gaza: press tv zous and brief the military wing of the palestinian resistance woven hamas says its fighters have destroyed 41 israeli military vehicles in a matter of 72 hours. it says resistance fighters have also killed 25 israeli soldiers during the same period injuring dozens more. israeli forces use internationally banned weapons against civilians in gaza as the death toll from the regime's genocide exceeds 20,000. the regime has used phosphorus bombs in attacks on the jabalia market and east of the outburige of refugee camp in northern and central gaza.

the iranian president once again highlights the issue of palestine as the most important issue for the region and the entire world. ibrahim reise says iran is ready to cooperate with other countries to restore the rights of the palestinian people. the political bureau chief of hamas says the palestinian resistance remains firm in its battle against the israeli military as the regime's genocidal war on gas enters its 75th day. ismail henia says resistance fighters have inflicted heavy losses on israeli forces despite the regime's relentless attacks. and the leader of yemen's antola resistance movement has warned the united states against making any quote foolish move against his country in support of israel. abdul malik says us attempts to militarize the red sea, the gulf of aiden and babal mandep uh threaten international maritime activity.

this is gaza under attack, coming to you from the british capital, london. i'm sinza with you for some of the biggest talking points coming out of israel's genocidal war on gaza and its ongoing raids in the west bank. before anything, let's bring you up to speed with some of the most recent developments. yet another attack by the israeli occupation forces on the jebalia refugee camp in northern gaza, it's killed at least 16 palestinians and wounded another. 50, the

israeli military has said two more of its soldiers have been killed in gaza. israeli regim forces are carrying out more raids across the occupied west bank as well. nearly 500 palestinians have been killed in the occupied west bank and east jerusalem since the start of this year. meanwhile, the humanitarian crisis is worsening by the day, hundreds of people lining up near the border with egypt, in the south of gaza, waiting for food from charities. israeli attacks and forest relocation. orders have displaced more than 80% of the population from their homes. the us defense secretary, meantime, has been visiting qatar and bahrain after talks in tel aviv, announcing naval force to protect cargo of ships against yemen's hoothi resistance fighters who are calling for immediate cease fire in gaza. so where is this all heading? how badly is the israeli war on gaza going? why has it taken the uk more than two months to call for a? spire, we'll be discussing

those questions and more with professor jonathan rosenhet, emeritus professor at the london school of economics, chairman of the british committee for the universities of palestine, and an officer of jewish voice for labor, and via skype from sheffield, british chilean journalist and filmmaker pablo navarette. pablo is the director of inside the revolution, a journey into the heart of venezuela and founder and editor of albarada. a website covering the politics and culture of latin america. welcome to you both. um, let me start with you, professor rosenhed. i usually kick things off by asking um, the guest in the studio to uh share their thoughts on the mounting human tole in the gaza strip and of course in the west bank, and the uh humanitarian catastrophe that you heard about little earlier. yeah. it's uh,

it's astounding that the world should stand by and let it happen, um, it is, i've been around a long time, and i can't remember. remember deliberately inflicted set of deaths injuries and humiliations uh that has been allowed to go on by the so-called international community, which actually really means people who don't aren't willing to disagree with the united states, it's not not truly international. um, we see that in the united nations, in the united nations, um, a... vote for sease fire was only prevented by the veto of the united states resolutions in the general assembly are overwhelmingly successful and and yet there's only one person who can or one country that can pull the plug on israel and that's the united states and the more isolated the

united states becomes in its stance the more likely it is that it will change and therefore it's important that the pressure from places like britain around europe and and the rest of the world is brought to bear on on america to um stop funding this slaughter. we're yet to see that. some people would say that the britain and countries in europe take their queue from the united states rather than the pressure being applied to the us from here. um and pablo um despite all the bloodshit that we have seen and that is ongoing. we only heard in recent days from the foreign secretary of the uk david. calling for sustainable cease fire in the gaza conflict, i'm quoting the guardian here, too many civilians have been killed, as if it has to have been more than 19 people by israel in spite of its right, he said to

eliminate the threat posed by by hamas, why is it taken so long, are there things happening for instance in in the arabian sea that perhaps? force the uk government to to change its position on the war? no doubt the the actions, the sanctions are happening in by the hoouti forces are probably having an impact, but really the the the declarations by cameron and the british government amount to very little in reality, and the fact is the british government has been a key enabler of this. ongoing genocide by israel, which is professor rosenhud has said, is is shameful beyond words uh, and as a british citizen, and i'm sure i speak for many, i feel deeply ashamed of what the british government is doing, has done historically uh, in terms of

facilitating the repression and the and the and the apartide policies of israel and and systematic aggression against palestine, so... "i'm not sure that really the british government is is kind of gearing towards any substantive change, um, but i do think that the pressure from below that we're seeing in civil society in britain is is kind of increasing and probably hopefully having some kind of effect and and and making the cost of continuation by the government and and those supporters higher and higher. um and public opinion of course has shifted uh professor um we have seen the man." of public protests taking place over the months, um, just a quick statistic there, less than in less than three months, israel has massacred nearly 1% the people living in the gaza strip, and to put it in perspective, i work this out, the

one% of the uk population presence would have would mean 670,00 people, that's like taking the entire of bristol or sheffield where pablo is out. and yet, as we've been saying, it's taken such a long time for these governments to come out and call for what they call sustainable cease fire, but um, i'm probably netan yahoo and and his right-wing gang thought that they could go in and achieve what they said their aims, but it's taking longer than perhaps they had anticipated, we have seen israeli soldiers being killed by um the israeli forces. in the gaza strip, um, lot of israeli troops having been injured, if some of the reports coming out out of israel are to be believed, just how badly do you think that the war is going for netanyahu and his gang? well, i think it's quite clear that the resistance by hamas

has been extremely well thought out and planned in advance on the israelis were taken by surprise both by the attack and i think by the difficulty. they have in tracking down the the people they say they want to eliminate. i have to say i'm more knowledgeable about what's going on in this country than than in israel. i would. like to say a bit about these massive demonstrations, which i've been on three or four of them now, it's this has been going so long, we can actually have a regular schedule, we know when the next march is going to be, and they've been up to 600 thousand, perhaps 8000 in the streets of london on on particular days and elsewhere around the country too, there is the largest since the prelute to the iraq war, that's right, the the natural position is to be extremely critical of israel, surveys that have been done about internationally around 20 different countries, israel has been for years down

among the the bunch of countries down the bottom that are the least favorably regarded um, but i think what we're seeing now is a real change, it's not just if you're asked a question, would you say you're a favor or against israel, it's more about this has become the the foreign affairs issue of this generation and find that the the gap between our leaders who are subordinate to the united states and the population which has had it up to here with israel has has has extended massively and i don't think this is going to be sustainable for the the british governments could get away with it when israel palestine was issue on which people had views but it wasn't important to them i think it's now become important and this is the case around the world. and we have, i think a situation where just as vietnam was issue, just as south africa was issue, now

palestine is the issue which people will organize around. i will get back to you and and ask you about your experience, you spoke of criticizing israel uh, i want to ask you about your experience of it, but for now the we're going to cross over to uh the us where the biden administration has been under pressure to reign in tel aviv's genocidal actions regarding the palestinians with. pressure from washington and regional allies, israel has finally allowed the reopening of second crossing to bring aid into the palestinians. let's have listen in to a state department spokesperson updating reporters. on sunday, karam shalom, a crossing between israel and gaza, opened for the first time for the movement of aid into gaza. the opening of this additional crossing, which we had been working to achieve for some time, will leviate the strain on rafa and dramatically expand the amount of aid flowing to innocent palestinian civilians who need it

most. second, for the first time since october 7th, trucks carrying commercial goods moved into gaza on saturday. additional commercial trucks are planned to enter gaza today, and we hope to see this channel solidified and expanded over the coming days. it is a critical step towards improving the lives of the palestinian people in gaza that we see not just humanitarian aid delivered, but also commercial goods. that can be sold in stores and markets. while this weekend's breakthroughs are important, they are also not by themselves not sufficient. we will continue to work closely with the governments of israel, egypt and partner countries in the region to further increase the humanitarian assistance flowing into gaza to address the needs of the palestinian people. what i can give you assurances is what the united states will do, and that is to continue to make clear that there cannot be a reoccupation of gaza. yes, there will need to be some transition. period um uh at the end of this conflict, so there is not a security vacuum on the ground, but ultimately uh, as the

secretary has has been very clear and the president has been very clear, there cannot be a reoccupation of gaza. matthew miller of the u.s. state department there. uh, pablo, you heard uh, the state department spokesperson's comments there, you have on the one hands uh, joe biden, the american president used the word indiscriminate in recent days to refer to these. ready bombing a bombardment of gaza um, at the same time they're letting it go on. we heard netan yahu say that he's held bent on continuing the war. uh, first of all, what are his motivations, and what is the point of talking about humanitarian aid while the war is being allowed to continue? yeah, i mean, this is, i think just symptomatic of what the us government does, uh, it tries to uh... essentially give a green light to this genocidal uh war, that's the right word to

use by israel or just the genocidal attacks on palestinians and on the other hand, offer very mild and qualified statements, i know that the congress i think recently also equated that zionism um to be to be you know you had to defend yeah zionism uh to be against zionism was... to be anti-semitic, and at the same time we see the images of the israeli government forces repressing harshelly the anti- antiinist jews in israel and that's again part of... this double game that it plays very vile really game where it tries to confuse, muddy the waters, but essentially if you strip back everything, the rhetoric, us government has green lighted this and israel continues to be, i think the the interesting question that lot of that i've heard recently is now to what extent is israel the us's enforcer and to what extent

is israel now wing the tail and this is now a question i think has become a bit more complex with with the extent of support that we've seen even in the face of such horrific um actions by israel. professor rosenhead, i said i would come back to you and ask you about your experience, you heard pablo uh say the equation, the conflation of zionism with anti-semitism. we all remember the definition the ihra, the international holocaust remember alliance definition of anti-semitism adopted by the uk, has been your experience as far as criticism, my personal experience, yes, i was a an active labor party member and was suspended and accused of antisemitism, i am jewish, and you think i would know what anti-semitism was and would would avoid it, was this happened during the jeremy corban

years, yes, that's right, indeed, one of the charges against me uh was uh based on the the... next of whatever the word is the the script, no, what i said a a press tv show, so because of what i said there, was accused and convicted of antisemitism, and it was probably palestine declassified, that's probably the show you might have, i can't remember the name, it was few years ago, and they suspended me for 18 months, i'm now allowed to be member, but they do say need anti-semitism training, however they haven't actually offered it to me yet, i think perhaps "it's the labor party that needs training on what anti-semitism is it, but this whole idea that we can extend the meaning of anti-semitism to cover things that people might criticize israel for, is even if it comes from a jewish person, yes, it's been deliberately constructed by uh, the israeli

government and and supporters around the world, there's a wonderful book by tony lirman which" shows you exactly how the israeli government intervened at various points to try and make these sorts of changes happen, so it's part of their defensive posture, because about 10 years ago they were extremely worried about the progress that the boycott div and sanctions movement was was making, including the academic boycott which i'm very involved with, and and they decided that the thing to do since they couldn't win the argument, they would attack the people who were delivering. argument, so they decided instead of trying to justify what israel is doing, they try and tarnish those to criticize israel as anti semites and with remarkable success, i mean it's been bought by organizations and agencies around the world, um, despite it being intellectually incoherent, and the definition is not even definition, it doesn't say what what

anti-semitism is, but it's been held up as a sort of flag, this this is the international definition, and we we find you guilty even "it doesn't say anything, a weaponization, in fact about, but and very briefly, what happens when you are labeled with that uh label of antisemitism, do you have to take a course, and and does it make a difference if it's a non-jewish person or a jewish person? um, i think the difference between being somebody like myself who's jewish and somebody else is that i'm actually not worried that i might have been an antisemitic, but because such confusion has been spread, quite a number of uh excellent comrades who..." are uh not jewish um are worried they might have said something wrong and and and the result of that is to silence them and others who are get frightened to say things about israel palestine in case they they they they get it wrong so um that's not that's not a problem i have absolutely um let

me uh once again bring in uh pablo as well um human rights watch pablo has we we talked about weaponizing um anti-semitism uh just now, but we heard the human rights watch recently accusing tel aviv of using starvation as a weapon of war. um, will there i mean there, there's so many war crimes that israel has committed, killing journalists is one of them, starvation, starving people in gaza is another, is there any chance that once this is over? and nobody knows when it's going to happen, there will be some kind of accountability, responsibility, israel being held to account and international tribunals. "i'd love to say yes, but unfortunately, i think the my rational side uh says that we live in such an unequal world where the

powerful uh, i, the the us government has really no limits to the privity that it will either enforce, and we've seen that in latin america, the region that i i work on, and around the world in fact." but latin america has born you know lot of the brunt of the us's depravity um so there are no limits uh really and um and their power means that unfortunately you know there is no justice that is blind and the life of a palestinian is worth infinitely less than the life of an israeli or a ukrainian uh and so unless there is kind of fundamental reordering of the world's power centers and think there are some moves towards that and and that should be welcome, then then we won't reach a world where justice will be served equally. yeah, and and in the wake of the vetoing of the

resolution at the un security council and and the unga, there has been a lot of talk of coming up with some kind of institution that works for everybody, professor rosenhed, and not just for as number of countries. i think it's slightly situation could be slightly better than that in terms of uh crimin, taking criminals to court, um, that in 2021, palestine was admitted as member of the uh international criminal court, um, israel does not subscribe to that organization, however, because israel is now associated with that court, it crimes committed in palestine by anyone, war crimes committed in pakis time by anyone can be referred to the international criminal court, which is why the united states and israel fought. desperally to keep it out, so they will continue to fight that way, but that there is at least pathway to uh, to potential criminals appearing in in in

that tribunal. well, thanks, thanks for that contribution. um, we're going to stay with the white house for a little bit, byden administration officials are hoping that revived talks underway on stopping the bombardment of gaza will yield another round of captive releases in exchange for a temporary cease fire and humanitarian aid. "the us has confirmed that discussions among american and israeli intelligence chiefs and qatar's prime minister have resumed in recent days. i know uh, brett mcgurk and and david satterfield continue to work this almost by the hour to see if we can't get another pause in place and another hostage deal executed uh, but as i said at the at the top here of the gaggle, i i can't report to you date certain uh or or tell you..." good faith uh that there is another deal that's imminent, all i can do is is assure you that uh we continue to work this very very hard and literally every day and that includes of

course the discussions that jake had when he was out in the region. time now to bring in live coach and media personality fahema mohammed with three stories for this segment on how the war on gaza is being covered on the air waves and online. fahema, good to see you starting this segment with starving. cousins were scrambling for food absolutely. this video um that we're going to see shortly obviously emphasizes exactly what you just talked about and we can see the images of mainly children and as we know um in the whole area of palestine half of the population are children and obviously they have been oppressed for many years before october the 7th so the video will show um how much desperation there is right now at this very moment in time um with regards to what they are. going through and the reality of this genocide war um and who is really being affected and afflicted by by at all by the way, let's have a quick look and as you can

see the many hundreds that are there, there's not much even feed and fill to um accommodate for all of them as well, so when we talk telling how many meals a day they're eating, exactly. be you know lining up for hours even get maybe a plate and that to may not even have that opportunities for the next meal um a great percentage of gazans before uh this genicide of war had already been food insecure yes it's been a it's been a hell on earth for the children for women for men and of course for the journalists reporting for the terjury unbelievable amount of journalists that have been uh killed in this um last two months and none other than um the son of one of the journalists that actually speaks about losing his father, just going away like normal, coming back hoping to see

him, but unfortunately these are the real cases. اول شيء صارت انا ما توقعت ابدا كنت في المدرسه امي بتقول لي انه ابوك متصاف انا ما قدرتش اروح فحاولت قد ما اقدر اقول للمدير انه ابوي تصاوب وبعدين روحت وظلينا نستنى بيجي اكثر من سبع ساعات وهو متصوب ما قدرنا نعمل شيء ضلينا نرن على الجول to protect journalists a press freedom group so the conflict in gaza has been the deadliest for journalists ever recordly absolutely and this particular case where he was actually wounded and he could have been saved but he couldn't be reached for hours and he actually bled to death so that was something that was really tragic more than even usual and he was one of the over 80 journalists who were killed yes it's coming up to almost 100 soon yeah every day there seems to be a journalist that's been um

killed by this famima thanks uh more from you later on in the program. welcome. now french foreign minister katherine kolana has held talks with her british counterpart lord david cameron and reiterated france's position on the israel-palestine issue. the french diplomat is condemned settler violence in the west bank and called on israeli authorities to act. she has recently returned from visits to tell aviven beirot where she held talks with high-ranking officials hoping to lead efforts to de-escalate. able to see with my own eyes the violence committed by certain extremist settlers in the west bank. this is not only regrettable, but unacceptable. we asked israel to take action, to use the framework of israeli law to sanction them properly. but i would add as you may know, that france has decided to take national

measures against some of these. extremist settlers identified as such on the basis of documented information, and we're also working on sanctions at the european level. we will give european partners all this information. now, latifa abu chakra has joined me on the sofa to bring us the stories behind some of the biggest social media talking points. good to see you latifa, starting with uh palestinian resistance and and resilience that we have mentioned so many times here. overcoming israeli apartide, we know that the people of ghaza have been starving and only recently has there been a somewhat credible humanitarian corridor that has um opened up and remained open for few days now uh yet the palestinians have of course sort ways to remain self-sufficient from their oppressors and from the cowardly um arab countries that border them and um for

me this you know amongst all the chaos and amongst all the sadness, these kind of clips put a little bit of smoke on your face because you realize that no one will stop the palestinian resistance so what we're seeing here is um young man um it's a hole in the apartite wall is? it is as i'm sure many exist and they are simply just shoving through um the these are called caak and um it's it's a palest it's a dish or bread type that is native to palestine uh the the young man was saying that that day they had smuggled in over 100 um pieces of bread um and the fact that they have to smuggle bread in you know that alone let that sink in they have children have to smuggle bread in. to be

able eat, to be able to survive. um, the first hole, one of many, hopefully, uh, later on, and and the uh destruction of the wall, just like we saw in berlin in the 90s. now, um, we saw children there, palestinian children in gaza, becoming reporting on on the massacre of other children really, that's that's what we have seen in uh, across the social media platforms. we understand that, for the palestinian. children there is no such thing as ptsd uh because the trauma does not pass and we have seen them uh in positions where they are given media um uh press uh what's the word where where the um press releases where they sat in in front of hospitals where they were trying to tell the world hey it's just children here at this hospital we've seen them having to look after their families just in that clip earlier.