Hello and welcome to press tvs world news, im arzi hashimi, thanks so much for being with us going back to the situation of course in gaza, where israeli war planes continue to hammer the gaza strip neighborhood by neighborhood, reducing the fully blockaded palestinian territory to robo, over 2700 palestinians including more than 1,000 children have been killed in the 9 days of relentless bombardment by the regime. About 10,00 others have been wounded so far. Palestinian Civil DefenseOfficials Say over 1,00 people are missing under the rubble of buildings destroyed by israeli air strikes in gaza. The humanitarian situation is also deterior by the hour, as the regime has blocked the supply of water, electricity, fuel and. Into the territory. The un chief has urged israel to allow the rapid and unimpeded humanitarian aid into the gaza strip. Well the United Nations relief and works agency has also warned that gaza is witnessing an unprecedented human catastrophe. The number of people seeking shelter in our school and other facilities in the. South is absolutely overwhelming and we do not have any more the capacity to deal with them. My team will relocated to rafa to sustain operation following the israeli ultimatum is working in the same building as thousands of desperate displaced people rationing also their food underwater. In fact an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding under our eyes. How many people evacuated south in the six hour, the Un Agency Says some one million palestinians have been display since the israeli assaults began. Meanwhile, israel has stationed thousands of troops and heavy weapons near the gaza border. The arab league and the African Union have warned that the regimes possible Ground Invasion could result in quote a genocide of unprecedented proportions. Meanwhile, Palestinian Resistance groups have launched more attacks against israel in retaliation for the regimes bombardment of the gas strip. The military wing of the hamas resistance movement, the azaddin al qassim brigades launch missiles at the city of tel aviv. The cities of sadarat and sholmi were targeted as well. Basam brigades also hit a gethring of Israeli Soldiers in the riam region with missiles. Haman. Had previously stated that it can target anywhere in israeli territories. Now Palestinian Resistance fighters entered the gaza envelop area on october the 7th following missile strikes on israeli targets under the operation alaxa flod. Over 1400 israels have been killed and 3400 injured since that time. Hamas says it launched the military campaign in response to repeated israeli desecration of the alaxa mosk and the regimes cross. And aggression throughout the decades. All the israele regime has a long history of killing palestinian children. Mohammed aldora was one of them, whose gruesome murder during the second palestinian intap sparked International Condemnation and attracted widespread media coverage. Now several members of his family have been killed in the latest Israeli Aggression on gaza. Two of muhammad. Uncles and one of his cousins are among the latest victims of the israeli atrocities. Muhammads father jamal addura bid farell to his slain brothers, remembering the scene of his own sons kill. 12yearold muhammad was killed in the gas strip during widespread protest against the Israeli Occupation on the 30th of september the year 2000. Palestinian tv cameraman filmed the boy and his father crouching behind a concrete cylinder, the boy crying and the father waving, then a burst of gunfire and dust. Muhammad was shown slumping over as he was mortally wounded by gunfire, and died soon afterwards. Asra albahisi, a correspondent for irans arabic news channel shares her anxiety, depression and grief over the loss of innocent lives and tragedies faced by media personnel in gaza. حالna kiحال المواتنین هنا, نحن نبكي ولكن نبكي على الخذلان. وليس على ما يفعل الاحتلال الاحتلال نعرف ان هذا هو ديدنه وهذا هو فعله منذ عقود من الزمن ولكن نبكي على خذلان من حولنا قبل قليل ام هنا اتت وصرخت سرخت امام كل عدسات الاعلام تسال اين العرب اعتقد هذا سؤال تجاوزناه منذ اليوم الاول ولكن لازال لدينا امل هنا لازال لدينا امل في الشعوب العربيه في الشعوب بالاسلاميه ان تحرك الانظمه نبكي لان الموت يحيط بنا من كل اتجاه قبل قليل زميلنا محمد عشو هو المنتير الذي يقوم بمونتاج التقارير التي تصل اليكم هو الان لا يعمل معنا لانه يبحث عن ما بقي من عائلته تحت الركام يبحث عن والدتته ولا يجدها حتى جثتها لم يجدها وجد وجد اخوته وهجد والده اخوته الان داخل المستشفى بين الحياه والموت ووالده حتى اللحظه لم يجدها ابكي لان المصور خلف الكاميرا تلقى للتو نباء استشهاد شقيقه لاننا نذبح في كل دقيقه في كل ساعه نفقد احباء في كل ساعه نفقد اعزاء انا الان معكم زوجي ودعني وعدلي اولادي لا اعرف اذا كان سيصل ام very tough situation on the ground there, meanwile irans Islamic Revolution guard core, irgc says palestinians alocks a flood operation is a first step toward the israeli regimes imminent collapse. Major general hossain salomy stated that the occupied regime wont be able to repair such a humiliating defeat, no matter how desperately it tries. The irgc chief commander added that israel fake granduur faded with this operation and its powerless reality was exposed to the world. Meanwhile irans president has made several contacts over the developments in palestine in a phone call with russian president vladimir putin. Raisi warned against the continuation of the israeli war crimes in gaza. He said the war dates back to 75 years of oppression, murder, apartide and crimes against palestinians. For his part, putin stress that russia. Has the same view as iran on the root cause of the Current Crisis in gaza. Well, im going to cross over to hanhan unis in gaza. Press tvs correspondent ash shanan. Ashraf, im going to cross over, tell us the latest situation on the ground. Lets start off with the water situation, ashraf and go from there, well marzi is good that you started with the water situation, because i cannot find a bottle of water to drink, so its a good start, now there is no electricity, there is no water, there is no fuel, they are barrying the dead in mass graves in gaza city and soon and khans and other towns and this is is happening under the watchful eye of the International Community we we we we see uh theres no help coming in egypt has blocked the uh the rafah crossing and of course israel has sealed all the crossings and israel keeps pounding so so its not only that we dont have water we dont have electricity we hardly have any internet i have to uh browse around the area here just to get connected so i can hear you uh add to that the ongoing bowing the misery, the the death, the bloodshed, every Single Person in gaza is a tragedy and the. King including myself of course and my cameraman, my sng truck, everyone, everyone is is living in a nonstop nightmare, whether is it, whether it is to provide water, if they can find water, whether its to how to charge our phones, how to uh, how to do anything, there is there is no life in gaza, remember that back in the day when they used to say gaza. 2020, they were talking about gaza unable to to be habitable by humans, well now in 2023, i think they missed that date by three years, because this is whats going on, yeah, you talk to people, you feel like youre talking to azamby, not the they know whats going on, but the fact. That theyre not able to sleep properly or gets any kind of sleep or whether men, women or children, even sick people, theyre not getting any sort of food or at least or they gets food thats not enough to sustain the brain cells to make them think properly, but whats amazing despite all of this, the moment you Say Something about alaqs . Or the flood of aqsa or what happened on october 7th, they will immediately wake up and say, we dont care whats happening to us, what happened on the 7th of october that history that hamas achieved against tel aviv is enough for us, some people say, if we die today well be happy, sure, can i Say Something, i mean thats thats its quite amazing and quite beautiful, in the middle of all. And and also indicative of how much suffering the palestinians have endured in least 75 years um after losing so much right now in gaza and under so much pressure and as you said any second anything could happen to any of you still people uh are showing their pride in october 7th and the first time that their land part of their land has been liberated uh i mean that that is amazing in general uh ashhraf, i want to talk about just the overall situation, i mean what is going on with the kids, i just want to get this just to totally a humanitarian level and what it is like, so the majority of people, youre in han right now, um, and im assuming so many other people from other parts of gaza have gotten there, where are theyre staying, what are they doing, are they just on the streets, um, just just break it down for me a little bit camera, worjiha. Okay, i just asked the cameraman to swing around or try to show you some things here, i dont know if he cant move to the other side of our sng truck, but next to our sng truck, there are mattresses, there are people on the floor, there are injured people, this is life in khanness, this is the biggest hospital in the in south of gaza, look around you, all all you see right now is people sitting around waiting to to hear about the loved ones of this. Still alive or dead uh or waiting their turn to be bombed as they get out of the hospital, so far we havent had any bombing inside the hospital itself, but i dont, i think israel might do that, because they bombed children, they bombed trucks with women and children and elderly people leaving gaza towards uh khanuness, so nothing uh would stop them from targeting us here. Whether journalists or or or medics or anything, theyve killed at least, at least i think 12, 12 uh paramedics, they uh, they killed hundreds of children, so uh, so im just gonna describe what you cant see right now, on the sidewalks of the of the hospital, is hundreds, maybe even thousands of people sleeping on mattresses or or cardboard boxes. This, you know, you what, what i saw in khan yunis reminded me of what i saw when i first sit my foot in new york city back in 1990 with a with with the homeless people, ive never seen a homeless person in my life, but right now myself, im homeless too, because i have a mattress next to the sng truck where im going to spend my night as well, and thousands upon thousands of people have the same thing, lot of people are sleeping on the streets or. And farmland or because there is no is enough housing for them in khan unist for example, not not all of the people from gaza. Moved to khan, some of them moved to, some of them moved torat, some of them moved to albege and almagazi refugee camps, but people avoid going to the refugee camps, because refugee camps are are the the dense areas, homes are built close to each other, and any bombing any, anything that happens there, would cause lot of death and and destruction and lot of bloodshed, so basically people try uh to stay inside uh the hospitals like khan is here over across the street from the hospital, there are a couple of unra schools, United Nations relief and works agency for palestine refugees in the near east unra, they are the uh the staying there. Uh so basically most of them stay inside unra schools because they feel because they feel that because they feel uh that its safer, but that does not mean its safe, because back in 2014, i remember how uh unra schools were bombed, yes now and and you said that youre sleeping outside like so many others, of course we know that you dont theres no electricity there, its about, i was just checking right now, 20 degrees at night, um, im just wondering, especially the mothers with the small kids, being thirsty, being hungry and no shelter, tell me about the kids right now in gaza, okay, ashhraf, i think ive lost the connection with him, hopefully we will be able to reconnect, let me cross over to toronto and uh talk to director of the institute of contemporary islamic thought, mr. Zapar bangash, thank you so much for being with us, i hope you could hear our correspondent on the ground there, absolute hell, absolut hell and we see what kind of reaction these regimes in the west, whether were talking about from london to paris or washington, and beyond that theyre talking about and actually have sent military equipment or ships, whatever to help israel, i mean your thoughts za on all this, this is absolutely mindbockling that this is taking. And this is the 10th day of this situation, absolutely, these regimes in the west are complicit in the zionist crimes against the Palestinian People, the zionits are killing young children, babies, women, they are bombing schools, hospitals, they have demolished and destroyed complete apartment buildings, the the figures are horrendous. You know more than 300 palestinians have been killed so far, 600 of them are children, this is genocide, these are war crimes that designs are perpetrating, actually 1, the number is up to 1,00 kids that have been killed now, obviously the number has gone up now, so thats 100 children killed so far and im sure that this number is going to rise further because the zionist are continuously bombing the tiny gaza strip and what . These western regimes do, they are not only justifying zionist crimes, but they are sending weapons to them, every western ruler has come out in full support of these zionist criminals, the reason for that is that just like these western regimes, these zionists are colonial occupiers of the land of the Palestinian People. America is a colonial state, when the white europeans arrived in north america. They decimated the local inhabitants of north america, they perpetrated genocides, exactly the same thing is happening in palestine today, the only difference is that today we have the the internet, we have the social media, so this information is being broadcast worldwide to expose the crimes of the zionist war criminals as well as their western allies. When we look at. The situation, we had actually the head of the irgc um here in iran, talking to the israeli regime, it it doesnt take much. Just to basically you have people caged in a small area and and civilian population, if really youre so strong, i mean take on militaries, but we we see this time and time again, the pathetic uh zionist regime, basically always attacking defenseless uh, defenseless civilians and trying to use it as an excuse um as a military operation, and we see the same thing happening right now, your take . Oh, absolutely. You see, what it is is that these zionist war criminals are incapable of coming head to head with lightly armed palestinian fighters. Mean, what hamas did on october the 7th was absolutely phenomenal, it was unprecedented. Nobody could have imagined that these lightly armed people would be able to carry out such daring. Operations to attack Israeli Military bases inside israel and take on these zionist war criminals. See the what the zinanis are doing is to use their air force, their missiles. Obviously hamas doesnt have any air force, it doesnt have anti aircraft weapons etc. If designers were to were to come face to face with the palestinian fighters lightly armed, they would get a bloody nose, they would pay very heavy price. But they are cowards, they can only kill civilians, they can only bomb from the from 2000 feet in the air, they can bomb refugee camps, they can bomb and kill children and women, they are absolute carards, but what i also see is that despite all of this carmage, the zin is but what i also see is that despite all of this carmage the zionists weaknesses have been shown and the day is not far when we would see these zionist war criminals driven out of palestine and the palestinians would get their freedom. I definitely see that despite the fact that there is such massive carnage, killing and bloodshed of the Palestinian People after all they have been denied water, food, medicines everything. I mean, this is collective punishment of civilian population. This is a war crime. This is against every law that the western rulers prattle about all the time. I mean compare it with like whats happening in ukraine, theyre all saying, oh ukraine is being attacked and civilians are attacked, these are war crimes, exactly the same thing the zionist are doing in in palestine, and yet what what do these western regimes do, they supply more weapons to the zionist, they they protect and defend the zionist to continue these these genocide and the crimes against humanity, but mean what happened on october the 7th. Um, it seems to signify the beginning of the end of the zionist regime. I mean, we have reports of the uh uh uneasiness to say the least inside of the regime, not only by their troops, but also the settlers, um, because they have seen that they are not invincible. On the other hand, with the pr campaign that they always uh tried to use and saying that the zianist regime had the most moral. Army in the world and now are denying people even water, civilians water, so it just seems like on both size that things have uh have transcend to a different level now uh with the Global Perspectives of the zionist regime, how do you see it . Well, whats happening inside the zionist entity is that there are deep divisions over there, mean there have been several settler. Who used to be living in settlements close to the gaza fence, they have said that we were here to be the first line of defense of israel and that the israeli army was supposed to defend us, but when the time came for them to defend us, they were not here, so obviously, and they have said openly, these settlers have said, and they that theyre not going to go back to these settlements or these kiborts near the the gaza. Border, number one, secondly, recent service done inside israel show that 79 of the israeli population believe that the government and their military failed to protect them. This is an enormous figure of 79 . That means that there is lot of unease and discomfort inside the zionist entity, and of course you know we are aware of the fact that for the last 37, 40 weeks there have been weekly protests against this regime because of the socalled you know judicial reforms that they had instituted essentially met to protect the criminal criminal behavior of netanyahu, so there are deep divisions internally, there are soldiers that are not willing to fight, and in fact, i am absolutely certain that if israeli airports were to be opened that there would be a flood of people fleeing israel back to the countries that they came from or that they hold the dual nationality of, whether its america or canada. Or europe or russia, many these people would flee because they were quite comfortable inside uh israel so long as the israeli army was doing the killing against the Palestinian People. Yeah it reminds me, sorry to interrupt you, mean what what you just said, it reminds me, i believe it was about 10 years ago when uh washington correspondent helen thomas, of course of palestinian descent and said what needs to happen in order to resolve this. Situation is that the israelis need to go back where they come from and leave the land to the natives who belong there and of course after all those years and experience she basically lost her job for saying that but uh perhaps we may be seeing that situation happen exactly and in fact you know a couple of years ago hs correspondent gidden livy after the 2021 israeli onslot on gaza. When you know tel aviv airport was closed, he said that within a few weeks after the airport was opened that 50,000 israels left the country and they have not come back and so we see that this time of course the situation is much bigger and there is absolute certainty that many of these zionists would like to flee the country and go back to where they came from and i think that date is arriving very soon, yes and and one. Thats definitely been waiting people around the world, especially the palestinians have been waiting on that. Youre looking at social media and various conversations, what would you say to those individuals who say, well the referring to october 7th, they basically say, well they shouldnt have started it, um, because now what is happening, they should have expected this type of repercussion, what would you say . You see, the thing is that these people need to keep in mind that this the problem did not start on october the 7th, the palestinians have been suffering zinaonist brutalities since 1947, even before this illegitimate zionist entity was planted on the land of the Palestinian People, incidentally without any consultation of the Palestinian People, so here are here is a situation whereby the indigenous population was not even consulted about what was going to happen to them, and so zionist terror. Gangs are going about murdering palestinians as far back as 1947, 1948. Who has not heard of diaria scene, 250 palestinian men, women and children were brutally murdered. Zinis terrorists, use their the knives in their in their guns to rip open the stomachs of palestinian, pregnant palestinian women, and at least 75000, perhaps million palestinians were ethnically cleansed, and then we have. These atrocities continuing all the while and gaza being under siege for the last 17 years, i mean thats enough, the people of palestine have had enough, they are not willing to live in this in this vast open air prison anymore, and what they have also done is to expose to the world two things in particular, number one that the Zionist Occupation army is not invincible, it can be defeated, and number two, it has once again exposed the. Barbaric nature of the zionist, they are the real inhuman barbarians who have no compunction killing innocent people, and of course the western rulers, particularly the United States that has sent its two armadas to the mediterranean in order to protect the zionist, they are accomplishes in this. Its interesting to note that you know on october the 15th which is sunday october the 15th when us secretary of state Anthony Blincoln met. Um muhammad bin salman, the saudi crown prince, blincon, according to their his spokesman basically said that he has three things that he wants, number one, that of course he put it that you know hamas terrorist should stop attacking israel, he put it as terrorists quote and quote, but it is actually israel thats the terrorist, hamas is perfectly entitled including the palesty