Throughout the world of a great Christian Community, in latin america, the countries that have this Christian Community are fundamentally honduras, el salvador and chile, which is where the palestinians of that group have settled. Now, you are third generation, arent you . Yes, i am the third in generation. Did your parents always raise you as a palestinian. Mi padre, sobre todo me of a crist. My father above all raised me as a palestinian, but more than as a palestinian, under the consciousness of a palestinian niss, and i also believe that he has to blame for me being a palestinian activist, because i am not aware of when i started to become active, given my father always taught me about and showed me zionist and antiarab propaganda. Since i was little, he showed me the movies, how the arabs were portrayed as the bad guys among other people, among the russians, etc. That you become an activist when you find your place in the world, you found your place in the world of theater, in the
Of palestinian authorities tax money being withheld, israel collects that money, uh, the funds withheld uh is something that affects the economy of palestine, and uh, this is money that pays 143, workers to go spend it, but if they dont have it, how can they do that . Next, the Israeli West Bank aggression, over 400 palestinians have been killed, violence continues almost a daily basis and these two factors obviously impacts, the economy not only of israel, but also of the occupied west bank. Israels genocidal war on the palestinians in the gaza strip and the regimes daily atrocities in the occupied west bank has devastated palestines economy, apart from the catastrophic human loss. The onslot has resulted in the destruction of tens of thousands of Housing Units with over 1. 2 million individuals currently without homes. Report by the World Bank Says Gross Domestic Product of the gaza strip plummeted by 80 in the Fourth Quarter of 2023, while the gdp of the west bank also fell by 22 .
But there has been Widespread International concern over the fate of the more than one million palestinians sheltering there. Our correspondent anna foster is injerusalem. Welcome to you, and weve been talking for more than a week about the latest round of talks and it seems there is increasing pressure on hamas to reach a deal. Yes. Seems there is increasing pressure on hamas to reach a deal. On hamas to reach a deal. Yes, we are at the on hamas to reach a deal. Yes, we are at the same on hamas to reach a deal. Yes, we are at the same stage on hamas to reach a deal. Yes, we are at the same stage where an. Are at the same stage where an israeli deal has been put on the table and was described at the start of the week by the us Secretary Of State as extraordinarily generous and it seems to be that in this latest iteration of the deal there have been some movements in terms of potentially agreeing to talk about a permanent ceasefire. From israels Point Of View its priority is trying to e
To defeat hamas s remaining fighters. But there has been Widespread International concern over the fate of the more than i million palestinians sheltering there. Our Security Correspondent Frank Gardner is Monitoring Events for us from jerusalem. Everyone s waiting for the hamas team to give its first formal response after they arrive in cairo. The cia director William Burns is reportedly in cairo and thats very important because us support for this deal has been crucial. Now, the Sticking Point in all of this is that hamas wants a commitment by israel that the fighting stops. Israel wont give that commitment, partly for political reasons and partly for political military reasons. It believes the remaining four Group Battalions of hamas are hiding out in buffer, probably below ground entitles and yahya sinwar, the leader of us, the military leader and the architect the october seven massacre, is amongst them. Hiding out there, possibly even surrounded by hostages. So the Israeli Milita
Georges hopes of joining the e u the below him. Terry martin, thanks for joining us. Israel has reopened, the area is Border Crossing into northern guys for humanitarian agents, the only crossing into the north of the territory. But it was closed the following. Hamas is october 7th terror attacks you military and agencies had been calling for it to open for months to allow them to deliver desperately needed food and medicine to hundreds of thousands of civilians at risk of famine. For more of this, lets bring in our correspond rebecca richards, shes in jerusalem, rebecca, how much of an impact will the opening of the arrows crossing have on the humanitarian situation and godson swell . Every piece of age that makes it into the best age skiles . A strip helps terry every bag of rice, every box of medical supplies. But you know, it has to be said that this opening all the areas is no, no going to be a Silver Bullet for the humanitarian situation in gaza. Of course its location in the nor