this is not a war, it is systematic genocide, but whatever they try, palestine will never die. hello, i'm chris williamson and you're watching palestine declassified. our twice weekly program exposes the israeli regime's global war against solidarity with the illegally occupied people of palestine. today's show we'll be looking at the consequences for the zianist entity of its year long genocide, which has turned the whole world's population against it. 12 months after the alaxa flood operation by palestinian resistance factions, it looks increasingly like the end is nigh for the signist project, as latifer will explain in our first report: the year anniversary of an unprecedented military operation against the zionist entity, the al-aqsa flood, how settler society addicted to killing...

eventually killed itself. where are we today? israel has launched a fierce genocide on the population of ghazza, killing over 40,00 people, mostly women and children. it has continued to besege the landlocked people of ghazza, many of them refugees from within the zionist entity. the lancet medical journal estimates that around 200,000 deaths in gazza can be attributed to israel's genocidal campaign. this sit. ation has led to an outporing of support for palestine across the world. never before has the palestinian flag been as ubiquitus as it has become today. in trying to wipe palestine off the map, israel has rendered the whole world palestine. tens of of millions of people have been mobilizing on the streets across the world's capitals in support of the palestinian people. in seeking to besege the people of razza, zionism has besieged itself. and seems to be in terminal of

decline. the humanitarian interventions of yemen and lebanon have led to the bankrupting of the keys port of ilat and the displacement of of over 100 thousand settelis from the north of occupied palestine. the export of goods and services from israel fell by almost 20%, and almost 60,000 israeli businesses are expected to go bust in 2024 due to the war. the israeli gdp also lost 20%. the company intel decided to withdraw a $25 billion investment away from the zionist entity. israel's power grid is reliant on coal from colombia, which has now stopped. the other key suppliers are south africa and russia, and one of those states is prosecuting israel in the icj for the crime of genocide. we have also seen waves of israelis leaving the entity and seeking. citizenship elsewhere,

even zinast historians like youuval, noah, harari, are predicting the end of zionism? was that faithful day last october the beginning of the end for the zinanis project in palestine? joining me in the studio, as usual is our residents expert david miller, who is widely regarded as the uk's preeminent scholarly critic of israel, david's a senior research fellow at the center for islam and global affairs. at istanbul sam university and is a co-director of the lobby and watch of dog spinwatch. our guest contributor today is the investigative journalist patrick hanningson who founded the independent news and analysis website 21st century wire. welcome to the show. david, the alaxa flood was an unprecedented operation by the palestinian resistance, wasn't it? it certainly was. i mean, people forget, they think as being hamas and of course hamas is the leading force in the resistance, but there are six or even seven armed.

uh operated uh what? now that was an unprecedented thing, they broke out - they and they actually traveled very quite far into 48 israel as as it's called uh before they were driven back by by the uh the occupation forces. patrick um hamas has claimed that russia said they would teach the alaxa flood operation in their military schools. what do you make of that? well i expect uh what i'm about to say would probably deeply upset supporters of of his. israel and neoconservatives and the like, but it says a lot that the world's preeminent military institution recognizes the impact, the historical impact, the geopolitical impact of this important event, and you know the israeli occupation forces were definitely

caught unawares by this operation laxa flood on october 7th, how it was conducted, how effective the insurgency was, and i... add this as well, history will also record and even more importantly the reaction by israel after this, the unhinged over the top, almost you could say psychotic reaction by the israeli regime and its occupation forces, they have effectively sprung a trap of their own making, and which could very well turn out to be really epic falter that leads to the complete demise of the entire israel, colonial settler project uh that's been supported traditionally by the british and then taken over by the us and by other european countries to prop up this situation in the middle east, so it could be something that leads to its own demise, only time will tell. well, david, it was also claimed that

hamas obtained licenses from russia to locally produce the klashnikovs that were used in the operation. look, the the russian role in this is not well understood, i mean russians are clearly supportive for the palestinians, but they actually have done specific things to support the access of resistance, people don't know this, but the russians have observation posts on the border uh in syria with the the they occupied goan heights which the designers took in 1967 which is which is actually syrian territory, the russians have observation towers all along that border, including new ones that they've set up in the last couple of years in the... that the science have been doing on damascus and other parts of syria, russian planes have been patrolling the the mediterranean coast of syria to dissuade the occupation forces, so russia is heavily invested in this this conflict, but they have tried to keep direct direct involvement in in the actual conflict, but it's not clear how

how how far that can be sustained in the the potential of incursion into lebanon and and even perhaps further incursions into syria so... see what happens with that, but russia clearly is on the side of the palestinians, it just hasn't taken the the direct actions which some of some people have been hoping for. right, okay, well, but patrick, um, we've previously reported on palestine declassified that it appeared that israel implemented the hannibal directive on october the 7th last year, what do you know about that? well, the forensic governance is clear, um, the the hannibal directive was implemented on october 7th. and not just the hannibal directive, by the way, this has been admitted by top israeli military experts, former military commanders from different branches of of the israeli forces and this was a mass hannibal on october 7th, in other words, what the israeli occupation forces

carried out is something that they've never even done before, and if you look at the specifically the forensic evidence of all the automobiles um that were burned. and torched clearly the palestinian resistance fighters didn't have the type of weaponry uh to do that sort of fire bombing with hundreds of vehicles containing, many of them israeli civilians, some of them fleeing the scene at the nova music festival nearby the the border wall there, and what it shows us is that clearly this is what israeli reports, i'm talking about herts, i'm talking about the times of israel, there's been various admissions in especially in the hebrew press after. words that apache helicopters uh basically did the damage there, and what this does is it destroys the core narrative of october 7th from the israeli and american and allied israeli side, which is that 1,200 people were slaughtered or civilians were slaughtered on october 7th by hamas and it's

simply not true, the evidence doesn't actually reflect that, what we see is that there are a potentially hundreds of israeli civilians that were killed. by the israeli military, well david, the the operation included other factions, as you mentioned, aren't you uh, like the the pflp, and uh, um, "they've uh uh haven't been prescribed by the uk government, so i mean is there a case in your opinion for the government to unproscribe hizballah and and hamas, so the the there are four armed groups who have been prescribed who are involved in this who have been prescribed by the british government, hezbollah, hamas, palestinian islamic jihad and the pflp general command, which is separate organization from the pflp, which is not prescribed, the dflp is not prescribed. various of the other organizations, they are the marters brigades, are not not prescribed either, so there's an inconsistency there,

now so what what should happen of course is that they should be deprescribing all of them because the prescription makes it very difficult for the brit british to play any kind of role in ending this conflict, even even role on behalf of the zionis, they can't play any any proper role because they can't talk directly to hamas, to palestinan jaad to... b) and really they should be able to do that, there should be a question of of a of a of involving directly in a in a peace process which will have to come uh once the zits are defeated, yes indeed, well well patrick, mean how will this all end do you think? that's not an easy question to answer uh, how is this going to end? i think from an israeli point of view they like a swift and decisive victory, that's pretty clear, but they're not. getting it, if you think about it, we're 12 months later, they haven't defeated hamas,

in fact israel hasn't even eliminated any of hamas's top military commanders, they've done as well as seeming to, they've done well to assassinate other leaders around in other countries, either assassinations in iran, syria, and lebanon, but they haven't touched anything in gaza in terms of the top commands. and what does that tell you? that tells you they haven't defeated hamas, now they're in a protracted, entrenched conflict there, with no clear decisive victory, taking huge losses, they've done a lot of damage to gaza and the people of gaza, but they haven't achieved any of their military objectives, the same could be true now with their potentially protracted conflict with lebanon, potentially with syria and and iran and yemen with antar allah. so from from israel point of view, this is the worst possible outcome uh, it could be death by a thousand cuts,

slow bleeding, slow sort of demise for israel as a regional hegemon, but it's never been a regional hegemon, it's always been propped up by the united states and its allies, it can't defend itself, israel can't quote defend itself without the us, providing all of the artillery, all of the uh reconnaissance, all them assistance technically and all of the bombs and all of the aircraft for that matter and all the engineering and technical support, they can't do anything without the united states, so israel its own can't defend itself, what does that tell you? by definition, this is a colonial project, it always was, and now we can really see to what degree it's absolutely dependent on other foreign superpowers in order to prop up, what is essentially a protectorate for western imperialist? interest at this point. well, our next report looks at the anist entities illegal operation in south lebanon that

resulted in the assassination of her son. part of the domino effect that was set into motion by the alaxsa flood was the events leading up to the assassination of hezbollah secretary general hasan nasrollah on the 27th of september 2024. it is believed his decision to stand with gaza and refuse to relinqu'. his support is the reason for his killing, the assassination took the form of 85 tons of bunkerbuster bombs being used to level six residential buildings in the southern suburb of bayrut, al-dahia. the operation is thought to have caused the killing of hundreds of innocent civilians, with many being vaporized on impact due to the power of the bombs used. the body of hasan nasrollah was found 40 meters underground in full form, the cause of... death is believed to be shock from the power the explosion. israel claims units 9900, 8200

and 504 were the sources of intelligence for the illegal operation. unit 9900 is known for visual intelligence gathered via satellite, and it is believed information was obtained by following the activities of hisbullah figures in the area around the residential complex. unit 8200 is known signal intelligence and the monitoring of communications, by constant surveillance of phone calls, the unit may have been able to discern thatrola was expected at the location 504, which israel claims to have drawn information from the operation, is responsible for human intelligence, thus implying that there was someone in the vicinity of the buildings passing information on the meeting to the israelis. assuming this assassination spells the end of hisbollah, would be wrong-headed, when israel killed abbas musawi, the previous secretary general

and the founding member of hisbollah in the early 90s, zianist newspapers exclaimed: that hisbullah was over. there is a deep lesson in this refusal to die, as imam khumeini once said, killing us will only increase our people's awareness. well, david, just explain will you, hisbollah's role in the gaza war. so, as um, the palestin resistance confirmed, the they hadn't told heizballah or iran or the uh resistance in iraq that they were... going to do the operation, so it was, it was, it was a surprise to them to some extent, but with within a day of it happening, hezballah was engaged with the zionist entity uh, in trying to support what was the people in gaza. patrick, what connect israel expect, do you think now that it's launched its ground operation into south lebanon? i think history is going to look back potentially at israel's

attempted invasion of south lebanon as one of its biggest. missteps in all of the events we've seen over the last 12 months and maybe in its history, it really shows you that there is absolutely some sort of a political timeline or expiration date for how the regime in tel aviv feels that it has to conduct affairs to get results for perhaps domestic political reasons for the sustainability of the regime and it's going to make huge mistakes as a result and this is a perfect example, israel hasn't destroyed, israel hasn't destroyed hasb's military command structure, they have assassinated its leadership and some of its top leaders, but the military command structures still in place, all of its many thousands of missiles are still ready to be deployed, and if you

think about what's happened recently with iran's missile uh retaliation against is... um, this could be coupled with massive salvos coming from south lebanon, also coming from uh, yemen, with answer allah, drones and missiles. oh, david, tell us about the units involved in the bombing of those six residential buildings that killed nasrala. well, the is really said, three separate units involved, now obviously, first of all, we have to say, we take this with a massive, massive pinch of salt, we don't believe what they say. but let's look at the at them, i mean five or four is the is as we said in the film, human intelligence, now human intelligence is informar actually, it wouldn't have to be informers who are in the vicinity, it would might be informers who are in other parts of of the machinery of of or indeed the access of resistance as as as the designers have been tried to say, oh there is informers everywhere, we've got we've penetrated the organization, i wouldn't take

that seriously, but they clearly do have some informers, so but we don't know where they were uh in the - apparatus, but also it's clearly the case that hasballah have had plans for what to do in the event of decapitation strike, would be seen us and so it's not, it's not clear that the penetration goes so far as as to have put uh action, in fact of course we can see from the the uh response of hezballah in firing huge numbers of rockets across the border in the last few days that that that hasn't happened, they haven't been put out of action, so that's human intelligence and the extent to which they're have penetrated, i think we must be slightly skeptical about unit a 200 is of course the signals intelligence unit and that is of course the the uh the the unit within the uh occupation forces it's military intelligence but it's a signals intelligence unit so in the uk for example that's gchq uh and in in the us that's the national security agency but held within military intelligence

in israel which is not in the other two countries so that that's the their operation. they they have this massive base in the gollan heights, they have another baseuh near tel aviv, and these are the bases which are being attacked uh on a regular basis now by both the iraki resistance and indeed yemen, yes indeed, but patrick, i mean is a war of attrition on the cards then, it's hard to predict what the regime uh in israel will do, um, if it feels it's backed up against the wall, and this is an existential moment, because let's face... the the whole settler colonial project isn't looking very good at the moment in terms of guaranteeing the security of people emigrating from all around the world to to israel, it's not looking great. so if they feel they might need to deploy weapon of mass destruction uh to send message to iran, but that might end up as another escalation and that might bring in

other superpowers, we might have some kind of a perhaps a third world war, but either way this is going to take a long time, so that war of attrition, i think is more likely scenario, either way, because i think there's this huge underestimation by the western press, by western. critical actors and people in the pundanty class that somehow all of the resistance in the middle east opposing israeli occupation, whether it's occupation in palestine, whether it's occupation in south lebanon, whether it's the occupation of syrian territory in the golden heights that they're all just basically going to bow down and sort of give up and capitulate to intimidation by israel and the us, and that's simply not the case, we can see that now, so that... means we're going probably going to have very long protracted uh conflict, it's going to be a managed conflict, certainly that's in the best interests of the united states, but it's really up to how israel's

going to conduct its decision making uh in the near term as to how badly this whole crisis could spread. well david, tell us about the the last two times that israel was defeated in south laban, it seems like they're engaged in a sort of forever war because 'you when they when they sort of you took the leader of of hispalah out previously, as we heard in the film, they were claiming this was the end of of his b, it clearly wasn't, they've done the same strategy now - is it forever w the inter was going on? well they want to expand into a greater israel don't they, they invaded in 1982, they were kicked out in 2000 and kicked out again in 2006, so mean what what happened in 2006, you can you can read this in some in some of the'. the us military accounts of what happened in 2006 and how how it happened, what eventually happened was that uh defeated the occupation forces in 2006

with simply 300 men, they had more men, they had they had reserves, but they didn't call them up, the the israelis called up their own reserves, but hisb decided against calling up their reserves and they defeated the the whole of the occupation forces with 300 men in south lebanon, well patrick, what do you think? the role of the united states is in all this war? certainly the israelis would like to uh believe that they are the masters their own destiny and i think in terms of the internal propagandizing of israeli society and of the sort of is you the world jewish diaspora, many of them zionists that look at israel as their kind of... last resort homeland, um, i think they'd like to look at it like they're the masters of their own destiny, but in many ways, the sustainability their existence in the region really depends

on the support by the united states in their european partners. well, i'm afraid that's all we got time for today, so thanks for watching and thank you to our guest patrick hanning and of course our resident expert professor david miller. you can follow the show on facebook, twitter and telegram where we post regular clips and updates and if you're dismed by the corporate media churning. relentless misinformation about palestine, just share our content on your social media platforms to provide an antidote to that prozinist propaganda. so until next time when i hope you join us again on palestine classified. this is chris williams for saying bye for now. firstly, i want to tell the journalists who want to report from the frontlines that they shouldn't go there in search of fame, instead they should bear a message and have cause to

defend. the media warfare is essential because the camera has become a weapon ache into the rifle and the missile used by the resistance fighters. media is double edged. for it and we should wield it carefully. indeed, rifles and cameras have become complementary weapons, we can't separate them. our message is to support the truth against the falsehood. as the new year began, the gaza conflict persisted. on january 1st, the israeli army

withdrew its tanks from some areas of gaza, but fighting and heavy bombardment continued in other parts of the strip. on january 11th, south africa, a country that has suffered from apartite for years accused. israel of genocide in gaza at the international court of justice, icj. ironically, israel dismissed the accusation as baseless. on january 26th, the icj ordered israel to do everything in its power to stump the genocide in gaza, but refrained from issuing a siss fire order.

however, it made no difference. as this regime does not heat any rulings or resolutions, as january drew to a close, there was no hope for an end to the genocide in gaza.

the headlines rocket barrages strike israel's bases and settlements, including major military intel base near tel aviv. israel's indiscriminated strikes kill more women and children across gaza, raising the death doll from the regime's genocide to over 41,900.