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flood is upon us, there's been a facelift when it comes to the us and the israely regime, one that is continuing as the genocide continues in the gaza strip and now in lebanon, one that has been ongoing for decades in the occupied west bank, but as israel regime continues with his sonslots, it is also destroying itself from within, specifically when it comes to its economy and that of the west bank as well, one of the focuses of today's program.

of when it comes to the infrastructure of the gaza strip, the iof regime forces have destroyed much of it. closer look at the way it has destroyed it explains why the regime forces have actually targeted certain areas multiple times. it may also explain why it has dropped heavy bombs on the gaza. strip like the bunker buster bombs or the mk 2000 and 1000 bombs? 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 warn that the diet conditions have led to increase in respiratory problem. and the skin diseases,

the risk of outer breaks looms large, particularly among the children and the elderly who are most vulnerable to the impacts of f 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 of 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 ecubation. has severely hambered the municipality's ability to respond effectively to manage waste and maintain a providing services after the damage of the critical infrastructure in israeli pombing 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 sanitate.

systems has left the city and its residents struggling to coup. the flies, the 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 overflow of sewage further or the rain triggered the floods. more than 11 months of... "the israeli genocider war has resulted in not only thousands of deaths of civilians, but has also inflicted significant suffering on the survivors. gada ibrahim, azawaida town, press tv. let's turn now to our guests and see what

they think about this. uh, we have uh, matthew alford who's an academic and commentator joining us from london. also, joining us from london is new feckry, who's a journalist and political activist. i'd like to welcome you both and i'll start with you, anura feckry, the one year uh october 7th operation ostle 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 this house or that, but it's a meticulous uh plan to uh target the infrastructure as we focus in that report, in particular roads 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? um, 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 el shif hospital and all the other hospitals. that they bombed um and every time time and 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 miserable as possible for the lebanes and gazan people in order to get them to turn against the resistance movements that are very successfully fighting um the fighting of these really occupation entity 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 a resistance movement simply cannot um cease exist and cannot um um stop functioning as long as it is under occupation and so um you know the relentless bombing of civilian infrastructure and civilians is only adding um that you know fuel to fire and only adding to that um that

sort of desire to stand behind the resistance since the start of this um since october the 7th we've never seen the people of gaza and sort of stage protest against the resistance um nor has that happened. and in lebanon, we've even seen people that have, from all sorts of difficult political backgrounds standing behind that resistance, indeed. taking a look at the infrastructure or and the way that is targeted, um, matthew, what is interesting about this is that this 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 uh 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. there's been a long history um through throughout military history. of uh believing that huge bombing campaigns will be successful in turning the population uh against their leaders, mean they often don't work, mean it's 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 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, the destruction of infrastructure, and it's interesting because the times is a murdoc

paper um, and uh, they are more bias against 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, it does not match the um statistics i've seen early. 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 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 uh 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 uh the israel regime has made it habit to really look at uh the gaza strip in a shape form and manner that it hasn't uh for obviously the rest of occupied palestine uh 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 or the reconstruction because it does wants to continue uh pressuring uh the people there in the gaza strip. let's take a look at uh the... 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, uh, it wasn't for the us bombs, it wouldn't happen. here's a look at the most destructive ones, as you see there, uh, you're looking at the mk 84 is a 2 pound or 900 kilogram bomb, and you also have the 500 pound bombs of the mk82, the purchases that you see there 1800 of them uh, and also for the mk82, 500 uh... of those uh that have taken place, you know these bombs are meant to level neighborhoods that have radius of 300 meters or 1,0 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 uh 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 and then the depth of it is uh said to be a minimum nine meters and you can see obviously see the type of destruction that that can actually place, and of course the outcome is mass casualties, which is why this

shocking observation was made when it comes down to it, this is what the the euro med human rights monitor said, israel hits the gaza strip with the equivalent of two nuclear bombs, you may recall when that happened, this is was a result back then in terms of the time frame, it was just matter of few months, at least 12,00 targets were hit, more than 25,00 tons of... equivalent to two nuclear bombs, now that figure in terms of the tons of the weight of the explosives has reached 85,00 tons, so you can see how much of increase there has been. all right, quite a figure, let's find out what our guest thinks. i like to come to you, nur 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 wrap myself around the... figures around the weights and of course the destruction that has caused, can you no, honestly, that 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, you know, 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 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 push back the lebanese resistance, they've not been able to return hostages without causing an absolute massacre as they do so, um, they're actually falling apart economically, they're in a economic chokehold by the yemenis, 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 a 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 when weapon storages when all that really was is petrol stations or schools or hospitals or regular sort of 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 the 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 i just few days ago russia uh in a um i think pretty much abandoned um ukrainian uh town used what was uh what is dubbed 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... without really actually having probably having no effect on the actual conflict and 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 it's estimates and the lance estimates being quite conservative that we're actually talking about several hundred thousand people and when you actually look at the um uh when you compare that to other genocide. 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 stopped now, and i don't think we're going to be having this stop right now, um, hopefully, and 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 really, 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 um is uh also now victim of what we see uh 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 a tom 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 hizballah secretary general said hasan nasaralah now in this uh particular um sound bite that we have for you, the us secretary of state anthony blincan talks about a terrorist act in essence that the israel regime carried out when he came to the exploding pages and the cell phones. let's take a listen to what he said here. so with regard to lebanon, the united states uh did not know about uh nor was it involved in uh

these 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, you what's incredible about this new fechary, and correct me if i'm wrong, uh, taking a look at what he has said about the 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, 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..." danger are being bombed in their own pockets, you know, this is, it was an extreme act of terrorism, um, and of course the us is the biggest deceptor ever, 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, you know the the us envoy um amos hawkstein 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 rece fire but they refused to separate lebanon from gaza they immediately assassinated um the secretary general of um of the lebanese resistance and so what that has done is um it it it has just involved the resistance movements even had on friday where we had um there's some news about resistance movements infiltrating the border inter kar and so what the what the us seeks to do is blame um blame them stearing the war on their tool which is really occupation entity the us always pretends that it's looking seeking peace and seeking negotiations but all along all it wanted to do is fight the access of resistance fear headed by iran it did that through indirectly um hijacking. tests in iran, it did that by abandoning abandoning the jcpoa for instance, um, and and now we've even seen the us central command officer michael carilla, he arrived in tel aviv, all

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 they value the lives of the people in the west, particularly with us carrying devices that could be - danger to all of us. well, matthew, i'd like to ask you about this terrorist act that this religion. carried out massad um is the one behind that there's no doubt about that um the one aspect obviously was to um basically take out lives the other aspect is the fear factor which regime is so good at and they could be proud of that guess uh so good at instilling in their um officers whether the the spy chiefs or the regime forces to um create that type of atmosphere when you heard about the pager and cellphone explosions what did you think? well it 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 bombings um as you know the uh the gas pipeline that ran into uh western europe uh was destroyed and the united states denied and 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 uh 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 it 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 uh 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 uh the populations across many different countries is testament to that in terms of the protests that have come out, just one example is what today experienced and tomorrow is bracing itself worldwide protest. uh, 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 the uh palestinian fighters and leaders and how he viewed the operation. فقد قررنا ان نضع حدا لكل ذلك بعون الله يفهم

العدو انه قد انتهى الوقت الذي يعرف فيه دون محاسب فاننا نعلن بدء عمليه طوفان الاقصى كما اننا نعلن بعون الله وقوته ان الضربه الاولى من عمليه طوفان الاقصى والتي استهدفت مواقع العدو ومطاراته وتحصيناته العسكريه خلال ال 20 دقيقه الاولى قد تجاوزت. the israely economy has been battered after year of us-israeli genocide against palestinians, it's not just palestinians

getting killed also. 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 three 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% fall when it came to exports and also a 67.8% 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, 40,00 that was reported to have been closed so far, predicted that the number will rise to 60 thousand by the end of the year, the mass majority, 77% of them were small businesses and small companies really, the most affected sectors were in the construction. and then the related industries such as building materials, to name one example, also the tourism sector has suffered immensely with almost non-existent foreign tourism. the high-tech industry, the main driver of the israely economy, washurting badly before the genocidal war and the decline gain momentum after the onslot. we're looking at some of the impacts that this has had, it constitutes 20% of israel's economy, at this point the investment dropping

negative 50%. 6% 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 um you have fitch ratings s&p and moodies mooodies is the one that actually has downgaded the israely economy twice, at this point there have been four downgrades when it comes to the israeli 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 it's credit worthyness 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 the onslot cost,

$67.3 billion. that may obviously increase dramatically and reach $100 billion, 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 fronts from fighting resistance groups like hisbullah to yemen, you can see some of the groups that's listed here, to the fighters in the gaza strip itself, the israel 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 partite practices which has been going on for years and also for decades, and it has contributed to limiting the palestinian economic

advancements. now naka hamed, 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 enders..." 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 attaching them from essential trade drouts and agricultural lands. according to a report by the united nation conference on trade and development. economic growth has stagnated with nearly 5% decline in the gdp compared to the previous year. the october war has had catastrophic effects on the palestinian economy.