i'd like to get your idea about the report that human rights watch has issued. it and tried to blame it on one of the resistance factions, but then hospital after hospital, hospital after hospital across gaza has been targeted by the israelis and it has not been hidden from the world, so to say the ali hospital was targeted by one of the resistance factions and not by israel is danding the un rights watch and the kind of dubious role that they play, that's point number one, this was the same un watch that played a very dangerous role in syria and helped the americans to build up their propaganda and lies against the government of syrian government and the syrian army point number two is that basically the americans are so hypocritical and this is not anything you seen them hypocritical and lying in afghanistan to iraq to. to somalia, to yemen, to iraq, all countries that have destroyed one after the other, and that now the american says that take care of the civilians, don't damage the civils too much, the same way they keep on saying we don't accept the israel i

by the state department, and is somebody who has relationships with the heads of amnesty and human rights watch, this is, this is a whole, this is the human rights industry, the the the machine that selectively creates a narrative for the public to... follow and in this case is that hamas are evil terrorists and they they crawl around in tunnels and they need to be exterminated like animals, i mean that's the narrative, they say it more nicely, israeli politicians don't say it nicely, but they're saying the same thing, and uh that israel is somehow the most moral army in the world, and it's not, the the propaganda has been has been as i said, just amateurish on the part of israel, and this is um... "this is a perfect example, it was obvious to everyone, this was an israeli bomb missile that hit the hospital, and as you rightly point out, they have subsequently hit other hospitals, they hit refugee camps and mosks and nursery schools and ambulances and and relief workers, they have hit everything, nothing is off the table, they are in a sort of genocidal killing frenzy." the world, especially ar

more, we are joined by joey shea, a researcher in the middle east and north africa division of human rights watchting human rights abuses in saudi arabia and the united arab emirates. she, along with four colleagues, have been allowed for the first time in nine years to uae. joey, thank you for joining us. talk about the significance of what you have found in one report after another you are putting out now. >> it is great to be here. as you said, this is the first time human rights watch has been able to access the uae in nine years. authorities have engaged on sustained assault against basic rights and freedom. there's no independent civil society in this country. civil society organizations have been banned and there is been a sustained targeting of human rights defenders, activists, judges, lawyers, regular karate citizens who dare speak out about human rights abuses taking places. one of the cases we've been following close is the case of a current member of human rights watch advisory committee and he been imprisoned in an isolation cell since march 2017. he was arrested and detained and se

doing it, but the but the key point here is that this is, this is part of the human rights industry, uh, human rights watch and amnesty international, these are western platform. organizations, they are funded by uh various western sources in in the case of human rights watch, george soros for for very long time was the number one funder, but the saudi royal family gives generously human rights watch, um, they are not impartial organizations, they they are a branch of american imperialism, they they are there to target who the us government tells them to target. as the israeli bombardment of the gaz strip continues, palestinian resistance fighters also keep up their retaliatory operations, dealing severe blow to invade regime troops. hamas has released a video showing that the alagasan brigades, military wing killed some 60 israel soldiers inside their tents in the johral dick area of central gaza. hamos fighters closed in on is the position stealthyly, planted bombs around their tents and detonated the explosives simultaneously. the resistance forces withdrew to their position safely, meanwile, the israel

amy: as the death toll in gaza grows closer to 20,000, human rights watch has accused the israeli government of using starvation as a weapon of war in gaza. we will speak to the israel and palestine director at human rights watch omar shakir. then we look at how the biden administration is facing accusations it has been too slow to help palestinian-americans in gaza. we will speak with a woman in detroit whose mother died while waiting for medical care. we will talk to the head of the general union of cultural centers. he left gaza a month ago and i desperately trying to get his family out and to the united states. this comes as calls grow for the u.s. to grant temporary protected status, tps, to palestinians already in the united states. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. at least 13 palestinians have been killed and 75 wounded in an israeli strike on the jabalia refugee camp in northern gaza on . today's deadly assault came after at least 110 palestinians reportedly killed in and around jabal yes and sunday.

human rights watch emphasized that this is a form of censorship it is an inappropriate suppression andce of support for palestine. according to this report, facebook and instagram removed content that peacefully supports palestine or raises the issue of palestinian human rights. the owner of the lasting voice of nasser tehmas became the announcer and his voice became a distinguished pioneer. nasser tehmas passed away after a few days in the hospital due to darfani's stroke, and he mourned the lovers of his gentle voice and the memory of compromise. long live the memory of nasser tehmas , the voice actor of many famous actors, including harold lloyd, henry bogart, dustin hoffman, jack nicklon and kevin spacey, and in the movie muhammad rasulullah, he was dubbing the role of bilal. the misery of the world is due to the war, gentlemen, and when the war ends, no one knows what caused it to begin. radio and television of the islamic republic of iran expresses its condolences on the passing of this patriotic and committed artist. the opening ceremony of the women of paradise event was held i

and you know, today there was a human rights watch report as talking about hunger as a strategy. and they're talking about the severe situation in the gaza strip. the strikes are continuing inside the gaza strip. and a, it's not clear yet when there's a actually, when the materialize into a change in the way is run is waging its time pay in the jobs is this might be something that it wouldn't take time of the prime minister. we know that he is under a lot of pressure from outside of the country. what about domestic pressure on benjamin netanyahu? yeah. what we've seen the funneling reconnecting of the es 3. yeah. hostages. there is a surge of anger among the families of the hostages. among those who were released uh they were saying that the what happened there is actually a reflection that the minute gary operating in the gaza strip is not focused at looking for hostages, but rather focusing on the different mission, which is a revenge you mission. busy targeting a how boss and we've seen this kind of demonstrations at the same time, i must tell you that many people in is, are,

and unfortunately, this in itself is in other words, that have how a new report by human rights watch accuses these rated government of the deliberate intent to deprive civilians of food, water, and fuel. the government, it says, is using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare in the gaza strip, which the group says is a war crime that i've done my model. i've had, well, we never faced surveys and no food shortage in the previous wars. we've never been in tens before. the situation is very disgusting in addition to the lack of food and water, where human beings, even dogs and other animals can't tolerate to stay where we are staying now. human rights watch says he's really force, he's all wilfully impeding humanitarian assistance. while the 8 agencies report the destruction of bakeries in grain mills, agricultural land, water and sanitation facilities since mid november after israeli forces to control the farm land around noon and northeastern gauze, satellite imagery shows the systematic distress. shouldn't of orchards fields and green houses, old reduced civilians say food s

second speaker is omar shakir, and omar serves as the israel and palestine director at the human rights watch where he investigateses human rights abus in israel, the west bank and gaza and has authored several major reports including in 20221 a report called a hold crossed which is a 200 -- threshold crossed which is a 2000-page report -- 200-page report which deals withnd the background into the occupation and the situation that we see in palestine and particularly in gaza right now. so i want to start with nathan, and you'll have opportunity to ask questions aty the end. but i want to start with nathan and just ask you about your choice to write this book. you could have whereupon this story -- written this story, you know, with a a number of entry points, but you chose this particular fam ally and this story of a father and the tragedy that befell his son and his family. and then you introduce us to many, many other issues and challenges ands. provocations. so why this story, and what has the journey been like for you? >> thank you. thank you, barbara. thank you all for coming. so, you kn

human rights. generally from zionists and defenders of the zionist regime are. someone like richard goldstone, a member of human rights watch of the united nations human rights council's inspection panel in the gaza war, who is himself a university professor in israel. the same person who, in his report on the gaza war, although he could not hide a part of israel's crimes, but in order to equalize both sides , he accused hamas of war crimes, or another person named haim saban, one of the egyptian jews of al-assar, who today , he has israeli american citizenship and founded the middle east democracy institute. one of his main concerns is the use of human rights tools to ensure israel's security and actions the pressure on the countries is one of the biggest sponsors and supporters of human rights in the world , it is one of the staunch defenders of the israeli government, which symbolically announced its support for the zionist regime and participated in the celebration of the 80th birthday of the head of the zionist regime, shimon perez , but perhaps the history of none of this organization and the institutions are not as b

as israel continues, it's more against them all human rights watches accused israel of using starvation as a weapon in gaza, saying it's forces are deliberately blocking deliveries of water, food, and fuel bushera for leading from ox fam is in ramallah. i asked her earlier for her take, this is important to differentiate the monday, the human rights watch, an awesome hardware, humanitarian organization. we deliver aid. we work with an international humanitarian law framework. we don't make determinations of war crimes or investigate human rights violation. we monitor them, so the band form our policy position. but from what we know before october 7th, we know that israel was in great violation of his duties and responsibilities towards size. this population was the main as the occupier. um, it occupies the controls. guys, i control on the board as well. it controls how much it goes in, in terms of the size of weather, that's people's goods. and as before, the tons of toner vaccines was high. and on the 9th of october, in response to the atrocities of the 7th of october. because of the t

it's just today, just a few hours ago, a human rights watch published a report called starvation as a weapon of war. starvation used as a weapon of war and gaza is the exact title of the report. i'll quote from it. human rights watch rights. the is really government is using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare in the occupied gaza strip, which is a war crime is really forces are deliberately blocking the delivery of water, food and fuel. apparently raising agricultural areas, depriving the civilian population of objects indispensible to their survival and xena xena shortly. hutchison, i, i want to bring into this conversation. so the question that i was asking robert, at the top of the show is how much the us can be blamed for it. i understand roberts point that you know, he doesn't see value and assigning blame, but that so many of our viewers are asking this very same question. if you have one party to the conflict that is not directly involved, but that is allowing the other to carry out the war and the result of the war is starvation and a humanitarian crisis. how much

and human rights watch did this week said ahmaud should be investigated for committing war crimes in rn israel. as you said. but also israel is also being accused of war crimes by both human rights watch and amnesty international. just to be clear, your view is that both sides have been in or committing war crimes, because 95% of your colleagues in congress won't even call for a cease-fire, let alone accused israel of war crimes. >> i don't see how anyone can look at reputable international organizations confirming the carrying a deployment of white phosphorus by the israeli government, these really military, and say that there is no question here. in fact, george paul, a state department official that resigned publicly this week, pointed specifically to this issue. that the leahy laws, the united states leahy laws, require united states to assess if the government is committing war crimes or engaged in gross violations of human rights. and that must be considered in any weapons transfer or military aid assistance. and from an individual whose role directly involved the assessment and

european mediterranean human rights watch announced according to this human rights organization, the zionist soldiers are stealing the money and property of the palestinians in the gaza strip on a large scale. according to this human rights organization, the zionist soldiers stole money, gold, old antiques, precious metals and handicrafts of the palestinians, which are estimated to be worth millions of dollars. the european mediterranean human rights watch also announced that after stealing the properties of palestinians, zionist soldiers set fire to their homes and broadcast videos of the stolen property through social networks. al busta area in the gaza strip with another bloody day according to the al-mayadeen network in lebanon, this area was subjected to heavy attacks by the occupying regime and led to the martyrdom of dozens of palestinian citizens , most of whom were children. according to the attacks found. following the zionist regime , more and more palestinians were martyred in all the provinces of the gaza strip. in these attacks, more and more women and children are vict

almost all kayla is israel and palestine director of human rights watch. he's joining me from i'm on in jordan. thank you very much. indeed for being with us. we had stories better, people who have only gotten rice to each that they are unable to get things like flour, access to water is limited, but i wanted to ask you what evidence there is that it is a deliberate policy by israel to, to restrict these percentages. but i think there are 5 pieces of very damning evidence that led to this conclusion. one is 2 plus months uh, blocking entry of food and water. second is the blocking of all the trickle up to monetary aid from entering into gaza. these have been documented 1st for more than 2 months, but then you add to it some of the additional evidence that we looked at. one is the parent raising of agricultural lands, large percentages of the agricultural green land. and does this turn brown and desolate forward as the report looks at the intentional destruction of objects necessary for survival? so i'm talking about a week mills, i'm talking about hospital

thank you for your thoughts, from human rights watch. injust a moment or two. with the headlines injust a moment ortwo. don't with the headlines injust a moment or two. don't go away. hello. it's a reasonably mild, but cloudy, day out there for most of us. most places also looking dry, which is good news after the fairly soggy start to december that many of us have seen. as we head into the weekend, a lot of dry weather around, mild and breezy, lots of cloud. but there will be increasing amounts of wind and rain across the north—west of the uk as weatherfronts move in here. not moving south too quickly because we've got high pressure that's stalling across southern parts of the uk, keeping things largely dry and keeping those weather fronts at bay, at least across much of england and wales. for the rest of the day, a bit of brightness just breaking through that cloud at times, particularly for parts of east anglia, north—east england, eastern scotland as well. the breeze coming in from a south—westerly direction. so it is fairly windy, p

human rights watch is under fire for ignoring this accounts and independent investigation in this report on the gaza hospital attack. also the headlines palestinian resistance published a video of the israeli military camp in central gaza where dozens of israeli forces were killed or wounded in the retaliatory operation. 8:30 p.m. in euros capital, this is present news, thanks for joining us. your space agency has successfully launched its latest biocapsule on board a home space launcher drop salman. the project is in line with plans to revive different sector of the country's space industry and utilize the know acquired in the biospace domain. the 500 kilogram biocapsule is scientific, research and technological device set into an altitude of 130 kilometers above the earth's surface. project is in keeping with the road map to launch a met mission to space and to develop and get the required technologies. salman is the first this class of domestically developers enjoys high-tech features. hol iran is the spokes of the iranian space agency who joins us from the capital tehron. welcome to

we found this there and that's why human rights watch and. that's why there's a consensus in the human rights movement. israel's treatment of palestinians amounts to apartheid. thank you. i encourage people to read the report. you haven't. it's two years old now, but it's still quite relevant and quite relevant in this moment. so here are many, many miles from palestine, israel, many, many miles from gaza. but it's very relevant to, us as americans, as people living in the united states. it comes up in your book and it comes up in your report. can you speak to the billions that the us in your passing and passing like that. now either either one of you know whatever the billions that the us gives support to israel and the degree to which you know us complicity is allowing the injustice against the palestinians to continue. i think. yeah, no, i think it's a really good question. look, i mean, when you talk the united states's role in, israel-palestine, there's often this idea of being a broker or of sort of using us influence, but the united sta

the european mediterranean human rights watch announced that the zionist military and money the property of palestinians in the gaza strip is widely stolen. according to this human rights organization, zionist soldiers are stealing money, gold, old objects, antiques, precious metals, and handicrafts of palestinians, whose value is estimated at tens of millions of dollars. the european-mediterranean human rights watch has also announced that after stealing the properties of palestinians, zionist soldiers set fire to their homes and broadcast videos of the stolen property through social networks. widespread popular demonstrations in support of palestine and gaza in several the country was held. in the province of yemen. people came to the streets in support of the oppression of the palestinians. the yemenis demanded a permanent ceasefire in gaza and condemned the crimes of the zionist regime this time. the people of yemen also supported the action of the army of this country in targeting the ships of azam in the ports of the occupied territories. in other cities of yemen, including saada,

stories and accounts of deborah brown is acting associate director for technology and human rights at h r. w. human rights watch. you're joining us from new york. thank you so much for being with us. explain to us, 1st of all, how you did your research or thanks so much for having me. so human rights watch put out a call for cases, evidence of censorship in relation to israel and palestine since october 7th. they put out this call in early october, and we asked people to send us evidence including screenshots, contextural information, and what notifications they received from that one. their content was removed or suppressed. and we, we keep getting reports daily. but for the purpose of the report, we use the data set of 1050 cases. and even though we were that our call for evidence in neutral language, calling for censorship. both of content about israel and about palestine. $1049.00 of those cases was instances of censorship, about palestine and support of boston and human rights. we had one case of for of a person saying that they were censored based on their pro israel views. and so we collected this put in

the european-mediterranean human rights watch has also announced that after stealing the property of the palestinians, the zionist soldiers set fire to their homes and took videos of the stolen property from broadcast through social networks. thousands of yemeni people gathered in the city of saada in support of the palestinian people and demanded an end to the crimes of the zionist regime in gaza. the participants in this demonstration held large flags of palestine in their hands and chanted slogans addressed to the people of gaza and said: you are not alone. supporters of palestine in new york also demanded the end of the zionist regime's infantilization in gaza . american citizens held symbolic shrouds of gazan children. and they demanded the end of american support to the zionist regime. also in amsterdam, holland a rally to support the people of gaza was held with the slogan of palestinian freedom. conference of influential women of the resistance front in beirut in this conference , it was emphasized to strengthen the role of women in the resistance front and also to stand by t

the director joins us now, omar shakir, with human rights watch. omar, thank you so much for being with us. i wanted to get your response to what the israeli government spokes person, elon levy, said to your organizations claim. quote, this is a lot. israel has capacity to inspect more than twice as many eight trucks entering gaza. we are still pumping water into gaza through two pipelines. we have placed no restrictions on food entry or water. director frustration hamas, which hijacks aid. what is your response to the israeli government? >> i think a lot of levy has not listened enough to his prime minister and other political officials. they have spread out in unequivocal terms that food, water, aid will be blocked from reaching the population of gaza until there aims in this particular campaign, whether it be the release of hostages or the eradication of a math, is achieved. starving population as a tool of war is a war crime under international law. the reality here is the israeli government, before october 7th, was facilitating the entry of go

human rights watch is under fire for ignoring eyes accounts and independent investigation in this report a gaza hospital. attack and resistance fighters published a video of an israeli military camp in central gaza where dozens of israeli forces were killed or wounded in a retaliatory operation. 7:30 pm capital. thanks for joining us space agency has successfully launched this latest biocapsule on board a home grown space launcher d salman. the project is in line, but plans revide different sectors of the country space industry and utilize the know acquired in the biospace domain. the 500 kilogram biocapsule is assigned. research and technological device sent into an altitude of 130 km above earth's surface. the project is in keeping with road map to launch a man mission into space and to develop and get the required technologies. the first of this class of domestically developed launchers and enjoys high-tech features. the head of the iranian space agency says the bio capsule which was successfully launched today in a homemade launcher is part of national program to send living things i

research by human rights watch shows that fees. and instagram is censoring content related to palestine. in its 51-page report, this international organization has documented at least a thousand cases of unnecessary censorship of materials related to palestine in 60 countries of the world. human rights watch emphasized that this censorship is a form of inappropriate repression and silencing the voice of support for palestine. in this report, it is stated that facebook and instagram will act according to the contents. which peacefully supports palestine or raises the issue of palestinian human rights. sacrifice again on the eve of the anniversary of the martyrdom of hajj qassem soleimani, the users of cyberspace took a life . qasim is gone. the air in the city has changed, this has changed the air in cyber space. citizens of the cyber space have refreshed the memory of a person next to the pictures of gaza and yalda night. our hearts were filled with the memory of sardar with the warm sound of haj sadiq's praise. we start the winter

all over the world, while today we saw the release of a report by human rights watch that facebook andtagram are censoring content related to palestine. aside from what we are witnessing in the public opinion of the world on the issue of palestine. we have seen major changes in the public opinion of the world, but in the last two weeks we have seen much more changes because unfortunately what we are seeing in palestine upsets every free human being. we are sorry that judaism is being abused and these things that israel is doing are not following the jewish religion, and it is not the religion of prophet moses, and it is not related to this religion in any way. and these actions that they are doing are disgusting and very sad, and as i said , it is an abuse of the jewish religion, so we also stand by the demonstrations that are held to support the palestinians and we support them . the world union of anti-zionist jews is in new york and today you are our guest in tehran, dr. qadri , let's continue the same topic. since after al-aqsa storm we are witnessing demonstrations against the zio

we've been running this sound by from one of the physicians at the hospital in terms of the human rights watchrview any of the uh, guess spectators there or the people to compile a report. aside from that, one of the things that this physician said was that he had not seen the type of moons that are usually customary from shratnel uh on bodies where it was not usually shratnel from a missile that explodes carries dirt or soil from the ground, this did not have that, which gives the idea that this when it explodes. "the shrap just went directly to the and pierced the bodies, sorry to sound so graphic, the reason why i'm saying this is that 99.9% this is provided weapons and misfy the us most likely, the role of the us here" becoming rather prominent um and even within the us we know the act doesn't allow regimes to use these type of weapons they have to actually be vetted but why you providing israel this the types of weapons when it comes out and says to israel please try to be careful and not civilians well look at the end of the day uh the support that the zionist entity gets from washington

first, i would say, i don't know if you read the... ..the report of human rights watch, titled join ussophy of the ruling party. you have to join them, or you keep quiet or you are dead. secondly, if the president kagame is so popular among rwandans, why his political party does not accept to compete with the best... ..the best—placed opposition figures? hmm. i suppose one measure of kagame�*s standing isn't just the fact that he does seem to win big majorities when he seeks re—election at home, but he has been embraced by significant members of the international community. i began by talking to you about bill clinton, years ago, hailing him as a visionary leader. but even today, we see that the international community welcomes rwanda. they welcome the fact rwanda is a big participant in un peacekeeping operations. and right now we have the uk government, which is...has done a deal with rwanda for the transfer of unauthorised migrants from the uk, to have them processed inside rwanda. it's another sign of rwanda's acceptability, certainly in the west. yes, that's the truth. first, i re

the european mediterranean human rights watch announced that zionist soldiers are stealing money and property of palestinians in the gaza strip on a large scale. according to the announcement of this human rights organization , the zionist soldiers took money, gold, old antiques, precious metals and handicrafts of the palestinians . it is estimated at tens of millions of dollars the european-mediterranean human rights watch has also announced that after stealing the properties of palestinians, zionist soldiers set fire to their homes and broadcast videos of the stolen property through social networks. the zionist regime's contribution to power. lebanon's hezbollah to penetrate the skies of the occupied territories the spokesman of the zionist regime army confirmed the penetration of hezbollah's drones into the skies of the second largest city of occupied palestine. we will hear the lebanese report in this regard from mr. azimi. hezbollah in a massive attack on military and zionist settlements in the north of the occupied territories, the response of the zionist military attacks to the

human rights watch warned that u.s. -- the medical charity doctors without borders condemned the u.s. quota vote against humanity. the resolution had 13 votes in support with the uk abstaining despite growing international pressure for a cease-fire the deputy u.s. ambassador explained why the u.s. blocked this measure. >> we propose language with an eye toward our constructive resolution that would have reenforced the life-saving diplomacy we have undertaken since october 7th, increased opportunities for humanitarian aid to enter gaza, encouraged the release of hostages, and the resumption of humanitarian pauses and laid a foundation for a durable peace. unfortunately nearly all of our recommendations were ignored, and the result of this rush process was an imbalanced resolution that was divorced from reality. we can't comprehend why the resolution's authors declined to include condemning the horrific terror attack on israel on october 7th, an attack that killed over 1,200 people, we are very disappointed that the victims of the heinous acts, the resolution's authors offered not their

the shells was filed in rockets in arsenal. point to the human rights watch. definitely per led to $500000000.00. so munitions, you know, that's a lot of an issue hire right. and these are bands my or a $120.00 countries for a reason why there is going to that, right? they cannot tell the difference between or small tile. they don't have any mechanism that we solve the straw. so that means the cheese or countries like miles, claudia and get. now, we're talking 5 decades and we're still cleaning up these deadly weapons. and people has to be our, our actual line. um, now our us government will say that we are leaning towards, you know, doing everything that you mentioned in cost munitions when we require a signature forey. um, you know, the latest in 2017 i, there's a mandate that requires congress to not be able to transfer any documentation that have a better way of over one percent at the bottom says violated i sending nations which is on government has a, has a again, i don't rate of 2.35 percent. now this, this is probably above the one percent, right? but s