ranjit burar and professor abdul sharif for their contributions.s, at least 240 palestinians, most of them women and children, have been killed in fresh round of israeli attacks on the gaza strip. the mass resistance fighters say that they have targeted israeli cities with barage of missiles and have hit gatherings of the occupation forces in the northern parts of gaza. an american coffee chain starbucks and swedish clothing brand h&m have been forced to leave morocco as a boycott campaign against companies supporting israel gains momentum.

ranjit burar and professor abdul sharif for their contributions.military targets in retaliation for strikes on southern lebanon. and people around the world hold rally to show solidarity with palestinians and condemn israeli genocide in gaza.

salam tanzania is the professor abdul sharif, he is a professor of history in zanzibar. well, welcome to you both, um, and ranji, let me start with you, first question, the humanitarian pause, your reaction and expectations. so, thanks for having me with you. i am skeptical that we're seeing the end of the situation in palestine that has led to all the violence. what we always see in our own media, is is a false depiction of the... narrative, so if you like, it starts, all of the picture in our current media starts with that act of resistance, but it's not shown as an active resistance, it's showed as a, justified, premeditated, cold-bloaded act of murder, we're told it's an act of genocide, the largest killing of jews since the holocaust, yeah, and it totally takes out of context, doesn't look back at the entire history, of the colonization and occupation of the palestinian people, of the systematic destruction of their rights. i've been active in the cause of palestine, as an oppressed people who are living under apartite regime. with you know decreased rights um who h

professor abdul sharif, what are we to make of the saudi representatives comments there? i'm quite happy that he has come out to to show that kind of unity, that the beginning we were not quite sure where we are all going together, but this is very clear call and i agree entirely that these poses, this is really giving into the demands of... yahoo, we need perminant peace, sease fire for good, i think they have killed enough, and they are still arresting, continuing to. so many people on the west bank, that also should stop, and then we should go immediately towards more permanent solution to this issue, because i think this issue, i mean at least some years ago now we were talking about two state solution and doing all that, and yet it seems to have come to nothing so far, and i think this time - we, i mean we cannot say really, we hope united nations not can come out, it is not able to to take that kind of actions, not because there is no world support for it, i think right now if there was an open vote through the world, i think vast majority of people will vote for a