8 30 pm in irans capital tehran, this is press tv news. Thanks for joining us. Over five months into the israelic genocide in the gaza strip, the regime is pushing ahead with a steady onslot on the territory, even during the muslim holy month of ramadan. Gaza Health Ministry says nearly 70 more people are killed and about 110 others injured in israeli attacks since wednesday afternoon. Israely forces once again open fire on eight seekers in northern gaza, killing at least six and wounding scores of others. The attack came hours after the regime warplanes bombed an unrab Aid Distribution Center in the Southern City of ruffa, leaving at least eight people dead. Separately two civilians were killed and some others were injured after their vehicle was targeted in rafa. More than 31,340 palestinians have been killed since the war began early october. Most of those killed are women and children, over 73,00 gozins have also been injured. Of course one of musava joined us earlier from gazas central city of darabala with the latest updates on israeli atrocities. The israeli war planes continue their strikes against the residental buildings, particularly here in balas city and even al burge refugee camp uh the last and the fresh attack actually targeted a residental building and al bure refugee camp, at least five Palestinian Civilians were rewartedly killed over that attack while douzens are still trapped under the rubble uh in the meantime another civilian car was hit over the last couple of hours in gaza city, at least for Palestinian Civilians were reportedly killed over that attack even in jabalya refugee camp the israeli wars also renewed their. Strikes and incursions against several areas, more residental buildings were pounded by the israeli uh brilliantless strikes against that area. We are still talking about continuous israeli strikes, are still hitting the residential buildings acclaiming more lives of the palestinan people, while the israel salvation war is still continued and maintained, particularly when it comes to the uh food and a Distribution Centers and elsewhere in gaza strip. The usisraely campaign of killing and destruction against gaza continues, adding miseries to palestinians even during the holy month of ramadan. People on aidsta of gaza are forced to break their fast and the rubbles of their bombed out homes. Last ramadan was great, but this year it isnt. A lot of things are not there anymore, my sisters, my family or house got destroyed, there are still people under the raba and youre still not pulled out. This house was the childrens dream, their toys and everything is lost, there is nothing that we can offer to the children, no food or meat or anything that they need, we only eat soup and cant food, a can of beans, we are tired of canned food and we get sick because of it, my son keeps telling me that his stomach is hurting him because of canned food, we have canned meat that even cats cannot eat, there is no place that i can go to, there is no shelter, no school, there are many diseases that are spreading in schools and i was worried about my children so i said we come back here to the house where i used to live and where i had a dream and where my children also had a dream but it became a rubble last ramadan i had all my neighbors and loved ones over, we used to sit and spend nights together, but this year there are no neighbors or loved ones, theyre not here anymore. Its only me and the children left sitting here and we dont know what will happen to us. The us special reporter on the right to food says those countries that are currently supplying weapons to. Israel are complicit in genocide and starvation in the besieg gaza strip. Michael factory made the remarks in an interview with press tv website. He said that this really regime not only declared a complete blockade on gaza, but restricted and denied humanitarian relief after waging a war there. The one official accused this role of intentionally starving gosons that have resulted in full scale famin in the besieg palestinian territory. Pry said that Israeli Forces have also been targeting aid seekers and convoys carrying humanitarian assistance. He called for a permanent cease fire to prevent famin and to ensure unhindered humanitarian aid into gaza. The restriction aid has created dire conditions in the territory that has been underquipling is really seased for over 17 years. The vessel loaded with food aid is gradually heading toward gaza and it growing calls to deal with dire humanitarian conditions in the basieg palestinian strip. The vessels sent by a spanish ngo is taking a barge with 200 tons of food aid, it set sale from port in cyprus on tuesday. Meanwile sipriot form minister said that second aid ship with bigger capacity is being prepared in laranaka port. Israels bombardment and ground offensive has reduced much of gazas infrastructure to rubble. The onslot continues unabated. On wednesday, the main Un Aid Agency in gaza said that in israely strike hit one of its warehouses in the Southern City of ruffa, killing at least one staff member. The dire Food Shortages causing malnutrition and dehydration in gaza have already claimed 27 lives, most of them children. International aid agencies say that the current aid entry cannot address the dire humanitarian situation in gaza. We were earlier joined by journalist and activist. Who shared with us his perspectives a gazabound humanitarian aidship. Well the problem with these initiatives is that it it comes as a replacement of ending the siege and opening the uh crossings, which is what the palestinians want, they want to see rafah crossing, kerm abu salim and other crossing open, there are thousands and thousands of trucks full of aid and waiting to enter, but israel is refusing. To do that, and at the same time the europeans, the americans and some of even ngos are complicit in this, they want to show that we can starve you to death, and at the same time they you know, they want to keep palestinians, you know, in need of it, and today, for example, the United Nation have met with palestinian heads of. In gazza and they have listened to a unanimous united palestinian positions that people in ghazza support the resistance, any air that comes to ghazza has to be in coordination with the Palestinian Resistance and on the ground, i mean if the resistance doesnt want any of these vessels to enter ghazza, they are able to do so, but the resistance has been very careful in term of looking at these initiatives. They are being also very realistic because they understand that people are have breached in in in reality a starvation. I mean, people are dying of starvation, and this is because of us position. United states is responsible for serving the Palestinian People in gaza. The European Parliament has called on israel to open all crossings to the blockaded gaza strip for humanitarian aid to be delivered. The resolution that was adopted by the majority of the Eu Parliament members calls on israel to immediately allow and facilitate full aid delivery to gaza. The resolution urges immediate and permanent ceasefire to address the looming risk of mass starvation in the palestinian territory. It has strongly condemned repeated attacks on civilians seeking aid in gaza as well as humanitarian and medical facilities and their staff. The European Parliament also called for the protection of humanitarian convoys against all attacks. Egypt has called for an urgent increase in humanitarian aid going into gaza by land, warning that the recent air drops were not sufficient, the current level, this is the highest level, there are daily 200 trucks entering gaza, this is far below the needs, under normal circumstances, gaza was receiving 600 trucks a day. So we recognize that the numbers of trucks are insufficient, there is a long line of trucks waiting to enter, but are subject to the procedures of that must be complied to so that the trucks can enter safely, that their drivers are not targeted, that they are received on the other side by the on, which is distributing the the assistance, made the comments a joint press conference with spanish from minister Jose Manuel Alvarez in cairo, the egyptian foreign minister said the airdrops are limited in volume and pos danger to the civilians whom they are meant to help. Last week air dropped aight packages hit people trying to collect them in gaza, leaving several dead. Egypts top diplomat also said that the israeli inspections of all shipments of the crossings are the reason behind delays at the gaza egypt border. Spains alvarez for his part called for a ceasefire and an end to the humanitarian catastrophe that is causing the innocent civilian population to suffer. Its time now for the news review of this bulletin. At least three israels have been injured in an allesh stabbing operation in betkama kiboots and occupied palestinian territories. According to the israely media, one of the injured settlers is in Critical Condition and the palestinian man that carry out the operation has been killed. There is no report on the identity of the palestinin man yet. On wednesday, a 15yearold palestinian. Killed after allegedly stabbing and wounding two israeli s settlers a checkpoint outside of alqs. The back to back incident comes in rising israely crackdown on palestinians during the first days of the holy month of ramadan. Is a palestinian scientist and author joins us from bethlehem. Assad abu shark is palestinian academic and activist joining us from dublin. Welcome to you both uh were looking at the month of ramadan and um im curious as to the state of affairs in the west bank, i mean this particular piece of news we had uh involving uh the incident is uh just a little i guess snipped into how dire the situation is there, maybe you can give us an overview, we know that over 500 palestinians have been killed i think for the month or for the for the year 2024 about 150 or so, but uh what are we looking at when it comes to the occupied west bank . Yes, indeed, the on the brink of explosion, theres a lot of people here that are very angry about whats going on in gaza, the starvation, the hunger and all of this, the killings in gaza children now, 27 kids died in the past week for lack of food, but the west bank also is not to be forgotten, the settlers have expanded their. Destruction have expandednically cleansing palestinians, the soldiers are on the rampage, shooting palestinians, preventing us from even getting out of our ghettos like the bethham ghetto, you to move to another ghetto or another concentration camp, so trip that used to take an hour now takes several hours if at all possible, this this and the continued settlement expansions and the approval of the Israeli Government of thousands and thousands of settlement units have made the west bank boiling point. Now comes ramadan of course and you know we have the first two three days of ramadan and tomorrow is friday, israel is preventing people from getting to aloxamos so people are frustrated and it is not surprising that we see reactions like the one you described. Well i said abu shark when you take a look at the life of uh palestinians in the west bank uh we understand that obviously on the economic side things are very dire, you have all these palestinians who have been barred from working, they dont have a permit to work inside the occupied west bank unless they do in the black market and as a result you have uh people who are in dire situation there. When you take a look at whats happening in the gaza strip, do you think the. Bank risks sliding into something similar to that . Yes, indeed, you see, israel is launching war in gaza to kill and overkill and to children, men, women, everybody to get rid of the people together strip, and in the same time israelshing a war of ethnic cleansing and those bank cantonizing the west bank, killing people, restricting their movement, building uh uh apartite walls um humating people uh putting thousands of them in israeleli jails, excepriating the land, building more settlements, you see this is this is the the the type of treatment that israel is give to the palestinans, that is the israel on the destruction, utter destruction of the palestinian of the palestinians, wherever they might be in historic palestine, whether they are in jerusalem, in bethlehem, in the west bank in neaplus and hebron, whatever, in the west bank in gaza, in 1948 areas where. This is the science project which is beint on the destruction of the Palestinian People using psychological warfare, using propaganda war, using genocidal war, using ethnic cleansing, using collective punishment, using all sorts of maltreatment against the Palestinian People, unfortunately the whole world is is not doing anything to the palestinan, they are just standing eitherly by, sometimes they are issuing statements of condemnation, but they are not taking serious action, they are not imposing for example sanctions on israel, they are not kicking israel from the United Nations organizations, they are not recognizing the right of Self Determination and right of return for palestinian refugees, they are not recognizing our own right to live in honor and dignity in historic palestine. All right, so there was a particular warning that was issued, that kind of. Showed uh, i guess the depth of the problem that the west bank is experiencing uh, and its on the economic side, we had the us treasury secretary janet yellen who issued this warning to netanyahu, saying you better get the economy going there, you better do something not to have the economy fall apart, uh, what what is your impression of that warning that was issued given the fact that we have a palestinian a government that handed the resignation, theyre trying to get a Prime Minister and to to to unite their to have a technocratic government, but then the the warning that. Came from yellen, can you put that into perspective for us . Yes, no, im sorry, thats thats thats from a single, go ahead study on the first four months showing 2. 3 billion dollars in losses to the palestinian economy, about half of them in gaza and half of them in the bank, so again the issue is not limited. To the to gaza strip, it is also in the west bank, and this dire warning is appreciated, the problem with warnings that the un and World Food Bank and everybody else is issuing is that nobody cares, nobody is heading those warnings, Everybody Knows that we are in a catastrophic situation, but nobody is really paying attention or willing to take action, what needs to be done is sanctions applied on israel, boycot devestments and sanctions, and this is already starting among the civil society, it needs to expand to the governments. We saw some governments begin to respond like brazil and spain and some of the Northern European countries, and hopefully that will be accelerating soon, because the situation is indeed very, very di and final question to you um if i can uh have a brief short answer assad abu shakh uh taking a look at the uh way that the uh regime in the west bank is exercising itself with the raids with the detainments so forth and so on um what are the possibilities of uh the crisis getting deeper what kind of scenario do you for see . No the the crisis is going to get deeper and deeper because of the behavior of the apart state of . Israel because as i said the partide state of israel which is totally supported by the americans and by the west and by the European Countries doesnt care for the the palestinians, all they care for is the support they receive from the west especially from america and they have their own project to continue and they are continuing unfortunately because you know they receive every support from the western world and whereas the arabs are weak and submissive and do not give and for to the palestinian just words or blank statements which which are good for nothing and this is why but this is why the palestinan people should depend upon themselves upon their resistance, resistance must be escalated in the west bank in jerusalem, in gaza in 1948 eras everywhere, because the only way for an order to have all to achiin our own rights is resistance and resistance and resistance, thank you very much for that, banker guest, palestinian um scientist and author uh talked to us from bethlehem, palestini academic and activists from dublin, thank you to you both, with that we come to an end for this news review. There are new reports of hisb Resistance Movement and the israely military exchanging fire along the southern border of lebanon. According to reports, the Israeli Military has targeted southern lebanese towns of nakura, tyre harfa, among others. There are no reports of possible casualties so far, return reports. Suggest that hisbolla Resistance Movement has targeted the occupied sheba farms as well as Israeli Military sites south of the lebanese border. Resistance movement on the israely military have been engaged in the exchange of fire since the regime began its onslot on the gaza strip in october. Hisbolla has vote to support palestini resistance fighters battling Israeli Aggression by making the Regime Forces fight at another front. Thousands of iranian legal experts and attorneys have joined. Global movements of lawyers who have volunteered to file a genocide complaint against israel at the International Criminal court, refer to as the army of lawyers for palestine, the initiative has so far mobilized more than 200 thousand lawyers worldwide. Gisumi shah medi has the details. An unprecedented Global Movement gaining momentum initiated by veteran french lawyer and academic gil dever, the army of lawyers for palestine. Now has over 200 thousand lawyers of different nati