Of more welcome to our studios in the capital tehan, this is press tv news, thanks for joining us. Dongoing west israely genocidal war on gaza is in his 142nd day, despite global condemnation and International Calls for cease fire. In the latest attacks, israeli troops way to the beitlahia area, setting homes on fire and destroying some of them. Risky workers were scrambling to pull victims from the rubble. Earlier the regimes helicopters bombed the southern areas of derralbala, a city in central gaza. Israely war planes also pounded a town near the Southern City of hanjunis. The citys nasa hospital is still under israeli siege. Over 29,600 people have been killed in Israeli Attacks in gaza since october 7. Most of them are women and children. Meanwile displays palestinians in Southern Gaza are packed into a tiny area intense. Amid israely threats to launch a ground operation in raffa. They say that they have to deal with skyrocketing prices and a shortage of Drinking Water. Lets take a listen to some of them. They are talking skyrocketing prices. Its terrifying. There is no source of income. The area is very overcrowded. The situation is disastrous in every sense of the word. We dont know what the situation would be next. And f we are five people, the situation here is difficult, and after the offensive on hannuness, the number of the displaced people has increased and it has become more difficult. There is also a Drinking Water shortage, we receive Drinking Water once every three days, and when we get out to bring anything, there is no income, there is no income, there is nothing. We work along distance when you want to bring the simplest thing, this is not a life. More israel troopers are killed in the gaza strip as Palestinian Resistance groups fight off Occupation Forces on the ground. The Israel Military says two of his personnel, one of them a commander, have been killed in the palestinian territory since saturday. The two were killed in separate incidents in southern and northern gaza. According to the military, fighting in the south also left an israeli officer and two troopers seriously injured. The regime has so far confirmed deaths of 239 of its forces in gaza since it began its encouraging. Into the territory on october 7. Palestinian groups, however said that israel is hiding the real number of the deaths of his troopers an attempt to damage control. Israel has decided to send the delegation to qatar to continue talks a sease fire agreement with Palestinian Resistance moved hamas. Israely media say that the regimes delegation will be lower level than those who took part in the paris conference. Talks on the ceasefire agreements including a prisoner exchanged deal resumed in the french capital on friday, those participating included the masad and cia chiefs, the latari prime minister, and egyptian intelligence chief. The hamas leader, ismahana meanwile has been holding talks with egyptian mediators in cairo. Talks seek to breach an agreements before the start of the month of ramadan, in the first half of march. Israel is under pressure from the international community, including its allies, to stop his genocidal war in gaza. Hamas has been demanding complete and permanent cease fire as well as the full withdraw of israeli tropes from gaza, terms which israel has rejected. Heavy clashes between the resistance moment and israel continue along southern border. Hisbullah says it is targeted several Israeli Military sites. The attacks come in response to the regimes earlier missile and drone attacks hitting residential areas in southern lebanon. Mariam saleh joined us earlier from berut. For more details the israeli shelling of course is not limited to one spec specific area or not only the bordering towns as it was in the past uh, but today of course the. Bordering towns themselves have been subject to very heavy shelling, the israelies are not only using artillery now very intensively, extensively, actually now were talking about more uh air um air shelling, fighter jets uh destroying even areas that uh they probably know are empty residential areas and uh civilian houses and still they are being targeted and almost completely destroyed today we had lot of destruction in the town of karakila uh for example uh and there was a lot of rubble, we know that there are no human casualties as a result of that shelling specifically, but that is also that adds up to the continuous shelling that we saw also in dhara and aitasha, we also saw lot of shelling rashaya al fuhar, and that is one of the areas that is not usually under attack, but its outskirts are also some of the areas that are targeted by the israelis. Now hazbullah has also launched a very heavy also operations, very significant operations, areas today the hill of al cobra uh which is also a strategic place for gathering of soldiers, they targeted twice actually, once with two burcon rockets, another time they said there was a military mobilization there uh by the israeli soldiers, they also targeted that later in the day, but they also targeted another group of soldiers in the aldhira uh post, the post which is facing the town of aldhaira, we also had like you said you mentioned the ramia post, so today the. Targeted the zibdin post and the alam post so are usually being targeted. We also have the ramin post uh being targeted by alberkon rocket and that ramim specifically is an occupied labanese town uh called hunin. American and british fighter jets have carried out fresh strikes across yemen in their fourth joint operation against the arab country. There are strikes at the provinces of sana, taz and haza. Several locations including pesticide factory and Telecommunications Networks were targeted. Meanwile the yemani army carried out operations against us targets in the red sea and the gulf of aiden. Yemens Army Spokesman yahya sari says an american oil tanker and several warships were targeted with missiles. Sorry said the army would continue such operations response to attacks by the us and the uk and in solidarity with palestinians in gaza. United forces have also been targeting israely linked missiles in the red sea since the regime became is genocide in gaza on october 7. The sun shown to announce the beginning of new day. It was the 13th day of the war on the gazas rap. Look at the missile. What did we do to deserve being hit by this . The army bombed the children on the beach and destroyed our houses. They kill children, men, women, and old men. I have other place to go, so now my children and i are homeless. It is the israelis habit from ages, they say that children fire rockets. Welcome back to the news here on press tv. Thousands of austrians have taken to the streets of the capital, vienna to protest against israely genocide in gaza. Waving palestinian flags, the demonstrators marched on viennas main shopping street and held banners that red hands off ruffa and stop the genicide, protesters called for immediate ceasefire and the delivery of humanitarian aid to the gaza strip. They also call for boycots against goods manufactured by businesses tied to israel. Our correspondent was an attendance at the rally and interviewed some of the demonstrators. Lets see what they had to say. We have been taking to the streets since uh months every saturday and uh our reason for it is that our government is complicit in the genocide and uh the majority of our people do not want. To have our Government Support this genocide being committed by israel and its also against our uh constitution, they are violating our constitution which asks for. Tradity and they take side with the genocide of israel. I am here with the students of the palestinian cause. We have been working since october on building a Mass Movement that opposes genocide and the support including knowledge production, including weapons deliveries. Five months into this genocide, things are getting worse and more dire, and our countries, our universities and all of our institutions are not backing off with their. Support of genocide, which is something that were opposing every week at these protests and at our own universities and institutions. They keep telling the palestinians to move south that they will be a safe place, and then they bomb them there anyway. If we dont stop this now, nowhere will be safe for anyone. Theres an experiment on gaza, they will sell the weapons that theyre using there to the rest the world, and nowhere will be safe if we dont stop this now. Over four months of israels genocidal warren gaza is taking a heavy toll its economy, new figures are revealed that the regimes Gross Domestic Product contracted by nearly 20 in the last quarter 2023. Earlier in our explainer program, gisumi shahmi discussed this issue in detail. Lets give it a listen. When the new. Came out to that israels economy had contracted, that did not surprise anyone after all, israels onslot has lasted five months a contraction is only natural, but the amount of the contraction in double digits close to 20 , that was shocking. Lets see how israel got there. Now, in order for israel to suffer this deep drop in its gdp, we need to look at how these costs are measured. The costs of waging the onslot have a. On effect when it comes to the economy, one of them is the steep decline economic activity. When that happens, there is a resulting drop in revenue, and from there deficit spending, which produces borrowing costs, which will weigh on the budgeting long after the fighting ends. Given that, one does not need to go that far back to see what israel itself was telling the world when it came to its gdp contraction. It was only in december 2023 when Israeli Central Bank governor, amir yaran said, due to the prolonged aggression on gaza, israels economy is predicted to contract by around 1 this year, and the gdp, and the debt to gdp ratio is predicted to surpass 65 . But just a month later in january of this year, he said the aggression on gaza will cause the israeli economy 10 of the gdp with the debt to gdp to surpass 66 in 2024. The. A changing narrative on the gdp reduction was just the beginning of israels oronous announcements, like in the case of daily costs. So when the aggression began, the daily costs were estimated to be around 190 million. It did not take long for that figure to change. It shot up after the first month to 200 million, and if that was not enough, israel realized that it had to open its conforts even further since the cost rose to 240 million and then 26. 60 million for it to stand now at 269 million per day. The labor market disruptions due to the operational flood to the Israeli Regime were massive. This is perhaps one of the major reasons for the large gdp contraction. First, the mobilization of israeli reservists. The number is quite high. 4000 of them were deployed to the battlefield. That means that this is important. They were taken out of the workforce. Israel had to subsidize their salaries as well. Then comes the evacuation. 200,00 evacuees were displaced from villages along the fake gaza border and the northern border with lebanon. And finally israel restricted the work permits of 175,00 palestinian workers. These palestinians work predominantly in the construction and agriculture sector. Now heres a breakdown of the labor market. And of course how the different sectors of the workers were taken out. 1 million 275,00 workers were taken out of total workforce of around 5 million, which is very high number. This amounts to around 25. 5 of the workforce. So now, what is the Israeli Cabinet supposed to do . It faces massive influx in cos which has triggered a steep increase in spending. Israeli officials sure. Did not anticipate the steep increase of 88 in just three months after the outbreak of the enslot compared to the preceeding quarter, consumers meanwile were spending less, much less. Conservative estimates put that at 27 . There is also aspecter of business closures involving small and mediumsized israeli businesses, that is figure that continues to rise. So far, the onslot has led to the closure of around 30,000 businesses, with the restrictions on palestinian workers, the west banks economy has suffered heavy 37 decline in production. In times of a military budget when. Sir high borrowing becomes lifeline to continue a genocidal onslot, but the Credit Ratings agency moodies put damper on israels hopes right there, moodies caught israels Credit Rating one notch from a1 to a2, and this was israels first ever credit downgrade. The reason it gave was israels poor finances, and also how the economic and political future remained unknown, especially due to israels military exchange. Changes with hesbollah, given all the different expenses the on santo, israel, will need to borrow almost 58 billion dollars this year, which equates nearly 23,000 per household, and three times the amount of the fiscal deficit in 2022. If all of this is too much information, lets just summarize this segment in one shot, there it is, much of. The slide and Gross Domestic Products stemmed from 26. 9 drop in private consumption in the october to december period, a sharp decline of 42. 4 in the import of goods and services and 18. 3 dive in exports and 67. 8 decline in investment, especially in residential building. Meanwhile, spending surged 88. 1 due to the onslot cost. On top of that, consumers were spending 27 less. Finally, this aggression was supposed to initially cost 50 billion us dollars to cost israels economy 10 of his gdp, but the onslot has lasted five months, if the most recent report has said that its cost the israeli economy almost 20 of his gdp. Does this mean that the actual cost of the onslot will be around when . Billion dollars, thats something to think about. Moving on, more countries are joining the chris for boycotting the israel regime over its Genocidal Campaign against the palestinians to the besieged gaza strep. In the latest move, four, norwegian new universities have suspended ties with complicit israeli universities over the gaza genocide. Aslammed university, the university of southeastern norway, university of brigan and the brigan school of architecture, are the universities that have cut their ties . The decision comes as 15 major palestinian universities have called for israeli universities to Face International isolation over their complicity in the regimes crimes against palestinians. The recent icj ruling that israel is committing genocide also requires International Universities to cut ties with israeli institutions and corporations that are complicit in genocide and apartide. Thousands of Junior Doctors in britain have walked off the job yet again. Its a 5day strike, the second this year, and the 10th walk out in 12 months over longrunning pay disputes with the government. As side por reports, the stalemate has left the doctors feeling demoralized leading them to think of seeking employments abroad. No picket lines over the weekend here, but the strike action is on. Thousands of National Health service Junior Doctors who form half of the doctors workforce in england walk off the job, their demands the same as the last time we talked to them, because of this erosion of pay over all this time, weve been seeing problems with Staff Recruitment and retention, and weve been having people either out of medicine completely or to other countries that are willing to recruit us and pay us basically the rates we were being paid 15 years ago, and so the message from the bma has always been to try and get that pay back to 2008 levels in other words, 35 pay rise to make up for previous below inflation pay rises, an extra 3 top of the average of nearly 9 received last year was being discussed before talks between the government and the bma, the trade union for doctors broke down in december, but the walkouts come a cost, theyre happening a critical time of year when hospitals are especially busy dealing with the challenges of the coal season and with an nhs waiting list. A staggering 7. 6 million. Over 1. 3 million hospital appointments had to be rescheduled since the industrial action began over. Year ago, and yet the striking doctors continue to enjoy the support of over half of britains. The doctors say theyre doing this to bring the Government Back to the negotiating table and to get it to recognize their value. Theyre also saying that feeling undervalued and being underpaid is pushing them to seek jobs abroad. The bma says four in 10 doctors plan to leave the nhs at the first opportunity. The government says it wont negotiate while the strikes are ongoing. Theres an overall focus on privatization, which means the Health Care Insurance companies will be taking over many aspects of the running and resources of health, and thats led to record low wages, especially compared to a massive inflation and cost of living crisis, so that it no longer justifies the cost of training in terms of the actual remuneration. Medical students are leaving with medical school with 100,00 pounds worth of debt. And theyre not looking to pay that off for well over decade, whereas if they go to other countries simply next to ireland or australia, they can immediately double their way. The British Government seems nowhere near loosening its per strings, but the consensus is that the longer these strikes grind on, the wider the damage. Saied purizar press tv, london. Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States have resolved. Lift the economic and financial sanctions with immediate effects on niger republic, but demanded for the Immediate Release of the former president of niger muhammad. President correspondent Danjuma Abdullahi has the