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[00:00:03] a
[00:00:10] Press TV headlines, the Palestinian journalist Syndicate condemns
[00:00:13] Israel's abduction of Press TV's reporter Naga
[00:00:17] Hamed warning about her health conditions
[00:00:19] of in the regime's prisons. The human
[00:00:23] rights group says Israel is increasingly deploying quadcopter drones to target
[00:00:27] Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
[00:00:32] of and
[00:00:33] the United States Federal Reserve has raised interest rates for the first time in three
[00:00:37] years a bit to curb inflation driven by soaring
[00:00:40] of fuel of prices amid US war on
[00:00:42] Iran.
[00:01:03] TV's world
[00:01:04] in news. Our top story for
[00:01:05] of Palestinian journalists working in the occupied West Bank reporting the news
[00:01:09] can come with serious risks from covering uh settler
[00:01:13] attacks to documenting Israeli military operations uh
[00:01:17] and land seizures journalists often find themselves working under growing pressure and facing
[00:01:21] detention and
[00:01:22] in harassment. The
[00:01:23] of latest case is raised fresh concerns over the treatment. Rest has
[00:01:26] raised fresh concerns over the treatment of Palestinian. journalists and her own
[00:01:30] safety while in
[00:01:32] detention.
[00:01:37] It has been three days since Press TV's west bank reporter Naqa
[00:01:40] Hamed was abducted by Israeli soldiers. Regime forces
[00:01:44] arrested her a checkpoint as she was returning from
[00:01:47] a reporting assignment. Her cameraman who witnessed the incident
[00:01:51] a recounts how the events unfolded. It was three female
[00:01:55] soldiers who ushered our car to stop. They demanded we hand over our
[00:01:59] identification. cards, and they
[00:02:01] of photographed
[00:02:01] a each ID as well as took our pictures.
[00:02:03] of After a short while, the
[00:02:05] of soldiers ordered the team to get out
[00:02:06] of the car and follow them to a military watch tower nearby. We were
[00:02:10] forced to sit on the ground
[00:02:11] of for around 45 minutes and in that time
[00:02:14] of naka was taken by the female soldiers to the side. Around 15
[00:02:17] minutes later, the soldiers asked Hamed to collect her phone and laptop, and
[00:02:21] she was taken into custody. The Palestinian Journalist
[00:02:25] of Syndicate has
[00:02:25] of condemned of Israel's continued abduction and targeting a Palestinian
[00:02:29] journalist. including
[00:02:30] of Naqa Hamed, the syndicate said
[00:02:32] in a statement that her abduction is the latest example of Israel
[00:02:36] detaining adrenalist. It noted that Hamed
[00:02:38] of has diabetes and other health problems. It warned that Hamet's continued
[00:02:42] detention raises serious concerns about her health and safety
[00:02:46] of given the harsh conditions and lack of adequate medical care in Israeli
[00:02:50] prisons and detention centers. The journalist has been working as a
[00:02:54] prostifi correspondent since 2024. Over the
[00:02:58] past few weeks she has been. reporting about raising settler
[00:03:01] attacks,
[00:03:02] of especially of in the town of Osra, as well as Israel's land grab
[00:03:06] of policies in the occupied territories. That's deemed to be the
[00:03:09] reason she has been targeted by Israeli settlers with wave of
[00:03:13] incitement on Telegram channels and Israely
[00:03:16] of media. in The campaign has been
[00:03:18] of slammed as part of a targeted effort to put psychological and
[00:03:22] media pressure, limit the space available to
[00:03:25] a journalists and media outlets and obstruct Press TV's coverage of Israeli crime.
[00:03:30] from reaching audiences around the world. was also
[00:03:34] injured in december last year while
[00:03:36] reportingia
[00:03:38] refugee camp after Israeli forces targeted her with rubber bullets.
[00:03:42] hammed is from the village of baitin northeast of romalah
[00:03:46] holding american citizenship and is married with three young
[00:03:49] children. hamed family contacted the US embassy in
[00:03:53] al-quds about her arrest but has yet to hear back.
[00:03:57] israeli news outlets cited unidentified military
[00:04:00] sources, saying hammed is suspected of cooperating with an
[00:04:04] enemy entity and may also be under suspicion of a
[00:04:07] spienage. Hamed's detention is part of escalating wave of
[00:04:11] arrest of Palestinian journalists by Israeli authorities. Nearly
[00:04:15] 40 journalists are currently in Israeli detention according to the
[00:04:18] Palestinian prisoner society, all of whom were
[00:04:21] abducted following the start of Israel's genocidal war on
[00:04:25] Gaza nearly three years ago. Over half
[00:04:28] of the journalists behind both.
[00:04:30] of are being held in administrative detention, mechanism that allows
[00:04:34] Israeli authorities to imprison people indefinitely without
[00:04:38] charge or trial. For hammed's family, however, the case
[00:04:42] is deeply personal. Three days after her arrest, there's still
[00:04:46] waiting for answers about where she's being held, the charges
[00:04:50] against
[00:04:51] a her, and whether she's receiving the medical care she needs. As hammed
[00:04:54] remains behind
[00:04:55] in bars, her colleagues and family continue to call for her immediate
[00:04:59] release. and for
[00:05:00] in guarantees of her safety and access to proper medical
[00:05:03] care. the case of hammed is yet another reminder
[00:05:07] of the risks palestinian journalists face, simply for
[00:05:11] documenting events on the... for now
[00:05:14] her family remains without answers and the questions surrounding her
[00:05:17] abduction remain
[00:05:19] unresolved.
[00:05:23] other in university professor George Katsufiakus
[00:05:27] says Israel has a long history of targeting journalists arguing that it
[00:05:31] does so out of desperation to prevent the truth from being
[00:05:34] exposed. I'm
[00:05:38] very concerned for this fate of Naka, she is
[00:05:41] certainly... as an administrative detainee, not
[00:05:45] in for a limited time, for an unlimited time,
[00:05:49] and the Israeli regime will have their way with her, feeling
[00:05:53] no obligation for humanitarian considerations
[00:05:57] at all. We know this from their
[00:05:59] practice. I believe the back story here
[00:06:03] is that recently, many European countries have announced a
[00:06:07] boycott against West Bank Settlements products,
[00:06:11] and though the though... the boycott will be happening, the
[00:06:15] Israelis have become extraordinarily paranoid,
[00:06:18] that the world
[00:06:20] now knows what their regime is doing to
[00:06:23] Palestinians, to lebanese. the reporter
[00:06:27] of
[00:06:27] Mal Khalil in April was targeted
[00:06:31] deliberately, and emergency crews trying to save her were
[00:06:35] also prevented from getting close to her, what human rights
[00:06:39] watch called a clear war crime, so the... Israelis
[00:06:42] have no concern for humanitarian ethical
[00:06:46] behavior, both CNN and NBC
[00:06:50] news from the United States had crews attacked with stones
[00:06:54] and sticks by Israeli settlers while the army stood
[00:06:57] by, so situation is
[00:07:01] terrible, but in general the media is under attack because they're
[00:07:05] desperate, not to have the word spread about the
[00:07:09] truth, but I would also point out at least
[00:07:13] one-third the Israeli army are american citizens
[00:07:16] and many the settlers are from Brooklyn, New York,
[00:07:20] right, so it's actually Americans who are doing
[00:07:23] lot the violence that they're trying to cover
[00:07:26] up. An italian law
[00:07:30] maker has filed a parliamentary question over Israel's abduction of press TV
[00:07:34] reporter and the occupied West Bank, the Italian Journalists
[00:07:37] Union has also condemned the abduction that once again highlighted
[00:07:41] concerns over Israel's. re targeting of journal reporting its crimes
[00:07:45] pressy reports from
[00:07:46] rome on
[00:07:50] wednesday five staff movement law maker stefani askari submitted
[00:07:54] a parliamentary question to Italy's lower house addressing the Italian
[00:07:58] government over the abduction by the Israeli forces of press
[00:08:02] tv correspondent nakamed in the occupied west
[00:08:05] bank Naka was abducted a military checkpoint near
[00:08:09] Bethlehem on Tuesday after document
[00:08:42] When I learned about the arbitrary arrest of this young journalist, I
[00:08:46] felt it was my duty to file a parliamentary question addressing
[00:08:50] Italy's foreign minister. We yet don't know where she's been
[00:08:54] taken, how she is, if she's assisted by a lawyer,
[00:08:58] she is mother, her children want to know where she is.
[00:09:01] Palestinian American reporter Naka Ahmed had previously
[00:09:05] been targeted while covering Israeli military operations in the
[00:09:09] occupied West bank. Over the years,
[00:09:13] reports by international media organizations have found that the Israeli
[00:09:17] regime killed, wounded or kidnapped an
[00:09:20] unprecedented number of journalists in the occupied Palestinian
[00:09:24] territories, trade unions and associations,
[00:09:28] representing journalists in Italy have
[00:09:31] repeatedly condemned the Israeli conduct and
[00:09:34] deplored the regime's destruction of telecommunications
[00:09:38] and media infrastructure in Gaza and the West Bank.
[00:09:51] issues, including Israel's targeting of journalists in the occupied Palestinian
[00:09:54] territories and in Lebanon, the public's right to know the facts
[00:09:58] on the ground from a war zone, and the fact that Israel has blocked all
[00:10:02] independent press access to Gaza. We have several times
[00:10:06] condemned the killing of colleagues in the strip, and we regret that
[00:10:09] Israel has not heated our calls. Internet.
[00:10:25] humanity in the occupied Palestinian territories and in
[00:10:28] Lebanon, get arrested or killed in the worst case
[00:10:32] scenario. We must stop all this once and
[00:10:36] for all. Protesters and activists have on
[00:10:40] numerous occasions strongly condemned the Italian media
[00:10:43] for showing a bias toward Israel in the coverage,
[00:10:47] accusing them of complicity in laundering genocide and
[00:10:51] promoting an openly anti-palestinian view.
[00:10:57] Rome. Israeli
[00:11:01] forces and settlers have carried out new raids and attacks across the occupied west
[00:11:04] bank. Israeli forces rated the city of Ramala and arrested journalist
[00:11:08] ala Hassan al-Ramawi. the latest media worker detained in
[00:11:12] connection with his journalistic work. Israel has used
[00:11:16] administrative detention told Palestinians in definitely without charge or
[00:11:20] trial a separate raid on ale refugee camp
[00:11:24] west of nabulous. two Palestinian men were reportedly beaten while
[00:11:27] being detained and subjected to field interrogations. Meanwhile Israeli settlers
[00:11:31] attacked Palestinian homes in the village of Bura east of
[00:11:35] Ramala and set fire to agricultural land in the
[00:11:39] Alad Al Shami area, eyewitness said the flames
[00:11:43] spread toward nearby homes
[00:11:45] and
[00:11:53] Israel is using quadcopter drone. to target and kill civilians in
[00:11:56] Gaza, a Geneva-based human rights monitor has documented at
[00:12:00] least 60 killings by these weapons from October last year
[00:12:04] until early September. The Eromet group has spoken of a
[00:12:08] systematic pattern of deliberate killings and called for an international
[00:12:12] investigation President reports from Central
[00:12:14] Gaza.
[00:12:19] Israel continues to use armed the quad copter drones to deliberately kill
[00:12:23] Palestinian civilians in the... a strip that's according to report
[00:12:26] released at the weekend by euromed human rights monitor. the
[00:12:30] geneva based group says it has documented the killing of at least
[00:12:34] 60 civilians by attacks using equipters since the seasfire
[00:12:38] took effect on October the 10th, 2025, through early September
[00:12:42] this year. the
[00:12:45] use of quadcopter drones to target Palestinian civilians is occurring
[00:12:49] amits the ongoing genocidal war on Gaza. Israeli
[00:12:53] forces have employed a diverse range of weapons and military
[00:12:57] equipment against Palestinian women and children. Despite the
[00:13:01] ceasefire agreement, the killing of Palestinians continues
[00:13:04] unabated. The fact that these drones can identify their
[00:13:07] targets further underscores the deliberate targeting of children and
[00:13:11] women, which is seen as a flagrant violation of international
[00:13:15] law and regulations. The Euromit report
[00:13:19] speaks of a continuing pattern to target civilians from a
[00:13:22] children to farmers, shepherds and displace people returning to
[00:13:26] check on their homes. It says Israel uses military technology
[00:13:30] that allows it to identify specific individuals, track their
[00:13:34] movements and strike them with the
[00:13:35] precision. undoubtedly,
[00:13:39] developing quadcopter drones as killing tools is in violation of
[00:13:43] international law and conventions that prohibit targeting civilians
[00:13:47] under any circumstances. We are witnessing first hand how these
[00:13:51] drones are targeting children and women, despite their advanced capability.
[00:13:55] to identify their targets, this calls for immediate action from
[00:13:59] mediators and international humanitarian organizations to
[00:14:02] stop the widespread killing of palestinians. for
[00:14:06] many palestinians, quadcopter drones are perceived as the
[00:14:10] most little weapon due to the multifunctional capabilities, beyond
[00:14:14] their precision strikes on civilians, these drones can maneuver
[00:14:18] and hover effortlessly in confined spaces, including
[00:14:21] mixshift tents. this versatility allows them to be
[00:14:29] every night we witnessed and hear the Israeli quad copter drones
[00:14:33] hovering over our makeshift tents, usually at low altitudes
[00:14:37] and sometimes firing on the sleeping people below. few days ago,
[00:14:41] my nephew was shot and injured by an Israeli quadcopter drone,
[00:14:45] while a friend of mine was tragically killed under similar
[00:14:48] circumstances. it's not
[00:14:52] a coincidence that this report was released by: the impact the
[00:14:56] 2026 British documentary film NASA is still being
[00:14:59] filled worldwide. The documentary demonstrates the same truth. The
[00:15:03] Israel regime uses artificial intelligence and advanced
[00:15:06] technologies in its war on Gaza to indiscriminately kill
[00:15:10] palestinan women and children. As the
[00:15:14] genocidal war on Gaza persists, the Israeli
[00:15:17] forces armed with cutting edge technology continue to employ
[00:15:21] more lethal weapons against civilians. The world. must now
[00:15:25] ask itself what more evidence is needed before halting
[00:15:29] this Israeli madness the
[00:15:33] central area of gaza
[00:15:34] step.
[00:15:38] Rescuers are continuing to recover bodies from residential building in
[00:15:42] Gaza City after it collapsed following damage sustained in Israeli strikes at
[00:15:46] least 21 people are so far confirmed dead and many others
[00:15:49] injured while more than 100 remain
[00:15:51] missing.
[00:15:56] This is one the most serious disasters in the Gaza Strip since the outbreak of this
[00:16:00] round of conflict caused by the collapse of damaged and dilapidated
[00:16:04] buildings. We continue to call on the international community to show... its
[00:16:07] responsibilities toward the residence the Gaza Strip, particularly those
[00:16:11] living in damaged and dilapidated buildings, and to strive to provide them with
[00:16:15] safe, alternative shelter to prevent such tragedies from happening
[00:16:18] again. If these people could find a tent, a piece of land to
[00:16:22] shelter on, or even just empty plot of ground, they wouldn't be forced to
[00:16:26] live in these dangerous, dilapidated structures that could collapse any
[00:16:30] moment. Their homes were originally located along the yellow line
[00:16:34] designated by the Israeli military, and most them were struck.
[00:16:37] attacks, leaving them without houses, tents or anywhere to stay.
[00:16:41] This is the reality for the people the gaza
[00:16:43] strip. I live right here, just about
[00:16:47] the meters away from this building. My tent is practically right up against the
[00:16:51] collapsed structure, that tent over there, barely the meters from the building.
[00:16:55] For some time, the building had been shedding bricks in masonry, but people
[00:16:59] didn't realize the severity the danger. Then, shortly after three
[00:17:02] o'clock, the building suddenly collapsed, crumbling into a heap of rubble in less
[00:17:06] than 10 seconds.
[00:17:10] Well for more on the situation in the Gaza Strip, we're joined by our
[00:17:14] correspondent Mina
[00:17:16] Sud was with us from Gaza City Minas uh please bring us up to speed on all the latest
[00:17:19] developments taking place uh in Gaza also uh we earlier had
[00:17:23] news of uh rescue operations uh that are continuing right
[00:17:27] now from the collapse of residential building, what can you tell us about that as
[00:17:31] well?
[00:17:37] Yes, um, in fact, about the catastrophe yesterday the
[00:17:41] collapsing of this building here in the west of Gaza City, nothing new
[00:17:45] until now, only the civil defense and rescue teams are
[00:17:48] still doing like the cleaning area from blocks
[00:17:52] and cement blocks from this collapsing building,
[00:17:56] people who survived about 50 people who survived,
[00:17:59] 30 them at the beginning at the moment and the first moments the
[00:18:03] collapsing they survived with their souls alone with with no
[00:18:06] injuries and and 21 people have been
[00:18:09] recovered by the civil defense
[00:18:12] and sorry 21 recovered from this collapsed
[00:18:16] building including eight children and another more
[00:18:20] than 20 people uh survived with no injuries and some them
[00:18:24] with serious injuries and now the place is clear there's no missing people under
[00:18:28] the rebel everything is good right now and the searching teams
[00:18:32] are still working to clear the area and to open the main roads
[00:18:36] and that the... roads broaches and because of that collapsing
[00:18:40] yesterday, so things are good right now, let me say
[00:18:44] it's good right now, but there are so many
[00:18:46] places uh, it's going to be uh, there are going to be
[00:18:50] collapse any time in Gaza City in the whole strip actually, some
[00:18:54] them, can you see me here uh behind me, there's a a
[00:18:58] bank, the Palestinian bank tower, this one is
[00:19:01] huge building in the middle of remal neighborhood, this one is
[00:19:05] consisting of about 10.
[00:19:08] or or 12 floors, which is very risky and dangerous and so
[00:19:12] many people displ displaced
[00:19:15] displacement people in the first three or four floors, in the
[00:19:19] first three or four floors of this building, so the
[00:19:23] the situation is very devastated and difficult,
[00:19:27] so uh there are there is a campaign for journalists and media
[00:19:31] today, starting today to warn uh all the the
[00:19:35] people who are living inside the...
[00:19:38] buildings, the these wornout buildings, it's going to be collapsed in any
[00:19:42] time, so we are gna work on cover the the
[00:19:46] the places that have these buildings or towers gonna be collapse
[00:19:50] anyt and save people before any
[00:19:53] catastrophy gonna be happen here in this
[00:19:56] area, so we are talking about more
[00:20:00] than two more than
[00:20:02] 2,000 buildings are are going to
[00:20:06] be collapsed in any... time as winter approaches and this is
[00:20:10] devastating situation, we are trying here to uh warn
[00:20:14] out people, to to sorry to to warn people and
[00:20:18] to um like give them advice to clear these
[00:20:22] areas or clear this buildings and uh to move another
[00:20:25] places or another houses or another tents maybe for timbular
[00:20:29] time just to rescue their life and to be safe from collapsing
[00:20:33] any time, so now they're opening the roads and the
[00:20:36] municipalities. uh municipalities and
[00:20:39] the the buldosers are trying to clear the area and trying to
[00:20:42] open the roads so no missing people from the
[00:20:46] yesterday's catastrophe and things are going good.
[00:20:51] of course the violation still continuing as today's
[00:20:54] morning fishermen were uh targeted by the
[00:20:58] civil by the Israeli occupation and so many areas
[00:21:01] in like ahanunis and in the west and the north of Gaza
[00:21:05] city these areas are near to the yellow line so the
[00:21:09] the the the whole situation or the general situation in Gaza is so
[00:21:13] devastated and so difficult to describe and also
[00:21:17] still violations despite the... for agreement talk effect
[00:21:21] in 2025 we are approaching
[00:21:24] for the the next the next october which
[00:21:28] is the 3rd october from the beginning the war in
[00:21:31] 2026 so it's gonna be three years of
[00:21:35] war the Israel war on Gaza and still people dying day after
[00:21:39] day these catastrophes the main cause of this is
[00:21:43] Israel occupation also he destroyed the building he shooted
[00:21:47] the buildings and people used to live in inside these buildings,
[00:21:51] despite that they are know that it going to be collapse any time,
[00:21:55] but they don't have alternatives, they don't have another places to go
[00:21:59] to, so this is how it is. all
[00:22:08] Arabia has carried out fresh air strikes on Yemen as the ongoing aggression continues to
[00:22:12] inflict heavy losses on civilians, according to Yemeny media, the war planes
[00:22:16] targeted three telecommunications towers in Yemen's Thaies province.
[00:22:20] two other Saudi air strikes on the city of Abs and
[00:22:24] Hajja province killed one civilian and wonded another
[00:22:28] while destroying four vehicles and damaging house. The latest
[00:22:32] Saudi air strikes come amid major andsad gains
[00:22:36] along Yemen's red sea coast. The movement has captured strategic
[00:22:40] positions and islands near the babal straight. It has launched missile and drone
[00:22:44] attacks against targets in southern Saudi Arabian
[00:22:47] retaliation for the Saudi aggression.
[00:22:53] and the United States Federal Reserve has raised interest rates for the first time in three
[00:22:57] years in a bit to curb inflation driven by soaring fuel
[00:23:01] prices a mid the US war on Iran. The Central Bank the US said the rates
[00:23:05] were hiked by 25 basis points bringing them
[00:23:09] to a 3.75% uh to
[00:23:12] 4%. Decision was uh made despite fierce
[00:23:15] opposition from President Donald Trump who had called for interest rates to be lowered at
[00:23:19] all. also comes just weeks before the US mid-term
[00:23:22] elections, fed chair Kevin Wars said the move was
[00:23:26] because inflation is too high and has been and has
[00:23:30] and has been rather for too long. Crude oil
[00:23:33] prices have sort since the imposed US Israeli war on
[00:23:36] Iran. In February Brent Crude is currently trading over
[00:23:40] $104 a barrel and the US is seeing record high
[00:23:44] diesel prices with the average price reaching over $6 a
[00:23:47] gallon roughly double the level. year
[00:23:50] ago.
[00:23:55] The US House of Representatives has passed bill to uh
[00:23:59] impose sweeping sanctions and tariffs on
[00:24:02] Iran and Russia. The legislation is named after late
[00:24:06] Senator Lindsay Graham, dozens of democratic representatives broke
[00:24:10] away from their party to join most Republicans in
[00:24:14] favor of sending the bill to president Donald Trump's desk to be signed into law.
[00:24:18] It takes aim at Russia's energy. sector by punishing the largest buyers of
[00:24:22] its oil and gas, allowing the president to impose tariffs on goods from
[00:24:26] those countries which may include China and India. It
[00:24:30] also extends the Iran sanctions Act of 1996 signed
[00:24:33] by former President Bill Clinton, the 1986 act was set to
[00:24:37] expire in 2026, but has been extended for
[00:24:41] additional 5 years. The package would also extend
[00:24:45] sanction authority aimed at slashing funding for Iran's
[00:24:49] weapons and energy. sectors
[00:25:21] when bombs stop falling, casualty figures are tallied, names are
[00:25:25] added to lists, but numbers cannot measure the lives that
[00:25:28] unravel after the explosions. wars count those killed by
[00:25:32] missiles, they rarely count those who survived them, and
[00:25:36] may later die of grief. yes, you heard that right,
[00:25:40] grief. 31 year old say became
[00:25:44] one of those. in the early hours of March 26, a
[00:25:47] US-Israeli strike reduced her family. home aspahos haptone
[00:25:51] neighborhood to rubble, her husband, local football coach
[00:25:55] Hussein Maliki and their two young sons, age five
[00:25:59] and three were killed, around them nine homes were destroyed. and
[00:26:02] 24 people died from the US Israely attack. Alham
[00:26:06] survived for seven hours, rescuers searched through
[00:26:10] concrete and twisted steel before pulling her from beneath the
[00:26:14] depre. A fallen sofa had shielded her head from the
[00:26:17] collapsing building, but her injuries were severe. Her
[00:26:21] greatest wounds, however, were invisible. weeks later, a video
[00:26:25] of at home standing on the ruins of her home spread across
[00:26:29] Iran. In her hands was a handrit note rescued from the
[00:26:32] rubble one her young son had written before the
[00:26:36] attack. as she read it, her voice faltered. around
[00:26:40] her lay the remains the life she had built.
[00:26:44] her father says that after losing her husband, her children
[00:26:47] and her home, she was never the same. she withdrew
[00:26:51] from the world, spoke constantly of her family and
[00:26:55] struggled to bear even ordinary sounds after more than
[00:26:59] two months of overwhelming grief after losing her. family in
[00:27:03] US Israely attack, she suffered fatal stroke and
[00:27:07] died. Her story speaks to a quieter, taller war of
[00:27:10] survivors who carry the destruction with them
[00:27:14] long after the dust settles. It also reflects a
[00:27:17] wider pattern of US-Israeli aggression across the
[00:27:21] region that has left behind a deeper toll, not only
[00:27:25] a single moment of impact, but in the lasting human
[00:27:28] consequences that follow.
[00:27:39] July 31st, 2026, nighttime straight of
[00:27:42] Hormus, southern Iran. The United States launched a heavy
[00:27:46] wave of strikes against command centers, radars,
[00:27:50] surveillance systems and air defense positions across southern
[00:27:53] Iran, intended to make the skies over southern Iran safer for
[00:27:57] American aircraft, but just hours later something
[00:28:01] unexpected happened. An American
[00:28:05] MQ9 reaper was shot down over the straight of
[00:28:07] hormoves. The MQ9 is no ordinary
[00:28:11] drone. It is one of America's primary platforms for intelligence,
[00:28:15] surveillance, reconnaissance and precision strikes, capable of remaining
[00:28:19] airborne for more than a full day while carrying an advanced suite of
[00:28:22] sensors and weapons, and this was not the first reaper lost.
[00:28:26] Since the beginning the war, Iran has taken around 50 MQ9
[00:28:30] Reapers out of operation, roughly. only one quarter the entire US
[00:28:34] reaper fleet, but the real story was only beginning. shortly
[00:28:38] afterward, an F-35 entered the picture, one the world's most
[00:28:42] advanced combat aircraft, designed specifically to penetrate
[00:28:45] sophisticated air defense networks, but stealth does not mean
[00:28:49] invisible. one radar may detect only faint
[00:28:52] signature, infrared sensor may pick up the heat from its engines,
[00:28:56] another system may detect its electronic emissions, and when the
[00:29:00] information from all these systems is connected. through a single network, much
[00:29:04] clearer picture the target begins to emerge. That same night, the
[00:29:08] tracking the F-35 reached the level of a weapon's quality
[00:29:12] lock, a warning the pilot could not ignore. The F-35
[00:29:16] did not continue its mission and quickly left the area, and perhaps that
[00:29:20] is the most important part the story. Air defense success does not
[00:29:23] always mean shooting an aircraft down. Sometimes
[00:29:26] it is enough to stop an aircraft designed to penetrate hostile
[00:29:30] airspace from completing its mission. And now, for the
[00:29:33] United States, the issue is no longer simply the loss of an
[00:29:37] MQ9 or the retreat of an F-35. The bigger question
[00:29:41] is, how could a network whose radars and key components had been attacked
[00:29:45] only hours earlier, remain operational, and still force
[00:29:49] one of America's most advanced aircraft to abandon its
[00:29:52] mission, incident that now forces the United States to
[00:29:55] rethink not just a flight path, but its entire calculation
[00:29:59] over Iran's skies.
[00:30:04] The equation in Iran's skies is no longer the
[00:30:07] same.
[00:30:25] This week on expose Washington says it is winning, but can its own
[00:30:29] narrative survive?