your headlines on press tv, gaza's health ministry says the situation in the northern part of their territory is extremely catastrophic and indescribable as hospitals have run out of fuel. the head of onra says the humanitarian crisis. in gaza is a man-made disaster calling for urgent steps to deliver aid to the besieg territory. and iran of says the us and the uk are escalating tensions and crises in the region by launching air strikes on yemen.

of hello everyone, you're watching press tv live from the studios in term. thank you for joining us. now palestinians are seeing no respite from israel's genocidal campaign in gaza. the regime has carried out fresh attacks, taking the lives of more civilians. in gaza city, israel's drone and artillery strikes, killed at least 25 palestinians and injured number of others. the regime's forces also targeted civilians a coastal road west of gaza city, killing around dozen people. the death told from the genocide since october the 7th is close to 29,700, most of them women and children. israel is pressing ahead with this attacks while the humanitarian situation is getting worse by the hour. gaza's ministry of ministry of health has described as extremely catastrophic, the health situation. in

northern parts of the strip where hospitals are without fuel. the head of the un agency for palestinian refugees calls for humanitarian aid to be allowed in the gaza where people are grappling with severe shortages of food, water and medicine. felipeni said the delivery of vital aid can prevent famin in the palestinian territory. he described as a man-made disaster, the diar situation, or conditions in gaza. the onra chief added that the agency has been unable to transfer food aid to northern gaza for over a month. in recent weeks, the onrra has been facing israely cause for its abolition. the agency's major donors suspended funding following israel's allegations that some unrust staff members were involved in palestinian's al-axa flood operation early october. regarding food scarcity in gaza, the un. itself has voice concern that almost

everyone is at risk of famin. in recent days a number of children have died from malnutrition in gaza. early we spoke to our correspondent moti abusat bay in gaza, he said israel is killing people who look for food, shelter and medicine all across gaza. the latest israeli attack actually targeted a group of the... civilians who were waiting for the convoys of the humanitarian relief heading to gaza city, dozens of the palestinan civilians were reporttedly killed and injured. it's not worthy that this is not the first time the israeli occupation forces targeted target the palestinian people waiting for the humanitarian aid heading to gaza city in a way uh that prevents the palestinian people to get any real access to the basic humanitarian needs in this in the meantime. the israel incubation forces also

maintain their attacks against ridwan neighborhood in the same city in gaza city where another group of the palestina civilians was targeted using the israeli fighter drones near ash rudwan clinic they were gathering in order to get the needed medical care the israeli incubation forces starged them and killed many and killed and injured many of them while in a zitoon neighborhood as you know that the israeli occupation forces are still beliging. neighborhood and it's under the heavy bombardments of the israeli air strikes and the israeli attacks of the israeli tanks on the ground, several palestinian houses were destroyed using the explosive devices, leaving at least 10 palestinian civilians dead over those continuous and seasless attacks reaching this reaching the neighborhood. the rice group says israel regime has turned a supposedly safe corridor to the gaza strip south into a... trap to

kill hungary and forcibly displaced palestinians. according to euromet human rights monitor, israeli troops have killed the very same palestinians, they forced to flee from gaza city to area in the south. the coastal sliver, israeli forces killed them at checkpoint in central gaza. the regime's troops also targeted civilians waiting for eight trucks near the checkpoint. as documented by the rights organization, israeli forces killed 30 palestinians waiting for relief trucks a street southwest of gaza city. the rice group has recorded horrifying testimonies indicating israeli tanks fired, artillery shells and bullets at displaced palestinians heading south. israel has stepped up it's demolition of palestinian homes in the occupied alcoods since the start the regime's devastating war against the gaza strip. we have discussed this issue with our guests in our news review program. let's take a look. time now for uh the news review on

press tv. stay tuned. "the figures show that israel has been exploiting the global attention on the genocide in gaza to ramp up demolition of palestinian homes in the occupied all goods. during the first nine months of last year, israel destroyed 97 palestinian homes on the east side of the city, but since launching its steadly onslaught in gaza early october, israel has build those 87 homes. now those figures are according to air amen, local nonprofit organization monitoring home demolitions in algod." activists say that israel is trying to drive more palestinians out of easell goods, the regime is trying to justify its much criticized practice by claiming that the houses have been built without permits, however it's practically made it impossible for palestinians to obtain those documents through legal discrimination. now let me

invite two guests to uh this edition, monarka correspondent join me. from ramala, also with me is masin komsia, palestinian scientists and author in bethlehem, good to see you both. let's begin with you, tell us about these home demolitions that we just talk about, and this has been going on the past four or five months since the onslot on gaza started. unfortunately, these israeli regime and the israeli let's say authority. is in al-quds, they refused to give palestinians permits in order to allow them construct their homes or even expand their homes inside and it's very clear, they want the palestinians out of the city of al quds, at the same time the israeli jewish settlers are

given a green light to build the new settlements, to expand their units and new units inside al quds, so why... the palestinians are not given israeli issued permits to construct their homes, to expand their their flats and their rooms, the israel are given more permits in order to build the new illegal settlements on the palestinian lands in as you have mentioned the israelas since the uh in the first nine months of 2023, 97 palestinian homes were destroyed in al-quds, however since the 7th of october, 87 homes were destroyed by the israels inside al quds, several days ago in sinwan, there's this palestinian activist and he is the spokesperson of swan, his home himself was

destroyed by the israelies, he was surprised by the israelas trying to destroy his home, and the excuse is always ready that the palestinians homes are... being destroyed because of the lack of israeli issued payments. thanks for that. nowzin com tell us about the what the israeli regime has its minds on the plan, you know, it's engaged in this genocidal war in gaza, at the same time it has the abductions and rates against the uh west bank, and simultaneously again we're now speaking about uh home demolitions that's still going on. yes, indeed, in 200, what we saw is more than doubling the number of houses demolished 2022, that coincided with the israeli right-wing government, the

fascist government that decided to increase ethnic, nearly quarter of the homes that were demolished were actually homes. built with foreign aid and local aid to replace homes that were demolished earlier, so second turn demolition. here in the district, for example, alja, they had homes demolished just in the past few days and this continues, it's it's a longstanding policy, but it has increased in 2023 compared to 2022, and has increased even further after october 7, in the last four and a half months, there were more homes demolished than than 20. to put together. all right, thank you so much. our correspondent in ramala and palestinian

scientist and author in bethlehem. and thank you for watching this episode of the news review on press tv. i really would like to meet him later. he seems like such an important figure in the history. 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. american and british fighter jets have carried out fresh strikes across yemen in the fourth joint operation against the arab country. the air strikes at the provinces of sanad, thaiz and hajja. several. ations, including pesticide factory and telecommunications networks were targeted. this comes as the germany army has targeted an american oil tanker and several warships with missiles in the red sea and the gulf of aiden. the yemani army says such operations will continue in response to attacks by the us and the uk and in solidarity with palestinians in gaza. meanwhile, ivan has denounced the latest strikes on yemen, saying washington and london are seeking escalate tensions and crisis. in the region, thousands

of pro-palestan demonstrators have taken the streets of the spanish city of barcelona to demand immediate cease fire in the gaza strip and calling the government to severatise with the israely regime. today is the second day that protests have been held in more than 100. cities across the country to call for measures to stop complicity in the genocide that has been committed against palestinian people. we demand an end to armed sales to israel. we fully support all those doing this demonstration and we should to stop all institutional and economic relations with israel while the regime is being investigated by the international court of justice for genocide. we should stop having an arms trade with israel. the protesters were chanting anti-israel slogans while waving palestinian

flags. similar demonstrations were also held in other cities, including the capital madrid in solidarity with palestinians. earlier, the german city of nurenberg was a scene of pro-palestine rallies as well. the protesters there also demanded immediate cease fire in gaza and an end to arm supplies to israel. anti-israel demonstrations were also held in austria. over four months of israel's genocidal war on gaza is taking a heavy toll its economy, new figures have revealed that the regime's gross domestic product contracted by nearly 20% in the last quarter of 2023. earlier in our explainer program, gisumi shahmadi discussed this issue in details. let's take a look. uh, when... "the news came out to that israel's economy had contracted, that did not surprise anyone

after all, israel's onslot has lasted five months a contraction is only natural, but the amount of the contraction in double digits, close to 20%, that was shocking. let's see how israel got there. now, in order for israel to suffer this steep drop in his gdp, we need to look at how these costs are measured, the cost of wage" the onslot have knock-on effect when it comes to the economy, one of them is the steep decline economic activity, when that happens, there is a resulting drop in revenue, and from there, deficit spending, which produces borrowing costs, which will weigh on the budgeting long after the fighting ends. given that, one does not need to go that far back to see what israel itself was telling the world when it came to its gdp contraction. it was only in december 2023 when the israeli central bank governor amir yaron said due to the prolonged

aggression on gaza, israel's economy is predicted to contract by around 1% this year, and the g gdp and the debt to gdp ratio was predicted to surpass 65%, but just a month later in january of this year, he said the aggression on gaza will cause the israeli economy 10% of the gdp with the debt to gdp to surpass 66% in 2024. the changing narrative on the gdp reduction was just the beginning of israel's euronous announcements, like in the case of daily costs, so when the aggression began, the daily costts were estimated to be around $110 million. it did not take long for that figure to change. it shot up after the first month to $200 million. and if that was not enough, israel realized that it had to open its conferents even further since the cost rose to $240 million and then $260 million for it to stand now at $269 million dollars per day. the

labor market disruptions due to the operational flood to the israel. regime were massive. this is perhaps one of the major reasons for the large gdp contraction. first, the mobilization of israeli reservists. the number is quite high. 400,000 of them were deployed to the battlefield. that means that, this is important, they were taken out of the workforce. israel had to subsidize their salaries as well. then comes the evacuees. 200,00 evacuees were displaced from villages along the fake gaza border and the northern border with lebanon, and finally israel restricted the work permits of 175,00 palestinian workers. these palestinians work predominantly in the construction and agriculture sector. now here's a breakdown of the labor market and of course how the different sectors of the workers were taken

out. 1,275,00 workers were taken out. out of total workforce of around 5 million, which is very high number. this amounts to around 25.5% of the workforce. so now, what is the israeli cabinet supposed to do? it faces massive influx in cost, which has triggered a steep increase in spending. israeli officials surely did not anticipate the steep increase of 88% in just three months after the outbreak of the enslot compared to the preceeding quarter. consumers meanwile were spending. less, much less, conservative estimates put that at 27%. there is also aspectra of business closures involving small and medium-sized israeli businesses, that is figure that continues to rise. so far, the onslot has led to the closure of around 30,000 businesses, with the restrictions on palestinian workers. the west bank's economy

has suffered heavy 37% decline in production. in time. of a military budget when costs are high, borrowing becomes lifeline to continue a genocidal onslot, but the credit ratings agency, moodies put damper on israel's hopes right there, moodies caught israel's credit rating one notch from a1 to a2, and this was israel's first ever credit downgrade. the reason it gave was israel's poor finances, and also how the economic and political future remained unknown, especially do... to israel's military exchanges with hesbollah, given all the different expenses of the ensaut, israel will need to borrow almost $58 billion dollars this year, which equates nearly $23,000 per household, and three times the amount of the fiscal deficit in 2022. if all of this is too much information, let's

just summarize this uh segment in one shot. there it is, much of the slide and gross domestic products stemmed from 26.9% drop in private consumption in the october to december period, a sharp decline of 42.4% in the import of goods and services and 18.3% dive in exports and 67.8% decline in investment, especially in residential building. meanwhile, spending surged 88.1%. due to the onslot cost. on top of that, consumers were spending 27% less. finally, this aggression was supposed to initially cost 50 billion. us dollars to cost israel's economy 10% of his gdp, but the onslot has lasted five months, if the most recent report has said that it cost the israeli economy

almost 20% of its gdp. does this mean that the actual cost of the onslot will be around $100 billion dollars? that's something to think about. last one on least has successfully completed. the nationwide gas pipelines which were damaged by sabotage attacks recently, the lines are now fully operational, a correspondent gisumi shah ahmadi visited the site during the repair operations and filed this report. repair operations in the final stages. this is the main distribution pipeline passing through iran's southwestern province of charmahaland bahtiyari responsible for delivering natural gas to the northern provinces of iran. part the main pipeline hit by two explosions on february 14th. this is the exact location where the first explosion took place, the result of a failed sabotage attack aimed at

disrupting gas supplies to the entire province. clearly, the sabateurs had picked this remote location hoping that it would result in delayed emergency response leading to vast natural gas outages in the country, an obvious miscalculation as the national onion gas company and igc had its local technicians and first responders on site in less than 10 minutes. the tall flames resulting from the overnight explosion could be seen from miles away. the explosion was immense, creating a huge fire that burned and melted everything its way, 300 meters away. power cables were damaged, the local electricity distribution company. immediately diverted to other connected paths to prevent power outages and within minutes, local nigc technicians arrived. as a result of great

teamwork, we were able to contain the fire in less than 5 hours and we completed our repair operation within 44 hours, which can be considered a record. it is important to note that our local technicians were able to quickly bring the situation under control without any... help from nearby provinces, that is why there were no disruptions in gas supplies. as a result of the nigc's agile response, the sabotage attack did not lead to any natural gas outages. so this is the pipe that was damaged by the explosion, pipe that would carry 70 million cubic meters of natural gas in 24 hours. the nigc had two separate alternative options, so... as a first step, technicians simply cut gas flow through this pipe, which allowed the first responders to contain the fire in less than five hours. throughout the year, we carry out

several simulation exercises with different scenarios to enhance our response plans and procedures for all kinds of hazards. that is why our team is always prepared for emergencies and in this case they knew exactly what to do according to our crisis management plan. with the damaged pipe replaced with new one, everything is back to normal. this heavily damaged 42-inch pipe that you see right behind me, is part of the main pipeline that takes natural gas from the south of iran towards the north, however the nigc did have a plan b and therefore the explosion did not disrupt gas supplies. officials detailed that because the fire sparked in an unpopulated area, the spread of the flames was manageable for the... responding firefighters, there were no casualties and only limited material damage, and since the flow of heat and cooking gas to the northern provinces was not disrupted, as

far as consumers were concerned, basically nothing happened, simply foiled attempt with iranians now more confident than ever in the capabilities of nigc technicians. gisumi shah ahmadi press tv, boruchen. and those were the top stories on press tv. thank you for listening, take care and bye-bye. depress. now entering its fourth day, we're looking.

so an email has recently come to light, an exchange between jeffrey leeds and former secretary of state colin powell, in which she acknowledges that israel has quote has, he says 200 nuclear weapons, um, and the nuclear non-proliferation treaty has not been signed by israel, um, under us law, the united states should cut off support to israel, because it's a nuclear power that has not signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, according to colin power. correct, shouldn't you ask colin pal that? i, i, i, i'm not going to speak to this particular traffic and i'm certainly doesn't have nuclear weapons, i'm certainly not going to discuss matters of intelligence from the from the podium, and i'm not.