Hello and welcome everybody, its 11 30 am here in the iranian capital tehrani, watching press tvs world news, our top story for this half hour israel bombs raining down on the besieged gaza strip for the 14th day in a row, leaving a trail of death and destruction in the bloccaded territory, at least 20 palestinians have been killed in the latest israeli air strikes at hit residential buildings in hanyuns. Uh, thats in the south of the gaza strip, dozens more were injured there, and over to a central gaza israely attacks killed several people in the city of dairal bello. The death toll from the twoweek aggression is now around 4,000. The areal attacks coupled with the total blockaid by israel has worsened the humanitarian situation as well. Food and Water Supplies are running out, while hospitals are under immense strain. The un chief has voiced concern over the situation in gaza. Both of my humanitarian appeals are essential in and of themselves, and to help realize these two appeals, i am calling for immediate humanitarian sease fire. For nearly two weeks, the people of gaza have gone without any shipments of fuel, food, water, medicine, and other essentials. Civilians in gaza desperately need Core Services and supplies. And for that we need rapid, unimpeded humanitarian access, we need food, water, medicine and fuel now, we need it at scale and we need it to be sustained. Gooteres was speaking in a press conference in the egyptian capital, cairo, israel has cut off supply of electricity, water, fuel and medicines to gaza, home to 2. 3 people in meantime, egyptian media say the rafa crossing between gaz and egypt will be opened on friday to send relief aid into the territory. The World Health Organization has also called for a daily aid flow including fuel into gaza. Fuel is also needed for hospital generators, ambulances and desalination plants, and we urge israel to add fuel to the lifesaving supplies allowed to enter gaza. Our track. Are loaded and ready to go, were working with egypt and palestine societies to deliver our supplies into gaza as soon as the rafa crossing is opened, but one of the most critical items which need to be added to that convoy is fuel, fuel to make sure this desaliniation plants can run, fuel to make sure this bakeries can run fuel to make sure that the un parts can actually. The most essential operations and fuel to ensure these hospitals can sustain their operations and can sustain lives, so fuel is absolutely a top priority. Hamas has fired a barage of rockets toward israels positions as it presses ahead with its retaliation for israels relantes bombardment of the fully besieged gaza strip, the rasam brigades, the armed wing of hamas say they. Targeted telaviv in response to the regimes war crimes against palestinians. The Resistance Group also fired missiles at assalon in southern israel earlier today at least two missiles have reportedly hit ard sirens also sounded in the Northern City of nahararia. For the first time meantime of alquts brigades, the military wing of the Islamic JihadResistance Movement say, they have struck an israeli settlement in the occupied territories. According to tel aviv, over 1400. Police have been killed in attacks by the resistance front since october the 7, some 4,500 others have also been wounded, well this just in israel has destroyed the historical alomari mosk in northern gaza strip. This is in continuation of the indiscriminate attacks being carried out by the Israeli Regime against the besieged gaza strip. The Israeli Regime is also cracking down on palestinians and the occupied west bank where troops have raided the nur shams refugee camp. At least 13 palestanians were killed in the raid on the camp uh in the city of tullicarm. Thats according to the Palestinian Health ministry. Five of those killed our children israeli four. Has arrested around 50 palestinians as well, troops also conducted raids in other parts of the west bank in the past 24 hours, including in the cities of al khalil and baitlah, tensions have remain high in the occupied west bank, as palestinians are outraged at the Israeli Regimes ongoing war in the gaza strip, more than 80 palestinians have lost their lives in the west bank since the gaza war broke out on october the 7th. The press tv is joining us now from ramala with all the latest on the israeli raids and crackdowns that are continuing in the occupied west bank by the uh Israeli Regime forces monall following a 30hour offensive in the refugee camp of nour shams into karim Israeli Forces withdrew from this refugee camp leaving 13 palestinians had. Been killed by the Israeli Soldiers, including at least five palestinian miners. Jozens had been wonded and 10 palestinians were detained by the Israeli Forces from the refugee camp of noor shams. The operation is started early on thursday when israeli troops said their jones had had operated as well in the nur shams refugee camp and that uh jone. Fired rockets at group of palestinians, they believe that those palestinian including palestinian fighters who had been clashing with Israeli Soldiers and opening fire at israeli check points near the city of tul karim northern the occupied west bank. This is what Israeli Military said and thats why they readed the refugee camp of tol karim. The operation left. Clear destruction in the refugee camp, large scale destruction in the areas and unfortunately since yesterday the Israeli Forces had imposed kind of curfew on the refugee camp preventing people and the paramedex ambulances to transfer those who were wonded from the refugee camp to the hospitals, palestinians who had been killed, the marters had remained in one of the masks there until the the operation ended. As you have said, the operation and the detention of palestinians were not only in the refugee camp of noor shams. Early on friday israeli troops raided several areas across the occupied west bank and detained uptil the moment at least 77 palestinians. The majority of those detention had taken place in the cities of al khalil as well as in bet. At least 35 palestinians were detained only including activist members of the two october journalists the number of behind bar to 20 palestinian journal. 7th of right, i believe we are experiencing some uh sound issues uh with our course one monal from roma, hopefully well figure that out and have her join us once again, but spokesman of the International Schiller institute, Harley Schlanger is joining us from portsdam germany. Uh, sir, welcome to the program. First of all, give us your perspective on how events have transpired over the past few days uh and uh the uh israeli indiscriminate um. Areal assault on gaza continues, amits the international condemnation. Well, its its definitely the case that israel is violating international law, and that the western powers are giving them an open door to do it. Uh, the fact that biden was there, schulz was there from germany, uh, sunak came from from england. The only one hasnt shown up is zelenski, and maybe thats because zelensky is a part of a. Neonazi government, but the fact of the matter is that the israelis are showing no hesitancy to violate international law, and they can do it because theyre getting a green light. Now i think its important to note that the attempt of the Biden Administration to clear israel of any responsibility for the bombing of the al aliha hospital uh is filled with contradictions, the idea that the israelis wouldnt attack hospital, theyve already attacked over 100 hospitals, so what were looking at is a policy of genocide, and yesterday at the United Nations security council, once again the. So the the United States and the nato allies are being exposed to the whole world as supporters of genocide, extremist policy, violation of international law, so wheres the rulesbased order that we hear so much about from tony blincon . Were going to go back to correspondent, please pick up where you left off, you were bring bringing us up to on the recent uh israeli um attacks and aggression that are continuing uh in the west bank as well . Yes, we were saying that at least two journalists had been detained today and this brings the number of palestinian journalists behind bars to to 27 palestinian journalists. Palestinians who had been detained by the Israeli Forces since the 7th of october also had reached 9 130 people were detained across the occupied west bank, including journalists, activists, majority of them or palestinian members of the Hamas Movement and parliamentarians as well, members of the palestinian legislative council, 74 Palestinian People had been killed by the Israeli Forces in the occupied west bank, many of them while taking part. In antiisrael protest, one Palestinian Woman was shot and killed while returning back to his home town, as an israeli checkpoint was at the entrance to her hometown there, they opened fire at the vehicle, she they killed her and her son was wonded, so at the same time when the Israeli Military is going on with their violence and aggression and these atrocities against the people. The gaza ship, the Israeli Military are doing their utmost as well to prevent people from taking part in any protest and demonstrations here in the occupied wisbank, preventing palestinian, palestinians from being engaged in different forms of resistance, and thats why every day the Israeli Forces raid the palestinian cities, villages, refugee camps and arrest dozens of people. Uh young people, children, activists, people from all walks of life, including women, in order to silence the palestinians and in fear that palestinians, or palestinian fighters might infiltrate into the occupied territories in 1948 and to prevent any future antiisraeli operations there, thats why they are trying to suffocate the people, arrest as more as they can, and prevent people from transporting within the occupied west bank traveling from central the west bank to northern the westbank or to southern the west bank, up till the day, hundreds of israeli check points are stationing at every checkpoint, hundreds of Israeli Soldiers are stationing at the military check points at the entrances to the. And the cities in order to make it easy for them detain the people, mainly those activists and palestinian fighters. Harley schlanger and potsdam, germany, lets focus on the uss support uh for the israelis, weve seen the us president and us secretary of state traveling to tel aviv, basically bolstering the israelis, but given the level and scope of. The the massacre of innocent civilians, innocent women and children, how far should the us go in supporting the israel . Well, my view is the us shouldnt be supporting the israelis at all, they should be supporting call for immediate ceasefire, and look, the the thing that to realize is there is opposition even in the west, uh, its encouraging to see all around the world, demonstrations opposing the israeli policy, but i dont know if people are aware of this, that there were hundreds of jewish activists that took over the Capital Building in washington dc for a couple of hours on wednesday, over 300 were arrested, and they were opposing israeli policies, these were jews who were basically saying not in my name. Top state department official, josh paul whos in charge of the Political Military Affairs committee resigned because he said theres a culture of silence in the state department. Remember the state department put out a memo saying there must be no talk of ceasefire or descalation. So within the United States there is some opposition. The problem is within the congress theres total support for israel and biden is using this to tie together the request for aid for ukraine and israel, the United States is offering another 10 billion dollars to israel, which doesnt really need the money for for what theyre doing. More importantly though, are the two Carrier Strike groups, the uss gerald ford and the uss dweite isenhower that have been moved into the eastern mediterranean. Uh, 2,000 military troops have been put on alert, us troops. Uh supposedly to deter hezbollah, well it looks as though if that situation in the north, which your correspondent was just describing, if that becomes more of a military confrontation, will the us get involved in it . Now were told biden is saying no, but biden also said we would not be providing certain kinds of weapons to ukraine, and and the us did, so i think the theres a possibility that there will be a us involvement. Which would be utterly foolish, uh, it would completely destroy the image of the United States in the rest of the world, as a peace, peaceful power, so i, i think the trips of all these american officials to israel, really are designed for domestic, whipping up the war party in the United States. Staying with you, mr. Schlanger, you said that the United States should be actually be supporting. Uh when in the United Nations security council, actually the opposite has happened, russia has lashed out at the us for vetoing uh the Un Security Council resolution that called for a humanitarian pause in the israeli war on gaza. How terrifying is it to see that palestinian lives are being overlooked like that . Well, its horrible, its its really unconstionable. And you have biden grandstanding that hes going to provide emergency food aid, and what are the . Doing, theyre going to provide the food aid for people who are listening to the israelis and fleeing their homes to the south where theyre subject to bombardment, so its its horrifying, and the fact is that yesterday the russians had second sease fire resolution at the us vetoed, there was a demonstration against the Us Ambassador in geneva at the Human Rights Commission where the Us Ambassador was talking about the great us record on human rights and representatives of most nations in the world turn their backs on her, so its horrifying, its something that, the the biggest problem is that the American People have no idea that theres been an occupation for years, that gaza has been essentially a prison camp, and that the palestinians have no rights and so the United States, which prides itself as the beacon of democracy to the world, has been. Given full support to an israeli denial of basic Human Dignity to the Palestinian People, and as much as americans may have been repulsed by the hamas attack into israel, theres no similar response to defend the palestinians who are now the targets of the israeli aggression, so this is something which is a dark stain on the uh record of the United States and and my organization, the Schiller Institute is. Mobilizing with International Peace coalition to bring about a change in policy from the west, including not just to ceasefire, but an end of the occupation. Moona candel correspondent and romelo is also with us. Mona, how do you feel when you see this widesspread uh Global Awareness and Global Support for the palestinians, which many experts are saying that this is basically uh, essentially unprecedented. Its because maybe the massacres being committed against the people of the ghaza strip are unprecedented as well. Palestinians feel comfort when they know that uh people around the world are protesting, demonstrating, expressing their support for the palestinians demanding an end to the israeli massacres, israeli genocide being. The people of the ghaza ship, but at the same time, the people in gaza are saying that its time for word countries to say to israel, stop, immediate. End this war, because its not a war against palestinian resistance, its a war and the genocide against everything palestinian in the gaz strip, they are killing women, children and cold the blood, murdering people, destroying holy sides, churches, masks, hospitals, hospitals that are supposed to be treating injured people and seriously sick people, people, patients are suffering from from serious diseases and illness and at the same time the israelies dont want for these hospitals to work and there had been orders for the hospitals to be evacuated because the israeli aircrafts might strike these hospitals and it happened two days ago so the people whether here or in the gaja ship that the the global protest and demonstrations and the the while world countries are still speaking about the crimes being committed by netanyahus regime, however the people say now they want something more than the protest and demonstrations, they need at least sanctions to be imposed on the Israeli Regime otherwise they will go on with their crimes knowing that the Israeli Regime let by natanya would not be prosecuted for the crimes, knowing that the United States is still backing israel and supporting the the the Israeli Regime when us President Joe Biden visited uh israel and met with netanyahu and the socalled war cabinet, he immediately expressed his fully, hes fully supporting the Israeli Regime and whats going on on against the ghaza ship, so uh, protest must go on, demonstrations should go on, but at the same time, the the the palestinians are hoping that the people would pressurize their own countries in order to take steps against the Israeli Regime and tell you and netanyahus new war cabinet. Harley schling, lets try and draw some comparison with whats take. Place right now, for example, with regards to the to the ukraine war, so recently uh we had news of all 22 arab ambassadors holding seats at the united United Nations, theyve earlier they met at the Palestinian Embassy to express their support and solidarity to the besieged palestinians in gaza, they are calling on israel and of course the us to stop uh the atrocities and the war crimes that are being taken that. In the ghaza strip, so similar to a stance like the europeans took against russia, why cant the arab countries uh take a similar stance against the Israeli Regime . For example, start sanctions, for example, widespread and condemnations in unison, maybe scrapping the normalization deals with the israeli re shouldnt there be some sort of similar response coming from at least the uh arab countries, and why havent we seen that so far . Mr. Schneinger, whereas the european governments are not justified in supporting the us and nato with the antirussian policy, but besides that your your point is well taken. Look, netanyahu said his goal is to exterminate. Hamas and in the eyes of the Israel Defense forces, anybody who is in remaining in northern gaza is hamas, the people in the hospitals, the Israeli Defense force spokesman said that people who are in hospitals, many of them are hamas supporters, well many of them are in hospitals because theyve been victims of israeli aggression, so the the question is confronting the hypocrisy and lies coming from the western. The western media, and i think thats what the the Arab Government should do. Now the Positive Side of this is that there is move internationally away from this idea of a unipolar order, and i think the more that the United States is seen as a supporter, a full supporter of this policy of the israeli government, the quicker governments are going to and the rest of the world are going to realize they have to break with the United States and nato. So i think youre right, there should be more uh coming from the uh arab and middle eastern governments, i saw one thing that i thought was very powerful, the egyptian foreign minister was asked why egypt wont open the gates to allow half million palestinians into egypt and he said, well first of all, thats part of a plan to ethnically cleanse gaza, but he said secondly, if boat with hundred people from north africa comes to europe, theres tremendous anger about the immigration, but now youre asking egypt to take half million uh refugees, and i think the point is well taken, the west is hypocritical, the idea of. Democracy is you dont silence media, you dont silence opposition, and yet thats the policy coming from western governments, so its important that the the Arab Government speak out, i think the cancellation of the meeting in jordan with biden was an important signal, but i think youre right, it has to go much further to, so that the us is forced to pay some kind of price for supporting this policy, same question to our course one and there be more uh action, more tangible uh and visible action from arab countries . Maybe the interest of these countries is more important than the lives of palestinians being killed in the ghaza ship. Saudi arabia put israel deal ice, however was that enough, many of arab countries had the open relations with israel and palestinians at that time said that these deals were kind of stab in the palestinians back at that time and now when the israels continue to carry out more massacres against the palestinians in gazash then more than condemnation is needed the question why they are. Are not taking serious steps, maybe because their interest is more important, this question should be asked to the governments of the arab countries, speaking about the people, people are trying to protest, we heard that some arab countries prevented their own people from protesting and supporting the ghaza and saying that the crimes Must ImmediatelyMust Immediately be stopped. Against the people of the gaza strip, however, the people are supporting the palestinians, however their regimes maybe are not, or they need to take serious positions, they need to show the International Community and the world that at least we are humans, its the issue is not about islam or or arab countries, its about the humanity while children are being slave. While the holicides are being destroyed, so the least is that the world countries and the arab countries must move because children and women are being slaughtered, they do nothing, they are innocent people, and when hollicides are being destroyed, when the israel is try to convince palestinians that we are moving you, or that we are demanding you to move from northern the gaz shift to the south and there will. Would be shelters, there would be safer places for you, and at the same time while they were traveling from the north to the south of the ghaza strip, people had been bombarded, air strikes killed dozens of people only on the way, even in khans in rafah and in der balah, these areas where the israel is claim to convince the world, there are safe places there every night homes are being destroyed. Residential areas are being bombed and more people are being killed, complete entire families are being killed by the israeli air strikes on these areas while the israels the claim that these areas should be safer places for the people who have to leave the northern gaz ship because hamas farters are still there fighting the Israeli Soldiers right and back to uh mr. Schlanger uh in potstam germany, some responses and uh reactions that weve seen from uh various officials uh with regards to whats taking place, one coming from uh the russian president vladimir putin, in the earlier days the onslot on gaza said that this violence that were seeing is is a result of the uss failed policy in