as if bombing and killing are not enough, residents and displays are sinking deeper into this public health hazard, suffocating smells and piling a proish of flooding remarkably in almost every street here, health officials war that the diet conditions have led to increase in respiratory problems and the skin diseases, the risk of outer praaks lomes large, particularly among the children and the elderly, are most vulnerable to the impacts of boost sanitation, the whole area is crowded with the displaced, we do not find a place to go other than this waste dumpster, as expected, the smell is very stinky because of the rubbish and sewage making nearby areas unlivable. we were forced to stay here though, it is very hard to prevent the kids to get closer since they are usually barefoted. the israeli incubation has severely hamber the municipality's ability to respond effectively to manage waste and maintain. providing services after the damage

of the critical infrastructure in israeli poming and shelling, roads are damaged, waste collection and provisions are disrupted, municipal workers are also at the target, many of them were bombed while repairing the water pipes or collecting the rubbish. destruction of roads and sanitation systems has left the city and its residence is struggling to coup, the flies, insects and the mosquitoes are disturbing our lives. this situation is very harmful for our kids who get sick more often because of this source of diseases and they find no medication. we cannot even walk nearby as i myself fell once in a sewage. it is a dire situation. yes, it increased after the bombing. the pooling sewage flooded from the east as the bombing damaged the road and the rubble drifted forward. as the rainy season approaches, people are becoming increasingly concerned about the... flow of suwage further or the of

rain triggered the floods. more than 11 months of the israeli genocidal war has resulted in not only thousands of deaths of civilians, but has also inflicted significant suffering on the survivors. gada ibrahim, azawida town, press tv. let's turn out to our guests and see what they think about this. we have matthew alford who's an academic and commentator. joining us from london, also joining us from london is new fechary who's a journalist and political activist. i'd like to welcome you both and i'll start with you, new feckry, the one year um october 7th operation ostill flood anniversary is upon us, it's quite incredible that we're looking a genocide that is still continuing uh when one thinks of bombing campaign um maybe the average person says okay they're bombing the place and they're bombing the south or that, but it's a meticulous uh plan to uh target of the infrastructure as we focus in that report, in particular road. and then you go

into the major infrastructure that provides basic needs such as uh water and all other kinds of things, the regime forces have uh made that part of their plan, why do you think they target infrastructure in the form and manner that they have had uh that they have done in the past year? and mean firstly it's to make it completely uninhabitable, that's become clear as day um they ran the narrative that they target infrastructure because there's hamas operatives that are hiding there. um they run that narrative when it comes to um when it came to solve the shipfa hospital and all the other hospitals that they bombed um and every time time again it would be proven that there are no command um facilities underneath hospitals um not in schools or anywhere else and really what they're doing is attempting to sort of um make life as mirable as possible for the lebanese and gazan people in order to get them to turn against the resistance movements that are very successfully fighting um the fighting off these very occupation entities.

and so what they're doing is attempting to get people to sort of turn on that resistance and and and sort of be fed up, but what they don't understand is that the resistance movement simply cannot um cease exist and cannot um and stop functioning as long as it is under occupation and so um the relentless bombing of civilian infrastructure and civilians is only adding um that you know fuel to fire and only adding to that and that sort of desire to stand behind the resistance since the start of this um since october the 7th we've never seen people of gaza and sort of stage protest against the resistance um nor has that happened in lebanon, we've even seen people that have you know from all sorts of political backgrounds standing behind that resistance. indeed, taking a look at the infrastructure and the way that is targeted of um matthew, what is interesting about this is that the israel regime makes it a habit to uh make sure that that is something that is targeted on a repeated basis uh they bomb certain areas again and again and they use

heavy bombs to do that, and uh, do you think that they're doing that in order to make life as miserable as possible with the aim of a, making sure that infrastructure gets completely destroyed from? electric lines to what have you, and then be with the stated aim that our guest are mentioned to turn the population against for example hamas in the gaza strip. yes, i'm sure that there are range of different rationalizations for what is being done, um, there's been a long history throughout military history of believing that huge bombing campaigns will be successful in turning the population. uh against their leaders, i mean they often don't work, i mean it's - i mean this is far worse of course than the blitz in britain in the 1940s, but it was the same principle, um, including bombing campaigns against germany in the 40s as well, there's always the assumption that bombing will uh will lead to

um the people uprising, but it's a kind of it's very unusual that that actually happens, it just creates more solidarity, um, i think there's something quite interesting about the um, my area of specialism is on the media. and i was reading just today in the sunday times that they will they show a graphic about the um uh the destruction of infrastructure and it's interesting because the times is a murdock paper um and uh they are more bias uh against um uh palestine uh they show that there is about 59% um of the country's infrastructure that has been destroyed now they do it in a beautiful graphic but that does not tally that 59% does not tally with your results here. and it does not tally with the uh, it does not match the um uh statistics i've seen earlier this year as well which suggests that um that it is much closer to a 90% destruction rate um so yeah all these things are in play i think uh but there's also the element that i think that there's just the irrationality of it um

it's not there's not always necessarily a reason for a group of uh racists to do something uh sometimes it's just because it's just the the way that they are it's their nature um, so i think we we shouldn't always be looking for necessarily rational reason, just in the same way that we shouldn't necessarily be seeing the um the murdock press is being uh rational even even when it uh looks like it's got good data. indeed, well um, when it comes down to it, the israel regime has made it habit to really look at the gaza strip in a shape, form and manner that it hasn't uh for obviously the rest of occupied palestine. in particular, obviously we can take a look at the 17-year. siege uh that the israel regime has placed on the gaza strip and in that sense they've controlled all the goods that come through the crossings um in and out even down to things that provide the infrastructure um limiting it in order uh for them to control any type of reconstruction that goes on let's not forget

the gaza strip has been uh has experienced a number of wars when it comes uh down to it and of course israel regime does not want the rebuilding to take place of the reconstruction because it does it wants to... continue uh pressuring the people there in the gaza strip. let's take a look at uh the way that uh the infrastructure has been targeted by the israeli regime. when it comes down to it, this is really all courtesy of the us, the destruction there, it wasn't for the us bombs, it wouldn't happen. here's a look at the most destructive once, as you see there, you're looking at the mk 84 is a 200 pound or 900 kilogram bomb and you also have the 500 pound bombs of the mk82, the... is that you see there 1800 of them uh and also uh for the mk82 500 of those uh that have taken place, these bombs are meant to level neighborhoods that have radius of 300 meters or 100 feet um going into what we are looking at in terms of their destruction uh you can

see the crater there in the in the center um of this picture see how deep that is well the reach in terms of the radius as i mentioned 300 to 350 meters um and then the... depth of it is uh said to be a minimum nine meters and you can see obviously the type of destruction that that can actually place and of course the outcome is mass casualties um which is why um this shocking observation was made when it comes down to it um this is what the the euro uh med human rights monitor said israel hits the gaza strip with the equivalent of two nuclear bombs you may recall when that happened um this is was a result back then in terms of the time frame it was just a mat few months, at least 12,000 targets were hit, more than 25,000 tons of explosives, equivalent to two nuclear bombs. now that figure in terms of the tons of the weights of the explosives has reached 85,000 tons, so you can see how much of increase

there has been. all right, quite a figure, uh, let's find out what our guest thinks. i like to come to you nur uh with that, if i may, it's just incredible the amount of bombs and explosives. that have been dropped in the gaza strip, i can't every time uh wrap myself around the figures, around the weights and of course the destruction that has caused, uh, can you? no. honestly the the type of weaponry that has been tested on the palestinian people for for um years, i mean the the israeli occupation entity has put all their funds and all their abilities into this high tech, into um different forms of killing people, they are, they have put endless billions amount of dollars into um into these methods, and really what they're trying to do here is sort of present this with these massive explosions going up and all those flames going up, it's it's in order to sort of portray this this image of victory, look at all those flames going up. but what the reality is is that actually this failing, fleeting, loser entity has achieved no

objectives, they've achieved not a single military objectives, they've not been able to eradicate hamas, they've not been able to uh push back the lebanese resistance, they've not been able to return hostages without causing an absolute massacer as they do so, um, they're actually falling apart economically, they're an economic chokehold by the yemenis, um, they're being targeted by iran, by iraq, they are, you know, failing on every single front, and so this is really um a form way of also sort of gaining validation from the us because you know the us is its master, it's this this genocidal child of this was just not achieving and so they needed to do these massive things like blow up massive buildings and let those flames go up and pretend that this weapon storage went weapon storages when all there really was is petrol stations or schools or hospitals or regular civilian infrastructure, it's really to get that validation from the us to give them more weapons to show them that look we're users we're achieving something give us more. "how big is the gaza strip uh, you know, when you think about that, and i'd like

to ask you if i can, um, matthew, about the size of the gaza strip, versus the types of bombs that i just explained that have been dropped, and whether that's comparable to any other wars that you think in your recent memory to have been dropped in that quantity, the only one that i could think of is perhaps afghanistan, and of course who else dropped it, the us." yeah, i, i wouldn't even compare it to afghanistan. i've been saying for several months now that i think that this is um, really an unprecedented bombing campaign given the size of the gaza strip, which is only few miles wide and and the length of a marathon from north to south, um, so i think the intensity of of dropping the equivalent of several nuclear bombs in that area is very unusual, um, i mean, i do think that, i mean in... afghanistan um the americans did use the mother of all bombs a few times, these uh

these vacuum sucking uh air sucking uh devices that are gigantic um and similarly actually at the moment just few days ago russia uh in a um i think pretty much abandoned um ukrainian uh town used what was uh what is dub the father of all bombs which is another gigantic weapon used for demonstration purposes uh primarily. i think in this in this instance. um, but these are and again without really actually having probably having no effect on the actual conflict. um, so i, but i would say that everything that is happening in gaza is completely is extremely unusual. and i, i think as well that i mean, i know we keep talking about the figure of 40 something thousand people dead, but we all know from the lance estimates right, and the lance estimates being quite conservative that we're actually talking about several hundred. people and when you actually look at the um uh when you compare that to other genocides

as well over the past say 100 years um gaza is looking like it's going to be right up there with the sort of top five or so genocides even if everything was stop now and i don't think we're going to be having this stop right now um hopefully i'm keeping my fingers cross hopefully come november something might change because of the american election but um we're looking at unprecedented destruction. but as far as the 21st century is concerned, indeed, we we sure are. well, let's change gears a little bit. uh, like to put the focus uh here on lebanon, you lebanon is uh, also now victim of what we see, carpet bombing campaigns that this regime has uh exercised there, we have seen the bunker busting bombs as it has been reported to have been dropped, particular, there was atama by the name of dahia of which uh the thousands of tons of bombs were dropped uh of which one of the results of that was uh the assassination of the hizbollah secretary general said hasan nasarlah. now in this uh particular sound

bite that we have for you, the u.s. secretary of state anthony blincan talks about a terrorist act in essence that the israel regime carried out uh when it came to the exploding pages and the cell phones. let's take a listen to what he said here. so with regard to lebanon uh the united states uh did not know about uh nor was it involved in uh these uh incidents. and we're still gathering uh the information and gathering the facts. uh, broadly speaking, we've been very clear, and we remain very clear about the importance of all parties. avoiding any steps that could further escalate the conflict that we're trying to resolve uh in gaza uh to see it spread to other fronts, it's clearly not in the interest of anyone involved to see that happen uh and that's why again it's imperative that all parties refrain from any actions that could uh escalate the conflict. all right, that's uh us secretary of state uh

anthony blincon there. what's incredible about this new fechary and correct me if i'm wrong uh taking a look at uh what he has said about the uh pages, it was interesting to me uh the way that he uh skimmed over the fact that uh with regard to lebanon, the us didn't know about it, okay, who's going to believe that? but then we're still gathering information and gathering the facts, facts broadly speaking, and then he goes on, and he doesn't mention in between those two sentences, at least acknowledging how many people were killed as a result of this, and that stands out uh as to the way that human lives when it comes to this part of the world, don't mean much either to the israeli regime or the us's main backer and of course uh uh who assists it with military equipment to the degree that it does. absolutely. i mean um, you know, if you think about it, us in the west here, me doing this interview with you over my laptop, um, this is danger to myself now, now any type of device that is used anywhere in the world, anyone associated with the west is in danger of being bombed in

their own pockets. you know, this is, it was an extreme act of terrorism, um, and of course the us is... biggest decepter ever, you know, the the the creators of hollywood, and they really live in this real, this hollywood reality where they think that people believe um the nonsense that they spew, um, the the us envoy um amols hochstein came to beirot to negotiate a so-called cease fire, um, and then when the lebanese refused and refused to um, they didn't refuse the cease fire, but they refused to separate lebanon from gaza, they immediately assassinated um the secretary general of um the... need resistance and so what that has done is um it it it has just emboldened the resistance movements we've even had on friday where we had um there's some news about resistance movements infiltrating the border interna and so what the what the us seeks to do is to blame um blame them steering the war on their tool which is the israeli occupation entity you the us always pretends that it's

looking seeking peace and seeking negotiations but all along all it wanted to do is fight the axes of and spear-headed by iran, it did that through sort of indirectly um hijacking protests in iran, it did that by abandoning abandoning the jcpo for instance, um, and and now we've even seen the us central command officer michael carilla, he arrived in tel aviv, you all of these things indicate that the us is actually looking for um, looking to increase their regression in the region because they simply do not value our lives, um, indeed, and all they the lives the people in the west, particularly with us carrying devices that could be - you know... danger to all of us. well, matthew, i'd like to ask you about this terrorist act that the israel regime carried out. masad, um, is the one behind that? there's no doubt about that. the one aspect obviously was to um basically take out lives. the other aspect is the fear factor, which the israel regime is so good at, and they could be proud of that, i guess, uh, so good at instilling in their oum

officers, whether the the spy chiefs or the regime forces, to um, create that type of ammist. when you heard about the pageronsel explosions, what did you think? well, blincan's comments there remind me of um uh the incident in 2022 um again to contextualize uh in ukraine or at least uh likely perpetrated by ukraine uh with american assistance uh which was the nordstream pipeline bombing um as you know the the gas pipeline that ran into to uh western europe uh was destroyed and the united states denied any knowledge of it, they implied suggested um that russia may have done it even though it would have been completely counterproductive to uh for russia to have carried out such an act, this was the largest act of um environmental terrorism that has ever existed, the the largest

explosion of greenhouse gases into the sky um and they keep leaking out different stories about who's responsible for it. and the last the latest one was that it was a group of independent ukrainian fishermen who somehow got down to the bottom of the sea and and destroyed the most important piece of infrastructure in europe, so it's very difficult to believe the united states these days when it keeps renaging on um peace agreements as it did with nasa just a week or two ago um and as it and including over these particular military operations as well which he keeps dening knowledge of so okay unfortunately the united states has got itself into a position um through its own failings and and and and poor behavior really where no one can really believe what it's saying indeed uh well. uh, we are looking at the one-year anniversary over here uh, that is upon us, depending on which part of the world you're in, where we are, um, it's almost there, and taking a look at what has happened, the world has changed, there's so

many um waves that the operational flood created in the viewpoints and uh the awakening that took place in the populations across many different countries is testament to that in terms of the protests that have come out uh, just one example is what today exp. and tomorrow is bracing itself worldwide protest, it's a good time to take a look at the timeline of when this operation broke out and in particular the reaction that the prime minister netan yahu had and then by one of the palestinian fighters and leaders and how he viewed the operation.

فقد قررنا ان نضع حدا لكل ذلك بعون الله ليفهم العدو انه قد انتهى الوقت الذي يعرفبد فيه دون محاسب فاننا نعلن بدء عمليه طوفان الاقصى كما اننا نعلن بعون الله وقوته ان الضربه الاولى من عمليه الطوفان الاقصى والتي استهدفت مواقع العدو ومطاراته وتحصيناته

the israely economy has been battered after year of us israel genocide against palestinians, it's not just palestinians getting killed, all sectors of the economy have been impacted by this onslot, no matter which sector one looks at, there's been a massive drop when it comes to for example sales and incomes from massive gdp drops to business closures. let's take a look at some of those factors. let's take a look at the gdp downfall for the israeli economy. well, that was most evidence uh in december of 2023, and that happened in the fourth quarter that you see over here. it contracted. annual 19.4% from the prior 3 months, which showed the deep decrease economic activity. for all of 2023, the economy grew just 2% compared

with 6.5% back in the year 2022. all the negative indicators are there, the economy the fourth quarter was impacted by a 26.9% decrease in private spending, that's a huge drop, which is the main growth driver by the way, and an 18.3 2% fall when it came to exports and also a 67.8% slide in investments and things like fixed assets, especially in residential building. another sign that this economy was thinking was the number of business closures. we're looking at since october 7th, 40,000 uh that was reported to have been closed so far, predicted that the number will rise to 60,00 by the end of the year, the mass majority, 77% of them were um... small businesses and small companies really, the most affected sectors were in the construction and then the related industies such as building materials, um, to name one

example, also the tourism sector has suffered immensely with almost non-existent foreign torism. the high-tech industry, the main driver of the israely economy, was hurting badly before the genocidal war and the decline gain momentum after the onslot, we're looking at uh some of the impacts that this has had. "it constitutes 20% of israel's economy at this point the investment dropping uh negative 56%. uh taking a look at uh other factors such as uh deals that are down by - 44% and uh that just keeps going on in terms the other negative impacts and repercussions that that has uh had on the israeli economy and another major blow to the israel economy three credit agencies uh downgraded israel's credit rating we're looking at them uh" "you have fitch ratings, sm, moodies, mooodies is the one that actually has downggraded the israely economy twice, at this point there have been four downgrades when it comes to the israely economy, which makes it harder

for..." israel to borrow money and that's a big deal uh and that means it will not have easy time to sell its bonds as well since its credit worthiness is under question. well the military cost of carrying on with the genocidal aggression has increased by how much? let's take a look 80% is what we're looking at. take a look at the onslot cost $67.3 billion that may obviously increase dramatically and reach $100 billion dollars. the budget deficit as a result negative 8%. the gdp growth we talked about at this point, for the first quarter of the year, we're looking at 0.5%, roughly that's how it's going to go, and these are all factors that showed that the onslot um has not only affected the israel as a whole, but its economy uh is deeply impacted, which means that it's rupturing from within. israel is dealing with wars also on multiple fronts from fighting resistance groups like hezbullah to yemen, you can see some of the

groups that's listed here. um to the fighters in the gaza strip itself, this army has called up around 350,00 reserve regime forces, this obviously causes a drain in the employment in other sectors and with palestinians not able to work due to work permit restrictions, businesses have had a hard time filling in vacancies.

"the economy of the west bank has been impacted by the genocidal war in the gaza strip, no doubt about that, but the west bank economy has been suffering from the party practices, which has been going on for years and also for decades, and it has contributed to limiting the palestinian economic advancements. now a correspondent has taken a closer look at what the west bank is experiencing these days and the state of the economy there." while gaza endures the most severe impacts of the ongoing israeli genocidal war, the west bank is grappling with its own economic crisis. over the past 12 months, the economic conditions in the occupied territories have sharply deteriorated. the expansion of settlements and the presence of the military checkpoints have not only restricted the movement of the palestinians, but also the...