loss. and so this is what we are saying that that's the status quo that has been the case here in labanon basically following up everything that happens in gaza and which will probably um speculate or forshadow what might happen here in south labanon as well steve bell joins us now he's an activist at stop the coalition joins us from coventry welcome to the program uh steve bell we understand that you actually took part in another um protest rally that was in numbers from what we understand maybe over 10000. perhaps you can tell us, tell us what happened there? well, it was well, much larger than 100,000, um, the organizers are agreed that this is the biggest - demonstration in support of palestine in british history, it was hundreds of thousand, between three and 500 thousand, um, at the same time there were very big demonstrations in many cities, including glasgow, edinburgh, manchester, birmingham etc. so what has happened is that there's been a very substantial shift in um public opinion in the past three weeks and this is now also telling inside parliament, despite the agreement betw

palest except the plo, after all it was the israeli government a that dispossessed that destroyed labanonr occupation, that they're treating us as third-class citizens, that they are killing our people, that they are confining us to camps, etc. etc. etc., we understand. look, i would, nobody can understand that, mean, you can, you can grasp the first fact, the fact of the holocaust, but you can't translate that into your own um, my mind has always been busy with this question, what is the reason behind the occupation of palestine and the western support for the occupier? in my opinion, this issue is rooted in the way the west looks at the east and the palestinian cause emerges in this point of view. this war between peoples, a war which has been fought for generations, and which concerns the whole world, is i believe, inextricably entangled with a phantom. dreams and ambitions of the west to rule and possess the east. there's also a question of how zionism conceives arabs and it has become current for arabs to call zionism a racial, racist ideology. now what patrick seal is the basis of t

would be detrimental, any move that would be bigger than what they are doing in gaza and even in labanonouthern skies of south lebanon um so all of these issues are being basically just um talked about by everyone, we're not, it's not clear what type of steps has might take, but for now they are keeping to this war of retrition and continuous uh operations in south lebanon. thank you very much for that, we appreciate it, marillar from lebanon with uh her explanation regarding the funeral there, we do appreciate it and of course all the... happening with uh, thank you to tim anderson, also uh director of the center for counter higermonic studies, spoke to us from sydney, thank you to you both, with that we come to an end for our extended coverage, thanks so much for being with us, as usual, we do ask you to stay with us, international news will be coming up and uh we'll do our best to bring you all the latest when it comes to israel's war on gaza, it's goodbye for now, اليوم غزه تحترق نساؤهم يموتون، اطفالهم يموتون، شيوخهم يموتون، ولم تدخل لهم المساعدات اليوم مخفه احتجاجييه في منفد طريبين

, politicians of other political groups, we've also heard from hamas, with its supporters here in labanon, islam jihad, they have always trust and that these protests will not stop, they will continue, despite the fact that lebanon is in itself, um, a place which has witnessed always solidarity with palestine and has of course seen firsthand uh what it means to be under israeli aggressions and israeli occupation so therefore people relate here to the israeli crimes lebanon does consider the israel to be an enemy is one of the very few arab countries that have not signed any treaty with the israeli so this in itself is very significant of course in addition to the official staffs and the popular stands are basically united on the on the fact that israel needs to be condemned in its crimes against humanity. mariam, what do you make of this double standard and hypocricy that we're seeing from certain western countries when it comes to dealing with the issue uh of palestine? well, it's it's it's hard to explain, since we are used to it uh, basically here in lebanon we've always had that issue

they have the right of course to liberate it and many there are fearful that if if the resistance of labanonder to make sure that it's all liberated from israeli soldiers and settlements. that is a huge nightmare for the israelis and they keep it in mind and they think that this something that is probably. be realizable by the the resistance in lebanon, of course resistance in lebanon has kept to mysterious constructive ambiguity if we may call it, and they continue to say that they have red lines, the israel should not cross them, if they do cross there will be another say uh for the resistance while they are both eye in gaza and of lebanon at the same time. amian, briefly, if you could also elaborate on those red lines that you just mentioned that if in case their cross, then will have to take maybe more drastic measures. well, of course, one of the main red lines is the fact that the israelis cannot target civilians, that hezballah has made clear since 1993, hezballah used in the war of 1993, that was when israel decided to launch a big aggression against lebanon, while there was still is

israel soldiers are reportedly killed and several more injured in the latest retalitory attack by labanon's

events of what will happen might happen in gaza would probably predict what could occur here in south labanon as well now light was as we are told by hamas it was an experimental ground operation and not a full incursion and through that they would probably be able to see and test their experiences and test their ability whether they can enter gaza or not of course we know from experts and us uh experts themselves and us advisors are advising the israelie to just maybe at least postpone uh the the ground incursion or at least launch direct operations or surgical operations as they call them to try to release prisoners hamas has made it clear they're not going to allow the release of the prisoners especially those soldiers, officers and anyone who has served in the israeli army will not be released except through a prisoner exchange. do you think that american uh soldiers or special forces were involved uh if at all uh in this ground so-called ground incursion that occurred? it's possible uh we know that we have even during the 2006 war we were told that uh if we may say maybe jewish us soldie

israely soldiers are reportly killed and several more injured in the latest retaliatory attack by labanon's hesmula fighters. it's 10:31 p.m. you're in tehran and you're watching press tv news. i'm your host beharuz najafi, welcome. at least 500 people have been killed in an israeli air strike a hospital in central gaza. the health ministry in gaza strip saying that hundreds of victims are trapped under rubble. of ahli al arabi hospital. thousands of civilians were seeking medical treatment and shelter there. the regimes raise also killed 107 palestinans in rafa and khans in the southern gaza strip. at least six people were also killed. one of school run by the un refugee agency was shelled. anoa has slummed the attack is outrageous. the un agency says the attack once again showed israel's flagrant disregard for the lives of civilians. that's told. from the israely aggression now standing at over 3,000, some 100 children among the victims, according to the palestinian health ministry, 12,500 people have also been injured, the world health organization has warned of an imminent catastrophe i

heat to. this was same here and on throughout the year. occupation, the years of aggressions against labanonternational law on earth, and so basically this is what we're looking at right now, we're looking a country when we saw, we heard also from the turkish president stressing that this madness, this madness for israel needs to stop, so what we are? is definitely madness, there's absolutely no plan, just shelling and killing, and what they are trying to do, we heard it from israel officials, they want to wipe out all of gaza in attempts to first crush hamas, they had that objective at first, and they basically lessen the extent of their objectives, they had another objective was basically to remove hamas from power inside gaza, and that reminds lot of people here in lebanon of the 2006 war objectives, their objectives in the beginning were to basically launch some sort of an operation, retrieve the... unconditionally and to uh crush, on the first day of the war right after took the two soldiers prisoner, he told them very clearly, these soldiers will not be given back until we go to negoti

bush administration during his wars against labanon and gaza, and in addition to what we are seeing now, now we what we are seeing is even, i think maybe more towards stupidity than it is, even knowledge of what they are doing, in light of the the mental um status of the us president self, and so from that perspective, the us will try to do that. now this meeting that he was trying to do as a result of this massacre that has failed, or at least the palestinian president has has left uh the the the jordan. we also know that even biden himself could not reach the bingorian airport as well, since it is of course always under hamas's rockets. we know that he's increased, and what he will do next is not clear, he's not going. have the support definitely of the arab leaders in this right? thank you mariam. uh, we're now going to run some footage of uh what took place in the united nations security council, yesterday, the voting proceedings for the russia proposed humanitarian sease fire uh to uh to the onslot on gaza. let's watch. the provisional agenda for this meeting is the situation in th

witnessing more funerals today, there will be one in beirot, and we have one like you said in in south labanon, another one in the bakar, we will see if we can get we'll get any more statements from hazbullah's officials uh to see what insight we can get on hazbullah's policy towards this, but as we heard from the number of parliament only keeps as a priority lebanon's interest, so therefore it seems that they want to contain the situation for as long as possible, but as long as the if the israel do take a step further, whether in gaza or leban and hazballah will definitely be ready. thank you very much for that. miam sall that explaining to us, the funeral that's taking place there, one of the marters that we see there um in uh, how isbullah. and the families and uh obviously the acquintances that are attending that uh let's bring in johnnish journalist activist and political analyst who joins us from belgrade john welcome to our extended. coverage here of the war, which is now entered as 15th day. well, since we're talking about hezbollah and the unfortunate funeral taking place for one one

mediculously studying and they know exactly what they are doing, we also have palestinian factions in labanon that of course have that enthusiasm when it comes to supporting palestine and supporting their own hometown, so therefore up until now we do not believe that in those infiltrated the area of galile are in any way linked to hazballah directly, however what we are seeing right now is lot of shelling from the israelis, mostly on the border side uh there are homes, but up until now what we know is in the area of um specifically and those areas we have lot of shelling, there is was one home that was actually... evacuated um and that was hit after it was evacuated uh luckily so therefore up until now we don't have any civilian casualties um and in the last two days since the beginning of this the operation of the flood of aqsa um the israelis took measures of course in northern occupied palestine uh we saw that especially yesterday after hazballah's operation and the forshuupa hills uh we saw that there were tens of buses removing the settlers from that area, so what northern occupied polic

this is what some of these so-called wise men in labanon say, of course, this is something that needs to be a talk between the the government and government. main proof of this lie that there that this is a lie that the the so-called lie that hazballah controls the government in leban. if hezballah had control over the government then the prime minister of lebanon would go himself personally to syria to negotiate with syria, but of course this is one of the proofs or... the the evidence that those who are lying about the by so-called supremacy of hazballah or authority of hazballah on the government, we cannot even tell or ental upon the government to send a committee, just the very committee, very small committee to to these to assyria, to damascus, this has not happened, we were not able to do that, therefore we has does not have support or control over the government, but resolution of this problem needs to begin somewhere else, not in syria, what is threatening the democratic existence and the end of lebanon, for those who believe that this is a threat of lebanon, it's not syria,

events, what will happen might happen in gaza would probably predict what could occur here in south labanon as well,

intervention to be wider then we will do that. we do not consider that we are only doing our duty in south labanon to that extent only, it is not limited to this, but this is a phase which we deem. and also goes or is enough for this phase, that if the situation requires from us more than what we are doing, and therefore we will be at the battlefield, we will be at the forefront, with the resistance as part and parcel of this project to confront israel in order for israel not to be victorious. no one can expect how this region can inflame. or can be ignited or how it would spread out, because the israelis are in a state of perplection, they are perplexed, they are confused, they want to first give a ground incursion, they were late in the first day, the second day, the first week, the second week, and up until now they have not been decisive on how they will begin or whether they will begin or when they will begin, because they know that the situation is difficult, they know that it is not possible for them. so when they interfere more then we might open issues open we don't know we don't know wha