of october, 2023, with the uh heroic operation and action of the palestinian resistance, was that it was indeed possible to materially view a palestine that was free of zionism and a region that was free of imperialism, and so these powers have dedicated themselves, um, and they've always dedicated themselves, this

is nothing new, and it's certainly not something that began on the... 7th of october, but they've escalated the genocide, because fundamentally they don't uh, the they do, they no longer have confidence and their ability to control the future and destiny of the region, uh, so long as the palestinian people exist and occupied palestine, they viewed the palestinian people as an existential threat to their project of domination, control, exploitation and plunder. sure, once again, let's bring in uh, naziah salh academic and political analyst joining us from the lebanese capital beirot uh miss salah i hope we figured out the trouble with the connection there and uh same question uh as i mentioned earlier i i want to get your perspective on the recent israely destabilizing actions and escalations the attack uh that happened just recently in um southern suburbs of the lebanese capital beirout and of course we cannot uh ignore what took place on uh tuesday and wednesday

the terror attacks. padron waki blasts in lebanon which left innocent uh civilians dead and injured uh yes yes as we see since the one year israel is trying to push the resistance in lebanon push hizbullah to enter the world uh netanyahu wants to go to the big war uh large war he want lebanon uh to enter fe directly of the war, but lebanon and the resistance always announced that it's only to support gaza, we entered this war from our side only to support gaza, but the israeli they don't want that, especially netanyahu, netanyahu is losing everything, he didn't achieve any goal since one year, and he wants to go more and more in killing, killing, 'he

doesn't know anything but the concept of killing the others, he did that in gaza and he wants to do this in lebanon, because he is loser, if he stopped the war, he didn't achieve any goal, he will go to the jail, that's why he is killing and killing and killing, but why is still killing, because the us is backing him up and give him the per'. to do so and send him all the weapons, all the support, even in the united nations, there is no role for the united nations during this year against israel, even south africa tried to do something, also they they threaten south america, sorry south africa, if you go further in the court, we are going

to to see something, not... doesn't please you, so they threaten the people, so it's been trying those two days ago with the pages and talky walkie tried to... to push hizballah to enter the the war, yesterday sayid hasanlah he said, i don't want to enter the war, yani he doesn't say in this way, but the israeli understand or understood that he doesn't want to go for the the war, but today the israeli he won't to push hizbullah more to go to this war, so killing civilians, attacking beirot, the servern of beirut, so he want to push his bolah to take the

decision to open the the war clearly and go further with the with the war, because netanyahu if he... doesn't achieve anything and he think he can achieve anything here in lebanon, but he's mistaken, maybe he can he can win something, he's looking for anything, for anything to win, any title, any slogan to to put it internationally to say, oh yes, i went, i want something, and why he's doing this, because the international ' communities, international, all the the, i mean, all the united nations, the governments, the united states and europe, the nato, all all of them, they are supporting him, that's why he is a spoiled

child, he doesn't listen to to anybody else, only listen to the blood, and he believes in his in his religion. religious, he believed that killing other than uh jewish is good for him, so that's why is he is pleasing his people that he is killing other jew jewish people, so he he will he will not stop, and the the responsibility now it's on the united states of america and the nato. 'if they stop supporting him, he will stop by himself, but he he won't, he won't stop. as we see in gaza, he killed everybody, i don't know how many people still have in gaza, he killed

women, children, there is no humanity, there is nothing, nothing there, he killed everything, so he's dreaming now to do in lebanon, the same as gaza, but he doesn't know that that ' hisbullah is more powerful and the tanks and the weapons with hizbullah is more stronger and more deep and hizbullah has the something or has places or have supporters to back him up, it's more than what happened in gaza, gaza is surrounded by the israeli and the sea only, but b in lebanon no we have lot of rules rows and hizbullah will win and we i want to mention the supporting of people here in lebanon everybody this is the what happened with the

pages and the tokki and now with this explosion now this attack everybody supporting the resistance everybody a lot of people they go to the... because they donate their blood and they donate the eyes, kidneys, they they give anything the resistance wants to to win this battle, so the resistance is back been backing up with his people, this is very important thing, so that's why it's very difficult for netanyahu to defeat the resistance. right uh, we're going to go back to our correspondent mariam sal who's joining us um from the south of the lebanese capital berue to uh give us an update on uh the fluid situation uh that we've been focusing on ever since the israelies carried out uh this recent attack

in the suburbs, the southern suburbs of the lebanese capital beirot mariam i believe the number of killed his uh risen to nine uh initially we had at least 60 uh wounded as a result. for the attack, what are the updates? yes, the last update that we have from the lebanese ministry of health is, as you mentioned, nine marders and they said that there were... 39 uh injured uh, including eight that are severely injured. of course we have huge number of uh this people who are missing and i think that up until now we have only names of children, we have at least five children that are missing at this point, we are also looking at the fact that there could be a higher number uh which is still unknown, the authorities here today have called on everyone in the surrounding buildings to evacuate uh the buildings for. safety and because it's uh they they so they can have

easier job of lifting the rubble to try to retrieve uh the bodies and look for those who are missing of course if you get close to the area which we are still not allowed to film directly we can see that people's personal belongings are almost completely been pushed to the street the uh first two floors in the buildings have almost completely been destroyed the windows are also shattered in the nearby shops e even uh to the end of the street where we are standing right now, you can see that it has impacted almost the entire street, the windows have been shattered, so this is definitely a very heavy um uh shelling and bomb from the israelis, we don't how many bombs were used, we know that there were eyewitnesses who heard the sounds of uh fighter jets as they uh flew from uh the south lebanon from that area towards beirot and then before hearing the sounds of any uh plane and "there was no breaking of the of the sound barrier, there was only the

sound of the shelling, and then suddenly people heard the sounds of huge explosions and the the smoke that was rising from the southern suburbs of beirot, which could be seen all the way towards mount lebanon uh, and of course uh the authorities, whether it is the ambulances from the nearby hospitals and the paramedics and the red cross and the islamic health association are all here in addition to the firefighters to help. with the lifting of the rubble, since in lebanon it is very difficult um to have the type of um associations that would that are expertise in rifting the rubble, but now with the with all the past experiences of lebanon and the wars, in addition to the beyout port explosion and then later on of course um the events, the terror events that we saw on tuesday and wednesday, there has been now quick action and rapid uh emergency plans that were put forth by the uh the authority. whether it is the hezbollah authorities, the municipalities in the southern suburbs of

beirot as well as the hospitals, they are already on very high alert since the terror attacks of tuesday and wednesday, and as you know the hospitals are almost filled uh with wounded, we know that two people uh were died as a result of the injuries that they sustained uh from the pagers terror attacks that was recent last tuesday, this is new number also that resulted from the attacks on tuesday. uh the onesday attacks, of course we still don't have any news on whether the number of the martters of rose, we do know that there were many people that were in intensive care uh, but in the pager's incident uh we can also say that uh the the reports of the uh the hazbullah personality or the military um official who was the target of this assassination uh as the israelis are saying in their reports was also someone who sustained wounds as result of the attacks of the pagers, but it was slight

wound and so therefore he left the hospital and returned uh to his normal job and his normal course of work, and the israelies are saying that they were still able to target him here, of course we do not have anything from sources yet on his where whereabouts and whether he was here actually during the time the shelling or not, what we're looking at right now are only civilians uh that have been killed as a result of this attack and like i said the... "the number of children that were killed was around four or five, but we also have at least five children that remain missing under the rubble. of course, this also comes a time when the hizballah operations in south lebanon continue as well as the israeli aggressions on south lebanon continue, especially with very high pace in the last 48 hours uh the israelis have said that they will um extend their uh aggressions and lift the the the weight of their combat uh capabilities. from uh gaza into uh the

north uh meaning by that of course the confrontations with south lebanon. we have very quick statement from the israeli regime's prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying that we have said we will change the middle east and we are about we have just begun and of course what he meant by that is probably uh what he had said previously in one of the uh speeches that he made um giving a presentation of what he wanted gaza to look like in the future and what what the uh the middle east looks like for him, he for him, he said the region is all about being making sure that the there is a disarmament of this region, of course he meant by that that only the israel army remains armed and superior when it comes to that capabilities. uh, of course, as your guests have mentioned, uh, the israelies do have plans uh to launch a war, which is similar to what they did in gazza unto lebanon, but of course the calculations in lebanon are much different than what they are in gaza. the united states

officials have also advised the israelis not to go for a war on lebanon. if they are truthful in this, this means that they have been calculated. of course the extent of the repercussions that they might see as a result the war on ghazza and of excuse me, war on lebanon, which seems to have begun. let's bring in human rights activist lina rabai, who's also joining us from the lebanese capital beirot. miss rabai, please share with us your views on the recent israeli attacks, the escalations which have left many innocent civilians dead and injured, the attacking south uh the recent terror attacks, the pageron waki blast uh in lebanon, the hezbollah chief uh said hasan nasal says that the deadly wireless device explosions by israel actually amount to a declaration of war on lebanon. good evening to you and to all first tv viewers, again and again israel

attacks civilians in lebanon, as israel claims that it is attacking military members of his. low when it is actually, it actually knows that it is attacking civilians in lebanon today, nothing is confirmed yet, but as um rumors as a witness, i would say as rumors are saying that that a chief mil military chief in hizbullah was the was the target today, but but again civilians were the ones targeted and kill, okay so um, i we have emphasize something first here, that by one signature, by one decision, the usa can stop the israeli aggression, whether on ghazza or on lebanon, yet the us is not doing that, the us is major accomplice in this war, in this in this aggression in the israeli aggression, um, as i want to convey to your

viewers what happened today, because i was a bare witness to to what happened, um, as usual people, people in southern suburbs of bayrut were terrorized, very much terrorized by the attack, no one was preparing for it, no one was ready for any other attack, three three days in one week in lebanon, the the people of lebanon face such terrorism by the by the israeli aggression, um, we cannot um, we cannot assess whether whether this will escalate into a major war. or not, we have to uh, we have to follow up the the following events, really, we really don't, we cannot make this - assessment right now, but we are not relying any um, help, we are not relying any help from any, from any other country,

from from international decisions or whatever, we can only rely on our own self-defense, because because experience have proven that nothing will help the people except their own selves. this is the truth. i'm speaking from human rights perspective, not a political perspective, not someone who attributes to hizbullah or anything, but this is the truth. as human rights activist, i would say nobody defended human rights or any rights really except except the victims themselves, the people themselves to stood for their own rights. so... excuse me if my voice is trembling, but but because i was close to the scene and i bare witness to the terror that happened and how people rushed and how people left their home, they maybe they thought that the war did start, many people didn't know that there was a a certain target, but they though they thought that the actual war did start, it was, it was as as,

it was so terrifying, um, hopefully it will not escalate a greater world, but if did, um, i don't think the people will back up, i think the people will really go go with it to the end, until they put total end to the israeli aggression in our region. fras, journalist, author and activist is also joining us now from belfast. mr. hughes, uh, welcome to the program, give us your thoughts on uh the uh the recent events that have taken place just recently these. carried out uh attack in uh south - the southern suburbs the lebanese capital beirot, of course i want to get your uh perspective and viewsuh regarding the terror attacks that were carried out across lebanon. on tuesday and wednesday, i think what we're witnessing is a further escalation from the american israely

access uh, what we're seeing is the deliberate targeting of civilians within lebanon, and i think it's important to put things into context all the way through the genocidal war on gaza, we have had the americans and others in the eu uh claiming that they are trying to deescalates uh the potential for a wider regional conflict, they are constantly going to pieces like lebanon, they're trying to convince the lebanese government and the lebanese resistance not to retaliate against these uh provocations. i believe they're doing this because what they wanted to do was allow israel to carry out its geneside and gaza, which is lasted for nearly uh one year on the 7th of october and few weeks. and then what you had was uh hezballah, hezballah only exists as a reaction to israeli aggression and israeli

terrorism within the region, hisballah never existed before the israelis invaded and attacked and occupied militarily uh parts of lebanon all the way up to beiroot. i think what we're witnessing now is the people in gaza, nearly two million of them have been corald in living in basically tent cities and canus and rough uh and the israeli military all they have not achieved any of their military uh objectives, they have destroyed 85% of the infrastructure and the buildings and habitation and the vegetation uh of gaza, and now i think they feel that they are in a position where they can turn their focus away from gaza. and to lebanon and what israel always does is it carries out an act of henus terrorism in order to get a reaction in this

case from heizballah, so if the rockets start flying then uh my concern is israelies will then begin to bomb areal bomb from the air pieces in labanon with potentially american uh support in the background so this is a... calculated escalation, it is there specifically to provoke an emotional reaction from hezbellah, which i don't think they'll get, and when we remember that in the early 2000s, the americans had a plan to destroy seven countries in five years, lebanon, iraq, syria, yemen, sudan and iran, we're all part of those seven designated targeted countries, and we are witnessing. that plan perhaps coming uh back onto the table uh after maybe after maybe two decades sure let's go back to

uh miss uh talking about um uh the us stance here you you mentioned earlier that the the americans and the israeli allies are basically complicit uh in the the genocide in let's also focus on the us's position regarding israeli regional crimes, so how can washington push for a ceasefire and also at the same time claim that it doesn't want a broader regional escalation yet uh it provides israelis with the with the tools with the arsenal with the financial support, economic support uh all out political support to continue killing innocent women and children and the innocent women and children that are dying, it's not just in gaza anymore, as we're seeing what is what has been taking place of the past few days in

lebanon, breakdown uh for a sist us and western hypocrisy regarding israel's regional crimes, well the us claims - instance claims the first instance doesn't want that the situation escalate in the region, but what actually speaks the sense of the us is its actions, it's its arm is still arm in israeling more after it aggression in gaza 11 months ago until now, this is what expresses the actual sense of the us, okay, we understand that there are certain um conflicts, the minor conflicts where the us doesn't want the image of israel to be strategically negatively affected in the world ' uh, which netanyahu doesn't care about anyway, netanyahu thinks that he rather be notorious uh, criminal than to than to

lose the. okay, but in any way, the us is major accomplish in this, it is major violator of international, international laws that support international humanitarian laws, whether laws that are specific for arm conflicts or whether or other international loss about human rights. um uh uh what i wanted to say, sorry, there was something that i really wanted to focus on and just skip my mind, um, but anyway that it is now a responsibility for media as well to convey that the us has to be held accountable as israel, just the same, it is the world, it is the war of the us, if israel launches a war

against lebanon, it is the us's war. against lebanon as well as the aggression in gaza is the us aggression against ghazza and i want to say something, there is no difference between the two political parties in america, the democrats and the republicans, they are both major supporters of of israel, it doesn't matter, some people um try to relate the uh the elections in america to the to the world, it doesn't matter who wins, they are both. both zionis and supporters of zionists, we don't care who rules america, we know whether trumb or harris, they are both zionist, the the american de state has to be held accountable for the israeli action. sure, let's go back to fra, in belfast uh about this double standard that we've been focusing on with our guests throughout this

segment of the program, uh, if an arab or a muslim majority country did what israel has done over the past few months? how do you think the west would respond to it? don't think an arab or a muslim country would actually be in a position to carry out these horrendous trocities that we witnessed and that we've seen i mean outside of terrorism outside of the lakes of isis and what they did in syria and cutting off uh people's heads and taking out uh people's hearts and eating them uh alive. on uh instagram and live on youtube in order to instill fear within the civilian populations of syria, which is terrorism using balance uh for for political gain, uh, i think if something like this happened uh, the un security council within within two or three days would have all automatically set up - some form of military intervention, they would have given the green lake to america and nato and others

to go in and disarm. uh and decimate the people who are carrying out horrendous crimes against humanity, but the duplicity here is the colonial mindset, the uh europeans who went to north america, canada, australia and new zealand desimated the uh indigenous population, and that's what we're seeing here, we're seeing a european colonization of historic palestine, and but you're seeing that that terrorism which is used to uh displace. indigenous population through uh ethnic genocide and through displacement and you're witnessing that now, we've seen it in syria, we've seen it in iraq, we've seen it in afghanistan, we've seen it in libya, and the fact that israel which was born in terrorism continues to thrive and expand through terrorism can carry out these acts while the west actually give them the figleaf

of political cover in the uh un assembly and also the united nations security council proves that the wight anglo-saxon sphere of western olagarks, western corporations and western bought and paid for politicians are fully complicit and they are fully behind and they are fully involved in every murder in lebanon and every murder in gazan, every murder in the west bank, every murder in the yemen, continuing murdering. campaign by isis and hts and others uh in syria and the balcanization of syria and the balcanization of uh libya, so this is western corporate imperialism using israel as its dog soldiers on the streets of west asia, if israel is not held to account and the americans who were involved in the illegal iraq war along with tony bler and uh george bush are not brought

before the hag. without accountability these uh these horrendous uh actions of terrorism uh will only get worse because when no one is held to your account that means you can do what you want. you can kill who you want, you can take palestinians up on the roof of building and the west bank, you can kick their bodies and you can beat them and you can throw them off the roof and nothing, nothing happens and nothing is sad, no condemnation, nothing is done, israel is not just rogue apartite para state, it is a terrorist state, it is supremist ideology and if it's not stopped we have had war. we have had destabilization and we have had countless hundreds of thousands of not more people murdered, injured and imprisoned uh in palestine and