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[00:00:30] cards in reserve, cards that once played could leave [00:00:34] even America unable to respond [00:00:36] of despite all its military [00:00:38] of might, of [00:00:47] of [00:00:59] hello and welcome to Press TV's news review on this edition will be [00:01:03] of focusing on Israeli attacks and aggressions in the [00:01:07] region. Well, the Israeli regime has attacked the [00:01:10] of galandia refugee camp in the occupied West Bank for the second consecutive [00:01:14] day. Soldiers rated over dozen houses and clashed with Palestinians a [00:01:17] used live [00:01:19] in fire and tear gas to disperse the protesters. Ghanadia [00:01:23] is key artery connecting Ramala and [00:01:25] of the northern occupied west bank to occupied East Alts and cities further [00:01:29] south. and uh with regards to Lebanon, the Israeli [00:01:33] regime has launched new attacks on southern Lebanon in violation of [00:01:37] a [00:01:37] of ceasefire deal with the Arab country, the latest strikes targeted areas in and around the [00:01:41] city of Tyre, wounding at least eight people. Witnesses also reported [00:01:45] continuous Israeli artillery shelling in the area, [00:01:48] according to Lebanon's health ministry since March 2nd, Israeli [00:01:52] attacks have killed over 4,300 people and wounded more than [00:01:56] in 12,500 a others and of course uh the Israeli. [00:02:00] aggression and genocidal massacre in Gaza continues in [00:02:03] violation of a cease fire that took [00:02:05] of effect on [00:02:06] of October 20th, 2025. Israeli attacks continued their [00:02:10] resulting uh [00:02:11] of in over a thousand deaths, 12, over [00:02:13] of 1200 deaths to be precise, and 4100 injuries [00:02:17] across the besieg territory, Israel's genocidal war on Gaza that [00:02:21] started on [00:02:22] of October of 7th, 2023 is killed more than 73,00 [00:02:25] Palestinians wounded over 174,000 others and [00:02:29] destroyed. around 90% of civilian infrastructure according to [00:02:33] Gaza Authorities we'll be discussing those points and more uh with our [00:02:37] guests on this edition of Press TV's news review, [00:02:40] we [00:02:41] have press TV's very own Homer joining us in our studio in Tehran and also [00:02:45] of writer in political annals muhammad alre joining us from Ramala, welcome to the program to [00:02:49] the both of you. Let's start off with Mr. Alrir in Romalaw. Mr. [00:02:53] Alir talk to us about the uh continuous attacks that we're seeing [00:02:57] now on areas like the uh galandia [00:03:00] refugee [00:03:04] in camp, yes, thank you for having me, first and [00:03:08] foremost, i think the Israeli forces [00:03:11] deliberately continued its [00:03:14] operation against the Palestinian refugee camps [00:03:18] for many [00:03:22] of of reasons, of the first one is to liquidate the Palestinian issue, and to [00:03:27] of vanish, to destroy the... soul [00:03:30] witness of nakba, the refugee camps [00:03:34] like [00:03:34] of Jinin, like tolkarim, like the bistin refugee [00:03:38] camps in lebanon, by the way, the Israeli forces [00:03:42] strike and damage the refugee camps in lebanon under the [00:03:46] pretext of fighting [00:03:48] or targeting the [00:03:52] resistance, etc. now and [00:03:55] in addition to that we saw their operations in Gaza to [00:03:59] vanish. the palestinian or the soul witness of nakba [00:04:03] refugee camps and honorwa, by [00:04:06] the way, [00:04:07] of the Israeli government decided years ago [00:04:11] to to destroy the two fundamental [00:04:15] of pillars [00:04:15] of the palestinian issue, nakba [00:04:19] and the naksa by targeting [00:04:21] of onorwa to vanish its [00:04:24] of presence inside the palestinian [00:04:27] society and to place it with [00:04:30] their institutions like the [00:04:34] US aid like institutions supported from [00:04:38] european European Union and the US and the second [00:04:41] of fundamental [00:04:42] of pillar of is the [00:04:43] of refugee camp to destroy this [00:04:47] image [00:04:48] of to shape these camps on the basis [00:04:51] of the Israeli security interests and the [00:04:55] their coordination their security coordination with the [00:04:58] in palestinian authority because of that I think they [00:05:01] targeted, then they [00:05:04] accused [00:05:07] the the palestinians in calandia, in jalazon, and [00:05:11] and all the... cams of being [00:05:14] support the resistance or they [00:05:18] will be the internal front the resistance, but indeed they [00:05:22] deliberately targeted these refuges refugee camps [00:05:26] to get rid the palestinian issue to [00:05:29] vanish the palestinian [00:05:33] witness witnesses and all their [00:05:35] evidence about nakba and i think [00:05:39] the second point is that ation plan we [00:05:43] know that Israel took a green light from the [00:05:47] US implement the annexation [00:05:51] plan according to the deal of century that donald [00:05:55] trump declared in his first term [00:05:58] to damage or to destroy or to [00:06:01] liquidate the palestinian issue and to take more [00:06:05] lands from Syria from Lebanon [00:06:08] and turn the west bank into [00:06:12] the... state of settlers to be the the [00:06:15] core principle or the core point for the [00:06:19] greater Israel and the new middle east project, because of that we saw [00:06:23] recently many decisions from the Israeli [00:06:26] parliament, the Israeli government and they they [00:06:30] used the settlers attacks and the Israeli [00:06:34] army to carry out many operations in the [00:06:38] heart the palestinian cities to distract the daily [00:06:41] life and to to cr all [00:06:45] people inside the Palestinian cities, they [00:06:48] evacuated many people, thousands of people, the beding [00:06:52] communities, they confiscated the [00:06:56] water springs, the bearal [00:07:00] areas in the west of in the west, in [00:07:03] the west bank, especially in Jordan Valley in West [00:07:07] Naples to to pave the way for the settlers [00:07:10] and their actions. and recently we saw their [00:07:14] decisions formally they decided to confiscate [00:07:17] area B, area C, according to also [00:07:21] occurs to be the Israeli [00:07:23] territories and at the expense the Palestinians and [00:07:27] their geographical continuity for their [00:07:31] dream to to establish the state with sovereignty [00:07:34] according to the international law, when you see these [00:07:38] recent actions from the the Israeli government and the [00:07:42] Israel parliament, opposition or coalition, [00:07:46] settlers or ministers okay, you will see that [00:07:49] deliberately they implemented their [00:07:52] policy. [00:07:54] homeira, what, mr. was [00:07:58] just alluding to attacks on areas like qalandia, like [00:08:01] jenin, like tulkam, there with the aim of trying [00:08:05] to liquidate the palestinian cause, how can these [00:08:09] attacks be ignored by the mainstream [00:08:13] media so blatantly? yeah, you absolutely [00:08:17] right, these attacks are being ignored by the mainstream media, [00:08:21] and this is not something new which we are seeing, if we talk [00:08:25] about how media has been functioning, especially the western media, it [00:08:28] is a part the military industrial complex the United [00:08:32] States, so it the ownership these big media [00:08:36] houses is really merky, they are [00:08:39] owned by people who also have their assets in [00:08:43] weapons manufacturing companies, so we have also seen in the [00:08:47] wars that have taken place in the recent past that [00:08:51] how these media houses have manufactured consent, [00:08:55] be it in Iraq war, be it in the war against you [00:08:59] know in Afghanistan, or also the propaganda [00:09:03] that has been unleashed against Iran since the last 48 years, [00:09:06] so the way we see how this media, the mainstream media [00:09:10] specifically other wester. media and also the media houses [00:09:14] which are working in the region have been functioning, their prime [00:09:18] objective is to you know manufacture consent [00:09:22] for their [00:09:24] you know bosses who have their assets, [00:09:27] their [00:09:29] financial relations in [00:09:33] other manufacturing weapons, manufacturing companies, so that [00:09:37] is one the reasons we do not see that media is covering [00:09:40] this gross humanitarian. that is the Palestine [00:09:44] issue and in the recent past we have seen the [00:09:48] Palestine issue is getting very less coverage [00:09:51] and the reason is quite apparent, the analyst [00:09:55] also mentioned even the about the app, the so callalled Abraham [00:09:58] accords how Trump is trying to totally [00:10:02] liquidate the Palestinian issue and now after the [00:10:06] genocide in Gaza how Israel is working [00:10:10] you know a very rampant way. [00:10:13] to extend its occupation in the west bank, so [00:10:16] now the policy has changed, Israel [00:10:20] is also [00:10:21] you know very vehemently saying that if they... committed a [00:10:25] historic mistake in 1948 of allowing Palestinians to [00:10:29] be in the Palestinian region, now they want to undo the mistake and they [00:10:33] want to [00:10:34] you know increase the annexation and totally do away with [00:10:38] the issue of Palestine and that is being also [00:10:41] seen the way media is [00:10:44] now covering the Palestinian [00:10:46] issue. Mohammad, [00:10:50] according to the ASRAR media office, the number of [00:10:54] palestinian. [00:10:55] is in the regime's jails have reached unprecedented levels, there's been a [00:10:59] remarkable uptick in rights violation such as torture, [00:11:02] starvation, medical neglect and isolation. how [00:11:06] alarming is it to to see [00:11:10] uh [00:11:11] the the rise the the number of [00:11:14] palestinian abductees and how they're being [00:11:17] treated and what's also very alarming here [00:11:21] is the lack of action by uh [00:11:25] international institutions in that [00:11:27] regard? this is an important question [00:11:31] now, i think and from my point of view, i think we [00:11:35] have nothing from the international community to condemn Israel, to [00:11:39] ask Israel to force Israel to stop its violations, they [00:11:42] give l service and they promise the [00:11:46] palestinians to to to [00:11:49] discuss the state with sovereignty for the palestinians, but [00:11:52] indeed they didn't stop. the Israeli [00:11:55] violations, they even procrastinated their [00:11:59] measures to punish the Israeli settlers, I'm [00:12:03] wondering about [00:12:04] their actions on the ground, they they have no [00:12:08] case, no one from the settlers that they [00:12:11] removed the citizenship from [00:12:15] from any settler in the west bank, and this is [00:12:19] the the main sign, [00:12:23] the this is an obvious sign that the... union and all the all the [00:12:26] european countries just released their statements [00:12:30] about the state the palestinians and the [00:12:34] settlers attacks without any real action [00:12:38] against the Israeli occupation and its [00:12:40] violations by the way recently when it comes [00:12:44] to Israel all the all the [00:12:47] european countries stopped their [00:12:51] condemnations and they asked for peace for. [00:12:55] for self control just, but when you talk about the [00:12:59] reality, the settlers took and [00:13:02] they are taking, they are talk [00:13:06] many the support, many financial [00:13:09] support from the institutions in Europe and [00:13:13] US without supervision from [00:13:17] the from the US or European Union, [00:13:20] that means the Israeli occupation. [00:13:25] gained more support instead of [00:13:29] being under the [00:13:32] under the under the under the European Union ask [00:13:36] or under their watch, no, they are [00:13:39] gain more support to continue their statement [00:13:43] settlements, to continue their operations against the [00:13:46] Palestinians, on the other hand, the Palestinian prisoners under [00:13:50] inside the Israeli jails have been subjected to [00:13:52] torture, negligence, [00:13:56] isolation, and any the [00:14:00] international institutions, we don't, [00:14:04] we don't, we don't see their reaction, their [00:14:07] reaction against the Israeli violations, against the against women [00:14:11] rights, against children rights, just they wanted [00:14:15] to show their statements to release their [00:14:19] statements to abuse Israel, to abuse [00:14:22] netanyahu, to abuse their... governments or at [00:14:26] least [00:14:27] to to abuse their [00:14:29] the the zionist movement at the expense the palestinians, [00:14:33] the human rights, this is an important point here to [00:14:37] talk about, israel conducted genocide, starvation, [00:14:41] Israel, implementing the ethnic in the west bank, [00:14:45] demolishing homes, confiscating land, [00:14:48] storing the appartide wall, [00:14:52] iron gates in the entrances of cities killing by cold [00:14:56] blood in the west bank in gaza [00:14:59] strip attacking neighboring [00:15:02] countries and Israel considers itself a part the [00:15:05] international law because the absence the [00:15:09] accountability because the the [00:15:13] absence the good will or the real will [00:15:16] from the international community to stop these relations [00:15:20] now they consider this [00:15:24] silence from the international community as a green light to [00:15:27] go through their plans to torture palestinian [00:15:31] prisoners to demolish demolish [00:15:35] homes to to to. to conduct [00:15:38] any operation against the palestinians [00:15:42] without hesitation and that will lead [00:15:45] to to further confrontations in the region [00:15:49] because the silence the international [00:15:52] community. homer had the rampant [00:15:56] destruction the Israeli regime is also [00:15:59] continuing with its attacks in [00:16:02] lebanon uh the uh attacks all across the [00:16:05] region that the Israelis uh are uh carrying out, it definitely has [00:16:09] a green light from the United States and uh [00:16:13] there is also the issue the silence the international community with [00:16:17] result with regards to the uh Israeli [00:16:20] attacks in South Lebanon, we've seen the scope and level of [00:16:23] destruction there, we've seen the civilian deaths, why is [00:16:26] that? yeah, you are right about saying that there's [00:16:30] a silence from the international community and as far as the [00:16:34] United States is concerned ' I personally have [00:16:38] been repeating it that Israel is an off shoot the United States, there is [00:16:42] no difference between United States and Israel and Israel cannot [00:16:46] even function for a single day if United States does [00:16:50] not support it, does not give it the weapons, it is supplying, [00:16:54] it does not give the aid that is being given to the [00:16:57] regime, so even thinking that [00:17:01] Israel has capability of conducting all [00:17:05] these types of aggression and the... slaught that it has been [00:17:08] doing since the last few years uh is is actually [00:17:12] not acceptable because without the support the United States [00:17:16] it is not possible and then we have even reports from even the US [00:17:20] organizations that are clearly mentioning that the amount of support [00:17:23] in billions of dollars is received by [00:17:27] Israel to do all types of aggression beat in [00:17:31] Gaza beat in West bank beat in Lebanon or even on Iran [00:17:34] uh so America and Israel function as one [00:17:38] entity. As far as the international community is [00:17:42] concerned, I would say something which may be a bit shocking, but this is what [00:17:46] I believe in and it's like the entity, the [00:17:50] international community, the United Nations or for that matter, the European [00:17:53] Union, all these organizations which we talk about, they have been [00:17:57] responsible for the you know for [00:18:01] all what we are seeing now, for even the inception of Israel, how Israel [00:18:05] came into being, how United... nations at that time supported [00:18:09] it, everything has been done under the cover of resolutions passed [00:18:13] by the United Nations, so even these [00:18:16] organizations, the so-called neutral [00:18:19] international organizations are working on the behest these [00:18:23] western powers, we have been mentioning that the United [00:18:26] Nations is getting aid from the United States and other European [00:18:30] countries, how do we expect them to function neutrally [00:18:33] and in the last few years specifically we have seen how they have been [00:18:37] functioning they, if not apparently, if not very [00:18:41] openly, but a way they have been helping Israel to [00:18:44] do the genocide which it has done in Gaza, to do what it has been doing in [00:18:48] Lebanon, and even the war on Iran, so [00:18:52] expecting anything from this international community, which is the reason [00:18:56] why this inhuman, you know, [00:18:59] in in in human inhumanity which we are seeing in the world is [00:19:03] happening because them, then expecting anything from them that they... [00:19:07] would be there to [00:19:08] you know solve these issues uh is is [00:19:12] totally you know bizarre because these entities are [00:19:16] the reason for these issues uh coming into [00:19:19] being mohammad al [00:19:23] let's uh turn our attention now to the situation in Gaza uh [00:19:27] the Euromet human rights monitor has recently warned Israel is attempting to [00:19:31] erase war crime scenes in Gaza by removing um [00:19:34] rubble and debrie before independent investigators. can document or [00:19:38] examine them, the group is stating that this could destroy crucial [00:19:42] evidence and the last traces of thousands of people still missing beneath the [00:19:45] debris uh break down break down that report from [00:19:49] euromed for us what it means [00:19:51] and um there's uh no way [00:19:55] to stop the Israelis uh from carrying this out [00:19:58] because the um lack of accountability, the free [00:20:02] rain uh that they have received [00:20:05] and um the complacent. the [00:20:08] international community here is also regarded as [00:20:12] complicity. i think this is the perfect [00:20:15] time for Netanyahu to intensify its [00:20:19] aggression against the gaza strip and the west bank by the way [00:20:23] as I told you in this interview and [00:20:27] the international community unfortunately colluded with with the [00:20:30] Israelion to continue [00:20:33] its aggression at. [00:20:37] the Palestinians, when you talk about the seas fire deal, we know that [00:20:41] all the mediators in the region are [00:20:45] weak, without sovereignty, without strong stance [00:20:49] to stop. the Israeli aggression or at least to stop the Israeli [00:20:53] violation, we saw today the the statement from the eight [00:20:57] countries about the Israeli violations, [00:20:59] but that is silly i [00:21:03] think to to talk about the Israeli violations as a [00:21:06] mediator without real stance, without [00:21:09] real action to stop or to force Israel [00:21:13] implement the second stage from the the seasfair [00:21:17] deal or at least to follow the... [00:21:20] recent recommendations from the mediators [00:21:24] after the statement the palestinian factions about [00:21:28] disarming the resistance. i think the mediators [00:21:31] took the statement from the palestinian factions to [00:21:35] give or to abuse trump during [00:21:38] his [00:21:42] his threatens his threats his threatens against [00:21:46] Iran and he by the way bosted uh [00:21:50] about that and he public published about that and he [00:21:54] pragged about the palestinian statement about [00:21:57] disming the resistance as bower the us [00:22:01] and after that we saw the mediators [00:22:05] stopped their action now [00:22:08] Israel at least especially [00:22:12] and his coalition they insisted on [00:22:15] intensifying their actions against the palestinians to [00:22:19] appease all the settlers to gain their votes [00:22:23] in the next elections and [00:22:26] that that that is an [00:22:29] obvious sign from [00:22:32] Israel to refuse any fire deal with them in [00:22:36] Gaza or in Lebanon just to keep or to [00:22:40] save their political futures as Netanyahu [00:22:44] or they wanted to establish new [00:22:48] settlements in the West Bank. especially engineer and in the gaza [00:22:52] strip to restore their doctrine the [00:22:56] veterans and to restore their historic moment about the settlements [00:22:59] and to gain more votes. this is the perfect time [00:23:03] for Netanyahu and i think he [00:23:07] took everything, [00:23:09] he did everything to [00:23:13] avoid his failure to avoid any [00:23:17] failure in the future because of... that I think and I [00:23:21] don't throw out that Netanyahu will escalate the [00:23:25] situation, will intensify the attacks in Gazza and [00:23:28] he took three tracks there, the first one to support the [00:23:32] undiscipline groups there and the extended [00:23:36] by the way their areas, the second track is [00:23:39] by creating chayas in [00:23:42] the areas under the the [00:23:46] control of resistance to put more pressure on. the internal [00:23:50] front there to force them to leave and the third [00:23:54] point is preventing the [00:23:57] national committee from entering gaza [00:24:01] to control gaza to at least to unify [00:24:04] the palestinian decision to be [00:24:08] the first step for the reconsiliation and [00:24:12] to establish new era between the palestinian [00:24:16] factions for their future about this state [00:24:20] with sovereignty, Netanyahu refused this committee, Netanyahu [00:24:23] refused to stop his action in Gaza, and [00:24:27] he will continue his policy, but [00:24:31] in in the media you will see more statements [00:24:35] about from European Union, from eight countries, from [00:24:39] mediators about see fair deal, but on the [00:24:42] ground we have war, genocide, starvation [00:24:46] in Gaza. Okay, we're gonna have to leave it there allow me to... thank my [00:24:50] guests uh muhammad writer and political analyst joining [00:24:54] us from Ramala, thank you sir and thanks to Press TV's [00:24:57] very unh joining us in our studio here in Tehron and that's a [00:25:01] rap for this edition of uh Press TV's news review but stick [00:25:04] around a way back on the bottom the hour with our world news, see you [00:25:07] soon. [00:25:22] If you want to understand 21st century geopolitics, [00:25:26] don't look at speeches, look at corridors and the center [00:25:30] of almost all them is Iran, not as a [00:25:33] spectator, as a structural necessity. From Washington's [00:25:36] perspective, Iran is often framed as a pressure point, but [00:25:40] from [00:25:41] a geo economic perspective, it is something else entirely, [00:25:45] the hinge of Eurasia, start with China's belt and road, a [00:25:49] free train now, runs from zan straight into Aprin dry [00:25:53] port, just outside Tehran, what used to take 40 [00:25:56] days by sea can now take about 15 by [00:26:00] rail, and hey, that's not s symbolism that supply [00:26:04] chain redesign and it quietly places Iran [00:26:07] inside the fastest growing east west [00:26:11] trade artery on the planet then there's a north south access [00:26:15] the INSTC linking Russia, Iran and India, a [00:26:18] corridor that doesn't just connect economies, it intersects with [00:26:22] every major east west route crossing [00:26:26] central Asia and here is where the irony becomes hard [00:26:30] to ignore, the more US some other western [00:26:34] plans try to root around Iran, the more [00:26:37] physical geography pulls them back through it. Take India's [00:26:41] ambition in chabahar, take China's interest in the markran [00:26:45] coast, take Russia's need for southern access. Three different [00:26:49] strategies, same unavoidable node. Iran [00:26:53] sits at the intersection of competing systems, BRI or the [00:26:57] belt road initiative on one side, INSTC or the [00:27:01] international north south. transport corridor on another, the US [00:27:05] backed IMEC [00:27:06] so callalled India middle east Europe corridor attempting to bypass [00:27:10] them entirely, but bypassing Iran is not [00:27:13] logistical detail, it is geopolitical contradiction, [00:27:17] because even IMEC's logic depends on stable regional [00:27:21] connectivity, a region where Iran is structurally [00:27:24] unavoidable, meanwhile, Washington's broader strategy, [00:27:28] illegal sanctions, pressure containment was meant to limit. [00:27:32] Iran's connectivity, instead, it accelerated [00:27:36] parallel systems, rail, ports and [00:27:40] overland trade roots that reduce dependence on maritime [00:27:44] choke points, and this is the quiet shift most headlines [00:27:47] miss. Iran is embedded inside competing [00:27:51] integration models, Chinese, Russian, Indian and [00:27:55] regional, which raises simple but uncomfortable question, [00:27:59] a world being rebelled through corridors, what happens? when the [00:28:03] system itself cannot be drawn without you, [00:28:06] sometimes the most strategic country is not the [00:28:10] one controlling the map, it is the one every version the [00:28:14] map is forced to pass through, no matter who [00:28:18] draws the [00:28:18] lines. [00:28:55] Crisis devastating wars, [00:28:58] terrorism, the Israeli lobby. [00:29:05] crackdown, [00:29:09] diplomacy, [00:29:15] new arrangements for safe hormos [00:29:17] shipping. [00:29:50] Headlines arounds acting defense minister says the country's armed forces are well [00:29:54] prepared to respond to any [00:29:55] threat. [00:30:03] Iran dismantles a network spying for Mosad and Kerman and the [00:30:06] terror cell planning attacks in Seestan and [00:30:10] Baluchestan province and Israeli troops [00:30:14] raid the Ghanandia refugee camp in the West Bank for the second day, they've also injured at [00:30:17] least eight people in southern [00:30:19] Mothernal. [00:30:37] Hello and welcome everybody, it's 6:30 p.m. here in the Iranian capital tenhorn, this is [00:30:41] press tv's world news. Top Story, Iran's acting defense minister, [00:30:45] brigadier general Majidebza says the country's armed forces [00:30:49] are ready to respond to any threats. The top military commander said the [00:30:52] Islamic Republic's military is fully equipped with indigenous military [00:30:56] technology that surpasses uh every imported.