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[00:00:27] its safety and management must be taken serious.
[00:00:34] of
[00:00:38] a Saudi
[00:00:41] of Arabia thought it could bypass hormos. It thought its pipelines,
[00:00:45] its American weapons and its
[00:00:46] of strategic partnerships could keep the oil flowing and the kingdom
[00:00:50] insulated from the consequences of regional war, but that
[00:00:54] carefully constructed illusion is now cracking. This week we
[00:00:57] examined how strikes have forced the shut. down of Riyadh's crucial
[00:01:01] east-west pipeline while Yemen's armed forces and
[00:01:04] Ansarulah are rapidly reshaping the strategic equation
[00:01:08] around Babel Mandib. KSA's oil bypass
[00:01:12] backfires this week on the mide east
[00:01:20] of of stream.
[00:02:30] of
[00:02:34] of of
[00:02:52] and
[00:02:52] of arrestment of um a press TV correspondent Naghammed
[00:02:56] which was just in our news bulletin um I'm going to...
[00:03:00] to bring you up to a speed on what
[00:03:02] of has happened in the west bank, as we have been reporting, um,
[00:03:06] the there
[00:03:07] is really atrocities in the occupied west bank territory have been
[00:03:10] ramped up since October 2023, ever since the Gaza
[00:03:14] genocidal war began, and what has been
[00:03:18] happening since then, we have been more demolition orders, more
[00:03:21] detainment of journalists, as matter of fact, we had
[00:03:25] a report of more than 60 journalists have been detained in
[00:03:29] the occupied west. one
[00:03:30] of them was a press tv correspondent which was um along
[00:03:34] with her camera
[00:03:35] of crew were stopped a flying checkpoint near the town of
[00:03:38] tuqu southeast
[00:03:40] of the city of Bethlehem the regime's forces searched them
[00:03:44] and took the press dev's uhamed into
[00:03:48] in custody this is after weeks of incitement against her
[00:03:52] byes roti settlers and this has happened um for
[00:03:56] many different times since now um now has always been
[00:04:00] suffering tear gas canisters as she was reporting
[00:04:04] live for press tv, but this time she was actually
[00:04:07] detained.
[00:04:19] at this hour, let me bring
[00:04:21] of ask you by your broad takeaway of what it means that
[00:04:25] there's really aggression in the west bank um have
[00:04:28] been more and more in the past few days and right now we have a
[00:04:32] press tv correspondent detained, yeah, you have
[00:04:36] been giving the historical respect to what has been happening in the last few days
[00:04:40] and you are absolutely right, west bank is turning into
[00:04:43] a very difficult place for journalists and as we already know
[00:04:47] during the
[00:04:48] of genocide in Gaza that around the
[00:04:51] of world, even in the west bank now we are seeing that being repeated,
[00:04:55] Gaza was already called the graveyard of journalists in the
[00:04:58] a world, we had all the organization from ICG from journalist
[00:05:02] syndicate saying how difficult for journalist to work in the occupy territories and
[00:05:06] now we are seeing how
[00:05:09] of difficult and how dreadful Israel has made this place for the
[00:05:12] journalist to function in July
[00:05:16] itself, 108, at least 108
[00:05:19] early forces, but they did not, you know, they were not
[00:05:23] limited to only Israeli forces, even the settlers were attacking
[00:05:27] journalists, they were, then the Israeli regime was
[00:05:30] interrogating journalists, they also were destroying their equipment, as
[00:05:34] you mentioned that the press tv journalist has been now
[00:05:38] taken by with her crew as well, so this this is being
[00:05:40] repeated uh Again and again in the last few months where
[00:05:44] journalists working in the west bank are being persecuted
[00:05:48] by the Israeli forces and also the settlers are persecuting them, so
[00:05:52] now we are seeing what was being exercised in Gaza
[00:05:56] during the genocide for the last three years is now being repeated
[00:05:59] in West Bank and it's very important to mention
[00:06:03] that this is not limited to journalists in the last few months we have
[00:06:07] been seeing how the violence in West Bank has
[00:06:11] multiplied. uh so much founded the alarm
[00:06:15] over um the growing campaign by Israel settlers to
[00:06:18] expand Jewish religious rituals inside the
[00:06:22] aloxa moss compounds that is move by the israelis to
[00:06:26] judize um the occupied uh west
[00:06:30] side the the city of algots even more than
[00:06:33] before um I wanted your thoughts on what this what is are
[00:06:37] trying to do to the west bank is this move toward
[00:06:40] full annexation the territory? Yeah, we have already
[00:06:44] had many the Israeli ministers speaking about it quite
[00:06:48] openly, you know, they have been saying that they want to annex the
[00:06:52] whole the west bank, and there have also been such radical
[00:06:55] statements where these ministers from Israel have
[00:06:59] been saying that they were, they did a mistake, they committed a mistake
[00:07:03] when they allowed Palestinians to stay in
[00:07:07] the occupied territories in 1948, and now they want to
[00:07:10] undo the mistake, so they... want the Palestinians
[00:07:14] to totally leave,
[00:07:18] not only the West Bank, but also Gaza, we have also
[00:07:22] seen the being done behind the doors, is it something which
[00:07:26] is being talked about, which is being reported in the
[00:07:29] media, and we have also seen laws being passed by
[00:07:33] the Israel's Nessed, the Israeli parliament where they are
[00:07:37] talking about annexing the plan A, the plan B,
[00:07:41] about the West Bank. the occupied al-quds
[00:07:44] so and we as you mentioned about the Hamas
[00:07:48] statement, we are having statements from the resistance
[00:07:51] groups very frequently in the past few months where they are
[00:07:55] saying that Israel is planning to increase its
[00:07:58] annexation the west bank and as far as the
[00:08:02] Gaza strip is concerned there also we are seeing the yellow line is
[00:08:06] changing the so-called yellow line is changing every day they are
[00:08:10] annexing more land so and now the way the
[00:08:14] Israeli regime is behaving is that it
[00:08:16] is holding no guards, it
[00:08:20] is speaking about
[00:08:21] it is doing it on doing this on ground as well and
[00:08:25] the way palestinians are being persecuted, the way people in the west
[00:08:29] bank are being attacked by army is enough of enough of proof
[00:08:33] to armies enough of enough of proof to for the
[00:08:37] world to see the policies that Israel is
[00:08:40] practicing in the west.
[00:08:45] Yes, Amira, there was this also Israel who was
[00:08:49] talking about what is happening in the west bank um, they
[00:08:53] were the ones that reported that at least 60 Palestinian
[00:08:56] journalists in the West Bank have been detained, as I was
[00:09:00] just saying in our intro before we um, before I
[00:09:04] ask you the first question
[00:09:05] on this, that was that the name of that group was Betselem,
[00:09:09] which was saying Israel is using military forces and... armed
[00:09:12] settlers to embark violence, fear and coersion
[00:09:16] across the occupied west bank territory. there was report
[00:09:20] bindist rights group uh which said at least
[00:09:23] 1,107 palestinians were killed
[00:09:27] between october 2023 and september 2026
[00:09:31] and israely attack. so the situation the occupied west bank,
[00:09:35] it seems as you just said that this ridy regime has a plan for the
[00:09:39] occupied territory as long as Donald Trump is turn a blind
[00:09:43] eye in his first administration he did a lot for the
[00:09:47] um the Israel sign to actually go ahead and annex the whole territory
[00:09:51] right now we are saying the ramifications of that move by Donald Trump
[00:09:55] and his administration in terms of
[00:09:57] what is happening to the occupied west bank there was this
[00:10:00] visit by JD vans the first vice president the US to the
[00:10:04] west bank which changed the situation to a bit
[00:10:08] but this hasn't changed the Israeli regimes uh
[00:10:12] when it comes to
[00:10:13] the west bank, now they are detaining more and more journalists
[00:10:17] as they have detained Press TV's correspondent in the
[00:10:20] occupied territory.
[00:10:25] I have this question, Homero, what sort of a
[00:10:28] procedure does a journalist has to go through when
[00:10:32] they are, if you know, of course, when do
[00:10:35] you detained by the israely forces? first of
[00:10:39] all, under international law, journalists all over the
[00:10:43] world are protected and specifically in the conflict zone,
[00:10:46] journalists are protected, and as we know as the details which us
[00:10:50] are facing from the from from the arrest of our press
[00:10:54] TV. journalist of our colleague is that she was wearing a press
[00:10:58] west and even and all the crew was also wearing a press west
[00:11:02] so that was clear approve that they are
[00:11:06] reporting from the ground they are
[00:11:09] journalists so under international law you are not
[00:11:13] allowed to arrest any journalist
[00:11:16] working you know covering the news
[00:11:20] but we know that Israel does not adher to any laws we have
[00:11:23] seen them at journalists in Gaza,
[00:11:27] if you remember there was a double tap incident even in
[00:11:31] Gaza where Israel first attacked
[00:11:33] journalist a camping site where journalists were camping near a
[00:11:37] hospital, then after after few minutes they again
[00:11:41] attacked it so that they they wanted to raise the casualty
[00:11:44] number, so this deliberate attempt to muzzle
[00:11:48] the voice of truth, we have seen that in Gaza, we
[00:11:52] have seen that in Lebanon as well and even in... Iran, they did
[00:11:56] kill few journalists in Iran as well, so this is what Israel has been practicing
[00:12:00] because they do not want the truth to come out, they want to do
[00:12:03] everything where they can muzzle the voice of truth.
[00:12:07] As far as a procedure you talked about is concerned that how do they behavior
[00:12:11] journalists? We have reports after reports coming from
[00:12:15] the NGOs the world, different organization, even the
[00:12:18] organizations that have been working in the occupying
[00:12:22] territory saying that the way..." 'Israel is
[00:12:26] behaving with the prisoners is
[00:12:29] very inhuman, we have even
[00:12:33] seen you know sexual
[00:12:37] misconduct being done to palestinian prisoners, we
[00:12:41] have seen animals being
[00:12:45] used to torture palestinian prisoners,
[00:12:49] so the journalistts who are also imprisoned by the Israeli
[00:12:52] regime, they also'. face some these
[00:12:56] tortures, but here the Israeli
[00:13:00] regime may take some precautions
[00:13:04] because
[00:13:04] you know journalists are going to report about it, but as we
[00:13:08] know they are being supported
[00:13:11] by the United States, by other European countries, as you were mentioning
[00:13:15] how Donald Trump or for that matter, the United States or
[00:13:19] other European countries are doing nothing about the
[00:13:23] annexation, about the crimes that are being committed by Israel, so they have
[00:13:26] impunity which they have gotten from the west,
[00:13:30] so they are going to use
[00:13:34] that impunity in torturing Palestinians in whatever way they
[00:13:37] can, be the doctors of Palestine, be the journalists of Palestine,
[00:13:41] we have seen how they have been treating the doctors of Palestine, how they
[00:13:45] have imprisoned them without any charges, so I think this is the same
[00:13:48] treatment that is going to be met with the journalists that are imprisoned
[00:13:52] in the occupied West bank. Another
[00:13:56] important thing to actually signify Homeira
[00:14:00] is uh how before uh was
[00:14:03] detained by the Israel military forces uh
[00:14:07] she was going through a phase of incitements uh
[00:14:11] against our by the settlers there um what do we know
[00:14:15] about this so far uh what we know about the settler
[00:14:19] violence is that for the last few months it has increased many fold
[00:14:23] there have been thousands of incidents reported of settler violence and
[00:14:26] these settlers are being supported by the Israeli
[00:14:29] army, we have seen them
[00:14:33] you know ren sacking palestinian homes, we have seen them attacking
[00:14:37] palestinian farmers, we have seen them
[00:14:41] burning agricultural land, olive
[00:14:43] trees, even rensacking homes of Palestinians
[00:14:47] and and at the end of it we have at the back of it we
[00:14:51] have seen how Israeli army protects them and how Israeli army
[00:14:55] actually helps them to carry out these attacks,
[00:14:58] so as we know in the last few months, these attacks
[00:15:02] have multiplied lot, and it is very
[00:15:06] important to mention here that in the
[00:15:10] last few weeks we saw
[00:15:12] England, France and
[00:15:15] Canada living
[00:15:18] sanctions against the settlements
[00:15:21] in the occupied West Bank, why? I am
[00:15:25] mentioning this here is that the settler violence has increased to
[00:15:29] such an extent that even these countries that
[00:15:33] are responsible for the atrocities that are being
[00:15:36] committed by Israel against Palestinians could not hold
[00:15:40] back, these countries are not good faith
[00:15:43] actors. England is responsible for
[00:15:46] the for Israeli regime
[00:15:50] to be placed in that in this west Asian region. It was
[00:15:54] b for declaration in 1970s that gave birth
[00:15:57] to Israel in the west Asian region, but
[00:16:01] even these countries were forced to
[00:16:04] sanction the settlements because the violence is. growing so
[00:16:08] much that they cannot now
[00:16:11] you know turn a blind eye to the to the
[00:16:15] amount of violence and even the people the
[00:16:19] countries in these western countries are forcing their
[00:16:23] government so the this is a proof about
[00:16:26] how much this violence has multiplied how much Israel
[00:16:30] is now persecuting
[00:16:33] Palestinians what type of atrocities
[00:16:36] it is committing against estinians, the US ambassador to the
[00:16:39] occupied territories, Mike Hakabi, even we have always seen
[00:16:43] he is a zionist and he's a very proudly says
[00:16:47] that he is a christian zionist, but even he had to talk about the
[00:16:51] settler violence, it is so much,
[00:16:53] it is so rampant it is so so
[00:16:57] so you know out of control
[00:17:01] now in the occupied territories and as you
[00:17:04] mentioned our press tv colleague. also had to undergo
[00:17:08] this violence at the hands these
[00:17:26] this hour, um, we just had breaking news coming in that a
[00:17:29] press tv correspondent in the occupied was
[00:17:33] detained by disturty forces at one the
[00:17:36] checkpoints - we do not know much the details of what
[00:17:40] why and how it happened exactly and if there were any arrest
[00:17:44] warrants on her, but you know more than anyone about the
[00:17:47] situation
[00:17:49] for the journalists and the occupied territory,
[00:17:51] muti?
[00:17:56] well, first of all let me express my profound solidarity
[00:18:00] with our colleague nak
[00:18:02] for uh as you being detained by the Israel incubition forces. as you have just
[00:18:05] mentioned, this is not surprising. from the Israeli regime and this comes
[00:18:09] in the context the systematic policy the Israeli regime
[00:18:13] to keep attacking the palestinian journalists in the west bank in
[00:18:17] Gaza or elsewhere aiming to deter those journalists
[00:18:21] and prevent them from reporting the truth about the Israeli
[00:18:25] atrocities against not only the pestinian people but against the
[00:18:29] peoples the region entirely uh either it was
[00:18:33] here in Gaza in the West Bank or in Lebanon or in Iran as
[00:18:36] well. so we are talking about a continuation the Israeli
[00:18:40] policy to keep targeting the journalists and as you are talking
[00:18:44] about more than 250 peristian journalists have been
[00:18:48] killed here in gossip since the start of this genucidal war till this
[00:18:52] moment and those sorget is those suggerings are still ongoing with no
[00:18:55] sign of abering against the palestinian journalist
[00:18:59] and no one can deny that the Israeli regime is
[00:19:03] trying by leaps and bounds to deter those journalists and
[00:19:07] them from reporting the truth in order to expose uh the
[00:19:11] real face the Israeli regime when it comes to
[00:19:15] attacking the palestinian people and committing
[00:19:18] these opponic massacers against innocent civilians
[00:19:21] and as you know this is this is another
[00:19:25] manifestation on how the Israeli regime is still potally and
[00:19:29] deliberately targeting the truth itself by targeting
[00:19:33] those palestinian journalists and let me remind you once again that
[00:19:38] targeting is not targeting for herself alone,
[00:19:42] this targeting extends to reach i the channel, the prest
[00:19:46] dev because the because the systematic policy
[00:19:50] of reporting the truth and resisting the Israeli
[00:19:53] narrative and resisting the Israeli propaganda machine,
[00:19:57] so we are talking about a thor policy
[00:20:01] imprised by the Israeli regime in order to obliterate the
[00:20:04] truth wherever it was either, here in gaz strip or
[00:20:08] elsewhere and this reflects clearly that we are talking
[00:20:12] about an entire propaganda machine that continues to work day and night in
[00:20:16] order to defy as you know the truth on the
[00:20:20] ground here uh once again we are talking about a systematic
[00:20:23] policy that covers all areas the palestinian territories
[00:20:27] and even extends beyond that to to reach Lebanon Iran
[00:20:31] or elsewhere and this reflects clearly that we are talking
[00:20:35] about dirty rule played uh by the Israeli
[00:20:39] regime and those international media out this because definitely they would
[00:20:43] never talk about this arrest or this abduction the
[00:20:47] palestinian general because are still turning a
[00:20:51] blind eye to the Israeli fotility when it comes to the palestinian
[00:20:54] people and whenever there is any sort of any counter attack against the
[00:20:58] Israeli regime, they are still reporting uh that
[00:21:02] resistance action intensely and
[00:21:04] extensively. what
[00:21:08] see um, as you just said, it's a systematic detention when it
[00:21:12] comes to the Palestinian journalists and the occupied west bank and in
[00:21:16] Gaza as well, they target um palestinian.
[00:21:20] journalists in the besieg gaza's trip and they detain or
[00:21:23] kill some them. also there was this report by betsalem and is ready
[00:21:27] writes group that more than 60 palestinian journalists have been detained
[00:21:31] by the history forces in the occupied territory and also our viewers
[00:21:35] are looking at the bottom their screen saying that terrorist s
[00:21:39] have been holding 37 palestinian journalists behind
[00:21:43] bars including 19 held without no
[00:21:46] charge or trial. the question that i had for you before i let
[00:21:50] you go and he is what is the procedure and
[00:21:54] what uh what is the procedure that a palestinian journalist goes
[00:21:57] through when they are detained by Israely
[00:22:00] forces?
[00:22:03] well no wonder that we are talking about the palest when we are talking about the Parisinian journalists
[00:22:07] we are talking about as you know slice the parissinian uh
[00:22:11] people uh generally and they are uh they are
[00:22:15] experiencing what the entire people here in gaz strip or the entire
[00:22:19] patcenan people? across the palestinan territories are going through, we are talking
[00:22:22] about unprecedented measures inflicted by the
[00:22:26] Israeli authorities against those palestinian detinies and
[00:22:30] we are still witnessing how the Israeli regime is escalating as you its
[00:22:34] attacks and the brutalities against the palestinian detinies
[00:22:38] and unfortunately the they are still
[00:22:41] braging about the way they are treating the parestinian
[00:22:44] detinies and this is happening unfortunately before the eyes
[00:22:48] the entire world and this is a disgrace to the international community
[00:22:52] and the international humanitarian organizations and bodies are still witnessing
[00:22:56] what's happening without taking decisive actions to stop uh those
[00:23:00] subterities against the palestinian ditanies no one is talking about the
[00:23:04] rights of those parestinian ditanees are still going for hell inside the Israeli
[00:23:08] jails and the Israeli detention centers and we and everyone
[00:23:12] across the globe has witnessed and heard how the
[00:23:15] paristinian people and the palestinian detones particularly from gas trip went
[00:23:19] to inside the concentration camps
[00:23:22] including man
[00:23:25] and the other concentration camps in the Israeli
[00:23:28] regime and this clearly that we are talking
[00:23:32] about
[00:23:33] the the culmination the Israeli poserity towards
[00:24:06] um you heard the breaking news uh a press tv correspondent has been detained
[00:24:09] by the israely forces uh that and this happened today
[00:24:13] after phases of incitement against their biter
[00:24:17] settlers and i wanted your broad settler um, I
[00:24:20] wanted your broad takeaway,
[00:24:24] okay, first of all, I think Israel is
[00:24:27] plondering
[00:24:30] in in this cases about the journalists, about
[00:24:33] the besost, inside Jerusalem, I think
[00:24:37] Israel lives a placer of
[00:24:40] lies, justifications,
[00:24:44] to convince the international community of its policies of
[00:24:48] its aggression against. the Palestinians
[00:24:50] naqa is working
[00:24:54] professionally without incitement against Israel, without
[00:24:57] incitement against settlers, by the way, the settlers,
[00:25:01] weeks ago, they incited against her to
[00:25:05] to ask the Israeli army to arrest her. now when you talk
[00:25:08] about the correspondence in the west
[00:25:11] bank, this is an obvious evidence that
[00:25:15] Israel targets everyone, including the
[00:25:19] journalists. They assassinated Shirin Abu, the
[00:25:23] correspondent of al-Jazeera, years ago with cold
[00:25:26] blood without
[00:25:29] accountability, with the call the blood, now
[00:25:33] they torture, they arrest, they
[00:25:37] kill journalists in the west bank in the
[00:25:40] gaza strip without any
[00:25:44] question, without any stance or
[00:25:48] real stance or real. from the international
[00:25:51] community to stop the Israeli aggression, the
[00:25:55] Israeli recursion
[00:25:58] against this field especially and don't forget.
[00:26:02] that the Israeli cubation after the
[00:26:06] genicide and starvation and after the
[00:26:10] seventh of october was
[00:26:13] exposed Israel, Israel became under the
[00:26:17] light in front the international community,
[00:26:21] Israel failed failed in failed
[00:26:24] in showing the international community
[00:26:27] it's fake narrative or renovate
[00:26:31] the the... image there now
[00:26:34] with the the arrest with this arrestment, i
[00:26:38] think the Israeli government took older steps against the
[00:26:42] journalists in the west bank, they attacked them by the
[00:26:46] way two days ago in
[00:26:48] almayar, they prevented them
[00:26:52] from covering the field to intimidate
[00:26:56] them, to deter them to
[00:27:00] hide the truth. from
[00:27:04] spreading around the world, this is the point for the Israeli
[00:27:07] government, they are targeting naqa,
[00:27:11] shirin, mus, everyone
[00:27:14] even by the
[00:27:16] way, is holding the
[00:27:19] US citizenship,
[00:27:22] and that will lead to an
[00:27:25] important question for the
[00:27:29] US embacy in Jerusalem, where is your stance now? what is
[00:27:33] your real stance to protect your citizens from
[00:27:36] the Israeli
[00:27:37] aggression?
[00:27:42] um, there was reported um the only thing that we had
[00:27:45] after the detention of
[00:27:47] uh press dv's correspond
[00:27:48] in aaga hammed was that this happened after
[00:27:52] settler insightment. what does that mean actually
[00:27:56] for the viewers that do not know? and
[00:27:59] this is a evidence,
[00:28:03] this is an obvious evidence that the Israeli
[00:28:07] army took his took
[00:28:10] its decisions and instructions from the settlers in the
[00:28:14] west bank, on the contrary, they they
[00:28:18] denied any relation with the settlers, now when you
[00:28:22] see the settlers groups and their social
[00:28:26] media and their incitement against the journalists and
[00:28:30] after that the Israeli army arrest them, "this
[00:28:33] is an, this is an obvious evidence that the Israeli
[00:28:36] army has has a high
[00:28:40] coordination with the settlers to intimidate the
[00:28:43] Palestinians, to deter them, to
[00:28:46] blackmail people, and by the way, the
[00:28:50] Israeli army threatened people many times
[00:28:54] and prevented them from dealing with the
[00:28:58] media, with all outlets in the west bank to hide
[00:29:01] the..." the truth to prevent
[00:29:04] the Palestinian narrative and now with
[00:29:08] these steps from the settlers and and
[00:29:12] I think
[00:29:13] that this is deliberately the the settlers
[00:29:16] deliberately incited against Naqa to go
[00:29:20] through the next step to prevent any
[00:29:23] journalist from covering the field and
[00:29:27] that will lead to more steps against all
[00:29:31] journalists with all outlets without hesitation
[00:29:35] from the Israeli settlers and the Israeli