also joining us is richard medhurst, journalist and commentator from vienna. gentlemen, welcome to you both. sami ramadan, let me first start with you. i can't help but start with the uh question that is very hard to ask, and that is the fact that as we speak, israel, i'm sorry, the gaza strip is being bombed by israeli regime forces and uh gazans lives are being lost uh right and left, uh, we just spoke to our correspondent prior to coming on and he said that their bodies that are just being brought in and uh that unfortunately the numbers could be lot higher than what is being reported. i believe we're talking about roughly 900, but you know when there's nothing that is available to the palestinians there from the officials to the first responders to what have you, it's hard to tell how many palestinians have died. um, why why is that part of the story not being um highlighted in in the way that it truly deserves it to be one? comes to the media, media is is pro israel and has been hiding the facts about the plight of the palestinian people for the past 75 y

samy ramadan joins us, he's an academic and writer from london, also joining us is richard medhurst, journalist and commentator from vienna. gentlemen, welcome to you both. sami ramadan, let me first start with you. i can't help but start with the uh question that is very hard to ask, and that is the fact that as we speak, israel, i'm sorry, the gods. trip is being bombed by israeli regime forces and uh gazans lives are being lost uh right and left uh we just spoke to our correspondent prior to coming on and he said that their bodies that are just being brought in and uh that unfortunately the numbers could be lot higher than what is being reported, i believe we're talking about roughly 900 but you know when there's nothing that is available to the palestinians there from the officials to the first responders to what have you, it's hard to tell how many pales have died, why, why is that part of the story not being highlighted, in the way that it truly deserves it to be when it comes to the media? is pro israel and has been hiding the facts about the plight of the palestinian people f