W welcome to our studios here in the capital tehran. This is press tv news. Thanks for joining us. In the Gaza Strip Palestinians are seeing no respite from israeli bombings as the regimes deadly war on the besieg territory enters day 18. In this latest rate israel bombarded 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 and residential building in the cities of han yunis and ruffa in southern gaza. Since israel launched its onslot on the strip on october 7, more than 500 palestinians have been killed and over 15,000 injured. The uns rights chief has called for an immediatefire for aid delivery to gaza. Israel has also timed 17year siege on the strip cutting off supplies. Of water, electricity, fuel and food. Well the political leader of the Palestinian Resistance hamas has lashed out of western countries for supporting what he called the israeli genocidal war in gaza. Ismagh said the west is complicit in the massacre of the palestinian people. He also slammed some arab leaders for their inaction in the face of the israeli carnage in gaza. Hania said that israeli criminals have no scruples about massacring women, children and the el 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. Itinild dima alhamdani and her family were among the thousands of gazzans who fleed 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 han yunis, 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 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 in 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 one left. The guza based Palestinian Resistance. Hamas has released two more captives taken from israel following operation alacsa flood. The spokesman for hamass military wing brigates said the two elderly israeli women were released on humanitarian grounds following mediation by of qatar and egypt. The pair were taken to the rafa Border Crossing between gaza and egypt. Abu ubayd 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. The 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 solitarity with gazans who have been under israels brutal onslot for 17 days 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 gaza strab. Thousands of 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 5,00 palestinians dead, mostly women and children. Paul food is academic and commentator joining us from airvine california. Paulfoot, welcome to the program. Taking a look at this uh war at this point, we are seeing the continuation of the israeli bombardments, at the same time, the reports indicating that uh, the supplies of uh armaments or military equipment from the us is pretty much flowing into israel, taking a look at just that, does that mean that this war uh is getting the green light from uh the us to continue through israel bombing the gaza strip or has the us taken the lead which some are indicating in telling israel that it should continue the war . Im sure that the american leaders would be very happy uh to let the israelis continue attacking as long as they dont uh uh level so many houses and have so many scenes like it just showed of uh of civilians being killed and especially they dont want scenes of Christian Churches being uh attacked uh they they want to keep that a big secret from uh the christians in america the general knowledge of americans when it comes to uh israel how would you rate it or how would you describe it uh many are saying that even uh the location of israel uh which we call obviously in the map. Not israel, but palestine, but people in america dont even know where that is, um, are we looking at more of an awareness as to whats occurred now given the uh rule outcome of this war so far, which out of the 5,00 killed uh, stats are pointing towards 70 of them being children and women, has that awaken the American Society . Oh, the awareness comes from the the large protests on the major streets, uh, the the Mainstream Media is so tightly censored in this country, not just the media. Uh, Michael Hoffman wrote a book called judaism is covered 1,100 pages long, and it was being sold briefly in amazon, and jewish groups uh made amazon stop selling it, because they dont want the average american to know what . The jews really believe in how strong the hatred is, for example, rabby at the funeral for berseine said, million arabs are not worth the jewish fingerdale, uh, they believe this, you know, they they they honestly believe theyre gods chosen people, which is fascinating, because so many of them are atheist, so how can, how can, how can atheists receive from . God they dont believe in, title to a land thats not theirs, and so the unfortunately the the ignorance level is extremely high, especially among the christian zionists. Without the christian zionist support, there will be no support for israel, theyre the ones to provide the votes, provide the people to die in wars for israel, and unfortunately i have relatives or christian scientists, theyre the worst part of the problem, the good news has been that. Jews, you got not in my name, jewish voice for peace and other groups have been out demonstrated being arrested by the thousands, wonderful, but where are the millions of christians on the streets, demanding an end to this and saying stop killing christians and muslims and in gaza, no, theyre not there, you got a few individual speakers here and there, and then of course youve got revered his his website, we hold these trues wtt, wta. We hold whttt. Org with lot of information on christian zionism, but most people dont hear it in their churches, they hear just the opposite, thanks to the millions of dollars that has been spent on uh certain ministers to spread around the the lies about israel, so its its either ignorance or belief in total lies are very common in america. Well uh, since you talk about people getting arrested on the streets uh, if they if they show any uh, i dont know if you want to call it sympathy or just showing support for palestinians, um, but what are we looking at when it comes to the censorship thats happening now, which is understood to be a very high level when it comes to uh, what we understand, cancellation of major conferences, for example, um, or workers that uh show any or even post anything thats propalestinian, and even uh commentators that come to uh, either talk shows or whether its the media or or radio programs uh that theyre getting now filtered and if they obviously show any type of pro palestine sentiment uh that that they uh they will not be brought on is that is that how this has gotten in the states oh people have been fired uh one of the most fascinating cases was i graduate from Harvard University and number of student groups at harvard came up in favor of the palestinians, wow, the one professor wrote in the wall street journal, do not hire my students, they tried very desperately to get the students thrown out, you nemit, uh, this is the kind of power that they push around, if you try to run for office as i did, i ran for a state assembly, and i went to a convention, there was a banner there for israel. Pack, they said, yes we are, he said, that means youre at the Democratic Convention also with democrats for uh israel, yes we are, he said, why are you here, were not running for congress, well someday some of you will run for congress, we start early, so they asked for pledge cards from candidates, even at low level offices very early in the game, and then they share that information with their favorite reporters in the newspapers to attack you if you dont sign the pledge cards, thats how. Thats how tight the control. Thanks to pee, continue watching the Mainstream Media, i call it like pigs eating slop at the trough, people, people make choices, you make choices about what your information is, and these people automatically turn on cnn or msnbc or the other garbage networks and they believe whats in thrown in the trough, and i blame them, i said i dont. Blame the networks, i blame them, use your minds, what, what, why would you knowingly go to source of information that you know is filled with fies, but they cant be blinded by the uh hundreds of thousands of if not millions around the world that have come out in protest against the carnage thats taking place, um, we understand even a ceasefire is not uh something that can be used by um at least politicians in the states because thats not uh whats on their agenda, but people can be. Blind it by the fact that uh you know so many have come out in support of palestine um but what is the general sentiment there . I mean i i know in the us theres been lots of uh demonstrations uh and solidarity with the palestinians and against the Us Government in particular many of them pointing to the fact that you know you shouldnt be selling arms to to israel. Even poll was taken that said that now uh over half the mostly democrats uh not so much so republicans believe that should be done but i mean uh you isnt that the worldwide uh support for palestinians something that americans are taking notice of . Well they dont see it as much in this country as you see in other places, many times i find good articles, believe it or not even in european newspapers where theyre a little bit frier to to show these things, but uh every day i check these things out, i look at uh x or twitter and i see whats there, look at linked in and then i compare it, my well, much of the american newspapers or television stations reported any of this . They havent, theyve either, theyve either got almost nothing or its very wattered down, uh, they dont do it, because they the millions of viewers dont care. Uh, lets take a look at the um military side of things, um, uh, you know, not to uh beat on this drum uh, but israel has throughout the past, i could say now over a week talked about this ground invasion, which at this point is delayed, because guess the us has made that request. Israel has heated and they are working for the release of the captives, but at the same time theyre saying that thats going to take place anyways, we have reports that a couple uh, guess a couple occasions israel has tried to go into the gaza strip, but they were met with uh the resistance by the fighters and uh we had an israeli killed and a couple of the soldiers injured. Um, also the reports coming through not confirmed that. Uh theres going to be some international um perhaps uh assistance given to israel uh where there have been special operation or operatives from the us, the uk uh and from france who are now in cyprus ready to come in to join israel on the ground in the gaza strip again thats not confirmed what do you think do you think that theyre going to go for that even though the us president says this could spiral out of uh control across the region something echoed by many actually many people and many officials. Well, the United States would not like to see it spironic control, but israel would. I just the other day, israel uh, attacked the two major airports in syria and put them out of operation. Uh, they would love Nothing Better than to have on all fronts something happening, because thatd be excuse for them to bomb the refineries of iran, and they dont care. They dont care what happens next, they dont care if the straight of mormos gets closed down and the price of oil goes through the sky, uh, it all satisfies their very sick view of the world that uh, they can do no wrong. Well, um, on the technical side of things, um, based on the capabilities that iran has, is israel would be based on again the accounts by Different Military officials, high ranking and even uh not as high in rank have said that israel will be leveled if they were to attack iran um thats been something that has been said many times over in many different ways um so im not too sure how israel thinks that that would solve anything just like many are questioning how does israel killing palestinians solves anything for their own security its not security they just want to uh drive all the palestinian. Into egypt and have the land for themselves, uh, they have this map of greater israel, where they would like far more than gaza, they like large chunks of of jordan and other areas in addition, and they they theyre not going to stop until they get it, so gaz is just the first step, its very interesting that you say that because we had a uh analyst yesterday who was saying what you just said, of course he was very uh much uh higher in its uh expressions, he was uh very much uh, his blood was boiling because of the massacker taking place, but he said exactly that same thing, that if uh the if theres no preventative measures taken against israel in gaza, that theyre going to continue, egypt he said is going to be next, and then jordan, and he said all the way through what would complete in their minds this whole notion of a greater israel, do you really believe that that is something that in israels eyes . Is uh achievable or that they have plans for that . I dont think egypt is next on their list, egypt is going out of their way to bend over backwards and recognize them, cause rafa crossing, you name it, you cannot imagine better friend than elsisi who has bottled up the people of gaza, uh, no, they they they need to go other directions like jordan and and further, theyve got this rats israel map that you can see. That they claim is all theirs and they would just expand in that direction. I mean, the problem is that the all these these countries in the middle east have artificial boundaries anyway, they were carved up by the the british and the french, and they drew these artificial maps, they put together people who were intended to be together and supposed to make countries out of it, so weve had problems ever ever since the bellford declaration in that era. Of boundaries that dont make any sense and it will cause consternation and fighting for a long, long time. All right, thank you so much for that, we do appreciate it, thats paul shelton foot, academic and political commentator there, thank you. Moving on, the israel crimes against palestinians have shown no sign of abading the Palestinian Resistance movement, tomas says the regime has assassinated one of its imprisoned members. Hamas that israel tortured omar. Dragma to death, the Resistance Group said the regime bears full responsibility for the death of the 58yearold palestinian. Dragma was arrested following the recent military operation carried out by hamas against israel on. Up with the seventh. Israel wages its disproportionate war on gaza. It is trying to put out the fires on multiple fronts. Theres a situation in the occupied west bank, the possibility of dealing with hezbollah militarily and the resistance fronts. Then you have the media narrative that is trying to control and the protests that are destroying its fake image. These are all natural consequences of exercising an apartite regime which may constitute an existential threat to israel. Israels war in gaza may have brought devastation to the street accompanied by the massacre of civilians, mostly women and children, but israels nijork reaction to its complete intel and military failure at the hands of hamas and resistance fighters may have another casualty, israel itself. Prior to the war, israel was not on solid footing, it faced many threats and a variety of fronts, most notably the judicial reforms, eight months of protest against the. Prime minister netanyahu and his extreme cabinet members had turned many inside israel against netanyahu. Israels stalches allied the us had expressed grave concerns about the push for the judicial reforms with the us President Joe Biden stating publicly the netanyahu should not go for it, but netanyahu did not or could not back out. Meanwhile, former israeli politicians, like the former Prime Minister, have expressed grave concern about israels survival altogether. Saying the entity will cease to exist before the 80th anniversary of its 1948 esta