of and bring an end to the desperate barbarism of israel in lebanon, before it engolves the region and the world. israel has been defeated in gaza and no amount of barbaric of violence can restore its myth of invincibility. the responsibility for all consequences will be born by those governments who have opposed all global efforts to end this horrific catastrophe and have the audacity to call themselves champions of human. the violence, the

palestinian people are being subjected to, is a green continuation of more than half a century of apartate that has been perpetrated against palestinians by israel. we must end the suffering that palestinians are being subjected to. international law cannot be applied selectively, no one state is more equal than any other. we reiterate our call for immediate cease fire and for the release of all hostages. the only lasting solution is the establishment of a palestinian state. the

richest 1% of humanity has more wealth than 95% of all humanity combined. it is in this level of inequality, the greatness in our history as a species, where we find the logic of mass destruction, unleashing the climate crisis and the logic of the bombs that a criminal like netanyahu drops on gaza. a year ago, i asked for a peace conference for palasant in this same place before the first bomb had even exploded. today we have 2000. and children killed under the bombs and leaders of the countries of such human destruction laugh in these corridors. they don't listen to us when we vote to stop the genocide in gaza. despite us being the majority of the heads of state and representing most of humanity, a minority of leaders who can stop the bombing, do not listen to us, that 1% of humanity, the powerful global oligarchy is what allows bombs to be thrown at women, the el learning and children in gaza, lebanon or sudan. or

economically block rebellious countries that do not fit into their grand schemes like cuba or venezuela, and welcome back everyone to our rolling coverage on israel's aggression against lebanon, we've been covering it uh very closely here on press tv throughout the evening, also into the early morning hours, it is 9:35 now in... am in the lebanese capital beirot where israel has cured out successive and deadly campaign of air strikes all friday night into the saturday morning hours uh the lebanese health ministry has confirmed at least six people dead over 100 injured in beirot as a result the israel military claims that hasbullah central headquarters was a target of the air strikes a uh what we know at this point is that first responders are trying to comb through debris.

to find possible survivors and that uh, it is expected the death toll may dramatically rise as multiple buildings have completely been raised to the ground there in the lebanese capital, the dead include entire families, possibly women and children, and we will be updating you as soon as we find out the latest developments here on press tv. joining us now are isabella zaydon, academic and political analyst out of damascus and lembit opeque, former member of the british uh parliament joining us from london lembit. i'm going to come back to you, we've heard all week at the the un and elsewhere the um uh french president emmanuel macron urging the israeli regime uh immediate deescalation in lebanon uh, but what have we heard from british authorities in your neck of the woods lamb throughout the week, but disappointing and shameful vague support for the israeli initiative, that's what i think uh when ks dama became. prime minister, he promised

change. i expected the key change to be a less warmungering approach than his predecessors. unfortunately, we haven't seen any of that. we have incompetent. foreign secretary, david lamy, and we have uncaring prime minister, kier starmer, and he seems to vaguely be supporting benjamin netanyahu's initiative on the rather pathetic justification that uh, israel has a right to defend itself, well every country does, but when you start killing a significant proportion of the population of gaza, there has to be some kind of uh stronger, more robust resistance to netanyahu's activity. now isabella made a really good point before uh we went to those clips, she pointed out that america essentially is bankoding lot of the work that um netanyahu is doing, and that's true, sadly the united kingdom seems to also be bank-rolling this. we're talking

about 42,00 deaths, but if you look at the secondary deaths uh from lack of medicine and other problems like that, it could be four times higher than that uh and now what netanyahu seems to be doing. is attacking the very well-armed isbullah and isabella made another good point here, she pointed out that america said it wouldn't want to seek a conflict with iran, but of course that's defactor we are where we are heading, and unless america shows the courage and backbone to say, this has to stop, there has to be a peaceful solution from here on in, we can't bring the dead back, but we can stop more people dying and we can stop the escalation, less america shows that that courage, then it's actually not just letting itself down, it's actually letting down the many people in israel who are also saying, this is too much, you've got to stop and don't support netanyahu anymore. um, and isabella, and i'm glad that lenby pointed out some of your your

initial statements there, because one thing we learned over the last week at the un, these past few days, we saw uh world delegations and leaders speak, and everyone mentioned the gaza uh... genocide, how they want to see it and how they want to see immediate cease fire, how they do not want to see escalation into lebanon, and then we heard the palestinian leadership speak, everyone listened, isabella, even western leaders and delegations, and when the lebanese spoke everyone listened, including western leaders and delegations, and when israel finally spoke everyone left the assembly hall, uh, does that signal a change in times or a start to a? if i may be honest, i don't think a lot of change would happen concerning the attitude of the international law, because if we go back in time 100 years ago or let's say less than 100 years ago, we

can see that all the items, all the acts on which the international law is based on is based on the... ities that happened during the world war ii, and it was starting from the point to what happened to the jewish people during the holocaust, making sure that it will never happen again, and ever since, ever since the international law, international community is in a direct combat, direct facing with the confrontation with the israeli. regime because they know that they already knew long time ago that israel has uh let's say violated every single act, every single item of that international law, and they have been in a state of confrontation with israel long time ago, and

ever since october the 7th, the almighty, the almighty security council conven. many times for the case of gaza and it can as it convened yesterday for the case in lebanon, and let's just not be very optimistic with the results, however i want to go back and reiterate the fact that that i mentioned earlier, israelis can never go with this for a long time, they don't have public support, and if you don't have public support you can't do anything. however, when it comes to the heroes, the resistance power in hezballah where they get all the support, even even some of the people in lebanon that would have some disagreement with hizballah when these attacks, these atrocities, whether the

paasures, what happened yesterday or any other attack, even with their disagreement with hizballah, they made no mistakes when it comes to the lebanese interest, to the leban. these innocent lives being lost over the stupidities and recklessness of netanyahu and being so honest. and limbit, i like you way in on the same question, does it have an impact, limbit, when so many world leaders speak of gaza and lebanon there up at the lectorn express disgust with zinus actions out of tel aviv, does it even compel washington to take a long look in the mirror, and if not, does it have any any other way that you could see being positive in impact on world affairs? uh, first of all when i hold isabella, isabella, that was for limbit, i'll come right back to you, let limbit answer that, because i just put that same

question to you, go ahead, limbit, i think isabella accurately describes the importance the united nations, it's a, it's a vehicle which serves the old superpowers and the veto system means that america can just about prevent any serious action against israel's behavior, and remember of course america is banker. lot of this together with the united united kingdom, but there is one way, just one way that this could maybe make a difference, it's the general public of planet earth that is now seeing the unacceptability of what's happening in gaza and also in lebanon. i have to be honest, i've said this before on your show, most of the human race, most of most people in britain and elsewhere, they don't really understand middle eastern politics, and so... 'israel and netanyahu have got away with lot, because it's not

really very clear to people what's happening, but now there is so much killing of women, children, non-combatant males that the public, which i think on the whole is a reasonable and caring uh species around the world, the public saying this is too much, we don't want this anymore, we're seeing people like us being killed and they they can seerut which looks like an ordinary'. city, they can see lebanon, it looks like an ordinary country like where they live being bombed, and when you have these huge explosions, which are definitely killing more people than we have identified so far, it's the general public that will exert pressure on politicians and say, why are you sending all this money to netanyahu to kill people when we have problems of our own? if there is any optimism at all, it is that the public in countries like britain and america will... she say, you can't support people like netanyahu anymore, but that we haven't got

there yet, and isabella, you saw uh, i'm not sure if you did, but uh, when when benjamin netanyaho had the entire assembly hall walk out on him, he stood up there, and uh, throughout his whole speech, all you heard was him accusing iran, iran, this, iran, that, and iran, the other thing, and iran, and iran, and iran, how many? times does benjamin netanyahu isabella have to say the word iran before he successfully deflects responsibility for regional instability from himself and his cabinet, including the escalation in lebanon, including the genocide in gaza. um, sir, if if we go back in time, i would, i just want to go to the background of this, when the palestinian cause was getting the support of the people in the arab region, of course, and still, uh, the... israeli regime was playing on the cord which is called the civilization and barbarianism with

the arabs and try always the depict us and the hollywood the hollywood machine help them to depict the arab world as barbarian people and when the palest of course internationally the palestinians cause is cause of justice to be served it's supported by all the people uh community, civil communities around the world, however, however, when it start to get, when it got the support of countries like iran after the islamic revolution, other other countries in asia, he started to try to, he wrote or let's say the washington post, i guess or new york times, one of these, they gave him the platform to write an article, it's called netanyaho wrote this. article, it's called the battle of civilization with barbarianism, and there it

was there, there was something new, he was trying to depict the the conflict between israel as a civilization, a civil, a flower in the in the middle of a desert, and the islamic world as a whole, and by that he was trying to include, iran into the train of barbarianism, not only the arab people, and for how long this could be, now he was talking about the arab world now, he's trying to attack iran, what is he going to do when the whole world is supporting the palestinian cause? is he gonna try to say like the battle the civilization of israel with the barbarian whole universe? he can't do that. this is one. when it comes to being so aggressive to a country like iran, first of all he was,

iran is is a regional power, no doubt about it, it is supporting the rightful co in our region, it supported the cause of syria being beseed by many countries, it supported the the right of the palestinians for freedom, it is country that stand by the people who are being suppressed in our region, it is starting, it's standing by the side of the suppressed of the whether the syrian people who are being now under the most horrible sc sanctions that had ever been imposed any people around the world, we don't call them sanction of course, we call them unilateral coersive measures. iran supported the palestinian people all the way, ever since the islamic revolution, those people, the palestinian people who have been subjected to unprecedented injustice, that never happened

to any kind of people whom their land has been taken over, their people has been killed with the with the international. law, international community watching and giving, i'm sorry to say this, hello words, they are just hello words until action is taken, so iran has, i mean, not only, not only syria, not, i'm sorry, not only israel has been aggressive to iran, iran, america, the usa was aggressive to iran, just for very simple reason, mr., iran chose to be an independent country, politically, militarily, economically, and they just can't stand it. it is the aggressiveness, the selfishness of the american who can never accept the fact that it's not only them in the international system anymore, it's not a unipolar system anymore, just take the idea, you have now many regional powers, many international

countries that are emerging as international powers and each country is trying to take up its whether china, whether russia, whether iran, and they are just good with the roles that they want to take in the world in order for us as a whole universe to take to have better world, but america is based on the idea of being aggressive to the other countries, igniting words in regions where they don't like regimes or let's say governments, and of course netanyahu, it would be easy for him to play on that card. he would, mean it, it's simple for him, iran did this, iran did that, but him, he was just defending himself, hazballah said that they would support ghaza all the way, and they said like they are not interested in attacking civilian places, civilian places in occupied palestine, because we are not terrorist, hazballah is not a terrorist uh

entity like israel, but what did they do, they did the exact opposite, they attacked... civilians because they want, they want everyone to be involved into war, and the reason is when when netanyahu say like, iran did this, iran did that, he's just begging for the involvement of the us into this reckless war, that the us will never take this stupid movement or step for the sake of reckless leader like netanyaho, for viewers that are just showing us, these are live images from lebanese capital bay. you can see black smoke there rising over the uh city skyline and uh it's tremendous uh how many areas have been uh impacted by the israely bombing campaign not just over the past six days but it's seen a serious escalation in the past uh 14 plus hours as israel has carried out successive and very deadly air strikes according to iran's foreign ministry

using 500 pound bunker busting bombs raising multiple buildings. to the ground, turning them into complete debris. the lebanese health ministry says at least six people have been killed and over 100 injured, but that is a preliminary assessment, as first responders have tons of rubble to try to siff through and see if our survivors uh beneath them and uh may get a more accurate body count. we're in the middle of rolling coverage here and trying to bring you the latest uh updates as we can with respect to that that death tool uh uh is try. expected to significantly arise, supposedly according to the israeli military claims that hizbillah central headquarters was a target of its air strikes. um israely war planes bombed dozens of targets and the burj al barajna, the al-kafat, the hadath, the lelaki, shufat, gubari areas of southern beirot, multiple

areas of town using uh some of the most heavy bombs in its arsenal on civilian populated areas. there are also targets in the becah valley, targets near the beirot international uh airport, uh the onslot over last six days has resulted in at least 700 uh lebaneses perishing uh nearly 3,0 injured over 600,000 displaced, that's about a quarter of the entire gaza population displaced in lebanon in just a little over - five and a half to six days now um joining us is lambido peak out of london and isabella zaydon from damascus lembit how i'm going to put pretty much the same question i put to isabella to you how successful has benjamin netanyahu and us leadership been in its campaign over the years and over the recent months in blaming and days i should say for that matter and blaming the region's problems on iran,

palestinian hardships on hamas and lebanese struggles on hezbulah. on the first one, not really very successful at all, as i said before, much of the world, the western world doesn't really understand middle eastern politics, but iran has... has been consistently portrayed as the bad guy, even though uh experts and really sensible politicians can see iran has had to clean up the mess caused by the west time and time again and iran gets rewarded by having assassination attempts, some of which are successful against some of its very important people, so um in terms of netanyahu, what he said probably hasn't made much difference, but over time this... endless diet of propaganda against iran probably has had an effect, which is crazy, because frankly iran is a regional superpower is about the only

thing that stopped the region from falling apart due to the reckless uh military initiatives of the west. in terms of hisballah, hisbollah has been blamed again and it's described as a terrorist organization in in many places in the west, but of course that makes it sound like it's just a small bunch of people. 'who are occasionally planting bombs, hisbullah is massively underestimated, massively underestimated in terms of its importance, and does isabela make point make there before, has a clear alliance with iran, so the so blaming hezbulah when by and large, in my opinion it is acting in a defensive manner because of the provocations of israel uh makes it hard for people to understand, but also means that it's a little bit easier to blame hisb'. the west then it should be, and then in terms of gaza and hamas, hamas, everybody points to the october attack last year, but again as somebody has said very

clearly before, i think on your station, it depends where you start the clock, you start it in october, it doesn't look good for hamas, but if you start it around 1947, then you see it in the whole context, and this is the thing, so let me summarize in this way: "if you actually just want to point the fingers of blame, hamas and hamas has been blamed lot, but the public is now much more sympathetic to gas than it was, with hisbullah, i think there's more sympathy, because hizbullah is quite clearly responding rather than in my view initiating trouble, but when it comes to iran, only a complete idiot would say that this is because of iran's actions." sadly, we have many idiots in western politics. okay, lambard, i'm going to let you go and appreciate you for your time and contribution to our rolling coverage here, stay safe. talk to you soon, opec,

former member of the british parliament, they're joining us from lebanese, pardon from lebanese, from the uh uh british capital there, um, stay safe, uh, lembid, isabella, i'm going to come back to you, um, and now uh, isabella, how does regional war and by all - "it seems by however you look at it, that's exactly what the regime is after at this point, it's difficult to deduce anything other than that uh, we mentioned earlier with all the opportunities that's had to uh respect to a permanent seaspiring gaza, put an end to regional hostilities, put an end to the killing of women and children in gaza and now in lebanon, it opted for escalation instead uh, it boggles the mind that uh, what kind of victory or?" " kind of objective, it seems so ambiguous and merky to think at this point, how can uh a zinus entity win anything

when it comes to? what it expects from this escalation to draw who in as far as players go to what end, to what goal or objective here? no victory, simply as simple as that is just a trying, um, netanyahu is trying to do the last cpr to his political career, end of the story, he's trying to stay out of a prison, and his people know that, the people in occupied palestine the... it very well, they know that this war is not leading them anywhere, um, it seems of course it's coming to an end, but it seems not to come to an end concerning for, they think that uh netanyahu is gonna stay in the war forever, and he tries inside his government or inside his - let's say political community, he's trying to convince them of the illusion of deterrance.

detering other powers, regional neighbors from coming back to israel or from combatting israel or from daring to attack israel. let's agree on the point that the so-called the act of deterrance that israelis used to have long, long time ago, before 2006, it vanished, disappeared, there is nothing called deterrance anymore, so uh, and the people in israel they know it very well. the colonizers, they know very well that there is, they cannot deter uh powers like israel, like sorry, hazballah resistance in iraq, yemen, they can never deter anyone, and they know that this war or less this reckless acts and atrocities being committed by the the leader of them is in vain, it does nothing good for israel, it do, it does, it might

does something good for. netinhaho by prolonging, prolonging his career time, however it's coming, it's it's gonna end very bad for the for the temporal entity, they don't have public support again, they don't have desire of the or the will of the power, the will of the people who want to fight for their country, it is different case from hazballah, this is something political theory can never study. when you go to a place in lebanon and you see that many people and your previous there is a there has been a guest before me and she said something about the religious beliefs, the rituals that the people in hizballah believe and and there is also called the what is called the arab principles, this is something the israelis can never understand, people there they wish for the faith.