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the headlines as the us israeli genocidal war on gaza continues for the 162nd day new air of strikes on a refugee camp. kills at least 36 people. israel's netanyahu rejects hamas's new cease fire proposal, pressing on with his plan to invade gaza's southern city of raffa. and palestine's islamic gihad deputy leader slams the us offering of limited aid to gaza while delivering unlimited lethal weapons to israel. of
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hello and welcome, you're watching world news on press tv, coming to you live from our headquarters in tehran, thank you for joining us, my name is gisum shahmadi and these are top stories, this hour. dozens more palestinians were killed as the israeli regime keeps going ahead with its genocidal war on the... siegaza strip, which is now in its 162nd day, and the latest air strikes, the israeli military has targeted the al-nosriot refugee camp, leaving at least 36 people dead. many people were also killed or injured and yet another bombing of frafa, a southern city that once israel designated as safe for the displaced palestinians, rafa has been targeted frequently emit the regime's threat that it will conduct a ground up.
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operation there, since the onset of the israeli war on gaza early october, over 31,500 palestinians have been killed, most of them women and children. our correspondent joined us earlier from the central gaza city of delal balaa to update us on the situation in the besieg palestinian territory. actually the israeli massacres were continued and uh uh were continued over the last night as the swinging israeli attacks continued and maintained over several areas of gaz strip from beit hanon city in the north to rafa city in the south continuous israeli air strikes harvested more lives of the palestinian civilians let's begin from the central area of gaza strip as the israeli occubition war planes carried out several israeli air strikes against the origental buildings and at least four residental
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buildings were destroyed in the central area of gaza strip, particularly in a nusarat refugee camp, at least 37 palestinas civilians were reporttedly uh killed in annusarat after the israel incubation forces targeted a residental building and fuji camp as you can see here the scene in the alaxa marters hospital uh the people are gathering to m those people and to take uh these dead bodies to their last destination after the israeli occubition forces. mercilesly massacred them while they were inside the houses, these are the dead bodies of those palestinas civilians, including the women, children and elderly, they were massacred over the last night and city, so it's the same scene, it's the same crime uh reiterated a daily basis by the israeli incubation forces, so it's another crime added to the uh continuous record and continuous uh israel
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israel's genocidal war on gaza has cast the somber tone over this year's holy month of ramadan and the besesh gaza strip. palestinians there are in dire need of food grappling with the devastating impacts of relentless israeli bombardment and crippling sie. a correspondent in gaza muti abu masaba has talked to some of the displaced gazons who described their plight. it was displaced after the israeli forces attacked our neighborhood, as you can see, we live in these tents made of plastic and fabric, we have nothing eat but some canned food, which is the only thing that we have been eating for roughly six months, we don't even have gas to cook, i have six children and i don't know what to feed them, i have been displaced from the nosirat refugee camp, i have five children, i came from algeria to visit gaza
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and then the war erupted. i hadn't expected that the situation could be as bad as it is. the situation is beyond catastrophic here as people can barely find food, especially. this ramadan is completely different from previous years, my five kids and i have been displaced from gaza city while my husband is still there, we have no source of food, the amount of food provided by charities is also scarce, we're devastated and deprived of our basic needs, live here with my eight children, our lives are tragic, the situation is getting worse day by day, struggling to cop with this unbearable condition emidence bombardment and blush it, in ramadan we are completely relying on the food provided by donors, sometimes the food is scarce and we get nothing to it, i think can food has also made us sick, we have been displaced from northern
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gaza, there are seven of us living here, we are suffering lot, the weather is too cold and there are no gas supplies, because of that i have to make fire to cook food, most the time we find no food or milk for the children, they always cry and get sick, the israeli war has destroyed everything in gaza. israel's prime minister has rejected new cease fire proposal by the hamas resistance movement that included the release of the regime's captives in exchange for the release of palestinian abducties. benjamin netanyahu's office issued a statement following a war cabinet meeting in tel aviv, however the... said delegation would leave for qatar to discuss israel's position a potential agreement. it also said netanyahu had approved plans for a military operation in rafa, the southern gaza city, where more than 1 million people are sheltering.
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earlier, hamas said under its proposal, the occupying israeli forces should leave gaza. hamas said his proposal also included the return of displaced palestinians to their homes and providing them with aid, the exchange of palestinian abducties with israeli captives held in gaza was included as well. a representative of the united nations population fund for palestine has expressed deep concern about the situation of newborns in gaza emit the ongoing israeli unslot on the beast strip. i'm personally. leaving gaza this week, terrified for the 1 million women and girls of gaza, 650,000 of reproductive age of menstruating age, and most especially for the 180 women who are giving birth every single day in gaza. we need to have unfetted access, safe, um, at scale, multiple entry
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points, so there's a there's a lot more conditions on the ground that would need to be provided to ensure that the assistance can get to the where the where where it's most need. allan warned that on friday, the humanitarian situation in gaza is nightmare for mothers and babies with doctors reporting abnormal size and sick newborns. he said that to doctors also point to tragic situation related to stillborn, births and neonatal deaths caused by malnutrition, dehydration and complications. he also said that the numbers of complicated. for rays are roughly twice as mothers are stressed, fearful and they are exhausted and caregivers are often lacking necessary supplies, allen described the situation in gaza as a crisis of humanity and beyond catastrophic, adding that those
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children should be wrapped in their mother's arms, not in bodybacks. israel's genocidal war in gaza has killed nearly 31,000. 500 civilians, most of them women and children, and now we've held an exclusive interview with the deputy leader of the palestinian islamic jihad movement. in it, he details a latest ceasefire plan proposed by the resistance in gaza, but cast doubt on israeli willingness to reach a political settlement. a new proposal was submitted, which... divides the agreement, meaning that the first phase would begin, which includes the prisoner swap, and we agreed to add other
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elements to it, which would include a withdraw from the rashed. street and then square which would allow for the return or guarantee the return of the displaced to their homes in the north of the gaz strip and gaz. city, the second phase, which includes the swap of the soldiers, which must include guarantees for an end of the war, an end to the aggression and an end to the ceastfire, and the third phase would include pledges to begin the reconstruction of gaza. we believe
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that the israeli government, because it includes number of members of the far right, will not respond, and it has maneuvered, there is maneuvering on the part of the netanyahu government. hindi however said that such israeli maneuvering will not lead to anywhere because of palestinian steadfastness. he said the resistance is carrying out operations in areas which israel claims to have captured including in the north of the strip and in conjunis to the south. the resistance official also highlighted the us complicity in the israeli genocide in gaza. in this aggression, there
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is american agreement with israel, and the american administration is a complete accomplice with israel, despite the crocodile tears which they are shedding. so the goals are to eliminate the resistance, and these are american israeli joint strategic goals. so the goals are the same, but there is a disagreement regarding the priorities. america, the americans talk for example about sparing civilian.
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democracy, the us delivery of limited aid to gaza through airdrops and a temporary sea ports while delivering weapons to israel, he said the us is attempting to mislead the international conscience and buy time for israel, and he also pointed to israeli threats to invade the refugee packed city of farafa, describing them as meaningless given the large extent of israeli losses and casualties, elsewhere in gaza, which he stressed the regime is concealing. "economist
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and political analyst said shahobi tells us about the two major failures of israel since the creation, despite committing all sorts of crimes and atrocities. there are few points here: number one, israel, after 75 years of occupation has not secured." for its own security for 75 years there have been only wars, crimes, genocidal policies, they have been repeatedly criticized by international body, so on the security front, they have failed to achieve their own security, despite what is said about their sophisticated security systems and sophisticated military hardware. they have faith, this is number one, number two, the when they waged the war
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on hamas on and on palestinians in the last four months since october the 9th when they started their operations against the palestinians, they declared and they said that our aim is to destroy and demolish the resistance movements especially hamas, but now after four months or five almost five months they have failed to do it. they have not been able to defeat the resistance movement, and this is what happened in the last, as i said, 75 years, they have never. being able to defeat the resistance movement, on the other hand, the they have been boming the uh citizens then ordinary civilians in gaza, in sometimes in jerusalem. it's a special time for britain's 3 million muslims.
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the fasting hours are long, up to 20 hours a day, but the physical and spiritual rewards are worth it. ramadan has been a fantastic time uh in sense in the sense that it's about spiritually connecting with the law of the heavens and the earth and detoxing your bodies. ramadan is the month of prayer in the quran when muslims do their best to cultivate will power, discipline and self-restraint. but ramadan isn't just about self-sacrifice, it's about sharing food with your family and friends. it's about increasing solidarity with fellow muslims and it's about showcasing the beauty of islam to the non-muslim. living in the uk, being involved in a community helps me to understand the muslim community even more, and to be able to share that with my community back in the states. welcome
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back, jordans, have a stage yet another rally in the capital aman and support of palestinians in the gaz. repomed the ongoing israeli genocide there. demonstrators on friday called on their government to supply gazons with more humanitarian aid. they chanted anti-israeli slogans and held banners reading to break the war of starvation. landbridge to northern gaza. the protesters accused the jordanian government of doing not enough, arguing that it has a duty to fulfill its obligation towards palestinians in distress. jordan, that is hosting, 2.4 million palestinian refugees had witnessed several rallies and solidarity with gazan since israel launched
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this war on the beast strip. meanwhile, canada witnessed similar rallies where protesters in toronto denounced prime minister justin trudo for his stance towards the israeli bloodshit of palestinians. for the people of palestine in gaza, rapal, they are being shot dead from above, from the land and from any. anywhere and that's why we are here to say, justin trudo, you are complicit in the ongoing genocide in raffa gaza. the protesters waved palestinian flags, chanted slogans and carried banners reading genocide, justin and genocide is not
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self-defense. they also called for immediate cease fire in gaza, the protesters gathered outside an election of... fundraising event for the ruling party of prime minister justin trudeau. people around the world keep hitting the streets to pressurize our respected governments and to help end the israeli war on gaza. now that is a mid a worsening humanitarian crisis in the besieg palestinian territory and a looming israeli ground invasion of rafa, a southern gaza city crammed with about 1 and a half million people. palestine solidarity activists in austria are facing fines for their participation in protests against israeli genocide in gaza, however they have not back down. diter aiinarish reports from viena. the
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first protest in support of the palestinian. assistance was held in vienna on october 11th. the police had banned the demonstration and issued over 300 fines for participating in what they called an unlawful assembly. uh, since this ongoing genocide in gaza, we are protesting constantly in austria, and we've got already over 13 protests banned by the austrian government. silencing the palestinian solidarity movement by prohibiting the public actions failed and most charges were dropped. since then, the solidarity. movement has been growing, mass demonstrations are organized every saturday and pickets and information stalls are held throughout vienna almost daily. for some activists, this kind of action is not enough. we are trying to invent new forms of protest to remind the public opinion, the society here that there is a war and massacre going on in palest in palestine, so we are
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inventing new forms of protest, with flash mobs, with surprise actions in stations, in public places. one of the activists was recently find €300 for participating in the protest in the parliament in january, so far hundreds of activists have been charged, some them several times, they say... this is a significant financial burden for speaking out against the us israeli genocide. the simple slogan, from the river to the sea, palestine will be free. this slogan is currently banned by the austrian government and we facing numerous cancellations and prohibitions of protests and hundreds of protesters already got charges. the activists aim to conquer the charges with a political campaign to defend. their right to protest for a free palestine from the river to the sea. on friday, they protested outside un headquarters during us foreign secretary anthony blinton's visit to
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vienna. today, foreign secretary of the united states is here in austria in the un premises and we are taking to the street here to protest against his support to genocide. also, a mass demonstration is called for saturday in austria's capital. activists are getting find by police for the protest in austria. observers say, this aims to silence the activists. however, palestinian solidarity activists are not backing down and campaigning to raise awareness of the repression. dita reinish, reporting for press tv from vienna. moving on, senior figures from the palestinian resistance movement, hamas and yemensarulah movement have reportedly held a meeting. recently to discuss the ongoing israeli bloodched in gaza. according to reports, leaders of a gaza-based islamic jihad movement also participated in the talks and held in
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undisclosed location last week. in that meeting, representatives from the resistance groups discuss the mechanisms to coordinate their actions in the wake of israel's genocide in gaza. they also talked about a possible israeli ground invasion of gaza's southern city of raffa. anti-israel operations were also on the agenda during the talk said the ansarah movement vowed to continue its support for the palestinian resistance by targeting israeli linked ships and around the red sea. thousands of yemenes have once again taken to the streets of the capital sana and other cities demonstrating their staunch support. for palestinians in gaza. they also hailed the military operations of the yemani armed forces against israeli linked vessels abdulatifeli reports.
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following friday prayers thousands of fiemes in the kabara and across several other cities took part in demonstrations to express the unwavering support for the palestinians in gaza. they praised the yemeni army's escalation of naval operations targeting israelin chips. in the indian ocean, the protesters also voiced their opposition to israel's policies which have led to the starvation and death of what sirk in palestinians in gaza. mr. abdul malik's announcement was clear, if the israeli escalation in gaza and killing of palestinians continue, yemen will also carry on with targeting israeli bound ships, preventing them from sailing even in the indian ocean and cape of good hope. the escalation of naval operations is a step. previously promised by mr. abdul malik al hulfi, i believe that it is only a preliminary step and there will be upcoming surprises because mr. abdul malik did not
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disclose more details, and we all know that these operations are in support of our brothers in gaza. hemen army spokesman yahya also addressed the demonstrators detailing the country's latest naval operations under. with god's help, the naval forces. the yemini army carried out an operation targeting the israeli ship pacific 01 in the red sea with number of suitable naval missiles. our forces also carried out an operation targeting an american destroyer in the red sea with number of drones and successfully achieved its objectives. thanks to god we began to expand the scope of our operations against israeli ships and those linked to israel to include the indian ocean to the cape of good hope. the leader of the movement had previously blidged to expand the scope of yemen's naval operations, he declared that the yemani army would hence forth prevent israeli boundships from passing through the indian ocean. al
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hothi further mentioned that the germany army had carried out 12 operations using 58 missiles and drones last week, three of which took a place in the indian ocean. people here about that they will continue to send and support of the people of palestine and the wake of israel's genocide in gaza. they believe that all free people worldwide should unite and stand against israel and its supporters. reporting for press tv, that brings us to the end of this edition of world news. on press tv, thank you for watching, stay tuned, i'll be back in half an hour, for muslims across the world, which marks one
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month of obedience to god in the holy fasting month of ramadan, is a special feast. muslims feel festive and proud for their servitude to god. ramadan is called the month of blessings. out of respect for the holy month, muslims put aside their differences and hostilities and forge a stronger unity. different cities and villages in iran have their own traditions for ramadan which date back to centuries. get a glimpse of it in this documentary on press tv.
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