are joined by alicia macneer, journalist and political analyst joining us from brussels. and charlotte cats, international coordinator of the samidun palestine prisoner solidarity network from vancouver. thank you very much to both of you for joining us on this edition of the spotlight. let's start with uh alicia uh, in your opinion, how serious are these threats? are these threats that the israelis are worried about? are they uh now preparing themselves for this retaliatory attack which uh has been? vowed not just from the part of iran, but also other axes of resistance, including hezballah. thank you for having me. israel uh bombed in yemen, bombed beirot and killing high ranking commander in hisbullah and attacked tehran and killed the guest, the police bureau chief of hamas, ismail hanye. therefore israel is prepared for the retaliation from at least three fronts, we cannot exclude even iraq that was attacked by the us forces, which are the israeli allies in baghdad, and hajd shabi suffered several casualties. now, it is serious because we have seen in israel where shelters have been pr

international coordinator for the samadun palestinian prisoner solidarity network charlotte cats joined us earlier to share her thoughts on the deadly israely crackdown in the occupied west bank. stick a listen, throwing them in occupation prison, subjecting them to starvation, subjecting them to torture. if you look at the pictures of palestinian prisoners. that are released from zionist prisons, you can see the damage that the that their time behind zionist bars has done to their bodies and their health. there are currently nearly 10,000 palestinian political prisoners in zionist jails, not to mention the thousand more who are being held in torture camps like sid taman and gaza, of them nearly 4,00 are held without charge or trial under administrative detention, so this is a constant experience for palestinians throughout the west bank um at the same time. that there has been basically free rain given to settlers to invade palestinian villages, to tear up and destroy and burn palestinian crops, to attack um palestinian farmers, animals and livestock and land, and i mean just to steal

cat tail. probably some of the most dangerous in russia, but just to stress regional government says there is no threat to civilian population and all that. so any is good to here charlotte. it's a screw minus. so this isn't the 1st time this has happened this year is a i believe back in june or something, something something i haven't been in boss stuff keeps up, was about that. that's why this situation, very similar, real stuff on don't this was in june, as you mentioned, this was a hostage situation here. and in fact, actually the prison with this took place is only you between 3 and 400 kilometers away from the current situation that's happening with different regions, but close fight. now that, and this is where the prism is including some who convicted terrorists broke out of best cells and then the, well, the offices now the situation was dealt with fairly black with me. it was a couple of hours and that was approved on the control, the criminals being eliminated back that. and so, you know, what, i think many people we hoping is that we'll see a similar situation here where the situation, the volk road region that's now happening will be both into control very,