tv Documentary 18 Percent 2 PRESSTV September 22, 2024 5:29pm-6:01pm IRST
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raining down over the heads of the israeli settlers and not hazbullah's rockets, it's important to point that out, because hizbullah up until now seems to be more if we may say disciplined when it comes to the issue of military strikes um than anyone than any any force in the world. i have not seen, maybe i've not been an observer for that long, but think any observer in the military field whether throughout the world war 1, world war 2 all the wars in the world, there has not been a single um military force or national army or even resistance groups like of for example in the french resistance or the french revolutions, there were always mistakes, there were always striking, even areas that could probably re lead to the killing of civilians. hezbollah has been extremely meticulous in that regard, focusing only on military sights, and so any news from the israelies coming out to try to say, that
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there was a israeli settler that was hit or israeli civilian car vehicle that was struck or kiput um settlement that was struck we of know now from hazballah's words that hazbullah has the ability to know that they struck their military targets very precisely and that nothing reach the areas of settlers and this proves that also we're talking about 60 kilometers some of those rockets reach 60 kilometers from the lebanese border and hazballah said they only reach 40 kilometers, which is the ro david um military base, and that provesbullah has practiced self-restraint only focusing on military targets, despite the fact that they believe in their ideology and they believe also based on historic information that even those settlers that are living in those kiputs are occupying settlers that many of them have been trained within the military institution of of the israeli regie. to fight and to kill,
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and we've seen that also play out in the war on ghazza, and but despite all that, hazballah has maintained that path, because the issue of blood is very sensitive issue in islam, and in islam, it is very important to take heed of what is killed or who is killed in the battlefield, now with that said, hezballah's deputy secretary general said this is an open. punishments if we may call it, they will continue with the with the path of resistance operations, they will continue with the support front for the sake of ghazza, but at the same time they will include the retaliations whenever they find it perhaps suitable and necessary. okay, so let's bring back mr. obaid, those were very important issues mentioned by our correspondent mariam saleh, we will continue that discuss. as we are receiving even more
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images from the lebanese capital beirot, huge crowds, as you can see have gathered in the streets to bid farewell to the commander ibrahim aqil and other fellow hazballah members that were martered in this recent attack, as our correspondent marm saleh mentioned this huge crowd, it was... definitely not predicted to turn out, and it shows how hazballah and said hasan nasallah himself have the support of the lebanese people. you can see the people taking part in this funeral procession carrying the yellow flag of the hazballah resistance movement. let's bring back our political commentator, muhammad obaid. uh, mr. obait, if you could
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please tell us what do you think the position of the united states is? mr. sheikh naim gassim did not mince his word in words in mentioning that the us is also complicit in these crimes as it is providing israel with the weapons that it is using uh against the of lebanese people. well, they realized that they are being hypocrites. comes to the conflict in gaza and even in lebanon, they claim that they are seeking tirelessly to have sease fire and to have a swap process and exchange, i mean of prisoners, but still at the same time, and they say they are against the killing of civilians, by the israelis, etc., but still they provide the the weapons. and the ammunition to the
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israelis to carry out more and more massacres and genocide, so that's why it is, even they now started to realize how much the whole word is not no longer buying them, the americans, i mean, they claim something, and it is clear that they are doing quite the opposite, that's why i think he did not spare them when it came to blasting the israelies, he also blasted the the american administration because of the of the devilish role that it is playing in this conflict, while at the same time claiming that the... are trying to have a cease fire and trying to stop the conflict and i think the whole the whole arab world now and islamic world started to realize this very clearly because we always follow reports of boycotting the
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american goods and american products as part of of taking a as part of contributing in this war ' against the enemies of the nation, the enemies of palestine, many of the people are now, do not now buy american goods or anything that comes from certain companies that are to be supporting israel, and i think this tells something about about the are the events are are. exposing the americans more and more in the eyes of the arab and islamic nation. another comment, if i may use as what miriam mentioned as for the huge crowds that
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in the in the session and the general, it is known that the israelis have been threatening and even carrying out attacks against the suburbs. so it is here, it is quite an act of defiance by the people of the suburbs to participate in the funeral, this is on the one hand, second, the the the atrocious act, the atrocious nature of of the acts and the crimes of last week by the israelis made, not even the people who support usually the resistance to continue to support it, but we even hear some voices from people who used to oppose, lebanese voices that used to oppose hizbillah and the in the lebanese political arena, we've had them now coming and offering condolences to hizbullah and even some
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opposition parliamentary deputies came to donate blood in when when that was needed and this so as you say, every every crowd has a silver lining, then this this was part of the things that these crimes had some positive impact as for the view or the image of hizbullah in the eyes of even those who used to oppose the party in the past okay so maria you did of course mention that is important to know that those targets hit by uh hazbullah were a military targets again uh we do agree that is very important point but do you have any reactions to uh these targets considering the fact that they were all hit
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uh what kind of message does this send what were the reactions and if you could please also elaborate on future attacks that we could expect to have. happen in the same line from hezbullah on the occupied lands, well hazbullah has always been quite methodological when it comes to how they deal with the battlefield and it was always based on certain equilibriums that they had put forth and we can see that from the beginning it was very precise military operations of course we saw how it it began accelerating bit by bit, turning in what seemingly is an avalanche now, hazbullah began very precisely, precise targets, military targets uh on lebanese occupied territories, they took out the cameras, the espionage devices
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that are on the lebanese side, actually spying on the lebanese side on the border with lebanon, they made sure that that is part of the warfare that the israelis have used and continue to use now, but of course... they try to remove all those points of strength that can be used by the israelis and it has also return to now, it has become part of their daily habit and we notice how even when there is a direct strike and there is the killing of civilians, hazbillah was not reactionary after any of those strikes, we saw in several um massacers that were committed, the first strike against vehicle, a civilian vehicle that killed three little girls with their grandmother and their mother was wounded, and then later on we saw that was the first time that hazbullah actually used catisha rockets uh in a manner that was further away uh from only the border military. sites um, but of course still then hazbullah only targeted areas that were military as well, or at least the settlements
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that were evacuated, and we know very well that the 10 kilometers at least and then later around 15 kilometers distance from lebanon's border in the galili was completely transformed into a military zone, and so that in itself is quite telling, it's very significant, and we saw that the israelis were also... taking in uh that uh hazbullah strength bit by bit, hazballah was only showing minimal uh capabilities that they had, not much, first of all beginning with only mortars, only guided rockets, then the cornet or the anti-tank and anti-armor missiles, also using them against residents, using them against uh military personnel that they were able to spot near the border, but then later on, like i said, every time there was target. of civilians hizbullah would launch rockets of kachusha rockets, they used
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kechusha rockets only extensively for a long period of time until they began for example with the use of burcan, burcan is a short-range rocket, of course they used it only on close military zones, but they use the the rocket fulak uh which was also used for maybe uh short range or areas where they require a different type of targeting and then we saw the use and how how introduced the jihad mugnia rocket, that was also new rocket, but still they maintained the same geographic um combat zone if we may say, they did not go beyond that, it was not until the israelis went further in their attacks and there was a massacre in fron and nabatiye and then later on they targeted the areas of biqa which is over 80 km away from the lebanese southern border and so that also led to retaliation from hizbullah, but hizbullah was launching their retaliation only to try to
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bring the israelis back to those same boundaries. hazbillah secretary general made it clear through all his speeches that there was certain boundaries that they had enforced the israelis to keep, they wanted to force a war of retrition on the israeli military, they did not intend to go for a full scare war, and so they attempted and were successful of course for very long period of time. time to keep the civilian population safe, while at the same time making sure that they struck their targets very precisely against military areas, the military posts, the military personnel of the israeli military, israeli regime, but now we see that the israelis had different intentions even before that, when you look at the pager incidents and there are the reports that are coming out, which we can probably uncover more and more of in the coming days, weeks perhaps, even years, we find out that the israelis have worked on that for 15 years,
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and so it was not an began after hazballah's support front, it was an offensive terrorist plan against the civilian population in lebanon before any war occurred, it was a time when perhaps hazballah was busy fighting for the sake of the world, the terrorist and takfiri elements in syria and in the rugged areas of lebanon, the border of lebanon, and so... that proves that there was an israeli intention for a war and offensive against lebanon which goes beyond the alaxa flood operation and so see that through that hisbullah was able to perhaps maybe meet the israelis or to stop those israeli objectives that were planned before only limited in limited space which is in south lebanon. however when it came to those pages the israelies had. that plan, of course, they didn't have the green light or the permission or the ability that was given to them by the
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united states, then they would not be able to commit it, and we know that there was definitely and continuously cooperation from the cia, from the us intelligence and from other intelligence apparatus that assist the the israeli intelligence, the mosad, the israeli military to be able to conduct such issues and so if we do have, if we did have a just maybe system of the world, all of them would be taken to court, all of them would be taken to justice, and this is issue of course that needs a lot of time perhaps to be able to reach, but for now we know that there were crimes committed. against human being, human beings and civilians in labadon, now when we saw that there was the wave of the beepers, the wave of thes that were uh that were launched, then the the walkie talkies, then the strike on the southern suburbs of beirut, of course no distinction between civilian targets and military targets and we notic how the israelis even through the beginning, were
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killed in the confrontation, were marters, we're talking about more than 400, the majority of... them were not killed on the combat zone or as they were fighting or maybe next to their launchers as they were launching their rockets, the biggest majority them were killed in assassinations, they were struck in their vehicles and their civilian vehicles as they were returning home or maybe a break, or maybe some of them were not even ever on the combat zone, they had different uh maybe duties which were civilian duties and by the israelis, so that was how the israelis were liquidating hazbullah members. and not through killing them on the battlefield and in the field, and we notice that also in the war in gaza, the israelies did not enter as ground forces, they did not begin with their ground invasion until several months after they pounded and carpet bombed ghaza, and that seems to be the manner of dealing with things for the israelis, even before in the 80s when they would of course
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launch their aggression, destruction, destruction and killing, and then they would enter with their forces and they would be struggle. with a surprise, and this is why, and it proves why the resistance in lebanon, even officials in the lebanese government, like the speaker of the parliament, he said that if they do enter, we know that they will not have the upper hand, if they enter as ground forces, as invasion, and now hezballah has made it clear that once you attack the civilian population, hezballah secretary general has said in their speeches to come back to that, clearly he said that we will fight without boundaries and without limits, still we see hazbullah fighting within certain boundaries and certain limits, um, because they want to respect that, and they want to keep to that those boundaries that they have put forth, despite the fact that the israels do not respect it, they have never respected, but as a resistance is very disciplined military force, hazbullah has always been as such, they've always been
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disciplined, but at the same time they need to go for the punishment, and so the punishment proves. can't struck strike their rockets and let them reach their target before that, we have several months, we had in july for hazballah began policing footage which were called the hopo message and the of course that is a similar to a symbolism to the the verse of the chronic verse of the hobo who brought to prophet solomon news about other countries and so they brought that surveillance drone. called it the hopo and they brought in all the images they need of specific military targets in all of and then later on there was another video showing um other areas like the golan heights and so on. kaifa was in itself very significant line a limit that was also in during the war of
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2006 secretary general had said if you continue your strikes or you come near the capital bay. the war and now also gone back to that line, that boundary, which is ha, and we see hazbullah last night or early hours of the morning strike ifa very precisely and very clearly, but still only military targets and it would be very difficult to be able to know the extent of the damage that was inflicted upon that area, but "i can tell you one thing, there was clearly a decrease in the israeli over flights and the israelits that were flying over lebanon. we know that the israeli war jets uh flew perhaps in big numbers in several areas, it was very heavy bombardment the day before where they said they were able to dismantle husboral rockets. of course that proved to be inefficient
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because hazballa launched the rockets and with that uh with that..." that said, um, hazballah seems to have been able to inflict certain damage that would not allow the israeli fighter jets that perhaps use the terminals in the ramol david um military base and military airport to fly and strike targets in lebanon, that could probably be a something that we observed a result of those uh attacks by hazballah that led to that weakness in the air force, of course the israelies. have other airports, they will still be able to bring their fighter jets to launch strikes on lebanon, but what type of strikes they might strike? well, are they waiting for the funeral to end to strike more targets? in the southern suburbs of beirot, will it be something similar to what we saw in 2006, or will it remain under the same uh length of targeting, perhaps very specific
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targets where they know perhaps there is an office for hazballah, they might be even striking targets that are for political figures at hazballah and not only military figures, as you know hazbullah has members of the parliament and the lebanese parliament, they have very open and clear, they don't need intelligence to know where the office of the members of parliament that belong to hazbullah is, or even the officials or some officials or political officials for hazballah, their whereabouts are well-known uh because they are considered part of the civilian population. whether the israelis will begin striking those is still not clear, but if they do, hazballah secretary general has before and now today with the deputy secretary general, we see that they have lived up to their promise to punish the israelis in only a preliminary retaliation and they will... continue with more retaliations, but they if the israelies do launch this attack, i think we will definitely see more strikes by hazballah that
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go perhaps to hifa and perhaps even beyond tha, and we'll go back to that balance of power which hazballah has stressed on from the beginning on the confrontations that they will deter the israelis from launching a war on lebanon, of course, okay, so there will be... of course, these are issues that we need to wait and see about. exactly, we're going to have to wait and see, and uh, mr. obaid, in the meantime, we are still receiving live images from the lebanese capital, beirut with huge crowds taking part in this funeral procession. this was absolutely unexpected. i would like to know if uh, as a political commentator and someone who's been observing the developments in lebanon, did you expect a huge crowd as of this one? to take part in this funeral procession and what does this signal as far as hazbolah's status in the lebanese society
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is concerned? well the the lebanese people in general and specifically the the people of south lebanon and the people of bika and the suburbs basically understand the sacrifices of his more than others, because you have to back to go back in history to see the history of that area, south lebanon, even before the the creation of the zionist entity and occupied palestine, there were massacres perpetrated even in the year 1947 by the zionist settlers against people from south lebanon, so this was huge... and long time of of aggressions by israel since its creation until the year 200 basically when the the
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withdrawal took place and the deterrant force was created by hizbullah because if it weren't for for that force to be created we would be receiving aggressions just as gaza is now taking its share of those injustices and the silence of the world and the international community, you do not expect any opposition against the israel's crime, israeli crimes. so that's why these people understand more than anyone else in lebanon or in the region what hizbullah did to them, that's why they take any chance to show to the enemies of to the enemies of the islamic resistance, that they are there for the resistance ' they back the resistance, they are supporters, they are willing to take to the streets, they even if now you take any statement from these people, they tell you we
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are ready to offer sacrifices, we are ready to offer our children, our sons to fight with in the ranks of the resistance, this because the what they have seen of the history of the islamic resistance also being one of the uh cleanest parties that were therebanese political arena as for one when the civil war was there and there were lot of parties and they did a lot of stealing and lot of taking bribes and extortion etc. but with the hizbullah the experience was completely different. this is another factor for the support. or to the people in general, you have to add to this also this sense that i mentioned earlier, that i mentioned earlier
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about the uh support even by some of those who were opposing hizbullah because this these two crimes of the of the pages explosions and the uh attack uh against the building strike against the building they have also shown that hizballah as a is not the one that is the aggressor, it is the that the one that is being wrong and it is the israel that is the aggressor, so this has become even clearer than in the pass to in the eyes of those those who support hizbullah in the first place and even to those who used to oppose the party earlier phases, basically
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in the... political arena when it comes to parliamentary issues or internal affairs of politics, but as i said earlier, we saw many these people coming and offering condolences and having statements in favor of hisbullah, so in general it is quite understood, it should not surprise anyone to see this huge crowd of people, because they all real the sacrifices of the party, you know, uptil now, sorry, uptil now, there are around 500 marters with hizbullah trying to restrict the conflict only to areas that do not harm civilians, lebanese civilians, plus the you have also to take into account the importance the figure himself, mean ibrahim was known
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for his major role as i also mentioned earlier as one of the co-founders of the resistance and also basically the founder of the rudan force so if you combine all these factors then you'd understand that this this huge participation is only normal. well thank you very much that was mr. muhammad obaid, political commentator joining us live from beirot, and we also had with us our correspondent mariam saleh, as we receive these live images, as you can see in beirot a huge official funeral ceremony is currently underway to bid farewell to the top ranking commander of the hazballah resistance movement, ibrahim and fellow members of
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theus. resistance movement who were assassinated in an israeli strike in beirot, and of course, as our correspondents and our guest did mention, the huge crowds that you are watching were not expected to show up, which is a clear sign of the support that the hazbullah resistance movement enjoys with. these people that have turned out not just to take part in the funeral ceremony, but also to pledge allegiance with the values of hazballah and sayid hasan nasrulah himself. that was the funeral that's currently underway in lebanon. we'll be giving you a brief detailed. piece of news in our news
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