A standstill. And stargazers around the world witnessed the rare sight of mercury zooming between the sun and. On the Palestinian Armed Group Islamic jihad says there will be no limit to its retaliation following the killing of one of its commanders. And his wife were killed an israeli airstrike on his home and gaza overnight rockets have been fired into southern israel prompting the closure of schools and some Transportation Services Israeli Military has now shut all Border Crossings into gaza and syrian state media are also reporting an attack near the Lebanese Embassy in damascus the Group Islamic jihad says the attack targeted the home of another of its leaders at least 2 people were killed and 6 injured lets go live to Harry Fawcett and west jerusalem so what else do we know about these israeli airstrikes and these targets that they hit every. Well this all began very early in the morning before dawn with an airstrike by an israeli jets the Israeli Military says on a building insi
In gaza that was expected to be safe place for displaced palestinians and this edition of spotlight we will be discussing the dire situation in the besige coastal strip and israels true intentions in continuing the war. Our guests in this edition are masojade chairman of the Islamic Human Rights Commission joining us live from london. And also saib shath, author and west asia expert from belfast. Thank you very much to both of you gentlemen, lets begin with mr. Masud shajare. Mr. Shajare, we have just heard that netanyahu has approved attacking rafa. Now this is a city that from the very beginning was deemed to be safe place for displaced. Palestinians, that is, according to israeli sources themselves. Why is this happening now at this point in time when uh hamas is putting forth a ceasefire deal, a prisoner swap deal and is looking for ways to end the war . Well, its very clear that israel, its this zinast estate from the outset was set to. Include palestinians from that land, ethnic
Ambassador Riyad Mansour at the un in new york, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Its a pleasure to have you on the programme. Ambassador, do you have any hope left that talks can achieve a stop or at least a suspension to the war in gaza . I still have hope. And thats what drives me to work harder with all of my colleagues, to succeed in putting an end to this war, to have a ceasefire, and to be able to send humanitarian assistance up to the needs of the people in the gaza strip and to prevent a forced Mass Transfer to egypt. I mean, nobody would doubt that, for the two million and more palestinians who live in gaza and of course the 100 or so hostages who are being held in the tunnels in gaza as well, every day is a day of extreme suffering. The problem is, if one looks at the talks and what is being said about the talks, there appears to be very little ground for optimism. For example, the israelis say no way will they even countenance a stop to their Military
Thank you. Thank you for having me. Its a pleasure to have you on the programme. Ambassador, do you have any hope left that talks can achieve a stop or at least a suspension to the war in gaza . I still have hope. And thats what drives me to work harder with all of my colleagues, to succeed in putting an end to this war, to have a ceasefire, and to be able to send humanitarian assistance up to the needs of the people in the gaza strip and to prevent a forced Mass Transfer to egypt. I mean, nobody would doubt that, for the 2 million and more palestinians who live in gaza and of course the 100 or so hostages who are being held in the tunnels in gaza as well, every day is a day of extreme suffering. The problem is, if one looks at the talks and what is being said about the talks, there appears to be very little ground for optimism. For example, the israelis say no way will they even countenance a stop to their Military Operations until hamas provides a full list of those hostages who are
Strip as the majority of the population is at risk of starving to death, but what does it mean for washington to build a port to get food to the palestinians in gaza . And at the same time continue to arm the Israeli Regime to proceed with the genocide of palestinians. Well stay with us as we look at that and lot more on this spotlight. Id like to welcome my guests to the program. Amal wahdan, human rights activist out of ramala, and saib shath, author and west asia expert out of belfast, thank you both for being with us, well lets start in ramala and almal, in your perspective, okay, i think ive lost the connection with amal, do you hear me, can you hear me . Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can hear you now, okay, okay, great, so why is the us building this port uh, but at the same time its continuing to supply the Israeli Regime . I mean, what does it mean . Well, i think this is like a silly shared here by the usa, instead of you know growing going around the bush, why dont they open the border