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tv   Documentary Black Water 1  PRESSTV  September 26, 2024 2:02pm-2:31pm IRST

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part of these recent developments and do you see any kind of permanent ceasefire in the horizon anytime soon? uh, first of all, i do believe that the international community, they pretend that to say that they were they're looking for a sifire, but then the same time they actually allow, especially the israeli allies in europe and united states, they support the what israel is doing, attacking lebanon since monday. non stop and trying to repeat the same things that happened in ghazza, in palestine. i do believe that there, i don't see any cease fire coming because israel has repeatedly stated since this morning and since the beginning of the war that they are not looking for any sease fire and by seas fire i mean stopping completely the attacks and they see israel sees the cease fire as as they're losing the war, they have they had netanyahu and the the... israeli army have stated
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multiple times that this war is an existential war for them and making any kind of recommendations or following the path of the international community or listening to their advices by stopping the war, this mean that they are losing the war. do believe that the war will continue and it's going to get more and more difficult, sadly we're going to a see more deaths, more sacrifices being made by the lebanese people. in the south of lebanon, of of course israel doesn't see uh these things as um powerful as, i mean, i do of believe that israel cannot accomplish of anything of their military goals against hisballah, so that's why they're trying to compensate by killing people, killing civilians, and that's what's happening, and of and if if really the united united nation really wanted a c fire, it should have happened by now, you're saying that... have
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happened in what way should that have happened? because we do know that israel does not abide by un resolution, so in what way do you believe that if the un wanted this to happen it would have happened by now? the united states usually has veto any kind of decisions sadly and united nations and the security council, so if something if there was an actual real genuine attempt to see to have a cease fire in the middle east between israel and hizballah. or between israel and ghazza in hamas, it would have happened by now. i don't believe that united states of support sece fire i believe that they are in denial, they're far away from reality and they're trying to put the public in in in in kind of um to give them illusion that they support cease fire, but in fact they have given a green light to israel to attack and that's what happened in the past couple of days, so that's what i mean by the seasfire is is is... impossible to happen unless the
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united states stop it, like i mean it could stop within a like a phone call would surprise, but it's not happening and i don't see it happening anytime soon, unless something changes in the american politics, but who knows who what's going to happen after the the november elections, i mean even if any of the candidates win, i mean how they're going to react to what's happening in israel, it depends on their needs and their and the what's benefiting israel, because we have learned in the past year. "i mean things came to the surface that the american and the israelis are one in terms of politics and they do benefit each other, and and america will never let israel alone, and they keep continuing to, they keep repeating the same statement, israel has the right to defend itself, so i do not see an actual genuine cease fire deal happening. okay, so let's bring in keithline hamad from beirot to tell us more about. that uh caitlen farah just uh
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said that she doesn't she is actually very pessimistic about any kind of cease fire happening anytime soon, the reason for that uh according to her is because uh the main ally of israel which is the us does not want sease fire so putting the rhetoric aside and looking at the actions which definitely speak louder than words, it seems that the us does not want this war to end, so in your opinion uh, what in what way does this war? for of of benefit the united states, israel's allies and israel itself. well, first of all, thank you for having me. uh, to be honest, how does this war benefit them? there's no benefit at all, that's happening. of course, we don't see any sease far coming anytime soon. even though, as we saw, i mean the us was one of, as we mentioned that the us and his allies are the ones who are calling for this three-week uh cease fire. the us has been saying multiple times that we have nothing.
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to do with these attacks on lebanon, we have nothing to do with these attacks in gaza, however we know that the us has been the ally of israel since the beginning, and no matter what they are continuing to say, we know every... everything happening under the table, what people are, what's happening here in lebanon is something that we have seen a lot of times, yes, the united nations remains silent, the international community remains silent, we have seen half over half million people leave their homes, however uh lebanon, hisballah, the resistance in lebanon is resilient, nothing is going to benefit the us or israel, and i do want to make a comment from your other guesses point regarding netanyahu, she was... mentioning that uh israel has tried to drag the us into a wide range war with lebanon, however it's not about this anymore, it seems that netanyahu has his own agenda, it seems netanyahu is not abiding by anything else, he com continues to
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make uh attacks and aggression, they continue to say that they are claiming they are targeting hisballah targets, however everything that we know and everything that we have seen with the children and the women hundreds that have been killed specifically over the past week shows nothing that anything is going to be happening soon with the ceasefire. so uh we can't see any seasfire in the horizon, but at the same time let's not forget any kind of tension in the region also turns into a cart blanch for israel to uh launch even more attacks on gaza because all the attentions will be driven to different uh part of the region. caitlin, why? want to remind our viewers uh what was mentioned almost a year ago by said hasan nasarlah that there is one objective and there's only one way that any war will stop or any aggression will stop if israel decides to stop its aggression on gaza. also uh the lebanese uh the lebanese prime minister
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mentioned earlier today mikat he reiterated the same situation: stop the aggression on gaza. if that is not accomplished there will be no ceastfire. there will be a continuing an aggression. in the area that could end up into a wide range war. let's not forget that what we have seen, this is the first time in history that the zianist entity has been, their image has been defaced internationally, the way they are now, they the world of attrition has failed, everything has failed and they are reaching and trying to do anything for netanyahu himself to accomplish and to achieve any type of victory in his name, and that's it, as we see it here in lebanon as a resistance. sees it in lebanon, iraq, and iran, in yemen, that there is no stop to this war at the moment until palestine is freeed. okay, so uh, caitlin, before i uh turn back to farah, please answer this question, you said that there will be, there might be a full-blown war, and uh, are
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you expecting a ground invasion from the part of israelies? do you believe that those calls might eventually lead to an actual ground invasion? so actually earlier today, actually uhrano published on his website that us soldiers have been deployed to cyprus uh just because of the middle east tensions happening at the moment, there has been talk that uh as we know the israeli military has claimed that it is preparing for a possible ground assault, anything is possible, yes i do expect it, but again let me remind our viewers that sayd hassan mentioned that all and anyone who decides to enter lebanon will be welcomed, will be targeted and welcome. it's easier for us to target him that way, so maybe in that case it's easier to end the war if a ground invasion does happen, and since you mentioned and of course hazballah's military capabilities, let's bring back farah al hashim from kuwait city in this
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discussion, farah, we saw hisballah directly attacking tel aviv yesterday, deep inside the occupied territories, now this was something that is considered. huge development in of itself, do you believe that is capable of fighting against israel if they make the huge mistake of launching a ground aggression? yes, i believe that can handle israel and i believe will reciprocate attack before even israel considers in an actual land attack. i believe also hasn't even activated 10% or 5% their military capability. is, i do believe that allah is preparing for more aggressive attacks against tel aviv, and i do believe this is just the beginning. so, caitlin, how much support thisbollah enjoy inside lebanon, in beirot, where you're based right now?
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well, actually, i do have to tell you, no, when it comes to support, there is something that uh, unfortunately the zinust entity has not understood. for these years that they have tried to, mean from last week when we saw the attack on the pagers and the walkie talkies, never in history, have you seen people donate their eyes uh to assist those injured? "the lebanese uh resistance in lebanon is here, has been here for years and will continue to be here, and unfortunately this is what the zianist continues uh to disbelieve, they believe that every time they decide that we have targeted uh their missiles, their drones, their military sites, we have defeated hizballah, you cannot defeat hizballah, hizballah is not simply their missiles, hizballah is an idea that has gone through generations, the sons of martters and the children of martters continue and will..." continue to carry out the idea. okay, so uh, farah, do you believe in what
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caitlin just said, that hasbullah is an idea that cannot be defeated, and also also let's focus more on the political, different political factions, political views inside lebanon, the disagreements and rivalry that used to exist, do you believe that this war has been able to bring them together in order to defend their country hand in hand f? yes, recently, after the attacks, the started on monday, the sunnis and the durzis are now getting closer than ever between each other with the axis of resistance in lebanon with hisballah, and there's a huge change and shift in perspective by the people, the public, but there is a minority, and i do believe that there like less than one%, the the the lebanese forces, party and justts, these both of them are still on their position. they're still promoting, they're still, they're still promoting for an israeli agenda in lebanon sadly, but i do believe
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that the the the threats that were targeting hizballah before, 11 months ago, have disappeared, there's there's more unity among the leviese, regarding who's the real enemy is, the the propaganda of israel inside lebanon has failed, no one believes these pro israels in lebanon again, i mean the sad thing is we have more zinanists. lebanon and in the middle east than we do have in the united states, that's the sad reality, and i do believe that these things are are are disappearing day after day, and i do believe that there is kind of justice or kind of an kind of a wisdom behind this, that the war is taking longer than expected, that it's taking 11 months, it's going to take maybe another year, and i think there is wisdom behind this kind of slow motion, even though that we... "we as lebanese people, we want this war to end quickly and to to try to limit any kind
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of causanties and civilians getting killed, but we cannot change uh this, and i do believe that in another month or two, i don't think the lebanese pro israel who are part of these groups, the the marinites, the the lebanese forces are going to be able to win any opinion in lebanon, because now we have in every family and every family in the north..." in beirot, they have they have guests, they have refuges from south of lebanon, they have, they have also opened their doors, i mean, i know restaurants and and and night clubs in lebanon who actually open the their doors to the lebanese families, museums, hotels, the the entire entire public sector and the commercial sector of beirot, they open their doors to the lebanese families, so yes, i do believe that the war now is represents all the lebanese people. so kaythen uh, do you believe that this kind of unity that we see
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happening in lebanon will also be seen a broader scale beyond lebanon's borders, seeing uh regional countries uh hand in hand to forming an anti-israely front, because it's quite obvious that israel will not stop at lebanon, and uh we've all seen those uh maps of what they call the greater israel, which also includes uh parts... their neighboring countries lands? well, mean a nothing by this. anyone who has eyes and heart these days, uh, social media, technology, everything can be seen worldwide. if you do not possess emotions, and you are not simply human being, this is a, these are the people who still believe in the zionist, a dream of possessing their own estate, as they call it, their own country as they hope to achieve one day. they believe that every piece of the surrounding countries is a part them and has been promised to them, so for the people who do not decide to believe the images of the children being killed, the
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images of the women of the men, of of everything happening, i mean as we know here in lebanon, homes, shops, okay, there's a large destruction, but these can all be rebuilt, the most important thing as your guest farah was mentioning is that the most important thing are the casualties, but again the casualties are happening and we still see hopefully outside and the in worldwide we hope to achieve... that people will realize the true identity of the the israel, which is the zinest state uh abroad in the us and countries around the world we have people uh organizations actually calling out a for for blood donations uh, for gathering money to send assistance to lebanon, food, blankets, etc. so we are already seeing the beginning of this, and of course we hope to see this continue in the coming days. so do you believe that hasbullah is eventually considering the military might that it has uh eventually win this war and stop israel where it is, put them back where they belong.
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again, this has always been the objective from day number one that palestine will be free, it's been this... for years uh, but from from all the leaders from iran, from hazballah, from all the resistance, israel will uh diminish in one way or another, and it seems now in this latest almost year long war that it has achieved or it is achieving this by itself, by its own actions, they fear no one, they continue to carry out uh crimes and aggression, and still no one minches nothing, everyone is talking, but no one is doing any action, so we leave it to the resistance. in iraq, in lebanon, in iran, in yeman, in syria, in gaza itself, in palestine, to continue uh to defend the people and continue to carry out their dream and our dream of freeing palestine. so fara uh, we have some breaking news coming in right now, syrian foreign minister has said that damascus is ready to assist lebanon in light of israeli aggression against the the
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country, so um, it seems that the neighboring countries are stepping in, do you believe that uh neighbor neighboring countries uh will come together to uh stop israel from uh turning this into a full blown war. um, maybe i have a different opinion. i do believe that the full blown war started, but slowly like like on october 13 when they killed the first ever lebanese civilian journalist trouters, journalist hisam abdullah in the lebanese israeli, the palestinian borders. and i believe that the moment israel decided that they want escalate to include lebanon in the in their front, but i do believe that the full blown war was happening on slowmotion because they wanted to give a chance for diplomatic - initiatives to take place, for example you have yemen, the yemen front, you have iraqi front in the certain hizballah the
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iraqi hizballah has attacked several several times israel inside israel and the american us base or around it, syria has also this multiple times, so if there was a decision now to increase the the aid to the aid to lebanon, i would believe that this is this is something that is supposed to happen, i'm not surprised and i do believe that it's gonna israel, syria and and and iraq are going to to be to help to help, they're gonna they're gonna help leban even more, but the thing is the problem is with that the... "syria is now struggling and there have been struggling for the past 10 years with daesh, with isis and i do believe that now israel are investing in in in in daesh uh immensely, especially in in syria, they want to keep them busy, they want to they want to keep the syrians busy with daesh so the they don't include themselves on the war or participate in in this in this war, so i do believe that syria has is in a
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difficult position, they need they need to juggle different fronts, the daesh front and and israel..." front, but i do believe that they can handle it and i do believe that this is something positive happening which is is syria helping lebanon, but they've helped underneath the table with with weapons, with the emotional support, with financial support, with the with with fighters and and it makes sense that they would like even increase this kind of help. okay, so uh caitlin, in your opinion uh, what does uh this uh help that syrians are? offering mean in the bigger picture, well in the bigger picture, we have seen as you mentioned the breaking news, syria has offered it earlier today, kuwait and qatar has even offered assistance to lebanies, it's it's look, when syria first started off as your guest farah mentioned 10 years ago with daesh, lebanon
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was there to help, lebanon and syria have always been neighbors and our borders have always been... opened, no matter the war, no matter the difficulty, we have always been assisting each other, and i think that situation will continue. okay, we have some breaking news coming in, smoke is rising from the vicinity of kariot shamona settlement and the northern parts of the occupied territories, following some explosions, has be definitely proving that is quite capable of targeting areas deep inside the occupied territory. do you believe uh caitlyn that um the israelies expected this? well actually just this morning they were mentioning that it was a it was rather quiet night and israel entity with 14 to 16 hours of silence uh from hizballah so just few hours ago when hizbillah did indeed start firing rockets again to safa to akka and haifa uh yes i
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believe that they now are starting to understand that uh hizballah specifically focuses its patients and its strategy uh they think and they study all the situations before actually targeting and their targets have so far been successful so i believe that they down believe that when hizbullah is silence for no matter what time, then an attack or range of attacks will be falling down on them. uh, farah, how serious was that attack on tel aviv? what kind of message do you think it sent the israelis? um, i think attacking the musad headquarters means like we know you, we see you, we can attack anything in thel aviv, you need to follow our rules and you need to stop the war. "this is what hizballah is trying to say that they they know where the musad is, they know the, mean they they've published series of videos in the past few months uh showing exactly
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every single a target from the northern part until hiifa until tel aviv, the airports, the the factories, the any the political political headquarters, the the cabinet, the the mosad, so hizballah knows is like i" can read you, we know who you are, we know where you are hiding, so this is kind of a frightening message to netanyahu that they that that is trying to tell him that we know where you are and we know where you're hiding and we know where were you doing and how you're plotting this war and i believe this terrifies the israelis even more and i really doubt i i'm positive actually that hisballah knows where this war is going because the hizballah is leading the warm. is not israel, israel is like a child who doesn't know what he wants and he took there's like toy has been taken away from him and he's like blasting it out screaming in every direction
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and shouting without aiming in the right way that's what they're doing they're attacking all of the uh axes of resistance france they're killing children they're killing civilians families women as attacking hospitals schools but they don't know that all of this is just the uh just does it has nothing to do with attacking the capabilities the military of of hamas or with hizballah or even in yemen, the ansar allah, so i do believe that israel is lost, this war is going taking them nowhere, and hisballah knows this, and and i think hizballah with their wisdom, they're taking israel to a certain position, to a certain direction, and i do believe this this war will blow up even more inside of the west bank because no one is... talking, thank you, all right, bye-bye. okay, so uh, caitlyn in your opinion, well, this morning we had some world leaders
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attending the un general assembly calling uh, for halt to israeli aggression uh, on the international level, it is the first time that we see so many world leaders uh, but taking the podium with anti-israeli comments and of course uh, there was the foreign ministers of uh egypt, jordan and iraq calling for a ceasefire uh, do you believe that these calls will eventually lead to any kind of result? uh, look, we all hope uh for some kind of result, but again in my opinion, i believe this is all uh simply a play being acted out, i mean if you look at the group of the the group of allies who are calling for this call, you have the us, you have as you mentioned the egypt foren minister, you have the uk, i mean these are the countries who have been assisting for years, specifically in this past year war on gaza, they've been assisting the israeli entity with weapons, with assistance, with finances, it's it's
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it's debatable, because when you think about when someone wants to call and call for a cease fire on this large scale as you mentioned, but on the other hand you are also assisting uh the people who are caring out this aggression, i mean what what can we expect? we've seen it before with israel has carried out ceasefires. in gaza, once the once the citizens come back to their homes, they start attacking them again. nothing can be trusted and nothing can be believed, and even if even if the cease fire is agreed upon, who can assure that thesignist entity will abide? have they ever abitten by anything? this is a question that we should be asking ourselves. another update the reaction of katelin hamad, press to be host joining us live. yes, from beirot, we also have our correspondent with us from their albala in gaza. muti, first of all, if you could please give us an update on the
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situation in gaza. yeah, first of all let me say that according to gaza health ministry, at least 13 palestinian dead bodies were transported to the nasa medical complex resulted in from the ongoing and the incessent israeli attacks targeting the southern part of gas, including khanunis and rafa cities as well, those attacks are still ongoing till this moment, particularly when it comes to alfuuka area and the... of khan city, this area is still witnessing more attacks of the israeli artillary shelling, in addition to that, the israeli balldozers continue to raise more lands in the eastern part of al fukari town. needless to mention that al fukari alongside abasan and as you know khuzaa and man towns were completely destroyed by the israelion forces. now the israelition forces are reiterating the attacks against the area a mid heavy
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bombardments of the israel. shilling and gunfire, those explosions of the artillery shilling targeting those areas actually are loud enough to be heard from there here where we are standing right now, meanwhile the israeli occupation forces continue to attack various parts of city, particularly when it comes to the western part of the city whereas the israelicubation forces continue to plast and detonate more residential squares there, according to the medical staff there that the... palestinian civil defense crews were able to extract at least two two dead bodies the parestinan people who are still believed missing under the rubble of the destroyed houses and the residential areas and the western part of pr meanwile other areas of the same city witness more horrifying attacks the israelelion particularly when it comes to al junena and uh aljanena is one of the of the prominent towns in the eastern part of the city those areas are still subjective to
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continuous and chronic artillery sharing as well. in gazza city, the israel accubation forces continue their attacks against azatur neighborhood. uh, the fresh attack took a place actually targeted a residential building, a multifloor residential building was targeted by the israeli war planes over the past couple of hours. meanwhile, the israel incubation forces continued to shill more areas of the southern part of the neighborhood, which is still witnessing more attacks of the israelion forces, particularly when it comes to uh detonating and destroying more dencial buildings. in the surrounding area and the vicinity of the daw round about which is as you know it is located in the southern part of a zeton neighborhood in addition to that the israeli incubation forces continue to attack a subra neighborhood as well with more artillery shilling as well uh moving to the north b of gaza strip the israel equibation forces also continue to attack multiple areas of the northen b of gaza strip particularly when it comes to bait lahya city whereas over the past couple of hours those as witness