muhammad khatibi from press tv's west asia desk to offer some more uh insight on the story. mr. khatibi, it's great to have you with us here in our studios. let's uh let's go over uh this this incident and of course we know that this is not without precedent to foreign activists, foreign journalists being killed uh by the israeli occupation forces and of course it's not without president precedent that us citizens have been killed. by the israeli occupation forces, we have this 26-year-old activist being killed in beta, we can recall the case of shirin abu, we can also go all the way back to 2003 and the case of rachel cory, so i want you to open up on the issue of no accountability, lack of accountability when such incidents happen, and also how is it that the us favoritism uh for the israeli regime, it even superceeds um... the fact of their own citizens being killed. first of all, let me talk about who she was. she was, as you said, 26 years old and she was uh in the occupied west bank to work for international solidarity movement, which helps palestinian farmers in the occup

months ago that victory was near, the war now seems endless. now our from our west asia desk, muhammad khatibi is joining us to give us more in. sites muhammad, if you could please shed more light on the different aspects of the issues that was raid interestingly by an israeli official. well, these kinds of comments are not new, because since this really genocide began in the gaza strip, so many people have raised questions about the effectiveness of israeli genocide in the gaza strip, so these kinds of comments have came from different major groups, first the officials, so the current officials in the israeli cabinet including your galant have criticized the israeli prime minister of prolonging the war and making obstacles in the cease fire talks by insisting on controlling the philadelphia corridor, other than that there are so many former officials like as we covered now, israel belziv that have said that netanyahu wants to prolong the war because of his own benefit, there are other uh people like benny ganz who is an opposition leader who joined the war cabinet and later he was removed and

muhammad khatibi who is an expert from west asia. ask to talk to us more about the importance of uh of this trip and what's on the agenda of the talks between the two between the iranian president and the uh iraqi prime minister muhammad so as we all know the security of iran's border and its sovereignty it's high agenda in every visit that the president makes. and in this visit, i think the most important issue will be the security talks about iran and iraq border, which iran and iraq signed the security document just about two years ago about removing anti-terror groups, anti-iran terror groups in the region and in the kurdistan, iraq's kurdistan region, and we know that iraqi government has implemented the security document and moved uh the anti-iran terror groups from alongside iran's border to other parts of iraq under the watch of the government and the united nations. the visit is really important because for the first time an iranian president will visit arbil and sulaymaniah in the iraq's kurdistan region and when was inaugurated made a visit to tehran and was warmly welcomed

let's start off with muhammad khatibi, muhammad, how do you view these anti? demonstrations that have been continuing for some time now in amongst the israeli public after founding of six captives in the gaza strip that the... protests began to grow and even escalated to strikes in the unions and their largest union in the israeli territories, israeli occupied territories, hestroot began protesting and bengorian airport as well as other sectors of israeli economy collapsed for one day and this can be escalated even further so the other reason that uh netanyahu wants the genocide to continue is to uh control the cabinet, the far right cabinet is continuing its genocidal war because of two or more ministers smotic and bengavir and they are trying to kill all palestinians in the occupied palestinian territories. whenever there is time and there is opportunity for a cease fire in the gaza strip netanyahu. sets for set forth a obstacle there, for example, about two or two month ago, or more, i think, joe biden proposed the ceasefire deal and the hamas resistance mo

hours. let's put things into perspective uh with uh this uh unfortunate massacer top of others, muhammad khatibi from press tv west asia desk joins us here in the studio. we also have firm who's a human rights activist joining us from toron, so welcome to you both. ummed khatibi, when you when we take a look at the massacer that has occurred over here ' the same old excuses by the israeli regime has taken place uh without providing the the evidence for it. um tell tell us uh the way that uh this excuse no longer rings uh to be true, it rings hollow uh but yet uh we're still having for example the us backing up of the israely regime with uh probably one of the most uh um unwarranted cases when it comes to a proof uh of the right for the israel regime to continue doing what is doing uh with the repeated uh israel has the right to defend itself, again coming from the us and us allies. so as you know, the israeli regime is committing these kinds of genocide under the pretext of hamas command centers, it has committed such crimes in altbin school, which killed over 100 palestinians there, it targeted

muhammad khatibi from our west asia desk, but we have... also with us, our correspondent mariam sal live from beirot with the latest, mariam, it is the first time we understand that heizbullah has directly attacked tel aviv, there is huge development, if you could please elaborate more on the significance of this, yes, absolutely, of course, had previously always warned these israels that continuous attacks on the capital and even the southern s of the capital. bayrut would entail and would lead to a response towards the center of the israeli regime, not only the dilili or the northern areas, we saw how yesterday as the law was pounding many of the bases all across the north all the way to the south of haisa and also even close to tiberias and so we had direct attacks on very sensitive areas for the israeli military, especially the military basis at. now the israelis of course what we're getting so far is only from the israeli media, there is still no confirmation from hasb's resistance, no direct statement from the resistance there, we kno

as long as the siege on gaza continues as well joining us now uh from west asia desk we have muhammad khatibi to talk to us more about the implications of the recent operations and also was just said in the official statement by yahya ser. muhammad, it's great to have you with us, so these kinds of statements have been ongoing for months and have gained momentum in recent weeks because of the failure to negotiate a cease fire in the gaza strip, these statements have become a symbol of yemen and it has gained prestige for yemen because the among arab arabs and all other muslim countries, so yahya sari, as you said, to continue uh yemani operations in the red sea even after the us brought warships in the region and made a created a coalition to tamper down the whole situation in the red sea but it has failed because the yemani operations are not focused a single area and it has been yemen has been carrying out operations in the red sea the arab seas gulf of aden and even the mediter. so these operations have increased the cost of shipping from the red sea and the cost of shipping has skyrockete

muhammad khatibi at press tv west asia says there will be no accountability regarding the killing of the us activist in the occupied west bank by israely forces. israel has announced that it is investigating this whole situation and what happened. but i don't think uh anything will come out of it because uh there are so many incidents as you mentioned shirin abula a us citizen who was top journalist and she worked she was covering another raid in the occupied west bank city of genine and she was shot and killed and no account accountability there and us selled us sold the israeli narrative to the public and refused to comment on what everyone was saying, there is no accountability because the us is supporting get internationally and in terms of military aid and it is continuing to commit genocide in the gaza strip and us has been under fire because of the israeli genocide and nothing happens actually when it it comes to us support for israel. welcome back, this really genocide in the gaza strip is in its 336th day and the regime continues to bomb the besieg territory in this inscrimi

continue to fail in the future. but for now uh we're going to welcome uh in our teron studios muhammad khatibi uh from our press tv with west asia a desk for more, hello muhammad, pleasure to check in with you there, but uh, take it from there, what else uh, what other marks did he leave on you with this over one hour speech, addressing what took place, the acts of terrorism by the regime on tuesday and wednesday there on lebanese soil, well there were so many important issues he talked about and there were three main categories, first of all he talked about ethical issues and said that those 'who were martered and those who were injured in the incidents have gotten medal of honor, so he then talked about how to deal with the situation and how israel inflicted this terror attack on the lebanese people, and then he talked about how the hezballah resistance movement will respond to the whole situation, so the important part of his speech was about taking the'. structure and the that it was not shaken and the hizbollah resistant movement will continue operations in northern occupied palestinian t

of such anti-neton rallies for months. joining us on this edition of the news review we have muhammad khatibi from our west asia desk who's joining us in our studios here in tehron, also we have activist and commentator don debar joining us from aussining. new york, gentlemen, welcome to the program. let's start off with muhammad khatib. muhammad, how do you view these anti-netanyahu demonstrations that have uh been continuing for some time now in uh amongst the israeli public. so we have been reviewing these protests for month now and it has been ongoing for more than 11 month since the israeli genocide began in the gaza strip. protest. are demanding netanyahu to step down, but netanyahu is ignoring all protest in the israeli occupied territories, and as you know, netanyahu has been under fire even long before the israeli genocide began in the gaza strip. uh, protesters back then protested because of the judicial reforms that netanyahu proposed. and he was trying to awaid uh allegations on corruption charges and he still wants to awaid those charges, so the current protest uh become more inf

muhammad khatibi from press tv's west asia says the us will continue supporting israel despite the recent killing of an american activist in the occupied west bank. the weapons that israel uses are made by us and us continues to support the israeli regime. so white house said that it is deeply disturbed, but is it? i don't think so, because us have continued to support the israeli regime, and it has not pressured it to stop the genocide in the gaza strip or the raids that happen daily in the occupied west bank. the us doesn't care about its own citizens and it is buying time for the regime to commit more genocide, commit more atrocities in the occupied west bank, and as you know, israel will not be held responsible as long as the u.s. supports it or maybe the resistance access how somehow can uh pressure the israeli regime to uh sease fire, more act of resistance, this is the only way i think the act of resistance will uh end the atrocities of the israeli regime, not the us, us will continue supporting it militarily and by all means possible, damascus has condemned his deadly sunday night

muhammad khatibi from press tv's west asia desk says that any israel ground offensive on lebanon will cost the regime heavily because hisbolla resistance movement has the upper hand in those territories. so israel wants to bring back israeli setterers north of occupied palestinian territories and it has set this go. for its military operations in southern lebanon, but as we all know, these operations are not just targeting fighters, these are targeting residential areas in southern neblan as well as beirot and eastern lebanon, pekar region and all areas in lebanon, so israel wants to create buffer zone ideally in lebanon and push hezballah. further north of the litani river, but as we know this can't happen because lebanon and is backing hezbollah, lebanese people, i mean, and hezballah has very great fire power, and it is not compared, it can't be compared to what hamas has and it is much, much more larger force, and if israel dares to go into lebanese territories, it will be crushed by hazbullah, and hazballah has the... upper hand in the lebanese territories, so what israel is sayi

uh uh what we have at this point, to get more of an explanation on this, let's first turn to muhammad khatibi, press tv, west asia desk who joins us in the studio, welcome muhammad, so we have another massacer that's taking place, every massacre obviously is such huge blow to the um genocide ' especially for the non-believers, um, when you hear about massacer of this scale and magnitude top of the all all the other ones, what are your first impressions here? so as you said, these claims about, so as you said these claims about the massacre, what israel says are not true, israel has made such claims so many times about altbin school, as you remember, israel said that it killed more than 50 palestinian fighters that, but was not the case, israel targeted tabin school in cold blood, it targeted palestinians when they were praying, and it was deliberately targeted that that time, and also israel always says that hamas has a tunnel under hospitals, hamas has command centers elsewhere, hamas has tunnels everywhere, but it has not proven it, it has not provided any evidence about... this, it targete

joining us in the studio is muhammad khatibi from the west asia desk at press tv. all right, welcome. so when you take a look at what has happened over here, um, in on on one hand we can talk about the or you can talk about the us role perhaps um when it comes to the us made weapons or bullets in this case that result in the death of this american activist, but do you think that in the bigger picture the lack of action by the us in previous incidents involving american citizens who have been um killed uh by the regime forces is maybe one of the major focuses here? well, as you said these are not. new incidents and several other incidents have been occurred in in the years and during the years israel have awaded any kind of responsibility and this i think it will be the same israel has killed so many people so many activists in the west bank that it is outnumbered and uh if you remember rachel couri was crushed with with balldozer what happened to her nothing happened after he she died, so israel says that it has been investigating the whole incident, but i don't th

demonstrations, anti-israeli demonstrations, our colleague from the west asia desk here at press tv, muhammad khatibi is joining us to tell us about the uh demonstrations that have been held in new york and also as we understand in toronto denounce. the us support for israel and demanding a halt to the arms sales to the israeli regime. mr. khatibi, if you could please tell us more about these grassroots movements that we see, particularly in new york, people coming out with these elements showing that they are in support. of gaza with the cafia scarves and the uh flag of palestine carrying them taking part in these demonstrations demanding a halt to arm sales to the uh israeli regime. we also see some lebanese flags there, which is also a sign of the demonstrators denouncing israel's attacks on lebanon. so we have been. seeing these kinds of protests since day one of israeli genocide and us continuously has ignored all these protests, we saw that students in university campuses protested israeli genocide in the gaz strip and they built incampence in campuses and they were removed violently by the us

let me see if we have muhammad khatibi with us still in order for me to proceed with him or not. is with us? it doesn't seem like we have it. all right, thank you very much. we do appreciate it. with us is really genocidal war nearing its 12th month. the regime's air and drone strikes continue to claim more innocent palestinin lives. one of its latest attacks, israeli air strikes at the vicinity of the alahi hospital in gaza city, killing two civilians and injuring several others. two more air strikes in other parts of the city also targeted residential areas and took the lives of several mororgans. in the north, iol warplanes targeted house in jabalia killing at least three citizens there. in the south, two civilians were killed after an israeli drone hit a group of individuals in. according to local authorities, israely forces have killed nearly 90 gazins in a single day. this brings the total number of cozins killed since last october, up to nearly 40,700, with more than 94 thousand others injured. well, a palestinian father of seven has died from torture in israeli prison onl

also includes stopovers in basura as well as the kurdish cities of airb. and so they manania muhammad khatibirom press tv's asia desk says the iranian president during his visit to iraq is likely to talk about implementing baghdad tehran security document sign nearly two years ago choosing iraq. for a first trip for pesishian is very important because of these reasons, the security of iran and iraq borders are top priority for two countries and iran and iraq have signed the security pact to remove anti-iran terror groups in iraq's kurdistan region and alongside iranian border and uh move them to other parts of iraq under watch of the united nations and iraqi government. also the economy is very important in because iran is focusing more its neighbors and improving friendly relationsships with its neighbors, iraq and iran have a great amount of trade and also uh peseskian is looking forward to talk about the iranian freezed assets in iraq and the money that because of us sanctions are freezed in iraq and maybe uh the this will be released also. so iraq has played a significant role in mediatin

stay quiet. uh, the ground invasion notion has been thrown about even our west asia desk uh muhammad khatibi who was in the studio with us uh pointed to that, how how much likelihood is there for that to happen from either side, i'm i'm guessing that hisbullah, your thoughts matter obviously is trying to uh somewhat control. what is happening until there's a decision perhaps they think that is imminent for the regime to make to go through with a ground invasion of which then uh according to hisb secretary general uh that will be uh that would mark the end of uh any of those regime forces trying to make it into lebanon. i don't think either side wants a ground invasion. lebanon doesn't have the economy for a protracted war and in all the war games and this these were done uh without a... simultaneous war in gaza that israel played against hezbalah, they lost, so they don't want to go in on the ground, he'll lose, and lebanon doesn't want to take that sacrifice, even though they can win uh is that... too heavy a cost, so both sides would like to avoid escalating on the ground, the problem is t

muhammad, really appreciate it. khatibi, our colleague there from in our teron studios from our west asia desk here at uh press tv with very thorough update. he also mentioned by name yoav galant smoked rich, ben gavier and benjamin netanyahu as being narcissistic and greedy and only uh partaking in actions that are speeding up the demise of the zionist entity. we're also going to join now mat or beirout. corresponded to the conversation, hello miriam, hope you're safe and doing well uh, your take on this very much anticipated speech by said hasan, nastral after these uh two days of terrorist attacks by the regime across lebanon. yes, it is considered very, very paramount um speech today for hazballah secretary general, very much awaited, i believe even by the israelis themselves, uh, usually sayid nasallah speeches are in themselves part of hazballah's warfare. especially the psychological warfare and i think that most important and significant things that we can get out of this and the conclusion uh that we can see from t

hering us now for the program is uh muhammad kasim political analyst joining us from beirot and mohammed khatibi from our press tv west asia desk joining us out our tehran uh studios gentlemen like to welcome you both to the program here i guess uh we'll start with our own west asia desk extraordinaire mr muhammad hello uh muhammad hope you're doing well there uh esteemed colleague, what is the significance of strong ties between iraq and iran for uh tehran, and how do good ties with iraq's semi-autonomous kurdisan region also benefit the islamic republic? for first part of your question, i should mention about two or three things: first of all, the economy, the economy in the iraq is very important for iran because iran is a great trade partner for the iraq government and also iran has many projects in in iraq's several regions including basra. basra railway to shalamche at town in western iran will connect the two countries and will facilitate the trade between two countries. iran exports electricity to iraq and it has very important role in iraqi government. the electricity, i mean also, ther