W welcome to our studios in the capital tehran. This is press tv news. Thanks for joining us. In the gaza strip palestanians are seeing no respite from israeli bombings as the regimes deadly war on the besieg territory enters day 18. In this latest rate israel. At the alshati refugee camp in the north of the sliver. The Gaza Health Ministry said dozens of people, including women and children were killed or injured. Medical sources say more than 50 others including children were killed in air strikes on residential buildings in the cities of han yunis and raffa in the southern gaza. Since israel launched its onslot on the strip on october 7, more than 5,000 palestinians have been killed and over 15,000 injured. The uns brice chief has called for immediate ceasefire for aid delivery to gaza. Has also timed its 17year siege on the strip, cutting off supplies of water, electricity, fuel and food. The political leader of the Palestinian Resistance movement, hamas has lashed out at western countries, for supporting what he called the israeli genocidal war in gaza. Ismahana said the west is complicit in the massacre of the Palestinian People. He also slamed some arab leaders for their inaction in the face of the israeli carnage in gaza. Hannah said israeli criminals have no scruples about massacring women, children and the elderly. He added that the israeli occupiers have recorded a shameful chapter in their bloodstained history. The Political Bureau chief of hamas said Resistance Forces will not allow the regime to feel safe and secure, as long as palestinians cannot have freedom, security and authority over their lands. 18yearold dima alhamdani and her family. Were among thousands of gazzans fleeing south after israel told palestinians in the north of the strip to evacuate. With nowhere else to go, the family settled in a temporary shelter in hanyunis, but overnight on october 17, a massive israeli air strike hit the shelter. From the family of 17, only four remain. Dima lost her parents, seven siblings and four members of her uncles family. She is now left only with her brother and two cousins. She says that 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 i 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 dead, 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 they are all dead. No. Hamas has released two more captives taken from israel following operation alacs of flood. The spokesman for hamass military wing, the kasam brigades said the two elderly israeli women were released on humanitarian grounds following mediation by qatar and egypt. The pair were taken to the rafa Border Crossing between gaza and egypt. Abu obeyd added that israel had refused to take delivery of the captives. He said the release took place, even though israel repeatedly violated an agreement to guarantee the safety of the captives. Hamas also released an American Mother and daughter on friday. Palestinian resistance fighters took around 250. Captives from israel on october 7. They say some of the captives have been killed in israeli air strikes. Propalestine demonstrators across the globe continue to voice solidarity with gazans who have been under israels brutal onslot for over two weeks now. Dozens of students in the indian capital new delhi marched toward the Israeli Embassy calling for an end to letting the blood of palestinian citizens. Scuffles broke out before the Police Detained a number of protesters. In other countries, demonstrators hit the streets to call for an end to israels brutal attacks, and for sending humanitarian aid to the besieg ghaza strip. Thouse the protesters in paris, berlin, stockholm, copenhagen and other european capitals also demonstrated over the weekend to condemn the israeli carnage. They criticized International Bodies for failing to act before the attacks left more than 500 palestinians dead, mostly women and children. The palestini Resistance Movement hamas says one of its leaders has been killed under torture in israeli jail. Hamas described the death of omar dargah as an assassination by the israeli regime. Darga was arrested in the occupied westbank on october the 9th following palestinians operation alass of flood. He was one of hundreds of palestinians detained by the regime in recent days. The Islamic Jihad movement has also denounced the killing of darak, calling it a premeditated or. And assassination, said the crime demonstrates the scale of israels brutality against palestinian detainees. Islamic jihad added that israel is overtyng a war on palestinians being held in israeli prisons. Lets cross on over to occupied bramala, speak tourmandels us. Mona, what do you have for us . Thats right, sheikh. Omar daragmi was arrested by the Israeli Forces earlier this month, he was among hundreds of palestinians who had been detained by the Israeli Forces since the start of the israeli war on the gaza ship, omar daragmi unfortunately died behind israeli bars, yesterday night on monday night, the israelis are claiming that its a heart, he suffered from heart attack, this led to his death, however the Hamas Movement announced the assassination of omar daragmi, saying that he was one of its leaders and that he was murtered as a result of the torture he was subjected to in the Israeli Occupation prisons and described again his death as as as an assassination by the israeli regime. Uh, as i have said, hundreds of palestinians had been detained, the circumstances, the situation of those palestinians who were arrested by the Israeli Forces is not clear, lawyers were not able to see them, some were family members were saying that the journey of turture had started immediately at the same moment when the palestinian prisoners were detained, those who had been detained, were palestinian parliamentarians were members of the resistance groups including Hamas Movement where former palestinian prisoners, activists, people from all walks of life, including children, women and journalists as well. Today alone, over 52 palestinians had been detained by the Israeli Forces, excuse me, 42 palestinians were detained by the Israeli Forces and today we are speaking. About some 1300 and even more, 1300 palestinians were detained since the 7th of october, and unfortunately this brings the number of palestinian prisoners in israeli jails to continue rising. Today, over 6,500 palestinians are languishing in israeli jails, hundreds of them are being held under the socalled administrative detention without charge or trial. The Palestinian Commission of Prisoners Affairs are saying that hundreds are being held insidery confinement the israeli israeli prison authorities to contact the palest they dont know the situation about and thats why Hamas Movement fascination that he was killed behind bars thank you very much. That we appreciated from occupied ramala, lets bring him, palestinian scientist and author who joins us from bethlehem, welcome to the program, day 18 is nothing short still of massacre thats happened. Uh on the palestinians there in the ghaza strip um taking a look at some reports indicating that uh this delayed as they call it a Ground Invasion um is going to happen at some point there have been also reports about some special operatives um from uh the us, uk and france that uh maybe have made their way to cyprus that may actually go in and assist uh israel with uh whatever form and shape this ground operation will take this is uh top of the fact that you have two. Attempts by israel which have failed in the past days to go into the ghaza strip um where it resulted in one Israeli Death do which what do you think will happen if this operation takes place which many say will not only be a swamp for israel uh but also will result in lot of deaths uh of palestinians as a result of it . Well palestinians have been dying few hundreds every day basically for the past 18 days uh the horrors that we are seeing in gaza are nothing short of genocidal actions, programs, murder, wanted murder of Palestinian Civilians as acts of revenge, and the Israel Military of course is afraid of going into gaza, because its afraid and rightly to be afraid because the Resistance Movement has prepared in gaza to to. Challenges raised and and they when hamas tells them that october 7th will be nothing compared to what they may face if they go into gaza, so but they have kind of climbed up a tree, their political leaders have stated the Impossible Task of eliminating hamas and this is like you know there is no way you can achieve that of course, no matter even if you wipe all of gaza or. The planet, you would still have a resistance, so i think they understand, they put themselves up a tree, and they want to restore some credibility within their own public, so they keep pounding civilian areas and they keep saying, well the time is useful for us, because we prepare better for this attack, for example, you know, silly people, they thought that putting. Umbrellas over tanks will stop you know the people from dropping bombs on them from the top uh they are they dont understand that peace doesnt come from bombing civilians and that they have to address the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinian People for freedom for human rights for justice and that no amount of military power israel with the us and the western countries combined, i think if they put all their forces together, they cannot extinguish spirit of wanting to be free, that spirit is found in every single 15, spirit, now more and more people have joined. Egyptians, jordanians, lebanese, iranians everybody say, we want to be free from this us israeli hejumony, there has plunged the middle east in crisis after crisis, i think you russia, very calm and calculating, lavrov said it wisely, he said the us doesnt know how to administer much in the middle east, so they are causing. After crisis and their promise of solving the palestinian issue so to speak has not succeeded and will not succeed because the us doesnt know what its doing taking a look at some of the news thats coming out surrounding this whole operation alasa flood and the fallout from it for israel um theres a particular piece of news, its not piece of news, its a doctrine, its called the hannibal directive or doctrine where its said to be Top Secret Military order that allows Israeli Military to kill Israeli Citizens to prevent them from being taken captive and theres some speculations now and some sources that uh are outright saying that thats what israel did when operation alasa flood was executed on october 7th, do you think that is true that israel actually did do that and do you have any idea about what about this hannibal directive or doctrine . Yes, its not assoc. Secret anymore everybody in israel knows it even some people from the kibots in the south were parts of the october 7 operation many of them said our own forces shot on us and some many israels who were killed were killed by the Israeli Military itself, not by hamas fighters and certainly the carpet bombing of ghaza, israel knew that it was going to kill civ their own military, their own, civilian or settlers that are held in gaza and indeed 22 such people, prisoners of war by hamas were killed by the carpet bombing in gaza thats now happening, and so yes, israel is not concerned about these hostages, so what they call hostages, i think we, the palestinians are the hostages, millions of us are hostages, but anyways, thats what they uh, they they. I think netanyahu when he said its a matter of life and death for the state of israel, in some ways he is right, october 7th already ended the idea of israel, the idea of the zionist, racist settler colonial, israel getting its way with military might and by the destruction of another people, this idea is already defeated, is already destroyed. They are trying to savage it and the only way they can find to salvage it is to terrorize the palestinian population hoping for palestinian submission that the whole palestinian population will be submitted or or will choose slavery basically they dont understand human psychology i sometimes dont understand if they have their own sociologists if they even think that killing whole families is going to somehow make those families all surrender, actually what we see in gaza is, even if his surviving child is left, he wants revenge, he wants to get back at his oppressors, so their psychology, i for the life of me, i could never understand the psychology of oppressors thinking that, you destruction and mass mayhem. Will get them to get their way and do want to add one point if i may sure that what is what is this about and i think you know if you look at what netanh presented the United Nations was very clear was israeli economic hegemony in the middle east linking asia to europe through southern what they call israel which is palestine and gaza is in the way gaza is actually they want to build the canal. To compete with this canal, the canal will go from ilat to gaza, and then it will draw the revenue of the sues canal, its estimated israel will make 6 billion dollars a year from this new canal, thats number one, and number two, they want the gas fields off of ghaza, this is the real economic motivation for destroying gaza, it is not about hamas, resistance so to speak, hamas resistance is a reaction to the israeli plans of hegemony and destruction that they have been doing for us over 75 years, what israel is doing in gaza and genocide is not a retaliation for hamas, its to finish the job, basically to clear gaza, thats why egypt is rightly concerned about ethnic cleansing in gaza going into the sinai because because thats what israeli plans have been all along, long before 7 october, thats a plans which i are trying to execute now with western support. Yeah, im not too sure if many are even aware of that except people like you and and of course people who are in the news maybe uh or are uh economically driven in their interests, this uh corridor that youre talking about as the india middle east europe economic corridor, its meant to actually and they make no secret about it, they meaning israel. And the us uh they uh has had said in the um one of the summits that was held recently that uh they want this derible uh chinas belton Road Initiative um and one of the things that they wanted to do uh was to push ahead this socalled normalization between israel and saudi arabia um do you think that uh what percentage of this war then may be attributed uh to that and and how would israel may maybe and im talking in speculation here uh to still have uh motivation, this motivation to be part of the reason why it wants to continue the war or maybe has conducted the war the way that it has and wants to continue the war in order to socalled finish off hamas for example and just get the gaza um factor out of the way. I think it is very important for press tv and for all progressive Media Outlets in the world to shine a light on these new geopolitical hegemonic plans by the us and israel uh and and make people aware in the. Those countries, iran, turkey, russia, china, egypt, that this is not in their own economic or National Interest for israel to get its way, egypt will be devastated economically if israel gets its way in gaza, iran and turkey and russia and china will also be affected economically, they as you point out, the belt uh program of china, which is um to provide Economic Development all the way from china to europe and the rest of the world, including now many african countries will all be impacted by this bypass, because here in the west bank by the way, they use bypass roads for the settlers to to basically connect settlements and not pass next to palestinians and and they have this imaginary way that they can buy. Pass palestinians, so this is a bypass, this is economic bypass that will work against programs of other countries, not just irans hope for development and economic progress, but also for turkeys, for egypt, for russia, for china, thats why i think we need to china at these things and address them and show the public in the west that this is not about. Quote and quote terrorism from hamas, this is about the geopolitical game in which millions of people will pay the price, millions and we need to make them aware that they also the american citizens, for example pay a price, because israel is even you know when they get the weapons from the us, they repackage them and sell them to other countries, they compete even with american weapons manufactur. Or selling to countries like india or other places, israel is a cancer, literally a cancer on the World Community that is destroying everything that is related to progress of humanity, they are they are really and and for this they are willing to sacrifice the blood of so far 2,100 children and many many more coming if we dont put a stop to it and we need to use media also to make people aware of the real background behind this and the background didnt start october 7th even though people like to focus it in the west. Yes they do. My final question um the us has stepped on many of its uh own laws and regulations that it promotes. One of them is the lehi law where um its u. S. Human rights law that prohibitts the us from providing equipment and training to a foreign. Entity that is suspected of committing gross human rights violations. The us has trampled that law when it comes to many um war scenarios in this case with israel. Not to mention obviously the fact that uh it is actually from some respects to be reported that is taking the lead on this war against the palestinians. Um do you think that uh the us in some way or another needs to be held accountable for breaking its own laws when it comes to how it conducted itself here with israel . Absolutely, and i think the us should be uh sued in its own courts and federal courts, but also in International Courts like the International Court of justice for violating its own laws, for and also for violating conventions the us signed, for example, the us signed the International Convention on on the crime of. Genocide and Racial Discrimination and the us is supporting and funding and engaging directly now there are American Military boots on the ground here in our country that are helping israel, they are engaged in acts that are genocidal acts that are crimes against humanity, war crimes, so yes, i think this is let me put it this way, this is this is a conflict. Out of the hearts and minds of millions of people around the world, the legal aspects and international, im encouraging the authority, i dont know if they will listen, they are not doing very much in ramala, but im encouraging them at least take israel and the us to International Court immediately bringing the crime of genocide against the Palestinian People, only you as a state can do that, and they should do that immediately, they shouldnt. One more day, at least even even the act to bring in these cases in front of the icj will make a significant difference globally for people to be aware of the genocide thats going on. Thank you very much for that palestinian scientist and author there from bethlehem, it was a pleasure. Thank you. With that we come to an end for our extended coverage uh within our news. To stay with us to recap of the top stories coming up in just few minutes time. At the top of the hour, its byebye for now. Israel started two wars on gaza. Resulted in destroying the infrastructure and ruining most fields. Israel has been imposing a siege on the strip for more than seven years, in addition to blocking the crossings and preventing people from traveling. Palestinian women played a significant role in highlighting these issues in media. We as journalists are capable of delivering our message to the world through the culture and the mind energy we have. I havent faced any difficulties, i mean the Palestinian Society accepts the woman as part of it, so they even supporters, for mind you right now, to breef that you are strong, to be here in this position. The zionist enemy decided to conduct a ground operation in gaza under us protection, but its still hesitant implement it as the resistance awaits him underground and above it. The existing coordination between the forces of the axis of resistance witnessed an expansion in the activities of Popular Support for the resistance in palestine, and that seems to have become an upward path accompanied by increase in the level of Field Support for gaza from inside and outside the historic palestinian map. At 10th base, were all under iraqi and syrian resistance fire, while yemeni Ballistic Missiles aimed at the Israeli Occupation were intercepted by the us navy this time. West asia headed for total war this week on the middy stream. شرلها ما تعرف غير المحبه بس وين اهلها ويا ربي من عالي السماء نزلنا حللها ملينا منها الدنيا وجيناك للباب ولا قوه يا ربي الارباب لا حول ولا قوه الا الله لا اله الا الله لا اله الا الله dozens have been killed and injured an israeli air strike on the alshati refugee camp in northern gaza. Over 50 were also killed in the southern cities of hanis and rafa. Israel has killed over 5,00 people in gaza since october 7. The political leader of the palestini resistance moment hamas as western countries support what he calls the israeli genocidal war in gaza. Is mo says the west is complicit in the massacre of the Palestinian People. The guys palestine