hello, this is international review, in the studio is fyodor lukyanov. today's program is international review, events of the week, chronicle, facts, comments. the leader of hezbollah has been eliminated, long live the new nasrallah, the party of allah has chosen its next leader. tehran's missiles with delivery to israel, out of hundreds of missiles, only a few hit the target. in tel aviv, they promise that their response will be...

interview hassan nasrallah in ninety-seventh year believed that he was being hunted, because his predecessor was destroyed by the israeli missile. 27 years later, this week, the leader of the lebanese shi'id military-political organization hezbollah was killed in a massive israeli strike on its headquarters in beirut, along with other members of the leadership. the situation escalated after the massive explosion. iran

launched 180 ballistic missiles at targets in israel. the damage was moderate, but the fact itself is unprecedented. they started talking about a real big war in the middle east, with long-suffering lebanon again in the center. in the mid- seventies, most of beirut and south lebanon controlled the units of the palestine liberation organization of yasser arafat. they were forced out of the palestinian territories as a result of the arab-israeli war of sixty-seven. in lebanon, they provoked a civil war that began in seventy-five and lasted for 15 long years. the country was divided into two camps. on one side were the supporters of the christian fallangist party - kataep. and president

kamil shemoun. they were oriented towards european countries. they were opposed by the muslim community, which in general supported the palestinians and the druze of kamal jumblatt. in april 1976 , syrian president hafiz al-assad also intervened in the war. his troops entered lebanon as an inter-arab deterrent force by decision of the arab league . the main epicenter of the confrontation was the lebanese capital, the observation post. and combat positions of the opposing sides were located on the upper floors of luxury hotels. the city was divided into two sectors: the eastern christian and the western muslim. in the summer of 1982 , israel once again invaded lebanon and its the army reached beirut. arafat's fighters left the capital of lebanon, but the civil

war did not end. at the headquarters of the christian fallangist party, its leader, bashir shmeigel, who had just been elected president of lebanon, was killed. the blame for the murder was placed on palestinian militants who were hiding in the refugee camps of sabra and shatila on the outskirts of beirut. the kataep fallangists, with the support of the israeli army, entered the camps and, according to the un, killed more than 700 people. the palestinians called on october 24, 1983, in beirut, a truck with explosives under controlled by a suicide bomber broke through security cordons, drove into the territory of the us marines headquarters, crashed into one of the barracks and exploded, killing 241 infantrymen, in november a barracks of french troops was blown up in a similar way. nato peacekeepers, americans, french, italians.

do, everything that people see now is misfortune and destruction, they only want peace and quiet, because everything that has happened since september 17, the terrorist attacks with pagers, is a nightmare, last night, for example, we did not sleep until four in the morning, the constant roar of combat aviation, which hits poberut too, for the first time they strike specific targets or people, as they say, but i can tell you responsibly that most of the targets are civilian. the task that israel sets, if not the destruction, then the radical suppression of hezbollah, this is not just the largest paramilitary organization in the region, but a pillar of iran's influence, its closest ally. in mid-september, israel decided that the time

had come, basta. the time had come to change the rules of the game with hezbollah. and since september 17, pagers exploded, israel decided to radically change the reality. between the lebanese border with israel in the south and the river in the north, so that there would be no military presence of hezbollah. it was the main threat to israel's security. without this , the government will not convince the residents of the north of the country that they must return to their destroyed homes and start rebuilding everything.

defend themselves, that is, the population's sympathy for their attack, but their advantage is that they are on the side. the death of the leader does not mean the destruction of the organization, its resources are great. the new secretary general of hezbollah is the maternal cousin of the previous leader, hashim safieddine. he is 60 years old. nasrallah, he resembles him in appearance, figure and even manner of speech. sofieddine was born and raised in southern lebanon, but received an education, like his brother, in iraq, where he studied theology in the city of ennajav. in the early eighties, he stood at the origins of the movement, in ninety -four he headed its executive committee, replacing nasrallah, who by that time headed the entire group, oversaw

the political affairs of the organization, social, cultural and educational activities of hezbollah, even served on the jihad council, responsible for the group's military operations, at... his brother represents hezbollah in iran, and his son is married to the daughter of former islamic revolutionary guard corps commander qassam soleimani, who was killed in a us airstrike in iraq in 2020. safieddin had been preparing to take the top post in the movement since...

hashim safieddin took over as hezbollah's military commander in southern lebanon in 2017. us authorities declared him a terrorist, after year imposed sanctions against him. he consistently supports the hamas movement. he openly, without mincing words, criticizes washington. according to him, the us pressure on hezbollah will only strengthen the shi'id movement's resolve. and it is necessary to get rid of israel, their artificial fabricated entity.

hezbollah's approach, first of all gas, lebanon in second place, why? true, hezbollah did not provoke, the terrorist attack with peizers on september 17, then the murder of hassan nasrallah were provocations. no one can accept this a lebanese, no matter what his views are. yes, we should not forget that the current escalation between the lebanese shiites and israel is connected with the war in gaza. on monday, exactly one year since the hamas attack. the massacre caused the beginning of a large-scale israeli military operation in the palestinian sector.

the war is still raging today. the military operation in gaza after october 7 became the longest in the history of israel. as a result, last week at the un general assembly, prime minister netanyahu declared that the idf had destroyed almost all hamas battalions, 23 out of 24. two of the group's top leaders were also killed: ismail haniyeh in tehran and mohammed deif in gaza. it was deif, according to the israeli army and intelligence, who planned the october 7 attack on southern israel, which killed 1,200 people and took more than 250 hostage. the numbers of palestinians killed in the gaza strip vary. for example, according to the gaza ministry of health, it is more than. thousand people, and international organizations, including the un, generally consider

this figure to be correct. in gaza city itself almost 70% of all buildings were destroyed. the total losses of the israeli army in july amounted to about 700 killed and about 14,000 wounded, including civilians. fleeing the bombings, almost 1.5 million residents of the gaza strip moved from the north to the south of the enclave to the border town of rafah. in may, the israeli army surrounded it, but did not storm it, and limited itself to anti-terrorist raids and pinpoint air strikes on hamas militants. at the end of may, israeli troops took the rafah checkpoint on the border of the gaza strip with egypt, and also occupied the border itself, or rather its buffer zone - the philadelphia corridor, 20 km long, which has been under egyptian control since 2005. dozens of tunnels were discovered under the corridor, linking the gaza strip with egypt. one of the main goals of the operation in gaza was

the release of israeli prisoners. last fall, hamas released 110 of them, but this was not done as a result of military action, but during negotiations during a week-long humanitarian pause. in exchange, israel released 240 palestinian militants from prison. now, a year later, the captives continue to find. back in may, hamas agreed to a ceasefire proposal put forward by mediators qatar and egypt, but... after the israelis took the philadelphia corridor, all negotiations were disrupted. a catastrophic humanitarian situation has developed throughout the enclave. if in january an average of 62 trucks a day entered the enclave, then after the closure of the rafah checkpoint, humanitarian aid supplies decreased by 70%. now aid to gaza comes only through

israel, part through the kerem shalom checkpoint, and part through the erez checkpoint. the past year has confirmed, no military operations are carried out as planned, and it is never possible to maintain a limited character. true, in israel they say that there was no talk of limitations, the question was in the sequence of actions. israel began the operation a year ago with the firm intention of destroying hamas as an effective player in the gaza strip. by losing ground in gaza, hamas is thereby significantly weakened in the entire palestinian community, and as part of the iranian proxy network. israel preferred not to immediately get involved in an equally intense confrontation on two fronts: in gaza in the north against hezbollah. in a sense, we have adopted the model proposed by hezbollah, from time to time to intensify hostilities and

retaliatory actions. hezbollah has periodically raised the bar, but in general, interaction. in the iran-israel conflict, we stock up on popcorn and nothing more, glasses, apparently, especially for 3d pictures. patrick chapat from switzerland, a man similar to joe biden, shouts at netanyahu, what exactly did you not understand in the term "de-escalation". it is not clear what "de" is, he replies. another expressive

work by ahmed rama from turkey. a dance around a general war in the middle east. the characters from iran and israel are easy to recognize, and uncle sam is between them with a stop sign. a drawing by emmanuel del rossa from italy with a very short title hostages. laconic, all the characters are also easy to recognize, including the dove of peace. joe heller is a cartoonist from the greenby press. the action takes place in a bomb shelter. on the tv screen, the candidates are debating.

this means changing the existing system as such, and not making a correction within the framework this, that is. this is a first -order change, when israel declares such a thing, it means that the entire regional system will be rebuilt so that the iranian axis, which was an extremely influential force in the region, will be radically weakened. to some extent , it was simply destroyed, thanks to this, the foundations of another regional architecture, peace, stability and prosperity are being laid. it's funny, at the beginning of this century in israel they were already talking about a miraculous transformation of the region, which will happen thanks to the elimination of tyranny and the advent of democracy. o

the george w. bush administration was born, by persuasion and force. it didn't work out very well - one of the results is more alive than all the living. the americans imposed democratic elections on the palestinian territories. hamas won. everything went awry, right up to the collapse a year ago. by the way, iran also owes its rapid growth of influence to the united states. destruction.

france, unfortunately, unfortunately, does not play the same role in the region now, even in lebanon, even in lebanon, it is an influence, but, but the real role is no longer there, why? i i think that this is the key question, the key answer, it is in syria, from the moment when we changed - connections with eve, initially, when i was there, around 2005, then during bush, bush junior,

remember, foreign minister franz, the un security council against the us war in iraq, but then between ...

assad is better than the islamists, a valuable insight, it, however, has not yet visited everyone, and after all, how much they warned, what is happening in the middle east, an outside observer is capable of plunging into aschatological horror. those who are engaged in this part of the world for a long time and deeply, trained people with strong nerves, and have seen much more. our guest is one of the real hyperboreans, a remarkable russian diplomat. gennady taras. gennady pavlovich, hello, good afternoon. let's, if possible, start with something high-level, with democracy. you were the ambassador to israel in the first half

of the 2000s, just when the united states was enthusiastically promoting the idea of ​​transforming the region through its democratization. palestine was then blessed with elections, iraq and so on. then did you think they really believed that it would change, or was it just a game? i had to do a little bit of it later.

politics, which again ended with the famous episode when the americans insisted on elections in gaza, the israelis then i was there, i saw that this caused them great rejection, but the americans stood firm, demanded, the candidacy called - that means prime minister sharon directly demanded and the elections were held - as a result, completely on legal grounds, hamas came to power. the palestinian issue seems to be an absolute dead end, inescapable, has been going on for a long time.

now there is another surge, which reminds us that there is no escape from it, and there were periods, well, in any case, of expectations of hopes, like the nineties, and if you remove emotions, if you remove all sorts of, that is, political manipulations, over these 30-odd years, have we made any progress on this issue, if we talk specifically about the palestinian problem, then the answer is negative, no, no, in the sense of not even going back... that is, what was, is, or some negative dynamics, maybe thanks to very hard work and ours, i must say that the american, the american administration, especially the bush bicker administration, when it was possible to convene the only such unique forum in history, the madrid peace conference, where all the participants in the negotiations were at the same table and a real mechanism was created, which

was supposed to lead to a comprehensive regulation. but this spring did not last long, so prime minister rabin, who went to these steps killed by an israeli extremist, in general, this bullet, it was both a nail in the attempt to solve the palestinian problem. i will not even talk about the fact that according to the oslo agreements, palestine was supposed to become an independent state in ninety- eight, well, as you understand, since then

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