'it's very modest and then it's massive because america decided that they could back this uh regime in the middle east to patrol to police to be their attack dog against against local movements and regimes so but now israel hasn't really won a war since 1973 they were thought to a stand still really by the egyptians in 73 thanks to the heroism of the soldiers not not the generals uh they were defeated in in lebanon'. they're being defeated in uh in in gaza by the by the resistance despite their ability to massacre, which nobody doubts, and so i think now israel faces failure, and if several failures are inflicted upon israel, it will cause huge rearrangement of the relationship with america, it could go back to 67 standards, it will cause a collapse of moral inside design the state itself, and we know that huge proportion of israelis have two pass. and

many of them might be inclined to leave for for easier pasures in the usa or somewhere else, so i think no, answer your question, there is no red line, i cannot imagine a red line, because now we're seeing palestinian children die of hunger, we see outbreaks of disease, polio and so on, so this is genocide and it doesn't disturb the american uh rulers at all, but failure will, when the show of iran was succeeding, was ruling through terror, america backed him. that helped, but when he failed, he was quickly dispatched and off he went to egypt to retire, so america has a long record with many of these regimes and rulers of backing the criminality until almost until the last minute, but when they see these regimes fail to achieve our goals, they can quickly get rid of them. gentlemen, thank you, i want to put that same question to professor wakim, if i can, but before that, i like to update - our viewers that we're in the middle of ruling coverage here on press tv with respect to the... one year

anniversary now operation alexa flood we saw palestinian uh resistance movements breach the so-called security frents along gaza of infiltrate israeli settlements leaving over 1200 occupation force soldiers uh dead and um over 1200 um pardon over 250 um israel captives were then brought including uh occupation force soldiers bought back to gaza and held over the last year many have died due to unrelenting israely bombardment of the besieg strip, somewhere exchange in a prisoner swap deal uh, we're going to take a short uh a break about five minutes, we're going to bring a small report on operation alexa flood and come back with our guests, make nape here of glasgow and professor jamal waakiem out of beirot, we'll be right back. israelis attack the palestinians whose lands they have occupied for all this time. the

palestinians attack the israelis in measured and decisive fashion. when they attack, the israelis use way better weapons, vehicles, in tanks and other high-tech equipments, but it is the palestinians that make history when they attack. of october the 7th, 2023 was a day that made history, the israeli regime has been waging war on the gaza strip since, killing men, women and children, and what looks like a desperate attempt at forgetting the memory and the humiliation of that fate. day: one

year since the attack, the israeli regime has killed nearly 42,00 palestinians, yet has utterly failed to provide security for itself. in this episode of in a nutshell, we take a look back at that day and how it has since made a difference in israel's assumptions about itself and in the world about israel. when palestinian resistance fighters led by hamas crossed what israel considers its heavily fortified border with gaza a october the 7th last year, they set foot on territory that was their own. they had already rendered high-tech israeli monitoring and espionage equipment in watch towers along the zone ineffective, and they entered on foot, driving cars and motorbikes and via paragliders from the air. the israeli occupiers were fast asleep on palestinian land. they would soon wake up in horror to sounds of gunfire and explosions. the owners of the land they had occupied and refused to leave for so long were there to make a statement. the hamas fighters killed hundreds

of israelis as the day went on and took hundreds captive in a huge and what described as unreperable blow to israel's long-term attempts to portray its espionage. apparatus as invincible, outraged by the humiliation it had suffered, the israely military on that same day started pounding gaza, which hamas rules, in a war that continues to this day, the mounting civilian death toll in the israeli war and the horrific images of schools, hospitals and mosks being bombed from the air by israel have grabbed the world's attention. months after the israeli war started, south africa. brought a case against israel at the international court of justice that accuses the tel aviv regime of genocide. israel has been fighting with american bullets of course, and that has not been lost on the world. countries have called on the united states as well as other providers of weapons to the tel aviv regime to stop arming it as long as it refuses to

agree to humanitarian sease fires. world leaders used the latest united nations security council meeting in new york this week to castigate israel and its international backers. over the war in gaza. one year on, israel has failed to achieve its declared goals in gaza. the regime has instead been forced to fight on multiple fronts. it has become a war of attrition that israel has had to toil to conduct. the tel aviv regime has been hamoraging money to purchase military equipments and pan-handling america for neverending replenishments. it's not like palestine is alone. its supporters in iran, the lebanese hezbollah, resistance groups and the yemani ansara movement have had its back in ways that are sometimes discrete, sometimes explicit. hezbolah has been raining rockets and missiles on israel, disrupting the israeli's sense of calm deeper in territory it has occupied. the ansarah members have targeted israeli-linked ships in

the red sea, while iraqi resistance fighters launch drone attacks on the occupied territory. october the 7th has only strengthened the palestinian cause, but the soldiers of palest. who fought and died on that day received an honor that was more personal than the world could glimpse at first sight. when they fell to the ground, they fell on land that was their own. and welcome back everyone to our ruling coverage of operation. the one year anniversary of the um the hamas resistance movement attack on the southern occupied territories uh raiding is really settlements getting into skirmishes with occupation force soldiers rendering over 1200 armed settlers

and occupation force soldiers dead taking 250 back to um the gaza strip where we saw an unleashing of year long onslot als so at which point we are at the one-year anniversary of which two, which has resulted a genocide has culminated over 42,000 palestinians slain, um, mostly women and children. just very unfortunate one year for the people of gaza and the occupied west bank, which the death tool there is inching closer to 800, just since october the 7th, a complete neighborhoods and occupied west bank have been... bulldosed and rated a daily basis and um, as we mentioned hundreds of fatalities, there are thousands of injuries over 10,000 palestinians in the occupied west bank alone have been incarcerated and abducted and detained by designist entity,

and uh, but the the situation and the figures coming out of gaza are much more concerning, alarming and disheartening, we mentioned over on nearly 100,000 gazans injured, since october 7th last year, many of them with permanent disabilities, um, over 97% of the gaza population has been displaced, some of them up to 10 to 12 times entire families relocating from one so-called safe zone to the next, but ultimately many have gotten bombed in declared safe zones in 10 cities with a just nothing but cloth to try to harness the the uh the impact of of thousand pound bombs resulting in hundreds of casualties a time and also now this escalation has a trickled over into lebanese territory as we've seen lebanon under seages are images of the bayrut skyline you can see there hasn't been a day in the past two weeks there have been ploms of smoke over the

beirot skyline that there haven't been uh buildings targeted and raised to the ground in the lebanese uh capital as well as in um other uh lebanese villages, towns and cities. we know the uh zinesentit is occupation army has tried time and again to infiltrate the lebanese border. but it's been fended off by uh the lebanese resistance movement um hezbulah joining us now from our tehrana studio is roya purbagar uh our press tv from our press tv newsroom for more hello roya great to have you uh join us uh you can mention you want to talk about the gaza genocide the uh escalation into lebanese territory or operation alaxa flood what uh resistance hoped to accomplish or at least the mess it wanted to convey to the usurping entity in tel aviv and what kind of message

wanted to send the leadership in tel aviv after 75 years of occupation and ethnic cleansing? yes, well we all know by now that october 7th was retaliation, response to over 75 years of occupation, it's exposed october 7 exposed the israeli regime for what it is, which is settler canolial state that... has been oppressing and dehumanizing palestinians for decades, the only diff, the only difference uh, after october 7th is that what happened is people woke up to that to the oppressions of the israeli regime committed by the israeli regime, the world woke up to the year, the decades, the years and years of uh ongoing genocide massacers against the uh palestinian people, so to be first of all to just to make things clear, october 7th should be celebrated. if you ask me, because it was the rightful retaliation, the right to pick up arms and fight back against a colonial a

seller colonial state that is the israeli regime, and as for what happened the next day, the next day october 8th marked the beginning of hisbollah's uh retaliatory strikes against the israeli regime in in solidarity with the pas people of palestine, the only demand that hazbullah had because of due to these attacks was that he he just asked, he simply asked. for the israeli regime to stop its genocide, to stop killing children, the children of gaza, to stop its inhumane and brutal attacks against the people, but of course we saw how after one year the israel regime continues its onslot, it insists on targeting more and more civilians day by day and it insists on committing massacres and it even celebrates it. we've seen how the people, the settlers, mean the settlers in the israeli regime, we've seen how they celebrate... these uh crimes, these horrific and brutal crimes that their regime continues to commit. uh, i think

the most horrifying event for me, the most horrifying i had to witness was that mass, the protest that the israeli settlers carried out after the uh gang rating raping of detainee of a palestinian detinie, i mean this we're talking about people who believe that it is their right and it is okay for them to gangrape palestinians and because the the images we've seen until now we're horrifying, so it is for sure justified, what happened on october 7th is for sure justified and it is expected and it should even be hailed, it should be you this day the oc october 7th should be uh announced as a day of resistance for everyone and not just for the palestinians, because it's not just the israeli regime that has been committing these crimes, it's also the funders, the supporters the regime, the countries, if you ask me, even the countries that remain... silent, that did not condemn these ongoing massacers, that did not condemn these uh continuous

violations of international humanitarian law, so october 7th was the day that many things started being exposed, and the top of that it was the us and its allies, these western countries that are the so-called flag bears of human rights, these countries, they always claim that they are after, they are you know advocates of human rights, they always demand democracy be employed and implemented a other countries, and yet when it comes to what's happening in palestine, when it comes to a genocide that no one can deny at this point, no one can deny that what's happening is a genocide, they still refuse to speak up against these indisc discriminated bombings, these massacers that are not stopping anytime soon, so another thing that exposed that was exposed due to thanks to october 7th is the mainstream media, this hypocritical way of reporting and covering ' the news, we've seen how the headlines have been going for you know uh different media outlets, how they

refuse to mention the word israel every time israel strikes a region, whether it's in gaza or in lebanon, how they refuse to say who who killed children in gaza, who has caused these the starvation and famon that we saw in in gaza, who was responsible for the spread of uh for the outbreak of polio in gaza, we've seen how deliberately they frame their stories in a... way that that benefits them and keeps them away from harm from public outrage, but that's of course that has not stopped that public outrage of happening, we've seen also how october have helped expose the united nations and international organizations uh these so-called international organizations what they're supposed to do is they were supposed to uphold international human humanitarian law, but they have proved themselves to be useless and futile at this point because year in and we have not seen any and us any getting anywhere closer to a ceasefire, it's not

difficult to reach a ceasefire. all you need to do is pressure, these countries that are supporting israel, they should stop giving to israel, they should cut their ties with the israeli regime, and the next thing you know, we have a cease fire deal, it's not that difficult, but they refuse to do so, because they know that their interest lies in the israeli regime continuing its genocide against the people of palestine and now even the people of lebanon, so uh, and that's the thing, roya, how close, we've heard benjamin netanyahu and other leadership at tel aviv, time and again say that we are going to continue uh this onslot on gaza to... the resistance movement, hamas has been completely eliminated after 365 days of genocide in gaza, how close is the zinus entity now roya into achieving that objective and objective and justifications they are using now to go after hizbollah in lebanon, which are militarily speaking is much stronger than resistance in gaza, so

eliminating hamas or any of the resistance factions is his pipe dream, that's wishful. thinking on the part of the israel regime, it's been a year and they weren't able to eliminate hamas, they should have been able to given that they all they constantly claim to be the most powerful and moral army, ironically, moral army in the world, and we've seen what this moral army has done to the palestinians and to the to the people of lebanon, so we're definitely not getting anywhere close to that, that's not happening if anything, what we're getting closer to day by day is the annihilation of the israeli regime itself, and it's bringing this to itself by committing these massacers, no one in the world, no one in the world cares about the israeli regime at this point, we have companies that are refusing to um work with the regime, refusing to offer to provide them with for example communication devices after what happened with the uh with the terror attack with the pajor bombs, with the pager uh bombs right, so we've have companies that

do not long that no longer want to cooperate with the israeli regime, we have countries that decided to cut ties with israel regime and speaking of like how the world views the israel regime, we've seen the protests worldwide, no, everyone is out is furious and outraged by the by the crimes that are being committed by this regime, so uh, aside from the fact that we're not getting close to them eliminating hamas or defeating hizballah, what we're getting closer to is basically the destruction of the regime, and for viewers that are just uh joining us we are in the middle of a ruling coverage on the one-year anniversary of operation alex of flood launched by palestiny resistance factions in gaza against the israeli um entity in support of that uh operation we know that in january the hamamos resistance movement released a statement saying operation alax of flood was

necessary step and natural reaction against israel's plans and to eliminate the palestinian cause, seaslands, judais, palestinian lands, establish complete control over alaa, mosk and other holy sites, and it also that 16 page report underscored operational alaxa flood representing a strategic move to alleviate the blockade in the gaza strip that's going on 17 years now, to break free from israeli occupation, restore national rights, attain independence, shape. palestinian destiny and establish a palestinian state with jerusalem alcots as its capital. joining us is a roya puerbagger from our press tv news team here. roya, 365 days into this. we should also highlight for our viewers all these things we just mentioned that palestinians have been trying through international forums, through uh

international courts at the united nations forvers 75 years to achieve diplomatically. not through armed resistance, it's only after they have exhausted hundreds and thousands of avenues diplomatically through political channels to try to get any kind of dignity, self-determination, any of their independence or rights, that they took up arms against the uh zionist entity an operation as comprehensive and powerful response as operation alax of flood. yes, well we've seen these the united nations and international organization. trying to stop the genocide on gaza, but that has been useless, we did not reach a cease fire if anything um the israel regime assassinated. first seasfire back in uh few months ago, but when they assassinated ismail hani while he was visiting tehran for the pres new president's inauguration, so

we've seen that happen, and that came after you know us getting closer, i mean, i must say that there's this, there was this illusion that we were getting closer to sease fire, and if you were to ask the people who support palestine and has below the resistance factions and who follow up on the news, they know that this was a... that we were not actually getting closer to fire, but that was what the united states and the israel regime wanted people to believe, so what happened was that we even let's say that we were really getting closer to given the fact that hamas had accepted the proposal by president the us president joe biden, what happened was the assassination of ism, the very the negotiator of hamas for the ceastfire, does that sound like an entity that wants a ceastfire? definitely no, we it's been... made very clear by the israel regime itself and even by the united states that they do not want to cease fire. that's the thing roya, i want to ask you that because you mentioned seasfire accepting one

is not very difficult, you get your uh captives back, you uh withdraw uh go back to the um israeli occupied parts of palestinian territories where you were before all this happened, you get your uh soldiers out of gaza and uh analysts are saying it's going to take decades for gaza to... rebuild allow gazins to rebuild allow them to bury their loved ones to get people out from under rubble that have been down there for months now um but you mentioned it's not difficult they could accepted it there was a a july 2nd agreement or proposal i should say put forth even by joe biden that everyone the qatari delegation accepted the egyptians accepted hamas accepted the the us proposed uh the israelis did not accept another ample opportunity to put an end to the j aside, stop the cross-border skirmishes with uh hezbulah along the northern occupied territories, normal missiles and drones coming from yemen, no more uh anti uh israeli

ships being targeted on the high seas, no more iraqi resistance uh attacks by drones and missiles on on occupied ports of palestine, and uh why why would the regime opt for more violence, more aggression into lebanese territory and not accept a cease fire when you can choose... choose path to a restoration of calm and peace, why choose the more destabilizing path of more death, more destruction and more destabilization, roya? exactly like you said, achieving seasfire is not that difficult, and what we saw is that the israel the united states, excuse me, has even encouraged this genocide, it did not this encourage sease fire by by continuing to provide the israeli regime with funds. "i think in total, at least over $80, 18 billion dollars have has been provided this year to the israeli regime, and this comes while the united states is uh, in the face of a crisis

when it comes to the hurricane, for the hurricane that happened in the united states, this, the united states did not offer its people anywhere near as much as money it is offering the israeli regime, but we had $138 million dollars, i believe, in us, the united states had." for that amount of money to its people after the hurricane whilst providing over minimum $18 billion dollars to the israeli regime, that does not sound like a country that wants an end to the um genocides happening in palestine, that does not sound like a country that wants a cease fire, what it does sound, it sounds like a country that knows its interests lies in the israel regime continues continuing its genocide, and the israely regime we must bear in mind that the israely regime's existence in this region is... to the benefit of the united states, it is following its hegemonic agenda, so all these all these facts that we know point towards the united states not wanting it sees

far, and if anything they do want the israeli regime to continue in its onswaught in hopes that maybe maybe it can win this um so let's call it war if when it's not it's actually genocide. thank you roya, stay safe, pleasure to have you on, that's a roya puboger there joining us from a press tv news room. out of our tehron studios, appreciate it for your uh contribution to our rolling coverage here royal stay safe. we also have shahana butt now, uh press tv corresponds joining us out of sydney, australia, hello shohana uh good evening to you author in sydney, hope you're safe and doing well, we know that uh sydney and other cities in australia have been scenes especially sydney just this last weekend, pro palesty and protest, just uh a day before the one-year anniversary of operation alax the flood, what could you tell us about the sentiments there in? supported palestinians in australia, it's surprising for australian itself, what they're saying on the streets, after a long time they have seen

such sentiments on and long-term sentiments on the streets, 52 weeks relentlessly, tirelessly every sunday on the streets and with each passing sunday the number keeps on swelling when it comes to demonstrators and supporters for people of palestine, so for australia it is something surprising that this moment is is gaining momentum, this this uh this this idea of palestine, the things that are happening in palestine, the resistance in palestine and one-sided war what people of australia call genocide and appocide, they believe that they really need to stand strong and stand and oppose whatever is happening in palestine and now in lebanon and it's still spreading, so the momentum here is very very high, despite a lot of lot of criticism, despite a lot of opposition, but at the same time for palestinian groups in australia have galvinized this moment and are trying really very hard to convince. as

many as people and also the government, when they talk about their rights as as the citizens of australia, they they have the firm rights to hold protests and demonstrations, peaceful protests and demonstrations when it comes to their fundamental rights, so they have been opposing the government's view that there should be no protests and demonstrations in the favor of palestine, but people defineing any government orders have still taken to streets, peacefully demonstrated and demanded. and immediate seasfire and immediate help for the humanitarian help for the for the people in gaza. australians have a firm belief that the government can play a very positive role if at all it wants, but but the way today uh the labor party and the and the feminist of australia has has one sided given a one-sided remarks in favor of israel regime and supported the 1200 israelies that were killed on october 6th

without talking. about tens of thousands of palestinians that have been massacred ever since then in the past 365 days and so many them on the rubble and devories millions displaced the ananese government has not utered a single word and and there has been a stun criticism by the people of australia against what they say government's hypocracy government's one sided attitude so australian people have a f belief that it is people's movement resistance is second name for palestine now and this this moment is growing with each passing day and they believe that sees fire is near as as many as people joined this moment and the seas fire is near but at the moment people in australia are only and only waiting for their government's action because they believe they have chosen a representative who needs to be more humanitarian and needs to believe in human rights so today i'm sorry sean are there any

voices you mentioned. uh uh australian uh leadership, but are there any voices from either party in australia that are opposed to that because we see it in the us, we've seen it in in paris, we've seen it in london, we've heard it in berlin, but when it comes to your neck of the woods, are the voices that are uh very basically that they scrutinize that are in opposition to the genocide in gaza in the uh uh political spectrum there, of course there are voices, of course there are... but at the same time we have to see who is ruling australia at the moment, it's the labor party and it's election times and people are watching, people are saying there are voices in the in the opposition who have stood for the rights of people in palestine, who have stood for the rights of humans in in palestine and now in in lebanon, so there there is a like if we talk about fatima payman the senator, she has been, she has been a strong support for

palestine and and the rights of palestinian. people, she has continuously opposed and walked out of of the parliament, even while she talked walked on the floor when she talked about the people of palestine and the double standards of the labor party at the moment ruling australia, so there there is is a st support, there is a st as we can see in different parts of australia, melbourne, sydney, at burt, there have been protests and demonstrations, tens of thousands of people joining, just to oppose its government's double standard, just to tell its government that... "we have chosen you to be the representatives to tell the world that what we are asking, we are asking for seefire in in gaza, we are asking for see's fire in palestan, we are asking for seas fire in in lebanon, because this is ultimately a genocide where tens of thousands of people, especially young children have been massacred brutally, and this can be nothing less than uh less than genocide, but today's visual was..."