mustafa barghouti talking to me early and _ solution.ll— solution. mustafa barghouti talking to me early and you will have - solution. mustafa barghouti talking j to me early and you will have heard three huge explosions there in gaza city. we will be back live on bbc news in a moment auto. hello. it was a real weekend of contrast. some exceptionally wet weather across scotland, in fact the wettest spot having nearly 180 millimetres of rain. so, there are still some flood warnings in force — that means danger to life. details on the website, including numerous other flood warnings. and there are more weather warnings out for tomorrow, but for today the weather front is still with us, but it's a weak affair, so a respite from the rain for many parts of scotland, just dribs and drabs on this weather front remaining. it will tend to pep up as it pushes north later. but for most other parts it is largely dry, bright and sunny spells, quite warm, temperatures again knocking on the door of what we saw on sunday for northern ireland, england an

mustafa barghouti, thank you for cominu way. mustafa barghouti, thank you for coming on _ way.ghouti, thank you for coming on the programme. - 0ur security correspondent frank gardner says tension across the region reminded him of 2003. he was speaking to my colleague matthew amroliwala. what i meant by that is back then, the middle east, it still had the underlying problems, the underlying denial of a homeland for the palestinians and ongoing violence against israel, butjihad was on the back foot. we were not hearing so much from al-qaeda, isis had not happened, and then the us—led invasion of iraq happened, and that reinvigorated the glowing, the dying embers of violent jihadism. and what we are seeing now around the region, these angry protests we are seeing because to action by al-qaeda and isis, and we are seeing we are seeing warnings by the us by the us state department to their citizens to avoid certain countries. we are starting to see attacks on us basesin we are starting to see attacks on us bases in iraq and syria. it is quite a delicate time and really there is a d

mustafa barghouti, daniel levy, rami khouri.hank you all very much once again for joining us for this discussion today. and thank you for watching. you can always watch his program again any time by visiting our website at aljazeera.com. for further discussion got to our facebook page, facebook.com/ajinsidestory. and of course you can join the conversation on x, our handle is @ajinsidestory. from me on the whole team here in doha, thanks for watching. bye for now. ♪

mustafa barghouti, thanks very much. _ be in place. 0k. mustafa barghouti, thanks very much. in place. 0k. mustafa barghouti, thanks very much. let me just i be in place. 0k. mustafa barghouti, thanks very much. let me just take | thanks very much. let me just take viewers back to the live pictures and show you exactly what is happening there in gaza city first of all, because throughout the course of the morning and the early part of the afternoon, we have seen regular scenes like this with big plumes of smoke there. another attack, this with big plumes of smoke there. anotherattack, israel this with big plumes of smoke there. another attack, israel mounting over 500 attacks overnight. and those have continued through the course of this morning and of course similarly, on the borders with lebanon, let me show you the live pictures from their because we have been reporting of border exchanges, with two people reported to have been killed on the border with lebanon with more rockets being fired into israel, so these are some of the aftermath there in terms of what our earlier

mustafa barghouti, can you tell us how important the reporting is in the arabic speaking world?ustafa: he is a very warm and close colleague who has been doing wonderful work in terms of journalism, covering gaza all these years. he has covered so many wars, so many aggressions gaza. i personally knew him very well. i happened to be in gaza in the 2014 war during which time we met many times. he did a wonderful and professional job, and there were two icons of al jazeera in the occupied territories. unfortunately, both of them had this terrible tragedy. she was killed by an israeli sniper, and the report stated clearly she was assassinated for no reason by an israeli sniper. now he is losing his family, his wife, his son and daughter. it is a terrible tragedy but it indicates what they have to live through in palestine. let me add up to this moment, 22 journalists in gaza have been killed during this terrible attack by israel in the last 20 days. it also reminds you that during the last 10 years in addition to these journalists, 52 other journalists were also killed by the israe

mustafa barghouti, a former information minister for the palestinian government which is in control of the parts of the west bank but does not control gaza. welcome, minister. i again want to make sure that viewer viewers understand that they have been opponent of hamas so you are not affiliated with hamas. you represent the palestinian authority which has control over parts of the west bank. all of that said, what is your reaction to what you have seen so far? >> well, first of all, i'm not part of the palestinian authority as a matter of fact i represent a democratic palestinian movement called palestinian national initiative which is not hamas. and we have -- of course i'm not affiliated with hamas. but i think this situation that has evolved is a direct result of the continuation of the longest occupation in modern history. israeli occupation of palestinian land since 1967, this is 156 years of occupation. that has transformed into a system of appetite. a much worse appetite that in south africa. yes, maybe hamas did not recognize israel, but the palestinian authority did. what the

amy: we will go to ramallah in the occupied west bank to speak with my stuff up -- mustafa barghouti and to tel aviv to speak with israeli journalist gideon levy. then we host a debate between two leading progressive activists in the united states. medea benjamin and barbara smith. they will also discuss u.s. funding for israel. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the death toll in israel and palestine has soared over 2200, with at least 1200 israelis and 1000 palestinians killed since fighting broke out saturday. the majority of palestinian debts are in gaza. at least 18 reported in the west bank. israel is amassing some 300,000 reservists close to gaza as it continues to pound the besieged enclave with airstrikes. officials warn gaza is on the cusp of a humanitarian catastrophe as the territory's power plant is running out of fuel. the scale of atrocities committed against civilians is continuing to come to light. rescuers are still pulling bodies from the rubble. >> everybody tried to escape death on

mustafa barghouti and then longtime israeli journalist amira hass, who has spent decades covering the occupied west bank and live in gaza for years. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. dozens of palestinian civilians were killed in gaza as israel bombed the besieged palestinian territory for the ferc -- 13 consecutive day. the ministry reports nearly 3800 gazans have been killed in israeli strike since hamas attack on october 7 that come more than 1400 israelis. defense for children international palestine reports israeli strikes have on average killed one child every 15 minutes in gaza since fighting escalated. this is a surgeon in gaza city who narrowly survived tuesday's explosion at a hospital, a blast palestinians blame on israel. cooks of all the cases i've seen, they have been children. they have lost two parents. unfortunately, these kids have long recovery in front of them. amy: earlier today, the british prime minister arrived in tel aviv where he was greeted by prime minister benjamin netanyah

earlier, i spoke with mustafa barghouti.nstinian national initiative which is a democratic movement that is not affilated with fatah or hamas. i spoke to him just a few minutes after we heard from anthony blinken, the united states typed up he is in israel expressing his support for israel. he said this... he said he had been shown photographs by the israeli government. injust a quick warning, these words from anthony blinken our distressing. he said he saw photos of a baby, and invent riddled with bullets. soldiers beheaded. young people burned alive in their cars and in their rooms. i could go on, he said, but it simply depravity and the worst imaginable way. those where the commons of anthony blinken on images that he had been shown by israeli governments sources. and i asked for his reaction to that. i think mr blinken should also blame himself and his president, mr biden, for the fact that during the last three years, they kept saying that there is no space for a solution, no space for diplomatic intervention to create

the bbc also spoke with mustafa barghouti, a palestinian legislator and leader of the palestinian nationalthe finger squarely at israel, saying the strike was years in the making. it's an unacceptable, deliberate war crime against the civilian population of gaza. bombarding the hospital where thousands of people were thinking they were in a safe place, where patients were there for getting treatment and this israeli air strike, which took the lives of 500 people at least. and i'm sure the number will rise because there are so many badly injured people, who could die at any moment. this was deliberate attack, an acceptable attack. a war crime that should not have happened and should not be accepted and this in my opinion reveals to you the level of israel's feeling of total impunity and lack of accountability, not only to international law but to human beings everywhere. as we mentioned earlier, jordan has cancelled a planned summit it was going to host in amman with president biden and the egyptian and palestinian leaders. according to jordan's foreign minister, there is "no use in talking

earlier on today, dr mustafa barghouti of the palestinian national initiative held a press conferencen palestinian hospitals. now gaza strip is deprived of water, deprived of electricity, deprived of food, deprived of medications and medicine, and deprived of internet and abilities to communicate. the situation in palestinian hospitals is disastrous. children are dying around the clock because of lack of electricity. children who are in incubators will die or have died because there is no electricity. israel is fighting not hamas, israel is fighting all the palestinian people. israel is attacking all the civilians in gaza and the vast majority of people killed there are palestinian civilians including children and women. the un, us, egypt, jordan and others in the region are working together to ensure civilians have access to water, food, and medical care in gaza. rishi sunak will hold talks later with the king ofjordan, who is visiting several european countries to discuss the situation in gaza. king abdullah has said he is trying to rally international support to stop what he called

the general secretary of the palestinian national initiative, mustafa barghouti, gave his reaction toits operations in gaza. what is happening now is a huge massacre in the northern parts of gaza, and that adds to the other massacres that israel has committed, which took the lives of almost 3,000 children, and each child is a human being. with a history, with a family, you're talking about also more than 7,100 palestinians killed, and this number will rise tonight. but the worst thing is that with ground operation you're talking about total destruction, complete destruction. i've seen the results of their ground operation in 2014 in the area of shuja'iyya in gaza. it means that no stone will be with another, everything will be totally razed to the ground and every house will be destroyed and every human being will be killed. this is the kind of israeli operation that you will see tonight including airstrikes, the same time with ground invasion. and let me tell you one thing that the audience should know, the total amount of bombs and explosives that have been thrown on gaza is very cl

speaking from gaza city, the general secretary of the palestinian national initiative mustafa barghoutihe world, probably. but the attacks from gaza came as a response to many things. first of all, we are under israeli military occupation for 56 years now and the world is doing nothing to and that occupation. that occupation has transformed into the worst system of apartheid ever, much worse but not prevailed in south africa. this has been the longest occupation and at the same time since during the last eight months we have been subjected as palestinians to attacks from israeli settlers terror which took the lives of 248 palestinians including 40 children. and more than that, netanyahu stood up at the united nations, raised a map of israel that included all of the west bank, all of the gaza strip, of course eastjerusalem as well as the heights and his government has been declaring that they have no intention whatsoever to talk to palestinians, to have peace with palestinians. live now to bbc state department correspondent barbara plett usher. great to see you. president biden has pledg

. >> joining me now from ramallah in the west bank's doctor mustafa barghouti, president the palestineinitiative and member of the palestinian parliament. doctor barghouti, thank you for being with us once again. >> thank you. do you have any more insight or details into what the egyptians are doing right now on the rafah crossing with these huge cement slabs being brought into aid convoys, effectively sealing the border off in between the trucks coming in knowhat's happening there right now? >> no, the question is what israel is doing. israel is preventing the supply of fuel to gaza. they say that they will not allow a single drop of oil or fuel into gaza. because of that, children are dying now in incubators that have no electricity. children are dying because they don't have access to kidney dialysis. hospitals are breaking down. they are stopping all their operations. and the egyptians want to send every possible truck they have. but israel is preventing that. israel is tracking every truck and not allowing essential material to enter. and what they have allowed so far is no more t

amy: the palestinian legislator and medical doctor mustafa barghouti said they had in a very short periodime a number of explanations of what happened. at first i did not say this. they said hamas was operating underneath the hospital. then they said they're using palestinians as human shields sort of to explain what happened. then they came up with this. i wanted to ask you, we had on shreve w produce -- sharif abdel kouddous, documenting what israel said about the murder of this palestinian american journalist shireen abu akleh. they first said she was killed by posting in gunmen and then said the evidence was inconclusive and then after enormous pressure and multiple investigations by many news outlets and human rights groups, they said they likely killed her but not intentional and caught in crossfire -- something that was disproven by human rights group after forensic texture study of the whole thing -- architecture study of the whole thing showing it was an israeli staffer. >> i think it took a 45 minutes to put out the specific cover story on this one and it was knocked down, she r

walked into this terrible, terrible catastrophe that's unfolding in gaza and as you heard from mustafa barghouti, a moderate palestinian who has tried all his life to bring the factions together, there is their narrative based on context and what's happened before, and they do not believe and the street does not believe no matter how much the idf has said they investigated is not believed around the world and that is what is mattering. that's the narrative. it's not believed and i can tell you that the israeli defense minister himself said last week when imposing a siege on gaza, which the international community says is against international law, he also said, we remove -- i have orders -- >> let me interrupt. i apologize for the interruption. i want to tell people what they're watching on the screen. it is prime minister benjamin netanyahu is speaking. this is before a meeting between president biden, prime minister netanyahu, and prime minister netanyahu's war cab threat that was put together in the wake of the october 7th attacks. we'll listen to both of them. they are expected to give remar

mustafa barghouti, general secretary of the palestinian national initiative, has given us his perspectivet's an unprecedented israeli failure, given it is the most protected in the world. the attacks came from many things. first of all, we are under israeli military occupation for 56 years now. and the world is doing nothing to end that occupation. that occupation has transformed into the worst system of apartheid ever, much worse than in south africa. and at the same time, during the last eight months, we have been subjected as palestinians to attacks from israeli settlers, terror, which took the lives of 248 palestinians, including a0 children. and more than that, netanyahu stood up in the united nations, raised a map of israel that included all of the west bank, all of the gaza strip, as well as the golan heights. and his government has been declaring that they have no intention whatsoever to talk to palestinians, to have peace with palestinians. their main goal is to annexe occupied palestinian territories including the west bank and gaza. and in addition to that, one last point, the

the general secretary of the palestinian national initiative, mustafa barghouti, gave his reaction to of its operations in gaza. the total amount of bombs and explosives that have been thrown on gazais explosives that have been thrown on gaza is very close to the amount of the bomb power that was used with the bomb power that was used with the nuclear power, nuclear bomb on hiroshima injapan. just to get an idea of what's going on. it's a very dangerous development and we've just received alert from medical relief societies, from red crescent complaining that medical workers paralyse because the cut—off of telecommunications in gaza. live now to our correspondent wyre davies, in jerusalem. asi as i was reflecting there, we are trying to find out this morning exactly what happened. what did the israeli defence forces have to say about the operation overnight? me’ee about the operation overnight? we've not a lot about the operation overnight? we've got a lot more — about the operation overnight? we've got a lot more details _ about the operation overnight? we've got a lot more details t

the general—secretary of the palestinian national initiative, mustafa barghouti, gave his reaction toerations in gaza. the total amount of bombs and explosives that have been thrown on gaza is very close to the amount of the bomb power that was used with the nuclear power, nuclear bomb on hiroshima injapan. just to get an idea of what's going on. it's a very dangerous development and we've just received alert from medical relief societies, from red crescent complaining medical work is paralysed because the cut—off of telecommunications in gaza. we are hearing from the un agency who deals with palestinian refugees, their spokesman has said they've lost contact with most of the taming gaza overnight. they have a limited line of communication with the director of the agency in gaza. they have said they are assessing the impact on their operations as they work to re—establishing contact with the teams in gaza including those who are being cared for in shelters. we want to show you the situation on the northern border of israel, as well, where i have been for the last few days because we a

dr mustafa barghouti — the leader of the palestinian national initiative — held a press conference toter, deprived of electricity, deprived of food, deprived of medications and medicine, and deprived of internet and abilities to communicate. the situation in palestinian hospitals is disastrous. children are dying around the clock because of lack of electricity. children, who are in incubators, will die or have died because there is no electricity. israel is fighting not hamas, israel is fighting all the palestinian people. israel is attacking all the civilians in gaza and the vast majority of people killed there are palestinian civilians, including children and women. earlier my colleague victoria derbyshire spoke to mark regev — a former senior adviser to the israel prime minister. he defended the israeli government against accusations that it was carrying out indiscriminate bombing in gaza. israel does not target, does not target, i repeat, noncombatants and innocent civilians. our enemy is the hamas... that can't be true because so many innocent civilians in gaza have already died.

mustafa barghouti who's general secretary of the palestinian national initiative has given me his perspectivethat it is the most monitored area in the world, probably. but the attacks from gaza came as a response to many things. first of all, we are under israeli military occupation for 56 years now. and the world is doing nothing to end that occupation. that occupation has transformed into the worst system of apartheid ever, much worse than what they are in south africa. and more than that, netanyahu stood up in the united nations, raised a map of israel that included all of the west bank, all of the gaza strip. as well as the golan heights. and his government has been declaring that they have no intention whatsoever to talk to palestinians, to have peace with palestinians. their main goal is to occupy the palestinian territories including the west bank and gaza. and in addition to that, one last point, the attacks on muslim and christian holy sites by israel. that is a reaction to this horrible situation for palestinians. israel would say that its actions in gaza are against militants tryin

live now to mustafa barghouti, general secretary of the palestinian national initiative. us. what is your response to the attacks today by the hamas militants in israel killing more than 200 israelis? it’s killing more than 200 israelis? it's an killing more than 200 israelis? it�*s an unprecedented israeli failure, for sure. taken by surprise. it is really amazing how unprepared israel was. given that it is the most monitored area in the world, probably. but the attacks from gaza came as a response to many things. first of all, we are under israeli military occupation for 56 years now. and the world is doing nothing to end that occupation. that occupation has transformed into the worst system of apartheid ever, much worse than what they are in south africa. more than that, during the last eight months, we have been subjected... we last eight months, we have been subjected- - -_ last eight months, we have been sub'ected... ~ ., ., ., _, subjected... we are going to come back to you — subjected... we are going to come back to you shortly, _ subjected... we are going to com