Of hello and welcome live from tehran, you to press tvs world news, im hashimi, appreciate you being with us, well no in insight to the Israeli Massacre of palestinians as the regime pushes its bombing of the besieg the strip for the 17th consecutive day. The latest israeli air strike sent plumes of smoke spiraling over northern gaza strip. Thats after the regime killed 70 palestinians in its attack overnight on sunday. Hundreds of thousands of gazans have already moved the south to take refuge in temporary shelters. However, israel is also hitting the areas that they fled to. The un agency for Palestinian Refugees known as undra, says that has lost at least 29 of its staff in israeli bombings. More than 5,000 palestinians have been killed since the regime launched its onslight on gas over two weeks ago. More than 15,000 people have also been wounded. 18yearold dima alamdanie and her family were among the thousands of gazans fleeing south after israel told palestin in the north of the strip to evacuate, with nowhere else to go, the family settled in a temporary shelter in khanus, but overnight on october the 17th, a massive israeli air strike hit the shelter from the family of 17, only four now remain. Dema lost her parents, seven siblings and four members of her uncles family. Shes now left only with her brother and two cousins. She says her life has turned. Into a nightmare, i went to look for my mother, my father and my siblings at the morg, at first they told me come, see your mother, they didnt show me her face, but recognized her from what she has on her feet, god bless her soul, i felt heartbroken, it was like nightmare, they opened my fathers coffin, i had no signs of injuries, but he died, god bless his soul, i had a 16yearold sister among the. And they wrote my name on her coffin since they thought it was me. Her body didnt have any signs of injury, but maybe she died from internal injuries. They also showed me my little sister, shes in first grade and they asked me who is she . At first i didnt recognize her due to all the cuts and burns on her face, and then they wrote her name on the coffin. I would have never thought that my family would end up like this. I felt heartbroken. Its a nightmare. I cant believe it until now that. Like to cross over to johannesburg and talk to zakir ahmed attorney, activist and political analysts, thank you so much for being with us, 17 days now that weve been watching this terror take place in the gaza strip, and were hearing from civilians, that uh lot of times they have been gone, they have gone to places in gaza where they were told was safe um buying the Israeli Regime or they thought would be safer because it was a United Nations school or hospital, church, amas, but it seems that there is no safe place in the gas strip. Um, your take on this, the level of inhumanity that were witnessing. Day by day by the Israeli Regime and of course by their western uh regime supporters who are not doing anything uh to stop this, but actually are trying to reequip the. Israeli regime militarily, this is a old tactic of the zionist entity, in fact there was in a previous a human rights report titled no safe place, and its exactly that, israel was guilty of this in 2008, 2009, advising families to vecate a certain area because of bombardment and then bombarding the areas which they had deemed safe corridors and it is exactly that system that we are seeing in operation today, however you rightly know that the ferocity and barbarism that we are witnessing this time around is different and it is clear what this is, the entire world, western world, the United States, united kingdom, italy, france, germany and many others have come out to support the right of israel for revenge, this is not rights of selfdefense, this is not even rights of targeting hamas, if they deem hamas to be the target. These are and it was very clear from the video footage that was just shown before i came a that the targets of designist entity are the young people in razza the 50 plus percentage of ghazan population are under the age of 15 so what we are looking at at the moment is genocide of a child population the entire world is standing by and they are handful of countries that have been brave enough to stand on the side of truth and justice and have equalized the. Equation on international scale, what we see is hypocrisy in the west and what you see is principles and you see solidarity on the side of the global south and the Islamic Resistance access, well we look at the situation, mean i was talking to our correspondent on the ground there, and the stories that he tells are absolutely horrific, mean we look at these uh, so called uh, well well say these western regimes, western countries, um, and they talk about for example, people going through trauma and what it takes, pt and what needs to happen, i was talking to our journalist and he was talking about his 13yearold son, this was his fourth war or aggression that he has seen, lets talk about that side of things, for those who are surviving, not just the numbers that are unbelievable, over 5,000 have been killed, the survivors, the trauma, mean, these are all war crimes and yet a blind eye is being turned towards them, there has been an orchestrated campaign to dehhumanize the palestinian people, and and this is clear from the manner in which the israeli officials speak, you had referred previously to you galand, how he spoke about the palestinians as human animals, manach and begin, i believe in the 19. 80s referred to the palestinians as animals walking on their hind legs, aliat that posted on her social media, a post thats referred to palestinians as snakes that needed to be killed in their homes and then you have senior advises to the Israeli Administration using similar language when talking about mowing the cross, and if you dont mow the gross meaning systematic killing of the palestinians periodically, then you will have snakes that are roaming the area so what you are seeing is the dehumanization of the palestinians and by dehumanizing the palestinians what it does create then in the minds of the observer is that these are people incapable of experiencing trauma, yet the video footage that is being seen now on the screen, the video footage that was shown of the orphans of gaza, it it leaves very clear message that this is an obliteration of an entire people, the post Traumatic Stress disorder that they disproportionately focus on with the israeli. Civilians and citizens etc. Is as if this is not being heap in buckets and loads on the palestinians just south of where they would be in from tel aviv or elsewhere. There is always this analogy at the moment that is being utilized. This is the worst massacre for the jewish people since the holocaust. I think that is thats a very misleading statement creating an impression that this is only a tragedy for for jewish people and the palestinian. Are not entitled to their own tragedy, if we just look at israels own history in 2008, 2009 when they launched operation cast lead within the first five minutes they had killed 350 people that far out ways, the figures that came out on the 7th of october, were not competing for tragedy here, but we have to appreciate that the fact that the palestinians are being brutalized, they being genocided, and right now the entire world is standing by, including the arab nations, including many muslim nations providing lip service and others are just openly supporting this genocide and actually funding it and fuding it, its a disgusting time to be alive to watch these nations. Behave in this manner, but it is a proud moment for the Islamic Resistance who continues equalize the field in different forms. Right, and uh, you know, we look at uh, the idf and the roots of the idf, and i mean, this entity in general um was rooted in terror, and especially if we look at the idf specifically, for those who know the background, the history, and of course it was the stern game. Um prior uh to socalled israeli entity, leading up to 1948, we know how these uh jewish extremes or zionist extremes of course were attacking in palestine even the british at the time, and after the the the socalled state of israel, um, we saw that basically remnance of that stern game um part of the idf and of course uh various members actually later on became uh very wellknown political figures inside the entity so this is a whole system rooted in terrorism, it is as as if its deflecting what it is, and then trying to say that thats what the palestinians are, your take . I think it goes to the very foundational principles of designist entity, and it is a militarized society. We must understand that, they they constant reliance on this principle of deterrence, deterrance in simple words, is fear of the arabs for for israel, that was utilized in deryasin when they committed massacres amongst the innocent so is to create a large excedus of the palestinian population from their homes and gave rise to the refugee question, there is just one example of the many atrocities that have been committed by the design. Identity during its establishment, it continues further when you look at even the the statements of arik shrinman which we know as during 1967 the 1967 six day war, although often portrayed in the media as one that that attacked israel, the arab countries wanted to wipe israel off the map, its actually not correct, its the other way around, but if you look at the statements of before that, he said that nast referring to nasa, the time nasa is getting to apparty, we need to restore our deterrants, that is the fear of us, this is exactly the type of language that is coming out of think tanks in israel now, they are talking about deterrents that you have to create a situation with disproportionate forces utilized in attacking someone so as to ensure that there is other confrontation in the in the time going forward, this was also utilized in 2006 when they went into lubnan and they committed massacres in tahya, they flatten the area, and this was because of the tahiya principle, so terrorism is the fundamental pillar of the zionist entity, and therefore when we look at the images, when we see what is happening, when we get the report, it comes as no surprise that israel is behaving in this manner, because its built into its dna, and that is why israel has to fight for its existence, because the world cannot tolerate. A terrorist, zionist, aparted colonialist Settle Country any longer . Yes, indeed, mean, you talked about the exodus or of course the nakbah, and i mean, right now it seems as if its a nachba 2. 0, that is taking place, and what is being said in the region is that what the zionist regime is trying to do is basically clear gaza, have them go. Into the desert or in other arab countries and and even take over gaza, i mean your your thoughts on that side of things, im going to go a bit further on this, we have to ask the question, why, why would they want ethnically cleanse gaza or gazza, and knowing full well that there are extensive tunnel systems underground, it would be death but for the zionist entity and their soldiers and i would go so for. As to say that it appears, this is not being spoken about openly any platforms no in the analysis, but i think its logical to come to this conclusion, that the zist entity has already prefersed this as this is the worst incident that happened since 1973, the yamkipur war, they are going even further and saying this is the worst incident since the holocous etc etc etc. We seeing this build up, now we must bear in mind that in 1973 with the yom kepur war, golden meer gave permission to utilize the samson principle. Sampson principle or doctrine is to utilize Nuclear Weapon in defense of the zionist entity. If we look at what is happening, effect. Effectively what they are trying to do is cleanse the area so that they can use prohibited weapons. Israel does have this tendency of doing so, we see how theyve utilized white fosphorus both on the Northern Front as well as in gazza repetitively. We know that their backers and the person the people who are behind the planning right now, the United States have utilized depleted uranium in iraq. There was also reports of mad dog matus, james mattus authorizing the use of tactical Nuclear Weapon and in iraq and we see this with regards to the repercussions and the numerous birth defects etc. Cancer increases in in iraq, so i would not put it past the zionist entity, its completely off the rock, its its going completely perserk, and this is what i see the picture is for gaza, they want to obliterate hamas and they dont care how they do it, because they have a blank check from the western nations. Okay, all right, stay with me, here, im going to cross over to beirout and talk to our. Correspondent mariam salle uh on the ground there okay mariam tell us about the latest um from that side of things can you hear me um were actually in South Lebanon uh not in the capital beirout but uh here of course were following up uh very closely and we can hear uh just few minutes ago uh we can hear the sound of explosions and bombings and shellings and we found out that uh that was the result of. Of uh operations for the resistance and at the same time shalling by the israeli um artillery seemingly or perhaps its surveillance planes which are uh ready always to basically hit targets uh so here um you i can tell you basically behind me we were told we were supposed to leave that area which is being shelled uh just few minutes ago uh they told us that any time there could be shelling usually that begins uh later in the afternoon we had just left actually that are same area where there was an exchange of fire, its called the abbad um post uh near the village of markaba and the labanese village town of markaba and odas that is where hazballah launched an operation against one of the military targets and at the same time the israelis launched shelling at the outskirts of those villages but at the same time also we have the settlements that are behind me now since it is dark its probably very difficult uh to get the camera to show you very closely uh we have the miscaf arm settlement basically that is just behind me, we know that there were several rockets that were fired into that settlement uh and it seems that some of them were intercepted, others fell or one or two at least rockets fell in that settlement uh if not we had the shrapnels of those rockets as a result of the uh the interception they also fell in that uh settlement now of course were not, its not clear who launched those rockets into the settlements, since hazbullah seems to have from the beginning of this confrontation, basically stuck to one methodological method, way of dealing with with the israel is basically hitting direct military targets, they never actually miss any of their targets, they usually hit at Israeli Military post, israeli gatherings of Israeli Soldiers, or merkava tanks or. Armored vehicles, so basically that is the hazballah way of doing dealing with it, those rockets could be from other resistance groups, here were talking about either hamas or the Islamic Jihad uh resistance movement, we also have two other groups uh that are also have openly began their operations, basically we have the lebanese brigades uh for uh resistance against Israeli Occupation and we have also. The fazer group, which is considered a sunni uh group in lebanon, and they have also declared that they are beginning to launch their operations, the launch one operation just yesterday, basically launching rockets, we dont know up until now if there are any murders, we we dont have that, we have heard news of course of one murder, but we also know that at least two Israeli Soldiers have been either killed or wounded as a result of the hizballah operations today, but generally it was quite slow today. It was we were cautious, calm basically all throughout the day and then just about less than an hour ago we heard the sounds of explosions, but other than that it was slower than we the usual usual we have uh more firepower, more sounds of explosions throughout the uh the the the border all along uh the southern lebanon, but now uh here today was a bit slow like i said but we just heard one of the explosions just behind us in one of the settlements seemingly we know from the israeli media so far uh cuuse we dont have anything yet from hazballah as a statement, but we know from the israeli media that they intercepted several rockets uh, but we do have at least one or two that did fall on that settlement. Miriam, lets talk about the resistance in general, because there a lot thats being said, and it seems that, well muslims all over the world and even others um are waiting to hear a statement from said hasan nasrulah, of course, the leader of the resistance. Do we have any information about uh if and when that he may be making a speech on the situation . Absolutely not, and that is a question that everybodys asking, whether in lebanon, for those who are supporters of hazballah, theyd like to hear from him, basically to understand, and we heard today, i had interviews with people in the villages and the bordering towns and they said that we just want to hear from him just to give us a signal, if he wants us to fight then were ready to fight, that is on one hand, you also have the us and its allies basically wanting to hear anything from hazballah sending in envoy. Ways into lebanon uh you have the the the French Foreign minister, the german um defense minister, we had today the italian defense minister also coming into lebanon, and we know for sure that they had talks with the lebanese officials, basically to stress on one thing that they want to put pressure on hazballah not to continue their confrontation uh with the israelis and they want to always sent through canals, all sorts of canals, you have businessman, you have um politicians, diplomats. Even media personalities, anyone who is an elite, anyone who can contact hazballah, they are pushing them to try to get answer from hizbullah whether they will go further in this confrontation, hazbullah has been silent since this is part of their psychological warfare, the silence of hizballah secretary general saysanlah in itself is part of his method of dealing with things especially with the israelies since his silence actually is really telling uh so basically uh they understand that by this uh hezballah will continue with this, theyre not backing down, but we have heard from hezbollah officials stressing that if any sort of move or wrong move from the israelis, whether trespassing uh the red lines that hazballah has drawn here in lebanon, or perhaps even uh launching a ground incursion into gaza, which they keep postponing, those are probably some of the red lines that uh hazbullah has drawn for the israelis and also for the United States as well, since the. Have been very clear that even if we do have an intervention by the us army itself or the us marines uh then therefore they will have a response not only to the israels but also to the us marines which is very much reminescent of the 1980s since as you know during the israely occupation uh 1982 then in 1983 we had incursion and an intervention by the us uh Marines Force and that led to an operation for groups they say is linked to uh later on on it was like, its still not clear, of course, its not evident who did who launched that operation, but still they believe that lebanon is a place where they had more than 200 us marines killed in addition to the fact that the israels have also experience, they have long years of experience with hazballah during the Israeli Occupation from 1978, but hezballah began 1982 until the year 2000, and also they fought first hand with during the 2006 summer war, and that was very costly for the israelis, they lost a lot of mercava tanks, they were told no, you need to go to the front launch invasion, they got another group of marcaven tanks into actually this the same field right behind me, and they called it then, hazbullah called it the graveyard of the marava tank, which is considered the queen of all tanks, and today we are seeing these marcava tanks being targeted a basis by the resistance, so definitely they have. Shown some of their potential of course as a resistance uh, but definitely hazbul has said that we have much more than this, and if the israelies take it step further then we will be ready to move to the next phase, of course, what that next phase might mean, we have lot of scenarios of course to talk about. Well, its interesting, mariam have been monitoring um various uh stations and also looking at various videos and it was interesting to me seeing um actually arabs from various countries actually not talking about their own leaders whether theyre egyptian or otherwise, but but looking towards say hassan for direction. I mean, that is very significant, and it talks about the great influence of the resistance and of hazbullah, um, that has, its its quite amazing from where it started, and now where it is. Well that is quite remarkable actually, and that started out not just now, uh, we saw pictures of hazbillah secretary general said. After the year 2000 in every single capital in the arab world, were also seeing it in the muslim world, in many countries like pakistan, like kashmir, like of course in iran, you do see his pictures being hung, you do see his words being repeated, and what is amazing is that you have the youth in countries like tunisia, like egypt, like algeria, like jordan also, calling out the name of nasara specifically, you have the footage, you can hear. Hear those people shout out, theyre calling on him to uh basically send rockets to tel aviv, theyre ready to go all the way, of course hazballah is very much meticulous and and very much calculating their move step bystep, but this this shows how much support the resistance has gained throughout this time, despite the fact that we had huge Media Campaign against hezballah throughout the years, especially with the fact that they support supported the resist the um the syrian government, they supported the people of of syria as they were fighting the takfiti groups in the beginning, every some people were against them and they had this huge Media Campaign saying hazballah has lost ground in the arab world, they have lost their support that they gained as a resistance movement, however now people have understood the truth behind hazballahs intervention in syd syria, they understood that they were there to basically uh just protect lebanon from. The takfiti terrorist groups and also protect syria, but not only lebanon syria, but the entire region, because you see that the takfiti terrorists and as daesh and allos front, basically a threat to the entire region. Now once more we see the populast, we see the people on the ground, the everyday ordinary man, woman and child even in the arab world showing their support for the resistance, theyre not showing their support for their leaders or their president s or their prime ministers or. Kings, they are definitely showing their support for the resistance, because this is what they want, and this is one of the issues that analist were talking about, that up until now we still dont have the arab leaders basically moving away from their agreements with israel, that would probably take some time, the people would have to rise even more than this, but at for now they do support the resistance and they know that it is the resistance that would bring about uh any realization of rights or liberation of land, indeed, okay, mari in South Lebanon, thanks so much for that update, do i still have zaker . Zaker, are you with me . Okay, i guess i have lots of zaker there in and in general, if i still have you, and looking at the the situation on the boarders, you said that today it was a quiet day, in general, the overall um take. Is for as the mentality of the people, the lebanese people in the region with the the the current situation. Okay, i guess i have lost maria also southern southern lebanon, you have lot of support for the resistance, go ahead, mariam, go ahead, yes, uh, well, we do have lot of support for the resistance. Definitely, the south south of lebanon is known to be a, as they call it a stronghold for the resistance, since it is the people that were under occupation, during the Israeli Occupation that began this Grassroots Movements, hezballah is not separated from the people, theyre not something foreign, they were the the everyday man, woman, the grosser, the teacher, the the doctor, they were those people who began that Grassroots Movement uh here in South Lebanon during the Israeli Occupation and that transformed of course now and developed it has become become a paramilitary, it has become a very strong uh Political Party in lebanon, which has lot of nongovernmental organizations and associations which either help uh whether it is in the social or economic field and also definitely as a resistance, so therefore they do have that complete support of the people here in South Lebanon, and of course in a lot of other areas like in the Southern Suburbs of beirout, at the bica, in the north and other areas as well, but you also have the support of many of. The other regions as well, we have heard from even regions that are ruled by foes of hazballal, Political Parties who have been considered to be a antiresistance, the people that said they are ready to welcome the displaced in case there is a fullout war and the israelis usually pick out the places where they want to shell, they want to shell the places where they know hizballah has support, and so most of those people are forced