the headlines is really. keeps pounding areas across lebanon with the health ministry announcing that the death toll from the regime's aggression has surpassed 2000. iran's foreign minister warns of harsher response to any israeli attack as he arrives in damascus after paying visit to the lebanese capital beirot. south africa sees massive rally as pro palestine demonstration continues worldwide with protests announcing israeli genocide in gaza.

hello and welcome, you're watching world news on press tv, coming to you live from our headquarters in tehran. thank you for joining us, my name is gisum shah madi and these are top stories this hour. leban. hazbolah resistance movement has launched a barrage of missiles targeting an israeli base near the northern occupied city of hyfa. hazballah said in a statement that an israeli makava lank tank was also hit while it was advancing towards the maroon forest area in southern lebanon. the attack inflicted casualties upon the regime's forces. earlier the lebanese resistance fended off the israeli troops trying to... force into the southern lebanese

town of al-adesa. hazballah also carried out of retaliatory drone strikes targeting israeli forces in the occupied palestinian territories. hazballah has repeatedly asserted that its attacks are in response to israeli brutal air and artillery strikes on lebanon's towns and villages that have caused of enormous civilian casualties. meanwhile israel has launched fresh air strikes on lebanon, including a palestinian refugee camp in northern part of the arab country, causing more deaths and destruction. the palestinian resistance movement, hamas says several of its commanders and their family members were killed in the regime strike in southern lebanon. israeli forces targeted martter salah ganduor hospital in the city of bentajabil, injuring at least to nine of the medical staff regime. military has also

struck mosk adding to a growing list of civilian infrastructure it has targeted. the israeli war planes also continue targeting different areas of beirut, including the vicinity of rafikhaeri international airport, leaving more civilians dead and injured. lebanon's health ministry says over 2,000 people have been killed, so far an israeli attack, including 127 children and 260. one women, now the leader of islamic revolution, has led the friday prayers in tehran delivering a sermon that emphasized unity of among muslims worldwide, addressing hundreds of thousands, the leader hailed the iranian armed forces retaliatory missile strikes on israeli occupied territories, a timely public appearance leading the friday prayer. of

tehran after exactly four years and eight months, when martter lieutenant general qassim suleimani was assassinated by the united states, holding rifle in his hand as he addressed the masses that turned out in their millions. leader of iran's islamic revolution, ayatollah sad ali khamenei appeared in the jam packed grand musall of tehran just days after operation true promise to. the message to iran's adversaries is کاری که نیروهای مسلح ما کردن کمترین مجازات برای رژیم قاصب صهیونی در برابر جنایت های حیرت آور اون رژیم بود رژیم خون آشام رژیم گرگ صفت سگ هار آمریکا در منطقه. worldwide, the message

is different, calling for unity and solidarity, while praising the resilience of of the people of lebanon and palestine, in a special address in arabic, reminding:

"we are gathered here today to pledge our allegiance to our leader. finally, after so many months of suffering, the people of gaza witness their allies strike back against their oppressors. as our leader has said, we are prepared to launch even more attacks to defend our brothers and sisters in palestine and lebanon. and iran's stance is quite clear. if the enemy dares to retaliate, we stand ready to launch even more powerful strike. we are true to our word, just..." "we will continue to fight until the enemy is defeated. they say you shouldn't repeat your mistakes, but our enemies don't seem to have learned that lesson. we triumped over saddam hussein even when the rest of the world was supporting him, so today's threats hold no fear for us. for any observer, these images

are enough to know what martterdom means in this culture. more than anything, this is a show of strength, authority and resilient." sending a strong message to the adversaries the islamic republic of iran. yusuf tv, tehran. iran's foreign minister has met with syrian president bashar al-assad in damascus during his official visit to the syrian arab republic. before meeting with syria's president abbas arachchi held talks with the country's foreign minister stressing the urgency of seasfire in lebanon and gaza. he called. on the international community to take actions to stop what he described as israel's ongoing crimes in beirot, southern lebanon and gaza. alchi warned that iran's continued actions, that is israel's continued actions are obstructing efforts to achieve

sease fire. prior to his visit to syria, arachchi met with lebanese officials in beirot where he warned that any israeli attack on iran would be met. with a stronger response from tehran. he also highlighted that iran in its missile strike on israel avoided targeting civilians in contrast to israel's repeated attacks on civilians in lebanon and gaza. a pro- palestine rally has been held in south africa in the city of cape town with the demonstrators denouncing the ongoing genocide in the gaza strip. thousands of people took to the streets carrying palestinian flags and chanting anti-israel slogans. they also called for an end to the genocide in gaza. this is said to be the largest pro- palestine protest in south africa since the israeli regime launched its war on gaza in october last year. the south african country also launched a petition

against the israeli bloodshed of palestinians and the international court of justice atmit the public outrage worldwide. several countries later joined protoral. is legal bid to bring tel aviv to account for its war crimes and crimes against humanity, meanwhile, demonstrators have also taken to the streets of the australian capital to express their solidarity with the people of lebanon and palestine. that brings us to the end of this edition of world news on press tv. thank you for watching.

in the past four decades, the islamic revolution guard core has made great strides in developing its missile capabilities, defense program to guarantee the country's deterrance power. but can iranian missiles deter the country's arch enemies from serious invasion, or can they punish them in case of invasion? 82,00 lb of american bombs exploded in beirot, well they were seeking to destroy. mountain and the shot was heard all over the world, the clocks stopped,

the tears fell, the morning began, but the guns kept on blazing, both the american guns in the hands of netanyahu's air force and the guns of the resistance, indeed, there has not been a moment's peace for the people of lebanon or for the people of netanyahu's settler state, ever... since the assassination of said hassan nasrallah, the secretary general of hizbullah, the leading force in the lebanese resistance. said hassan was no ordinary leader, maybe once in a hundred years or more, such a leader will come along. he transformed the lebanese resistance from few young men with kalashnikovs to an army of 100 thousand men. complete with all the areal ordinance that would be required to make life unlivable for

the whole population of the settler state, and if, as is widely trailed, netanyahu intends a repeat of 2006, underground invasion of the sacred soil of the lebanon, he's going to find out that hazbullah has fighters on the ground. just as proficient as the fighters in the air, the lebanese population, as always, just as the population in the gaza strip, women, children, men who are not combatents are being slain in massive numbers, in fact, day for day, the slaughter the lebanese civilians of all kinds, by the way, shiits, sunnis, christians, including towns, villages where jesus. walked are extraordinarily high and the killing fields

have moved from gaza, through the west bank into lebanon, and the jerusalem post gave the game away. they've deleted it now, but for three days, the story was there, on the portals of the jerusalem post, apparently god promised lebanon to the israelis just as he had promised palestine. "that was removed because it rather gives the game away, the project of a greater israel, beloved of the lecudniks, the two blue lines on the flag of what they call israel, constitute from the river nile to the river euphretes, and now it turns out they want at least part of lebanon as well, this kind of acquisition of other..." people's territory by force is of course a crime under international law, but

it's a crime the israelis have been getting away with for more than 75 years, and the so-called institutions of the so-called international community have turned out to be nothing but units. i've been studying the european union, the united states, great britain and the so-called international. national community who represent in fact 13% of all humanity, the people of lebanon have come together, in the past that was not always so, but christian figures like general aun, like sulaiman fri, like even the formerly falangist, catholic, christian lebanese parties have said that if hair is harmed on the head of any... lebanese that the lebanese people will come together as one to defend them, and the national unit, which

has broken out in lebanon, is the first and best answer to netanyahu's findish plans. the resistance will go on, everybody loses their father, and it's painful, but their father is still with them, his memory. his ideas, his inspiration, his teachings, his line will continue, and so it will be true of said hassanlah. he was... no ordinary leader, but he was a man, and all men must pass. god is the real leader of the hazbollah and other organizations in other parts of the access of resistance. they believe that they are doing god's work, they believe that they are holy

warriors, and they will not be dissuaded from the path to liberate jerusalem. by the heavy blows which hazvollah undoubtedly suffered over the last few days, those heavy blows have, they say decapitated the hezbollah, but i think they're about to find out different, they ain't seen nothing yet. after the nasrallah assassination, what's next? you've come to the right place, have it out with gallowe to find out? said hussein mackey holds a ba in journalism and an mma in religions and global politics.

he's been a student of the islamic sciences since 2012. at the seminary in lebanon and he joins us now. said hussein, thanks for joining us. very heavy blows uh have been absorbed by the lebanese people, by the lebanese resistance, but the struggle continues, does it not? thank you for having me, george, and yes of course the struggle uh does continue, and for the place in which the lebanes. people come from, especially the ethos of the lebanese resistance, they are not a people that are easily defeated, they understand their heritage, most of all their heritage that comes from their belief in imam al hussein. imam al hussain is the third shi imam and he is the inspiration which created sayid hasanlah and that is still alivelah is

an individual, an amazing individual, but that light remains shining, bright, and so everyone. looks towards the lessons they have from hussein, which are when one is posed between two choices, if has to face death or humiliation, you will always go towards death first, because we say, we do not accept humiliation, so all these people in lebanon right now, although these are heavy blows, they understand that from 2006 and from 2000 and from before that, they have experienced this before, this doesn't mean that the war is over, more destruction and more killing, there's not mean that israel is winning, actually they haven't accomplished any of their goals so far in 12 months, neither in gazza or in lebanon. the uh war in gaza now, as you rightly say, almost one year on, and even this day uh, a resistance strike uh near khanus took many israeli casualties. the

struggle of the israeli armed forces in gaza does not part. end easy time for them were they to uh go ahead with a ground invasion of lebanon, does it? no, you see the israeli military relies lot on his technology, when it comes to their individuals, these people, they like comfort, the way that they are defeated is when you actually have to face them man to man, these people do not wish sacrifice their lives for anything, they want this world and they are up against. people who believe in the afterlife, just like we believe that we're talking each other right now, and they know they're on the side of truth, i think the whole world, this is even about islam, this is humanity, the whole world knows that the side of justice is to be against the killers of children who have killed over 40,000 people in palestine uptil now, and in the last week have killed over

1,600 lebanese, injuring 800 lebanese and misplacing, displacing 1 million lebanese, for what? for what? the bombs which killed sayid hassan and his uh noble body guards and indeed a visitor from the iranian uh irgc were american bombs. the aeroplanes which fired them were american aeroplanes. it's impossible to believe as biden harriss seek to fool us into believing. that the americans were not involved in this murder, the order was given from the city of new york and given from the building of the united nations, no less, this is an american israeli attack on lebanon, is it not? if there's one thing that

sayid hassan taught his people and his followers, it's that israel receives everything from america, america ultimately is the big boss, it's not complicit in the genocide of the palestinians and it's not complicity in what's happening in america in lebanon afwan, it is a direct. actor actually they just gave an approved $8.7 billion dollars worth of weaponry to israel and those 85 buster bunker bombs weighing 2 to 400 pounds each were from america made in america killing by the way killing hundreds of civilians leveling six buildings at the same time and when harris or biden released their statement they don't have one word of condemnation against the killing of children even though it is so similar to what happened. in 911, destroying towers with civilians in it, which by the way, the man they call a terrorist condemned, he condemned the tactics of bin ladin, he fought against

al-qaidah in syria, he fought against isis in syria, he condemned what happened on 9/11, this very same man that they call a terrorist because they want him to be a terrorist is a man that was the only one standing up to the israeli powers as he tried implement what the un resolutions were calling for anyway and what most of the international community was calling for anyway, he was the only one that was actually willing to go all the way though, and the israeli officials have said this, they admitted that the reason they decided to kill him was because he would not take a side deal without the palestinians any sease fire deal for lebanon, he said has to involve gazza, they admit this, so they're not killing a terrorist, they're killing the man who wanted peace, the kingdom man who wanted the un resolutions to stand, he just had the teeth for it, he was the one who tried implement that. and they won't say the true narrative, they'll constantly try to label him as the terrorist. people have been calling for this cease fire all year in gazza, hundreds and thousands of people have

marched, millions of people all around the world, and now we're still in the same place talking about the same thing happening in another country, so if we're going to rely on the powers that be, we're going to see lot of people get genocided, they had to be someone who is willing to stand up to them and now he gave his blood for it, the uh will... and testament of said hassan has now been published in it, he asked the faithful people to repose their trust and their faith in ayatollah khamani, the leader of the islamic revolution in iran, will that, will that will be entirely observed by the people, or is there a case for saying that if iran had responded as they said they would to the murder of ismaal hania in tehran, then side hasan might still be alive, because israel

would have known what they were potentially up against. you must be aware of that line of thinking out there in the amongst the people. yes, of course, of course i am. first of all, i respect the intelligence of sied hasanlah, the same intelligence. which impressed legendary intellectuals like nom chomsky and edward said when they met him, as is written in their memoirs, i respect his intelligence, he's not a sheep, and he understood the idea the resistance access more than anyone, and he understood the role of lebanon as the neighboring country to israel and the differing role that it has to iran, but there would be no, i wouldn't say no resistance, but the power of the resistance would be very different of the whole region if it wasn't for iran. and all the iran sacrificed and all that iran has had endure in terms of sanctions because of its support of the oppressed and those who resist. now when it

comes to say that's a whole different issue because that's beyond iran. now we're talking about something where religion is involved, not only politics and where sayid hassan was always, it was no secret, he was very loyal to say, and the ones who follow sayed hassan, they don't follow... normal leader and george, you know this, most of the world probably don't know this, sassan was not a normal leader, he's not a leader in it for himself, this man didn't enjoy anything from this world, this man gave his son for what he believed him, this man couldn't see the sun itself for many weeks and months, no one knew where he was, this man barely made any money, he was not in it for himself, he was in it because he truly believed in the path of god, he believed to he had to stand up against injustice and he had sacrifice. everything in his way, and he saw himself, and he constantly said this, when he was named man the year, about 15 years ago, when he was in iran, he made sure to kiss the hand of sied

khamani in front of everyone. one because he said, you name me man of the year, but i wanted to show that i a loyal soldier of syd khaminai. he believes in this path ofih, and so those who have been raised by sayid hassan, that's why he's not a normal leader, he raised people, he grew up in front of them and they grew up with him, and they went to war together. these people, they are going to be loyal to the 30 or 40 years of education that he has given them that's still there that... people need to study and realize what it was that he taught them. i believe that yes his loyal followers will be loyal to sayid because they never differentiated between the both of them. this was beyond being lebanese or iranian or yemeni or iraqi, this was about going towards what is right. and that's why you'll find in lebanon women who are christian, men who are sunni, drus, whoever it is, they are all weeping for the martidom of sayid hasan. of course there are

always going to be people that... talking about him being someone that they don't like or whatever he did or sectarianism, these are all zionist talking points for secarianism or trying to dissol uh dissol the unity between the factions which are against the colonial and imperial powers, this is the easiest and oldest trick in the book. the uh awesome silence of the arab states has never been more starkly displayed than this uh, most of them have not even condemned the israeli attack, the assassination, the slaughter of many hundreds of lebanese people of all uh sects and faiths, as you uh say, lebanon is a member of the arab league, who knew the arabs had league, it's a fourth division conference.