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headlines at press tv on the final day of the icj hearings at the heg most countries call for declaring the israeli occupation of palestinian land illegal. gaza's health ministry says the def. from 143 days of israeli unslot has risen to nearly 29,800, mostly women and children, and an active duty us serum sets himself a blaze outside the israely embassy to protest washington's complicity and israeli genocide of palestinians in gaza.
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hello and welcome live from tehran, you've turned to press tv's world news, i'm marsia hashimi, appreciate you being with us. well, the un's top court has witnessed consensus among participating states in a string of hearings over israel's occupation of palestine. the majority of participants are calling for the israeli occupation to be declared illegal. on the final day of hearings at the heg, the representative of turkey underscored the israeli occupation as the root cause of conflicts in the region. african union onvoys also urged the world court to seize the opportunity to end quote the impunity of israel's ruthless war machine. the au also argued that palestinians have been the victims of years of subjugation, displacement and disposession. meantime, the arab league has condemned israel's occupation. sending that there is no
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legal basis for tel aviv to maintain its occupation. over the past week, judges of the world court have heard statements from more than 50 countries and international organizations. the icj is expected to take about six months to issue its order. a 143 days into the onslot on the gaza strip. the israel regime has carried out more deadly attacks. on civilian targets. the latest attacks have killed 43 people across the ga strip. at least six of the victims were targeted by air strikes on the cities of rafa and darab. the others were killed in different incidents of drone strikes and artillery shelling across gaza. the gaza health ministry says the situation in the northern parts of the strip is extremely catastrophic where hospitals are left without fuel. the regime's genocide in gaza has so far killed. 29,800 palestinians, most of them
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women and children. we're going to cross over to derad balah and talk to press correspondent on the ground there, moti abusabe, moti, good to see you, please uh of fill us in on the latest of what you have seen and what's going on there. moti, can you hear me? okay, hopefully we will try to reestablish that connection with moti abusabe in deribalah in a couple minutes. meanwhile, moving to other news, the head of the un agency for palestinian refugees calls for humanitarian aid to be allowed into gaza where people are grappling with severe. ages
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of food, water and medicine. philippe lazarini said the delivery, "a vital aid can prevent famine in the palestinian territory." he described as a man-made disaster, the dire humanitarian conditions in gaza. unrast chief added that the agency has been unable to transfer food aid to northern gaza for over a month. in recent weeks. anra has been facing israely calls for its abolition. now, the agency's major donor. suspended funding of following israel's allegations that some unra staff members were involved in palestinian a flood operation early october. regarding food scarcity in gaza, the un itself has voiced concern that almost everyone is at risk of famon. in recent days a number of children have died from starvation in gaza. well, hopefully we have established that connection with. thanks so much for joining us, please
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fill us in on the latest of what you have, well before. talking about the latest developments on the ground here in the gaza strip, let me say that according to gaza's health ministry that the israeli occupation forces committed at least 10 appalling massacers over the last 24 hours, acclaiming the lives of 90 palestinian civilians and injuring at least 142 palestinian civilians. these numbers are rising incrementally with the continuous and the seasless israel air strikes and attacks that are still hitting. four areas of gaza strip, the ladies attack took a place here in the central area of gaza strip actually targeted a residental building in refugee camp in the central area of gaza strip where at least two palestinian civilians were killed over that attack while uh the israeli artillery actually targeted
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and unra school which is taken shelter by the palestinian civilians and the displaced palestinians and douzens of the palestinian casualties. were approached to the alaxamarters hospital as we are standing here right now and the meantime the israeli artillary maintained and renewed it shelling to the eastern bars of deril balah city uh targeting the residental areas and recental buildings in that area we can hear the explosions of those attacks uh from where where we are standing right now uh and in the meantime the when it comes to gaza city according to the latest news that the israeli occupation forces targeted once again the palestinian civilians who were gathering near annabolsi roundabout in the western part of gaza city, they were waiting for the humanitarian convoys to reach gaza city and
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uh for the seventh for the seventh consecutive time the israeli occupation forces attacked them and dozens of them were reportedly injured and they were rep to the ashifa medical. complex, so it's the same policy of the israeli occupation forces to deprive the palestinian people uh to to have any real access to those basic humanitarian needs and according to multiple eyewitnesses that the palestinian people there were encouraged enough to uh to go so close to the israeli tanks and the many of them actually snatched uh the bags of the white flower from under the israeli tanks and the israeli and the israeli vehicles amid heavy gunfire. of those israeli vehicles towards the palestinian people uh because as you know that for roughly five consecutive months uh the palestinian people in gaza city and in the northern parts of gaza strip have been enduring the seisels and the relentless israeli air strikes but unfortunately they
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are no longer able to endure uh to watch them their children to perish in front of their eyes so this actually uh bots current situation on the collapse for the people in gaza city and the northern part of gazas, they are literally compiled and afflicted by the unprecedented humanitarian conditions resulted in from uh the the the salvation used by the israeli occupation forces as as as a weapon of war and in the same time the unicef announced that uh allowing the humanitarian assistance to enter gaza city is matter of life and death for the palestinian. and children in gaza, so this reflects how catastrophic the humanitarian conditions are for the people there, and and according to the medical sources from gaza city that multiple cases of the palestinian people actually uh passed away and they died over the lack of the food and over the
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dehydration, they are suffering over the deprivation of the basic humanitarian needs, we are talking about catastrophic humanitarian situation, the people in gaza city and... and in the northern part of gaza strip are literally trapped inside the triangle of death, they are under the heavy bombardments of the israeli occupation forces and they are afflicted by the salvation and at the same time they are exposed to unprecedented spread of the infectious diseases. when it comes to uh khan city, more residental buildings were blown up by the israeli by the israeli forces on the ground using the explosive devices, at least dozens the palestine orizental. residental buildings were blasted over the last couple of hours, we are talking about entire neighborhoods rendered to be ghost towns as thousands of the palestine horizontal buildings were completely destroyed, massive destruction and
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full scale destruction and folded after the israelicubation forces withdraw from several streets and the surrounding areas of the nasa medical complex and in the meantime more dead bodies of the palestinian. people who were killed over the last couple of days extracted from those areas and they were approwed and evacuated to abusive in nazaret hospital in rafa city so the current situation is still. over to you, absolutely heartbreaking, stay as safe as you can, thank you so much for that report, correspondent there in, moving to other news now, a rights group says the israeli regime has turned a supposedly safe quarter to the gas strip south into a trap to kill hungry and forcibly displaced palest. according to the euro-met human rights monitor, israeli troops have killed the very
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same palestinians, they forced to flee from gaza's city to area in the south of the coastal sliver. israeli forces killed them a checkpoint in central gaza. regimes troops also targeted civilians waiting for aid 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. now the rights. group has recorded horrifying testimonies indicating israeli tanks fired artillery shells and bullets at this place palestinians heading south. hasbollah resistance movement and the israeli military have been exchanging fire across southern lebanese border since the regime began its onslot on the gaza strip on october the 7th. now hasulah says it has down to high-tech israeli drone. our correspondent in bayroot mariam sale gives us the details: you have
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the hermes 450, it's not only used for reconnaissance purposes, it is used also to hit targets as well. in lebanon, it has been used by the israelis extensively, and this is one of its most sophisticated larger type of drones. hasbullah, of course in order to shoot it down, they used a surface to air. missile, hizballah has previously done this before, but this time it was perhaps the first time that where we can see it with the naked eye, people saw it fall down, there were even some amateur shots of the of that drone, basically in flames uh going down in the area of qiimah and that area it's not clear whether anyone was able to recover any parts of that room, but it is considered significant especially since hazbullah had in august of 2020 33 display that they do have land to air missiles, they have the sam6, it
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was not clear whether hezbullah was displaying it uh in one of their touris sites as a part as part of a war tactic, psychological tactic, some said it was only to boost morale to show that hezballah can deter the israelis since the israelis have in the past decades always had supremacy in the air, but it seems that now hisbolah no has actually put it to the test, they are using it, "and they have used it more than one instance, now we can see that it is very clear, has also said in their statement that they will continue to eye the skise of lebanon. the government of the prime minister the palestiny authority has stepped down. the premier muhammad shatah says this is in the wake of the developments related to the israeli aggression against the gaza strip and the recent escalations in the occupied west bank and algods. our corresponded in" has joined us earlier and brought us this: there
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had been rumors that shi has resigned, that the palestinian cabinet has resigned, but every time the palestinian prime minister had statements and said that it's not the true, but what happened this morning that palestinian prime minister headed the... the the meeting of the palestinian government and he said that he had submitted the cabinet resination to palestinian president mahmoud abbas, it's in the hands of palestinian president mahmoud abbas and he is the one to decide whether to accept the resignation of the palestinian cabinet or not, however this cabinet and it's the 18th government since his appointment stay was. pointed in 2019, lot of challenges had been seen by this
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government, as the steai himself has said, as you have said also today revealed that the decision to resign came in the light of of the unprecedented escalation in the occupied west bank and al quods and in addition to the genocidal war on the cause strip v shown to announce the beginning of new day. it was the 13th day of the war on the gaza's rap. look at the missile. what did we do to deserve being hit? by this, the army bombed the children on the beach and destroyed our houses, we kill children, men, women, and old men. i have other place to go, so now my children and i are homeless. it is the israelis habit from ages, they say that
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children fire rockets. us service member has set himself on fire outside of the israeli embacy in washington dc in protests against 143 days of the israeli regime's genocide in the gaza strip. view discretion is advice on the following images. i am an active duty member of the united states air force and i will no longer be complicit and genocide. i'm about to engage an extreme active protest, but compared to what people have been experiencing in palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it's not extreme at all.
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this is what our ruling class has decided will be normal. and the video of the incident was posted on an american video streaming surface. the incident lasted about a minute before law enforcement officers extinguished the flames. the man was an active. duty member of the u.s. air force. he is reportedly in critical condition. now, this is the second incident of its kind outside an israely facility in the us since the start of the israeli genocide in gaza. last week, the united states used its veto power for a third time to block a un resolution, calling for immediate ceasefire in the gaza strip. and as
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you can see at the bottom of your screen, now the pentagon has announced the death of that uh us air. air force person who you can see in this footage who uh basically killed himself in protest of what the israeli regime and the united states are doing to the palestinian in gaza again that young man has died according to the pentagon. well, political commentator paul foot was earlier with us and he says that young americans have started to realize that the us is not a free country as they were once to. i i'm sure that he unfortunately believed that america is a free country, it's not, it's a zionist occupied government, and when he realized that, they unfortunately paid the price, the
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the people who are the guilty ones are the ones that voted for genocide joe, i believe all the democrats have voted for. side joe, there they should be punishing themselves in some way, but uh, unfortunately this guy is, this guy did, uh, the american military is having a big problem, getting people to recruit, they'd be way below their goals for good reason. lots and lots of young people now realize that we don't have a free country and we're run by as he said, these these rulers and the israeli leaders are the ones. to proudly say openly in interviews over in israel that we control america, and what's worse is that americans are so stupid that they vote for their rulers. well thousands of pro- palestine demonstrators have taken to the streets of the spanish city of barcelona
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to demand immediate cease fire in the gaza strip and call on their government to sever ties with the israeli 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 arms sales to israel. we fully support all those doing this demonstration and we should stop. 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. assemble demonstrations were also held in other cities, including in the capital madrid in solidarity with palestinians.
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earlier in the german city of nurenburg, it was the scene of pro- palestine rallies as well. all 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. now crossing over to the united states were wave of announcements this week by tel aviv and washington have sparked angry demonstrations worldwide now around the united states protesters denounced president joe biden's support for israel's latest invasion of gaza. ramed mazahari brings us more from chicago. pro-palestine activists marched across the united states following a week of shocking decisions which have israel's attempted genocide in gaza a major tipping point. israeli premier benjamin netanyahu unveiled a
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shocking plan to control gaza indefinitely. that sparked global condemnation, even from washington towards any reoccupation of gaza by israel. tel aviv also promised to attack 1 and a half million displaced palestinians sheltering in the city of rafa along the. egyptian border. i i think the israelis have been pretty clear, they're willing to commit any crime, they're willing to commit any massacre, they're willing to continue genocide any level until uh the international community puts an end to it, and so i think directly to your answer, unless the international community stops them, israel will go into raffa. yes. israel just announced plans for thousands of new illegal settlements in the west bank, reminding the world that their armed colonization of palestine is unceasing and... and ever increasing violation of international law and public opinion. prospects for diplomacy continue to be torpedoed by the united
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states, following their third veto of a united nations security council resolution, demanding a cease fire in gaza, and despite the recent rejection in congress of a war spending bill, which included 18 billion dollars in weapons for israel, president joe biden is reportedly rushing tens of millions. dollars in bombs and weapons to tel aviv. the united states has a unconditional relationship with israel where we will always give military aid to israel, unless the people continue to pressure our government and our presidents to do the same. joe biden is not better than any other us president um and we have seen that and genoside joe he's got to go. aid agencies describe pockets of famon, 700 thousand people at risk of starvation. and a man-made disaster in gaza, while the systematic destruction of gaza's hospitals have left little access to medical care. this week, the death toll in gaza is
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likely to surpass 30,00 people, although that number does not include thousands of unidentified bodies buried under rubble. romin mazari, press tv, chicago. iran's foreign minister is in geneva for high-level human rights. and disarmment meetings in address to the 55th meeting of the international human rights council, hossain amir abdullah yan urged the un body to immediately take action against israeli crimes in the occupied palestinian territories. today the world is witnessing the maximum support for the israeli atrocities by the united states of america and canada and the uk and some of its other allies. that make them complicit to the ongoing crime of genocide, the human rights council must hold designist regime and its
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supporters accountable for the atrocity crimes committed in the occupied palestine. mr. president, i must say loud and clear that the human rights record is now estained and even tainted due to the atrocity perpetrated again. against palestinian women and girls in gaza and the west bank, and this is still going on. if we are to restore the integrity and credibility of human rights mechanisms, we need to end the palestinian genocide by stopping the occupying regime from ferther aerial bombardment and ground and sea offensive against gaza and rafa. as well as systematic estarvation of the palestinian people, and with that, it brings us to the
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end of this world news bulleton, right? here press tv, thanks so much for staying with us. we'll be back at the top of the hour with that more news.
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personas desaparecidas programas de al congreso de la república que apruebe las iniciativas en realidad hoy por hoy pues sin que hayamoramos los 25 años. por corruptos
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que no, que no quieren que llegue, mucha gente abandonaron sus lugares, el señor árvaro arzu se negó a recibir. este informe deo la espalda a las quieren dar un puente.
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this is for palestine them. this is for the child that is searching for renal side. this is not just the war over the stolen land. why do you think little boys are going stones at tanks and we'll never really know how many people are dead? they drop bombs on innocent girls while they sleep in their bed. israel is a terror state the terrorists that terrorize i'll testify my television televise i'm telling lies. how many more resolutions have to be violated. how many more children have to be annihilated. this is not a war it is systematic genocide. but whatever they try palestine. hello, i'm chris williamson and you're...