3,200 as depy bombings continue unabated, hello and welcome everybody, its 10 30 p. M. Here in the iranian capital tehrani, watching press tvs world news, our top story for this half hour. The iranian people had to the polls to cast their ballots for parliament and the assembly of experts. Voters are taking part in the parliamentary election to choose 290 members of the legislative body from over 15,000 candidates, selected members will serve for a term of four years in the parliament in another. Which is being held simultaneously, participants are voting for 88 members of the assembly of experts, deliberative body elected for eight years, this is the 12th parliamentary election and the sixth voting the assembly of experts since the victory of irans Islamic Revolution, more than 61 Million People are eligible to vote for both elections. Press tvs gisumi shah madi is joining us now with more from one of the main polling stations. In the iranian capital, tehran gisu, over to you. Well, badia, just as we expected, voting hours have been extended until midnight, now this is quite unprecedented, because usually the interior minister would the interior ministry would extend that until 11 p. M. Local time, but uh, considering the fact that many of the polling stations are still very crowded, the interior ministry has Just Announced that uh polling hours have been extended until midnight and obviously that will not be extended any longer uh however as you can see behind me polling stations here the one where im located and the ones that we are monitoring online uh theyre all still very crowded this is not unusual we do know that iranians are last minute voters so its usually at the end of the voting hours that we see uh people lining up to come in and caster ballots. Now before i let you go uh, because uh, then we will be moving to the interior ministry to give you updates on the vote counting uh process. Uh, weve been talking lot about the of parliamentary elections and the number of parliamentarians that uh will be uh elected in this election, but i believe that we also need to uh focus on the assembly of experts, which is also very. Important organization in the Islamic Republic of iran, as you know bardia, and also i would like to highlight that for our viewers is that the Assembly Experts is the body that supervises the leader of the Islamic Revolution, now this is of a directly elected body that uh has lot of power uh over the leader, they can not only uh supervise and ask the leader and the hold the leader accountable to uh what he says and what he does, but they also have the power to of uh choose a different leader, so this is of actually also very important election that is currently uh being held simon simultaneously with the parliamentary elections and uh well that is probably uh the best way that you could see the iranian democracy and the Islamic Republic of iran democracy uh being played out right before your very eyes and how people are directly uh choosing their candidates for two very important organizations with lot of power, the parliament, the iranian. Parliament and also the assembly of experts. Thanks lot, gisu press tvs gisumi shahmi joining us from one the main polling stations in the iranian capital, tehran. Moving on, iranian voters have expressed their undwavering support for the Islamic Revolution by actively participating in the ongoing elections. Iranians say they deeply believe in the power their collective voice and the democratic processes in the Islamic Republic. Lets take a listen to what they have to say. تر از این فرصت استفاده کنید در اولین ساعت در اولین ساعت ممکن برید رایتون رو در صندوق ها بیاندازید توصیه دوم این است که در هر حوزه ای به تعداد لازم برای اون حوزه رأی بدید به کمتر رأی ندید امروز. امروز چشم بسیاری از مردم دنیا چه آحاد مردم و چه افراد سیاسی و صاحبان جایگاه های معتبر ملی و سیاسی امروز چشمشون به ایرانه چشمشون به شماست میخوان ببینن که شما چه می کنید در این انتخابات نتیجه انتخابات شما چه میشه. هم دوستان ما افرادی که علاقه مند به ملت ایرانند هم بدخواهان اونا همینجو دوستان رو خوشحال کنید و بدخواهان رو ناامید کنید و اما پاسخ به سؤال ایشون که آخرین حرف من خطاب به مرددین چیه آخرین حرف من این است که در کار خیر حاجت هیچ استخاره نیست. Irans Constitutional Council has the Important Role of overseeing the electoral process and confirming the final result of elections. Our corresponding sham had earlier talked to the spokesperson the council had nazif a polling station in tehron. Weve witnessed the voting about people from the very early hours and as you can see in midday we see such great crowds here and this shows that people deem it important to use their right, the future of the country is important to them, the future themselves and the children are important to them, thank god that theres been no problem since the beginning of voting and everything has been smooth and facilitated and people are casting the ballot in the two. The 80 million population of iran can supervise the election, so if there is any potential irregularity, they could document it for us. Religious minorities in iran are also casting their ballots alongside their fellow countrymen in the nations legislative and assembly of experts elections. The archbishop of tehran says, elections are the sign of stability in any country. Usually elections taking place in any place, it is a sign of that countrys stability, and now in iran, when the election of the parliament is going on peacefully, rightly, this is a sign the iranian societys well. Being, therefore, it is important to participate in the election, election, as i said, its a sign of sound society, and thanks got that in iran, the election, that is. Taking place, its a sign of the sound of society in iran. Israels Genocidal Campaign in gaza continues with scores of palestinians killed and hundreds more injured in 24 hours and the. This attacks, Israeli Forces targeted al zeit to neighborhood in gaza city in the center of the vasit strip, killing several civilians and leaving many others injured. The regimes forces also launched strikes on the southern cities of rafa and khan unis. Israeli attacks have also been claiming the lives of captives held in gaza. The Palestinian ResistanceMovement Hamas says seven captives were killed as a result of the recent israeli attacks including three who were shot dead. The death tool. From the israeli on slot on gaza since october the 7th has now surpassed 30,200 more than 71,300 have also been injured, according to gazas health ministry, at least 13 children have so far starved to death in the besieg territory. The World Health Organization described this as very sad threshold. A very sad threshold, similar sad as the 3000 deaths we reached all over gaza. And similar like those, these are official records and as you all point out exactly, the the unofficial numbers can unfortunately be expected to be higher, and once we see them, once we see them registered in hospitals, once we see them registered officially, its already further down the line, the the system in gaza is, well we said it many times, its its knees, its more than its knees, the fresh water supply has been cut off since immediately after 7 october, the electricity has been cut off since immediately after the horroring attacks of the 7 of october, all the lifelines in gaza have more or less been cut, so and all this leads to a desperate situation as we saw yesterday in in the unfortunate horrifying incidents where hundreds of people got killed, while there is a uns, while while the secret general mentioned exactly that the investigation should. Show what the real causes w thats not even right now important, important is that people are so desperate for food, for fresh water, for any supplies, that they risk their lives in getting any food, any supplies to support their children, to support themselves, this is the real drama, this is the real catastrophe here, thats food and supplies are so scars that we see these situations coming up. And the Food Supplies have been cut off deliberately, lets not forget that. We saw pictures from al shifa where victims of the attacks, of the the horrifying situation yesterday, of the killings, were lying next each other on the floor, waiting any type of treatment. Um, this is the real drama here, and that is why despite to the calls now that this may delay the cease fire. This just underlines more and more that we need an urgent, urgent. See fire now, if not now, when then. International condemnations are pouring in over the Israeli Massacre of innocent palestinian. Scrambling for food and life saving aid in northern ghaza for having sake put an end to killing civilians, children, women, according to the information that we have, dozens of them have bullets in their heads, it was intentionally targeting and killing, and the number that we have now is 112 have been killed, and the number is. Increasing and 750 injured and possibly the number would be increasing. This outrageous you know uh massacre is testimony to the fact that as long as the Security Council is paralyzed and vetos casted then it is costing the Palestinian People their lives. The secretary general condemns the incident today northern gaza in which more than 100 people were reportedly killed or injured while seeking life saving aid. You have always condemned the attacks against populations. France has also reacted to the massacre with the countrys ambassador to the un saying civilians and civilian infrastructure should never be targeted. China strongly condemned the israeli crime of opening fire aid seekers meanwhile the Iranian ForeignMinistry Said people will never forget the plight of gaza and the us support for the israeli genocide. Turkey, egypt and jordan are among the regional countries that have condemned the carnage. Brazils Foreign Ministry has also slammed the attack calling for an end to such mass crimes against the besieg territory. Humanit is failing the civilians of gaza and it is time to prevent further massacres. It is up to the International Community to call a hold to it and to avoid new atrocities. This. Also said the Israeli Regime has once again proven that its onslaught in gaza has no ethical or legal limits. German foreign minister, anna lena bierbock also called on the Israeli Occupation forces to open an investigation into the attack. The un under secretary general for humanitarian affairs warned that life is in his words draining out of gaza, south africa and the massacer said rather, the uh massacre violated International Law an order by the top. Un court calling on israel to avoid genocide in gaza, Israeli Soldiers on thursday open fire on starving palestinians who were waiting for eight delivery in gaza, killing 115 of them and wounding hundreds more. Since israel launched its genocidal war on gaza early october, it has spared no one and no place, including homes, hospitals, schools and mosks, an active defiance and resistance palestinians in the. City of rafa have been holding friday prayers over the ruins of one such mosk called alfaruk. Lets take a listen to what some of them had to say. This is an ideological war that affects many mosks and hospitals. Why destroying bomb houses of god . What is the fault of the children who are orphed in the face of this destruction and organized terrorism covered by official International Endorsement from states and from the west . These mosks refuse to be silent. And the call to prayer will continue to resound, growing louder. Despite this occupier and their arrogance, we must uphold gods rituals and continue to hold friday prayers in this place. Our message to the entire islamic nation is to look at the condition of muslims and the state of the mosks in the gaza strip. The occupation may have destroyed nearly 500 mosks or more. Now, out of 1,250 mosks in the gaza strip, almost half. Have been destroyed by the occupation. Our message to the islamic and arab nations is that they must include these mosks in their future plans so that we can rebuild the houses of god and hold prayers, friday prayers and congregational prayers in them and tease the enemies to establish masks again. We pray in this place because i open my eyes to this mask since i was young. At the age of six i used to pray in this mask with residence of this area. The mosque is not even 200 meters from my house and we have prayed in it all our lives even when it was bombed. It is not enough for them to destroy the moral of the Palestinian People, demolish homes, kill people and wipe out entire families. But this is not just the goal of the Israeli Aggression of masks, rather the goal is to prevent desper the religion and islamic reverness among the people. Intense battles are also continuing on the. Ground in gaza with Palestinian Resistance fighters repelling attacks by Israeli Forces, the military wing of the isamic jihad has released a new video showing its fighters clashing with Israeli Soldiers in and around alza2 neighborhood in the. A city. The alts brigades also launched more tar shells a gathering of regime soldiers in northern gaza and near the rs crossing. Also in the north the mojidin brigades hit a mirkava tank with missiles. The resistance groups also said they had shot down an israeli drone in the southeastern part of the gaza strip. Tel aviv says a total of 242 Israeli Soldiers have been killed since the Ground Fighting began in gaza in late october. Palestinian resistance groups however say israel is concealing the actual number of which is much higher. Israeli forces have abducted at least one palestinian worshipper trying to enter the alas samas compound for friday prayers. The regimes forces also denied other palestinian worshippers access to the holy side, however the palestinians performed prayers near the compound. Israel frequently limits palestinians access to the holy site under various pretex. It also repeatedly launches violent raids there. The regime plans to impose more access restrictions during the upcoming holy fasting month of ramadon, Palestinian Resistance movements have repeatedly slamed the regimes restrictions access to alas samask. They say the israeli provocations and desecrations of islamic sanctities were one of the main reasons for operation alasa flood against the regime on october the 7th. Daily clashes are continuing along lebanons southern border between the Resistance Movement and and israel in the latest such attacks hezbulah says it has carried out significant operations against several israeli targets or correspond and mariam sula joined us earlier from beirot with more details. Well the day began with the hazballah statement saying that they have taken down another israeli drone. They did not specify what uh type of drone uh or that they do have the parts that was done in the middle of the night they said that they have taken it down uh in over the valley of alazi, that is considered of course part of hazballahs new strategy of taking down the drones that are constantly hovering over the heads of the people in south lebanon, even reaching areas of beirot and even northern lebanon, now other of course operations have been very significant today we had an extensive targeting of Israeli Soldiers, they hasbullah declared and has confirmed that they have targeted soldiers in ramim, ramim. Actually and also in the vicinity of almanara post and that bar specifically is one of the very few times also specifies that they know there was casualties whether soldiers were either killed or wounded, hasballah does not usually say that since they cannot really independently directly verify that, but in this instance this is one of the very few times says in their statements that this operation led definitely to score. Of Israeli Soldiers killed or wounded, we also had another significant operation, hazbullah used khamikazi drone to target a group of soldiers with actually said that they targeted infantry that was preparing to go and be deployed in certain area in the settlement of mayon and this is the first time i think that we have a targeting in that area specifically also targeted the settlement of al baghdadi post specifically also and so in addition to those hazballah operations continue with their shelling, we had very heavy shelling actually in the towns of ramya and bait leaf and today also we had a funeral for two civilians, a man and his wife in their 60s, they were laid to rest today and they were killed yesterday by israely strike in the town of kafra, thats a reference. Lets stick around, theres plenty more to come here on press tv, see you soon. Um, well, in the 1981 hunger strike, there was initially there was only four people. 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Hello, im sean murray, and this is the conversation where we take an alternative look at political events and Current Affairs through anaries lens. In this show we hope to pick, probe, investigate and uncover the stories that you want to hear. We go where mainstream wont go, this week we look at the 1981 hunger strikes and the legacy of the 10 men who died, how did this saismic event change the direction of the conflict, and what have we come to understand about its impact for generations to come