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more than 100 palestinians are killed in a single day of israeli genocidal war on gaza. the international court of justice of the heg holds a first day. hearings on israel's occupation of palestinian lands and in a letter to the un chief, iran urges the world body to stop the israeli massacre of palestinians in the southern gaza city of raffa.
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hello everyone, it's 1 a.m. in the besieg gauza strip and you're watching press tv world news. the israeli regime continues pounding the gaza's trip 137 days into the regime's onslot on the palestinian territory. 107 palestinians were killed in the last 24 hours alone, according to the gaza health ministry. majority of casualties or civilians killed by israeli air strikes in the central gaza city of daryl balah including 30 in the town of alzoweda, four more people died in rafa and another air strike and also in the south 16 people were killed and khan yunis or alnasar hospital is located and that hospital was severely damaged and many of its staff members abducted by israeli forces. meanwhile, israeli artillery continues bombarding eastern parts of the city of dirabalah. israel's genocidal war so far killed more than 29,00 palestinians and
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israel regime is still committing atrocities against the beseged gaza strip with american mid weapons. endless number of bombs has been raining on the strip for more than four successive months with gaza's health sector admitting in tremendous number of the palestinian casualties. one should take into account the gaza medical infrastructure. which is devastated due to 17 years of siege and also the systematic israely attacks that besides the delayed permissions issued for the injured palestinians in need of traveling outside gaza strip has exacerbated the already catastrophic conditions we fled our of house in alb camp to daral 40 days ago we were targeted in the house for no reason many members of the family killed over the attack.
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my father was among those injured. as you can see, he has severe burns all over his body. we're still waiting for the permission to travel abroad to get the needed medical care. we appeal to whoever is able to help us get permission for my father to travel. his condition is critical and i don't want to lose him. according to gaza's health ministry, hundreds of israel palestinians including men, women and children lost their lives due to that deal. while thousands are facing eminent death due to serious wants they sustained in israely attacks, even those who managed to survive have one or more of their limps amputated. the number of the injured palestinians is four times the capacity of hospitals and this number is dramatically increasing over the constant israeli air strikes. we have at least 11,00 people injured in the gaza strip. only in this hospital 2,100 need an urgent permit.
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mission to travel, the main obstacle is that receiving the approval for any case could take days or weeks. as a result, many might lose their life while waiting for the permission. we demand all relevant parties to set more effective mechanisms that help to rescue the people here. it's not worthy that the problem also includes the palestina patients with the chronic diseases and those in need of urgent surgeries. i am dr. khalid al-saidni working at the alaxa marters hospital since 2001. at the start of this aggression, i felt pain in my right leg. i found that my arteries were 80% blocked. knowing that i'm a diabetic patient, my fellows told me that i needed an urgent permission to travel abroad to undergo a of surgery before my health deteriorated and had my leg amputated. i have contacted and appealed all relevant parties to hasten the permission because time is really. decisive,
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and as you can see, i have been waiting for the permission for about two months with no response, having a brush with the people inside any health facility in gaza strip is enough to wrench your heart. when you see the injured children and their parents imploring for travel permission. now the question for the palestinians in the beseged gaza strip remains unanswered that who bears the responsibility for this delay that it threatens the life of many injured palestinians in gaza's trip. press tv, the central area of gaza's strip. a member of the islamic jihad movement is held what he calls unprecedented losses inflicted on the israely regime by palestinian resistance movements. despite its limited military equipment, the palestinian resistance has inflicted heavy losses on the israeli enemy, part of which
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the regime has admitted. the israeli regime struggles to underreport its losses in order to keep the soldiers and settlers spread up. the more israely assaults against the palestinian nation and the... exclusive interview with press tv, ali abu shah, he said that israel regime is unable to hide casualties that suffered in gaza, member of the political bureau of islamic jihad rejected israely allegations that resistance used as hospitals, as operation headquarters, he said the regime levels such allegations to justify bombardment of health centers and mosks. ali abu shahi said the fact the regime forces invaded hospitals and found no resistance fighters reveals the palestinian movements are not using civilian infrastructure for military operations. top un court at the hag has open public hearings
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on legal consequences of israel's occupation of palestinian territories, addressing the tribunal of palestine's envoy to the un, so the international law has never protected the palestinians. israeli leaders no longer feel the need to hide their intentions. they speak openly of getting rid of the palestinian people, one way or another. they defy the law, and the law is barely fighting back. for palestine, the law continues to be only measure. the severity of breaches, rather than a catalyst for action and accountability. what does international law mean for palestinian children in gaza today?
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it has protected neither them nor their child. it has not protected their families or communities. it has not protected. their lives or limbs, their hopes or homes. maturu said the palestinian people have failed or faced attempts to push them out of their territories for 75 years demanding palestine's occupation come to immediate and unconditional end. meanwile the legal representative of the state of palestine focus on the consequences of israel's many violations of international law. for almost 57 years despite the repeated appeals of the general assembly and the security council of the un and numerous other international organizations with the ngos or governmental,
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israel has obstanately stuck to its policy of oppression and discrimination against the palestinian people in breach of the most fundamental principle. of international law, and by its practices has continually exacerbated the situation with the unconcealed objective of making impossible the realization of the palestinian people's right to self-determination, over 50 states including iran will participate in the oral proceedings before the international court of justice, at the request of the un general assembly, the icj will then issue a non-binding advisory opinion on the israeli occupation of palestinian territories. last month court issued a provisional ruling in a case brought by south africa. it called on israel to cease all activities that could constitute genocide in gaza. however, according to the un special repertoire, israel appears to be in breach of that order.
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activist and lawyer kim shadif says cases against israely occupation and genocide at the icj have. expose the hypocrisy of the israely regime's allies. the the actions of the state of south africa, which is admirable, has... brought uh the uh core issues of what's really going on into the attention of the world and it's actually exposing the hypocry of the the countries that were previously claiming to be upholding the rule of law under the international fora which they went and on the contrary they're actually aiding and abeting genocide there is no issue no no doubt that this is genocidal campaign this is a systematic extermination of a specific group of people, which is horrific type of crimes against humanity, and
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uh, welst there may be issues and debates and considerations about how do we enforce the uh ultimate ruling of the court, and uh, how we go about doing that, that's another day's discussion, but the fact that the case was brought so hastily and with ample evidence and brought it to the court with the most formidable team of legal experts who have done an excellent job, i've watched the whole in the entire uh... proceedings and i was very pleased to see such top level uh advocates were dealing with matter and since the court has accepted accepted that there is a primaphacy case to answer for the charge of genocide, i think we can sit back and say yes there is hope that uh there is going to be a change in the international uh platform in terms of upholding the rule of law equally to all peoples of the world, your foreign ministers called on the united. nations to act swiftly and resolutely and stop israeling more palestinian people in gaza. in letter to
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the un chief husain amir abdullah hion said that israeli crimes in gaza cannot be described as anything but genocide. he won't any israeli ground invasion of the dency populated city of raffa in southern gaza will be another phase in the genocide. the top iranian diplomat added the vast trail of death and destruction in gaza is testament to a premeditated israely plot to exterminate and entire nation. am said israel is also depriving palestinians of food, water, humanitarian aid and other essential resources to make gaza unlivable and force palestinians off their land. this is forest. in this week's show we'll be explaining how professor david miller created a league of precedent by making opposition to zianism a protective characteristic. this means that employers can no longer. use opposition to zinanism as a pretext to discriminate, dismiss or destroy people's careers, and now
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it's established that actually the are not statements which are out there in any way racist, not anti-semitic, and these are views which is perfectly legitimate for anti-racist to hold as as we had always maintained. it's a very comprehensive um robust judgement, a judgment that's been made by the most senior judge in that particular region. and so yes it is a very interesting judgment absolutely. welcome back everyone, you're watching press tv, world news. now a group of un human rights experts expressed serious concerns over a report revealing assault against palestini women and girls in israeli detention. group of lawyers from the human rights count. says the palestinian female detanees have been subjected to multiple forms of sexual assault with at least two of
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them being raped. they say photos uploaded by the israeli army have shown the detainees in degrading circumstances. group of lawyers also expressed concerns about an unknown number of palestinian women and girls in gaza and the occupied west bank who've gone missing after contact with israeli army. now a group of un experts would now call for an independent and thorough probe into the salag. an occupied west bank israely forces have intensified raids and illegal detention of palestinians. mon candel reports. the israeli military rates to palestinian areas had become common everyday. the israeli forces the storm palestinian villages, towns, cities all across the... occupied bank, the israeli justification or excuse is always the same to detain palestinians, members of the
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resistancy groups, palestinian fighters, palestinian activists, anyone who's against the israeli military and the israeli regime. this morning the israeli forces had arrested 25 palestinians during military raids to the town of kober north ramallah. the israelis had also rated almasaif near ramalah. had also stormed the village of qabatis. south genine and they remained there for over five hours, during these five hours, 40 palestinians had been detained from the town of qabatye and they were interrogated and questioned inside the village of qabatye, of course we are speaking about interrogation about difficult situation about the storming
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palestinian homes early on monday and at the night hours after the interrogation, the majority of those 40 were released, however a number of them had been detained and taken by the israeli forces in order to be held in israeli jails. the israelis had detained over 7,100 palestinians since the 7th of october, according to palestinian commission of prisoners affairs. yeah. armies released a video footage showing debris of a us mq9 reaper drone that it is shot down, footage also shows the moment the drone was hit off the coast of yemen and his pieces being pulled out of the sea. and two us officials have confirmed an air force mq9 reaper drone was shot down over the red sea. this is the second time since november 2023 that yemani
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forces have taken out a reaper drone a monday yemeny. forces also targeted two us ships and a british vessel in the gulf of aiden, the yemen army spokesman said british vessel later sank, yahya said he stressed army will continue to target us and uk vessels in response to attacks by those two countries on yemen and in solidarity with the palestinians and yet another operation against western interest and support of palestinian in warturn gaza. the spokesman for the yemani army announced the successful targetting of the british vessel rubimar in the gulf of aiden with naval missiles. the reprisal operation resulted in damage and complete sessation of its functioning. the naval forces of the yemani armed forces with the help of god carried out a military operation targeting a british ship in the gulf of aden, rubimar with number of appropriate naval
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missiles. the results of the operation were the following: the ship was seriously damaged, causing it to... stopped completely. as a result of the extensive damage the ship suffered, it is now at risk of sinking in the gulf of aden. during the operation, we made sure that the ship's crew exited safely. the yemen army also shut down an american mq9 drone in hodeda while it was engaged in hostile actions against the arab country. experts interpret this operation as message to us and the uk that yemeni naval operations will continue until israel ends its junior war in gaza. the military operations carried out by the yemani naval forces and their targeting of american ships and drones will not stop unless the aggression against our brothers in gaza stops. this is new victory for the yemani army. indeed, we are not strong in the face of the world, but we trust that god is the one who supports us. yemanies
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have asserted that the retaliatory operations will not end as long as the gaza war and all outtu is support for. israel is continue since the start of the israeli military campaign against the gaza strip, the yemini army has conducted naval operations against israeli bound vessels in solidarity with the palestinians. they have also launched numerous ballistic missiles against the occupied territories of palestine. observers say the american designation of the ansarullah movement as a terrorist group has not succeeded in halting the yemani army's naval operations. they believe that the us and the uk will eventually come to realize. that's halting the israeli genocide in gaza is the only way to protect their interest in the volatile region. reporting forpressif, the situation remains volt along the southern lebanese border, where the hezbillah resistance movement in israel have been engaged in almost daily exchange of fire since early october. hezbulah fighters have
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targeted several israeli military sites as regimes attacked the industrial town of gazia for. from lebanon's southern border. earlier, we were joined by our beirot correspondent matdy am solu for some details. today later in the afternoon we had the uh exchanges of fire began pretty late. we saw that there were three operations for the resistance, mainly we had an operation using appropriate weapons as hazballah said against the post of berkatrisha. they also targeted two posts in the labanese occupied ship. farms ramta and sumaka specifically, those posts were also targeted by the resistance, but the israelies uh seem to be doing things differently today, they were focusing. more in their shelling use or plananes instead of artillery artillery fire, which is usually how they shell the southern towns and villages and
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there was a lot of heavy shelling in the towns of yarin, al bustan and also some other areas in as well, but the biggest and most major development today was the israeli sling industrial site in the town of azi which is just south of the town of syden and that is city which is the first city in south lebanon, it's very basically relatively far away from the border, it's closer to the capital beirot, and this is why it came as a shock to many, especially since the last time there was a strike that was near siiden, but it targeted a specific vehicle, this time we're talking about targeting a whole site, and that areas known to be industrial site, there are several factories, some media have said that we had there was an oral factory, other media said that the factory, one of the factories was that for motors, for generators, electricity generators and another one which had lot of fuel in it, and
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so therefore this is why it caused also all of this bombing and it was lot of explosions were heard near the towns of gaziye and and saiden and many people of course were as a result of that we don't have exact numbers when it comes to the casualties yet, but it definitely is... considered major development that will not be taken lightly by the resistance uh since it does go beyond the scope of the rules of engagement. the brazilian president has called back his ambassador to tell v for consultations. now this found the israeli ragine's protest over the president's remarks strongly condemning israeli crimes in gaza. attentions between israel and brazil escalated recently since president louis ignacious de silva compared israel's genocide in gaza, to adolf hitler's holocaust. president de silva also said, what's going on in gaza is a war between a highly prepared army and women and children.
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he made those statements last weekend during an african union summit in ethiopia. israel's condemned lula's remarks as anti-semitic and summoned brazil's ambassador. israel also declared the brazilian president persona nongrata saying he's no longer welcome in israel until he takes back, he takes back what he said, brazil's amongst countries that have endorsed the case of genocide brought against israel at the international court of justice. thousands of people hit the streets the canadian city of calgary to condemn israel's genocide in gaza. they also call for sanctions and an arms embargo against the regime. our correspondent robert inlikesh reports. the assault on gaza escalates again with the death tolls since october 7, nearing 30,000. pro-palestinian protests are gaining momentum in canada. during nationwide
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rallies, protesters criticized prime minister justin trudeau for his in action. palestinians deserve to remain on their land, to live on their land. we are not looking for an evacuation of palestinians into the sinai desert, which is what uh, the zionis entity is trying to do right now with rafaz specifically. push them out um, so the urgency of the situation is, to ensure that palestinians can live and and live freely on their own land uh without the bombardment of setler colonization and genocide. on the kaspa, the israeli invasion of the servernmost city of gaza, the people of calgary take to the streets joining cities across canada, calling on their government to take measures to stop israel's genocide of the palestinian people. i'm here. to ask for cease fire right now, enough is enough, and it has been taking a long time for for our government to stand up and and call for
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seasfire, this is not the right way to do it, we have to get uh arms embargo, i'm a loss for words to be honest, but what's going on, it's the end of the line, it's a death, and we want to again pressure our politicians, pressure. although the government of canada has called for a ceasefire, demonstrators noted that since october, ottawa has approved $28.5 million dollars of military exports to israel. they see this, along with the refusal the canadian government to call the assault on gaza, genocide, tant amount to a stab in the back of the public's demands. robert and lakesh, press tv. calgary: that's it for your latest here on pres tv, everyone, thanks for tuning in and goodbye for now.
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she specializes in the analysis of power and propaganda, so i i come from glasgow in scotland. i'm sorry, did you say that was english? i'm not english. the only. way for liberation is for the decolonization of the mind. is this your first time here? how long have you been here now? how many days? two days? answer me about bristol university, russia's and ukraine war, iran's foreign policy. the americans are opposed to the islamic republic of iran, whatever it does. we marched when harlad was bombed with chemical weapons and so here we are in the famous bobby sans street named after bobby
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sanns, the officer commanding the... ira prisoners, if we stand together, we can help to stop the spread of zionist extremism and to combat islamophobia. what has interested you with regard to iran?
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i really would like to meet him later, he seems like such an important figure.
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about politics and how willing they were to talk to me about it, because people were more than happy to give me their view. everyone in iran has an opinion.
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hello, i'm chris williamson and... you're watching palestine declassified, we're the only weekly tv show that's dedicated to investigating and exposing the israeli regime's global war against solidarity with the illegally occupied people of palestine. in this week's show we'll be explaining how professor david miller created a legal precedent by making opposition to zionism a protected characteristic. this means that employers can no longer use opposition to zionism as a pretext to discriminate, dismiss or destroy people's careers. the tibu chakra has this report on the background to david's case. in a landmark judgment, the bristol employment tribunal handed down its decision that palestine declot. fide's resident expert professor david miller had been wrongfully dismissed from his position as professor of political sociology at the university of bristol. in addition, the court found that the reasons given by the university for sacking him, that some zionist students had
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been offended or claimed to feel unsafe were untrue. the court determined instead that he had been dismissed for his anti-zionist views and in the most significant element of the case, the court also ruled for the... first time in the uk that anti-zionist views as espoused by professor miller are protected as a philosophical belief under the equality act. what this means is both that anti-zionist views are not racist and that they are worthy of respect in a democratic society, which is the language used in the equality act. what was the anti-zionist position professor david miller espoused and the court endorse as protected? as the judgment put it, the claiment's belief that zionism, as he defines it, is inherently racist, imperialistic, and colonial, is based on the claiment's an analysis that it necessarily calls for the displacement and disenfranchisement of non- jews in favor of jews, and