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the press tv headlines, yeman's military announces missile strike a british oil tanker in the red sea reaffirming its commitment to targeting israel lean vessels signaling unwavering support for gaza. israel forces intensify attacks on hospitals and vital medical facilities as the regime's genocidal war on the gaza strip is now in its 134th day, and iran unveils two domestically manufactured air defense systems, achieving another milestone in the country's relentless pursuit to fortify its defense capabilities.
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hello everyone, it's 1 pm in the beside gauza strip, you're watching press tv world news. our top story, the spokes person for yemen's armed forces has confirmed targeting yet another british oil tanker in the red sea. yahya sadi said number of rockets were fired on the vessel, he did not specify the scale of damage inflicted, but said target was. appropriately hit. sadi also reiterated yemen's pledge to continue targeting israeli own vessels or any other ships headed to israeli ports and occupied palestinian territories. he said such attacks will continue as long as the israeli regime continues with its bloodshed of palestinians. yemenie forces have targeted dozens of such ships in response to israel's genocidal war on gaza. they've also been targeting british and american vessels and that in response to aggression the us. and uk have recently
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launched against yemen to protect israeli interests in the region. thousands of yemanies once again take to the streets of sanah and other cities to reaffirm their full support for the palestinian people and the of resistance front. press tvs abdul latif washhali reports. hemen is from all works of life gathered in the capital sana and other cities to reaffirm their unwavering support for their. palestinian brothers and the resistance forces, people from as far away as saudi arabia province joined the gathering. we the tribes and nobles of najran came here in response to the call by abdul malik to support the people of gaza. we declare from sun that we are with and sar in standing against zionis and the americans who are committing genucide in gaza. all arabs and muslims must stand by gaza as it is a religious, national and human. humanitarian
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duty, the position of the yemani people is consistent with its leadership, they are all in one accord with palestine and with the access of resistance. it is necessary to act with one's heart and soul, people have come out today to express their position and steadfastness until palestine is liberated. the protesters condemned the israeli aggression against on the... order of egypt and urged their armed forces to intensify naval operations and response to the regimes for crimes in rafah. they expressed willingness to join the yemeni armed forces and fight against those to commit horrible crimes against innocent civilians in gaza. all yemenese, young and old, men and women learn to use all types of weapons from pistols to automatic rifles, anti-aircraft guns and missiles. everyone is preparing for the decisive battle. with designists, when we
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declare that we are ready, it is not to brag in the media, but rather we are truly prepared to confront america, israel and those with them. earlier, the spokesman for the yemani army stated that the forces had successfully targeted a british ship in the gulf of aiden using naval missiles. he also pledged to continue preventing israeli linked vessels from sailing through the babel straight until the israeli genocide stops. people here believe that it is time for muslims around the world. of now welcome everyone to press tv's news review program where we get in depth. in one
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of the day's top stories: the palestinian red crest of society has warned israely attacks on health facilities and staff in gaza are posing a significant threat to the lives of those in need of medical... care now warning comes as really forces have persistant on targeting khan units a southern city in gaza, alamal hospitals also under a complete siege with israeli armored vehicles blocking its entrances. regime forces have declared a curfew or on the hospital and are terrorizing people taking shelter there to vacate the complex. meanwhile, alnasar hospital, the largest medical facility and khan unis also remains under siege. four patients died on friday due to lack of oxygen, as shelling caus power outage. this is the 134th day since israel launched its genocidal war on gaza. over 28,800 palestinians have so far been killed, and according to the un, nearly 2 million people have been displayed since then. now joining us for the program is
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gilbert doctor, independent international affairs analys joining us from brussels and julia cousom, journalist and political... panalist joining us from beirot, hello and i like to welcome you both to the program here, i guess um, we'll start there in beirot with you uh, julia, attacking and laying siege on hospitals, killing and abducting hospital staff, destroying medical equipment when they finally raid these hospitals and then when it comes to aid denying medicine and medical supplies, so julia, what kind of war policy is this? it's a genocidal war policy. that israel, the israeli regime has employed since its genocidal ground invasion into ghaza, we saw it use the same strategy to very extense at el shifa hospital, the indonesian hospital, at al-nasr hospital, and now we're seeing it at the naser hospital in hunas, so
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this is time and time and again israel has every time it has lost in a region move down to the next hospital. all to claim it's gaining ground around the region and then of course in the absence of any tangible military victory since all it's recrued is losses upon losses it decides to pull its guns on innocence in hospitals um which has a instead of fighting um who it's supposed to be fighting who it's the palestinian resistance which is victoriously beating it um it's uh it's basically killed innocents in in hospitals, it's it besieged them, it removes all of the electricity and deprives them of medical equipment and facilities, it bombs them in their in their vicinities, and and it even at the hospital and early
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november it left five babies at the icu, five children to die, so this is just a policy it uses when it try. to claim ground in area whenever it's losing in a region, as we can see the withdrawals of khan unis started few weeks ago, and and of course it tries to save face and execute the zionist regime's next plan of just making gaza uninhabitable and terrorizing people into forcing them from the the enclave into the syni uh is the next objective when there is a complete of any real military uh goals achieved. thank you, julia, and gilbert doctor, welcome to the program from brussels of mr. doctor, your thoughts on on why three dozen, i mean the first handful of hospitals the israeli reached went after, hamas are using them as command centers, they told the world, they
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stopped that after their three dozen uh hospitals destroyed, um, why is the regime so eager to go after the health system in gaza? i agree completely with the remark. of my fellow fellow panelist about the genocidal nature of the israeli behavior, why hospitals in particular, that is a pressure point to achieve what was just mentioned, the objective of demonstrating that life is untenable in gaza, and to force the palestinians now huddling in the southern most part of the of the strip to uh burst through. the raf crossing and to move into into sini thereb achieving the total ethnic cleansing, which is the israeli political objective. however, i'd like to step back for moment and congratulate you for this extensive coverage that you have day by day
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of what is going on in gaza. this is not to say that there is no coverage in western mainstream media. it is surprising, but as has to be said as fact that that that. broadcasters like the euro news or bbc or cnn do have intermittent coverage of very same crimes that you describing today, however i say intermittent. because though the the crimes are so blatant and are of such violation of of all humanitarian law that they are inescapable for coverage, nonetheless, they are not in daily coverage against russia. i also point out that the the palestinian situation dire as it is, with the loss of 28,800 civilians has to be put in a perspective of what's going on. in world communications and dominance of broadcasting, they over the period of 2014 to 2022, 14
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thousand russian speaking civilians in the donbas were murdered by daily artillery barrages and rocket attacks of the ukrainian army, and that got almost no coverage, zero coverage in the whole global mainstream media, today the war is going on, and you read here every day on bbc and euro news about civilian deaths from russian strikes in in cities across ukraine, you hear not a word about the the russian civilian casualties that are inflicted every day by the ukrainian forces, so relatively speak, horrible as it is, the situation in uh gaza is more favorable to the palestinians than the situation is to russians in the donbus. thank you, mr. doctor. and uh julia, now this uh, i'm glad mr. doctor mentioned raffa, that was going to bring me to my next question, it's
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going to about about the southern city of raffa and gaza where 1.5 million displaced palestinians are sheltering, the israel say there's going to be an eminent ground incursion, invasion into rafa, um and you've seen the pushback even from israeli allies that it's going to be a civilian blood bath, don't do it, the regime has had ample opportunity to find a way not to basically conduct the... operation knowing what it is going to result in, why haven't they seized the opportunity, why are they hellbent on going into rafa? as they've lost across gaza, they've been forced to withdraw from regions the north up to han unis, as i mentioned, and right now gaza, the in gaza their last ditch chance, and this seems to be definitely the plan from the beginning, to corner every civilian in rafa to either... force them to move into the si or to die. this has been the plan all along. we even saw from the
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beginning, from the first few weeks when civilians were told by the zianist entity to move south along the salahdin roadway. hamash in initially also warned people that that was a uh, you know, psychological trick, which it was, people were being slaughtered along the highway and they were slaughtered in every so-called safe zone that the... entity pushed them into now they pushed them into rafa the last corner, the thing, the area that they were calling a safe zone from the beginning, and they but they were bombing from the beginning, people were palestinians were being slaughtered in rafat, being killed by air strikes in rafa in khan since the beginning, but now that they've cornered 1.5 million palestinian civilians in rfah now they can execute their so-called final solution of uh making that final push. into egypt forcing a invasion along the philadelphia corridor that borders egypt and
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and gaza and you know this is obviously just been the plan all along uh from when when we started to hear about their plans to evacuate to push and to force palestinians into into the sinai um this actually the the final putting them in the final qualtron of the this southeastern empty field in rafah. was was like a stage in that overall plan um despite you know them um learning people by by saying it was safe zone this whole time so so this this of course just pushing civilians into the sai and making gaza uninhabitable this is a way that the zionist entity is trying to uh force an outcome in the face of its military defeat and military losses in the ground. invasion in gaza, of course it's not going to be successful, the design entity cannot force this political outcome on the
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palestinians, the palestinian resistance has been victorious, but as as a means of forcing intimidation and trying to force an outcome via ethnic cleansing and genocide rather than owning up to its military losses. this is eventually what the science entities attempting to do since it has been established via genocide. and it wants to continue its objectives via genocide. thank you. mr. doctor, i mean, when you're the israel regime, and your stated goal was that you're going to go into gaza and you're going to beat hamas. and you're going to beat the resistance, you weren't able to do it in northern gaza, you weren't able to do it in central gaza, and with this many innocent civilians in rafa, what makes the regime think it's going to have any of a different of an outcome in rafa, and that's really its objective is to shed innocent civilian blood, which it's done all along, well what i see
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going on in gaza and israeli behavior is very much the same as what i see in the european. war in ukraine each time that the um there seems to be a peace settlement inside the one side escalates and israeli behavior now in in rafa is case of escalation the bombing of the southern part of of lebanon to force the hezballah north of litani river, that is another ongoing course of... escalation, the it's clear that mr. netanyahu hopes to hold to power by turning this in the situation in gaza into a regional wide war and by his own preference into a war with iran, so the situation is so far contained, but there is the enormous risk of mr. netanyahu's
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objective of escalation to original war may yet be realized, despite all the efforts of the neighboring countries in in the in west asia to show restraint and to not to use the forces that they have available to them to destroy israel. all right, well thank you both for joining us on the program, time has gotten the better of us, stay safe to both of you, gib doctor there joining us from brussels and julia calson the're joining us from beirot, lebonon and viewers that brings us to the conclusion of this segment of your press tv news review program. thank you for tuning in and goodbye. for now, welcome back everyone, you're watching press tv, world news. the international court of justice has warned that what is taking place in gaza could lead to untold regional consequences. the icj says developments will
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exponentially increase what is already a humanitaria nightmare. un courts calling for immediate and effective implementation of measures it demanded back on the 26th of january, back then icj called on israel to prevent acts of genocide in gaza. meanwhile, the hamas resistance movement has urged the court to directly order a stop to the israeli onslot on gaza. this comes after the israeli prime minister vowed to go ahead with a planned ground assault on rafa. this has drawn strong reactions from international organizations and world. leaders, including israel's closest allies. we demand a cease fire. that is message from a palestinian girl who lives as a refugee in the city of deral balah. she told our correspondent that she wants to send message to the world through press tv. here she is. we live under
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continuous israel bombing and live in very harsh condition that we have never expired. said before and didn't imagine that we would one day live, here we are suffiring lock of food and drink, we are in real find, at first we though that this world like all other wars would last for a while and would end, but as you can see now it's still there, the war's continuing, everyone is in great sadness because he has lost his loved one, his relatives and the home in which she lives, we demand a cease fire and we want to live like the rest. the world, i hope this message riches. the palistinian resistance forces are continuing to push back against israeli forces in gaza as fighting on the ground continues. the military wing of the islamic jihad resistance movement says it's launched rockets towards ascalon and settlements surrounding gaza. there's no report of damage or casualties as of yet, but earlier israeli
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media said an israeli soldier was killed during the ground battles in gaza. also three. oters were seriously injured, israely media says a total of 233 soldiers have so far been killed since ground fighting began in gaza in late october. palestinian resistance groups though say the actual number is much higher. they say israel is hiding the real number of casualties as it already faces public anger over the handling the gaza war. iran is unveiled two domestically manufactured air defense systems as part of national. drive to boost the country's defense, of defense unveiled aramon anti-ballistic missile system as well as low altitude air defense system called azarach. armond a tactical missile interception system
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is capable of firing several missiles simultaneously within a range of 75 to 120 kms and experts say range can be increased up to 150 km. systems designed to operate at intermediate and high altitudes and is made up of a transporter, launcher and radar. other mobile missile launchers can be attached to the armon system. iran's unveiled and inducted into its armed forces, several indigenously made defense systems, including missiles and drones in recent months. iran's foreign minister says really genocide in gaza will inevitably have adverse impacts on the security and stability of west asia. hussein amry abdullah han made the remark during a phone call with the saudi counterpart. these such effects will occur if there is no immediate political solution. amir abdullah han reiterated that tehran does not consider war solution. iran's top diplomat also called
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for emergency ministerial meeting of the organization of islamic cooperation on gaza. faizu bin farhan al-saud welcomed the call. he also criticized israely prime minister benjamin netanyahu's defiance of international calls for gaza's he's fire. the leader of the hezbulah resistance movement is pledge retaliation for israel's killing of civilians in southern lebanon. our correspondent in beirot, madiam salim has your details. on the martterdom anniversary of three prominent leaders, hazula secretary general vowed that the resistance will retaliate for the israeli strikes that killed civilians in south lebanon, considering them deliberate massacers. "i tell friend and foe, the enemy will pay in blood for the bloodched of our women and children in the last few days in nabatia and sawana and other towns of
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south lebanon. alice believe nasaralah's words are very significant, but so is his deliberate silence on several issues. this is the general approach with syd hassan always takes, trying to keep the enemy always in a state of psychological fear, not expecting, not being able to anticipate." how the retaliation might come, declared it launched a first retaliation for the massacers by launching rockets against targets in, but the leader of the resistance responded to the israeli war minister, threats against lebanon, saying the rocket capabilities of the lebanese resistance goes beyond that, perhaps galant has forgotten that the resistance possesses a massive and precise missile power that enables it to strike i he also underlined that the resistance front in the region as a whole has been able to enforce a balance of power which bars the israelis and the united states from achieving
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their goals. he said that the amenes in the action they took did not resort to focusing on the americans in the military operations but rather continue to focus on israel and he said that that must remain the strategy so i think that that's a very important said hassan continues to set realistic. goals and to focus on weakening the israeli side and not to go into some rash kind of action which could lead to strategically backfiring against the access of resistance. hez supporters commemorate yearly the marturdom of hezballah's lane secretary general said abbas musawi who was assassinated in an israeli strike on the marterdom anniversary of sheikh a leader of the grassroots movement. hall is also commemorating the marderdom of its top military commander. each of hazbullah's leaders remember today signaled new stage in the resistance movement's development, now any miscalculation by the israelite could be a turning point in use of its covert
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capabilities. mariam saleh press tv, that's it for your latest here on press tv, everyone, thanks for joining us and goodbye for now. this is the story of nation that lived here for centuries until an obscure foreign regime emerged and began farming on their lands and brought in new people to replace the old nation. they picked the focal point of attention of different religions in the region. a highly regarded place at the heart of this arabic islamic setting. what would have happened if hizbullah had been vanquished? that's perhaps the most
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significant and upsetting. question about the 2006 war. much has been said about the 2006 war about its motives, the behind the scenes and the circumstances around it.
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this is m my land and my country, it is not only the 1948 or 1967 borders from the sea to the river, i am not ready to let go of a centimeter, israel is here like any for by the support of the europe, by the support of the united states, that's why they separate the land, well i was at the babo sham's protest last week and i myself had my head
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what would have happened if hizbullah had been vanquished? that's perhaps the most
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significant and upsetting question about the 2006 war. much has been said about the 2006 war, about its motives. behind the scenes and the circumstances around it, its planning and developments, its details and objectives as well as its outcome and the lessons learned from the war. also, much speculation has been made about what led to the war, when considering the situation in lebanon, in the occupying zianist regime, in palestine and in the region as well as the us role in the war. one of the