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00:00:32Welcome back,
00:00:33of today we had breaking news coming
00:00:35in a Press TV's correspondent in the occupied West Bang
00:00:39Hamed was detained after weeks
00:00:41of of settler violence against her and her family members
00:00:45near the city of Bethlehem as that happened, it
00:00:48showed a broader pattern of was what has been happening to the
00:00:52Palestinian families um in the occupied West Bank and
00:00:55journalists that have been detained by those rudy forces after they have
00:00:59been um going through different phases of
00:01:03violence with the Israeli settlers which is always supported
00:01:06by the raadi military and um
00:01:09of after of this detention this brings the number
00:01:12of of the palestinian journalists who have been detained according to an israri rights group the
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00:01:18of betsalem um to 61 with nahmed now we are going to bring you
00:01:22more details about naro as we um
00:01:26of understand about them but uh before that let me bring in uh
00:01:30Press
00:01:30of TV's newsroom director, Marziah Hashemi to discuss
00:01:34this matter further, Marziah, it's an honor having you on with us,
00:01:38um, as you have been also experiencing detention by
00:01:42the American forces when you were visiting the states,
00:01:45please um tell us about how you have felt when
00:01:49you heard the news about Nag's
00:01:51detention. Thank you, Kirash, it's good to
00:01:54be joining you, but I wish it was under other
00:01:57circumstances, of course. It's uh always
00:02:01hard to hear about any journalists uh being detained or
00:02:05being killed, even more difficult, especially
00:02:09when we look named who such a professional
00:02:13journalist and would go out and try to
00:02:16show the reality on the ground as close as she
00:02:20could, and we know the very tough
00:02:23situation that journalists and Palestinians in general
00:02:27under right now in the West Bank and especially. as a
00:02:31journalist, but she never shied away for
00:02:34trying to show the truth. she's
00:02:37talked to kids who had been in jail, women who've been in
00:02:41jail, men who had been in jail and beaten and
00:02:45tortured, just showing what is happening. we know, as you've
00:02:49just said in the last few weeks especially, that we
00:02:53have seen an unbelievable amount
00:02:56of settlers themselves and of course there's no different.
00:03:00settlers themselves, and of course there's no difference really between the IOF and the
00:03:04settlers, the
00:03:05of IOF standing there, and the settlers are doing whatever they
00:03:08want, uh, torturing people, destroying
00:03:11their homes,
00:03:12of strawing them out
00:03:16of of their homes and basically total lawlessness, and that's the reality
00:03:18of the zionist regime, and yes, it's very, very
00:03:21painful, as a journalist says, I had an experience, of
00:03:25course, it was different than
00:03:27of than under the IOF, "and not
00:03:31really knowing where Naga is
00:03:33of right now is also very, very difficult for
00:03:36of us, especially when we look at the the last three years
00:03:39especially, since the of course the beginning
00:03:43of the last round of genocide in Gaza, we know that journalists have
00:03:47been continually targeted,
00:03:50of killed, hunted down, there were several journalists who I was
00:03:54in touch with, and we would talk or send
00:03:58messages every few days." uh who were in Gaza who
00:04:02are no longer around, it has
00:04:04been a very, very painful three years for journalism in
00:04:07general, and I think the
00:04:09in whole world needs to pay attention to what this means, when
00:04:13you're not allowed to show the truth on the ground, when an
00:04:16entity can do whatever they want, they can arrest you,
00:04:20kidnap you, kill you, torture you, and still continue
00:04:24doing the same thing the next day, I think we as an international
00:04:28community in general have to... look at ourselves and think about
00:04:32where the world is going and and when are people
00:04:36going to totally stand up and stop it? we have seen of
00:04:39course a growing number of people around the world
00:04:42of who have become
00:04:43of more
00:04:43in aware
00:04:44of the many crimes
00:04:45of the zionist regime and the
00:04:47of American regime and its support for it. however, it still
00:04:51continues. think each and every person has to ask him or
00:04:55herself, what can I do to stop it? it's not just
00:04:59reporting on it. "naga is
00:05:03mother of three children, and it's interesting,
00:05:07she's been
00:05:07of covering, as I said, um, mothers who have been arrested before
00:05:11being separated from their..." kids, kids being separated from their
00:05:15parents, and now tonight Naga is
00:05:18separated from her husband and three
00:05:21children. is exactly right. according
00:05:24to Muhammad alziah, as we were
00:05:28doing an interview with him, he's a writer and political
00:05:32analyst in the city of Ramala, and he was in touch with
00:05:35Naga's husband, um, the level the
00:05:39violence against Naga in the past few weeks.
00:05:43"and also against the whole Palestinian communities in the West Bank
00:05:47has been so intense that they thought of it as something normal, they
00:05:50couldn't understand that there is a connection between Settler violence
00:05:54and what might come next and was the detention of
00:05:58Nag. The question that I had was something that you also mentioned,
00:06:02this case tells us something about the relationship between the settler
00:06:05violence and when it comes to the IOF, your thoughts on that
00:06:09Marsia, definitely inseparable." " first and
00:06:12foremost we have to realize that all male and
00:06:16females um 18 years
00:06:19old, they have to serve in the IOF, it's a
00:06:23rule by the zionist regime, and after that they're allowed to carry their
00:06:27guns,
00:06:28and basically they're all part the IOF, so
00:06:32really there's not a distinction so much, and we have seen
00:06:36time and time again, whether we're talking about we look at what happened
00:06:39in alsamask continuous.
00:06:43we'll see the settlers going in being surrounded by IOF
00:06:46solders protecting them that they can
00:06:50defile that holy site. We see time and time
00:06:54again, we have footage of basically IOF
00:06:57soldiers standing by while these
00:07:01settlers go in and throw out
00:07:04Palestinians from their own homes or from their land. We
00:07:08have seen them um light olive trees of fire.
00:07:13um, while the IOF soldiers are looking, so yeah,
00:07:17there's no separation there,
00:07:20unfortunately pressure that the Palestinian
00:07:23journalisture that the Palestinian journalists work
00:07:27under, it is like nothing else, it is absolutely
00:07:31torturous, we know the situation in Gaza, it's just hard to
00:07:35even still talk about what goes on, there still as
00:07:38journalists are still being targeted, but the west bank...
00:07:42"we have to to realize ever since October of
00:07:462023, the situation in the West Bank has continually
00:07:50deteriorated, and what we're seeing now is very, very
00:07:54aggressive move to usurp more land, more
00:07:58palestinian land, to create more restrictions, to basically create
00:08:02hell again, another Nanakba so the Palestinians can
00:08:05leave, so journalists when they're trying to cover this and show the
00:08:09reality and inform the world of..." is
00:08:12going on, they're up against unbelievable
00:08:16pressure, stress, intimidation, and we know it's checkpoint
00:08:20after checkpoint that they have to deal with.
00:08:24Naga was close to Bethlehem a
00:08:27checkpoint, and she was taken
00:08:30there. Um, so far we have no
00:08:33information why they took her, but we do know that they
00:08:37were intimidated, as they are intimidated by anyone who
00:08:41shows the truth, and I said before, Naga has documented
00:08:45the crimes the settlers, um, especially
00:08:49in the last couple of months, as they have
00:08:52increased their aggression against the
00:08:55Palestinians, so of course any journalists there who
00:08:59reflects the truth, it's a threat, and
00:09:02again I repeat that this is also mother, but despite that
00:09:06and knowing the threats, she continually reports because she
00:09:10wants the truth to get out. because it's only with the greater
00:09:14awareness of what is happening inside of occupied
00:09:18Palestine that hopefully eventually
00:09:21that the Palestinian territory stream
00:09:25terrorists z stream terrorists
00:09:28zinanists regime that continually target people
00:09:32every day.
00:09:35Absolutely. These were the words by Mazen Gumsi,
00:09:39university professor in the city of Bethlehem.
00:09:42nearly two hours ago when he said, um, this is actually
00:09:46very good sign of desperation by the Israri regime, as they
00:09:50do not want the truth to come out anymore, and it is showing
00:09:54us that the end the zionist regime is much
00:09:58nearer than we expected. definitely, there's
00:10:02a great sign of desperation from the Zionist regime
00:10:06and from their American supporters from the American regime that
00:10:10in in this region, because they have not
00:10:13reached their goals that they have been aiming for, yes they
00:10:17have created havoc, especially the zianist regime in
00:10:21Gaza, and yes they have killed... so many
00:10:25people, but but really their goal
00:10:29was total control of Gaza, do they have
00:10:33total control? um, have they been able to stop
00:10:36Hamas? we look at in the west bank and the
00:10:40situation that is happening, greater and greater
00:10:43blowback by the Palestinians who are getting tired, parents
00:10:47who their kids are going to school, they don't know if they're going to
00:10:50return, because the regime can just decide to pick up
00:10:55their sons and daughters and we know the situation inside
00:10:58the zianist jails, torture cells
00:11:02and what has happened, so yes they
00:11:06are desperate, and before it's quite interesting kyorash,
00:11:09because both the zinanis regime and the American
00:11:12regime, um, they always try to at least
00:11:16hide their oppression or try to put it under, well the
00:11:20zinast regime of course it's always their defending
00:11:23themselves from terrorism, and of course the American
00:11:27regime is spreading democracy, but the reality
00:11:30is now, like both regimes, um, basically, if you want to say, their covers have
00:11:34been blown, because the reality is spreading
00:11:38across the world of what they really stand for,
00:11:42and of course it's not humanity, it's not human life, it's
00:11:45oppression, it's usur userping people's rights
00:11:49and usurping the resources of others, no matter the
00:11:53price that others will have to... pay and in the case the Zionist regime, it's
00:11:57a continual colonial expansionist project that we see what
00:12:01is happening now in Lebanon and what they are doing in the southern part
00:12:05of Lebanon, also destroying homes, um,
00:12:09having people this place, threatening every day
00:12:13with drones land, and we see the same thing in Syria, we saw
00:12:16Netanyahu just a couple of days ago going inside of
00:12:20Syria and looking as if he own the
00:12:23whole the whole area, this zinis
00:12:27project has to be stopped, but yes,
00:12:31it's obviously that it knows that
00:12:33it is under pressure, and it knows its days are numbered,
00:12:37however, when regimes days are numbered, it's
00:12:41they also quite dangerous because they're quite desperate as we are
00:12:45seeing from the zionist regime, and continually
00:12:48increasing their threats against the Palestinians and continually
00:12:52threatening the southern Leban. especially
00:12:56and of course uh they try to continue threaten
00:13:00Iran, but now they're letting their their
00:13:03master or the US try to do the bidding
00:13:07for them because they were no match for Iran, so now they're
00:13:11concentrating more on the Palestinians and the Lebanese, and the US
00:13:14is supposed to be concentrating more on Iran, but of course Iran
00:13:18has been quite strong and answering them, so it's this, they're standing
00:13:22back, however, yes, it's desperation. their true
00:13:25faces are being shown, and this is an opportunity
00:13:29for civil society, global civil
00:13:32society to expose their crimes more and
00:13:36more and to demand an end, an
00:13:40actual end to this genocide, an actual
00:13:44ind to thef of land, the actual end of
00:13:47journalists being threatened and being killed and not having
00:13:51any kind of ramifications for these crimes. that they're
00:13:55committing, that's exactly right, so this
00:13:59actually is not an isolated incident, mariia, this
00:14:03fits into a broader pattern that we have been witnessing in the past
00:14:07nearly three years where the Palestinian journalists are being
00:14:11apprehended without any given reasons
00:14:14whatsoever by the IOF and the are um they have been under
00:14:18violence by this very settlers, what should the international
00:14:22community and different governments be doing,
00:14:26uh in with regards to this, well let me just start off with what you
00:14:30said about the last three years
00:14:33especially, mean there has been other
00:14:36time in modern history that and
00:14:40perhaps in history that this many
00:14:43journalists have been killed, korash if we
00:14:47just review what has taken place since October
00:14:517th, 2023, the way the journalists
00:14:55have been targeted, the way the people in general, as we know
00:14:59in Gaza, have been targeted and continue to be targeted,
00:15:02but I'm looking at the journalists specifically
00:15:05tonight, we we saw journalists who were a
00:15:09tent resting that they were targeted and some them
00:15:13burned to death, we have seen journalists who were
00:15:16covering story trying to get to point that their
00:15:20vehicles were specifically targeted, this is in Gaza, this is
00:15:24also in Lebanon.
00:15:25We have seen people just be brutally
00:15:29killed with their whole family. One the journalists who I
00:15:33said that I who I was in in touch with
00:15:36Wafa. aldani, she was a
00:15:39journalist in Gaza, and we were in touch
00:15:43with each other regularly, and she said, "Marzier, if I survived this, I have
00:15:47so much to tell you about what we have seen and what we have been
00:15:51through." Unfortunately, she did not survive. Not only she not survived, they
00:15:55waited until she returned to her home, and they targeted her home
00:15:58in the middle the night, killing her husband, killing her child,
00:16:02wounding two other kids, um, destroying their
00:16:06home, this... This is the kind of violence that
00:16:10we have been witnessing over the last three
00:16:13years. It has really been unprecedent, unprecedented
00:16:17because the unbelievable amount of
00:16:21journalists who have been killed any journalist working
00:16:25in Gaza or journalist working in the West
00:16:28Bank, they know that when they go out that
00:16:32day, it's a possibility that they will not return
00:16:35for those in Gaza. "they know that when they're sleeping at
00:16:39night, they may be killed and may be targeted. for those
00:16:43in the west bank increasingly they have the same situation, because we know
00:16:47that the zionist regime, mean they love to attack in the middle the night,
00:16:51just as we're seeing what they're doing in lebanon right now, all of sudden one in the morning, two in
00:16:55the morning, three in the morning, bombing and just
00:16:58basically creating chaos and havoc, that's
00:17:02their one their main MOs, that's how they
00:17:05deal with the situation." so when the
00:17:09international so-called international community has been
00:17:12watching this almost three years now, we're we're in
00:17:16september, it's just
00:17:18a it's just a couple of weeks before now, few weeks
00:17:22before, october the 7th,
00:17:24it will be three years, imagine three years of
00:17:27a genocide, three years of constant pressure, three years of
00:17:31hardly any electricity, no clean water, hardly any
00:17:34food, hardly any medication, that have been
00:17:38targeted, um, no supplies, hygienal
00:17:42supplies are very few getting in, rats,
00:17:45rodance all over the place, just
00:17:49unbelievable conditions, living in the heat intense,
00:17:52living in the cold, intense, not being able to get proper clothing
00:17:56in, the international community has been watching all
00:18:00of this, all of this, we have seen
00:18:04infants, newborn, infants that
00:18:08were taken off of lifesaving machines and
00:18:12left to die in the hospital. we have seen
00:18:16it all in the last three years and
00:18:19really, i want
00:18:20to know where where is humanity? yes, there has been some
00:18:24noise, yes, there have been some groups that are really trying their
00:18:28best, but i think they have to ask themselves, well, put some pressure
00:18:32on your governments, those same governments that are
00:18:35supporting this, that's supporting design as
00:18:38entity for the Americans, we we have seen many
00:18:42them, we've seen students not being able to graduate, we have
00:18:46seen so many things and so much oppression taking place over there for those
00:18:50who support the Palestinian cause, it's true, however, at the end the
00:18:54day, it's still their tax dollars that are
00:18:57responsible for killing these journalists, for killing other
00:19:01Palestinians, to the Brits, to the other Europeans
00:19:05who also have become aware and... active, I mean, I would say
00:19:09fantastic what you're doing, continue doing it, but figure out a
00:19:13way that you can actually make a change in your own
00:19:16government, because they are the ones that are supporting
00:19:20the zionist regime. Israeli regime is
00:19:23nothing, is nothing without the
00:19:26support
00:19:28the US, the UK, France, and Germany, it's
00:19:32nothing, and we know that they have created, they
00:19:35try to create this picture of... themselves of being invincible, but
00:19:39Iran from time, time and time again continuously
00:19:43shows that there anything but invincible.
00:19:46Hazbullah continually showed that there are
00:19:49anything but invincible, so this image that
00:19:53they have created before, one of being the most moral
00:19:57army in the world, which is an absolute joke, and two
00:20:00of being invencible, that has already been destroyed, so people
00:20:04understand who they are, but but now have to
00:20:08go from understanding and having some
00:20:11activity to putting pressure on governments
00:20:15and let me say, not only the western governments, but
00:20:18unfortunately we have lot the Arab regimes
00:20:21also that they have supported the
00:20:25zionist regime. I mean, it's quite mindbockly, we have countries where
00:20:29there are so many Palestinians in it, for example Jordan,
00:20:33but we know that the the Jordanian government actually
00:20:36supports... the zionist regime in many different ways, we know that Saudi
00:20:40Arabia, they may talk a good talk about supporting the
00:20:44Palestinians, but we know how they
00:20:48continually help design. regime, the UAE is the same
00:20:51way, and so many the other Arab regimes.
00:20:54I mean, this is pity, because the majority their people in these
00:20:57countries, they do not support the zionist
00:21:01regime, they support the
00:21:04Palestinian cause and a Palestinian state, and
00:21:08yet their governments, their regimes actually do not, so
00:21:12this is what we have to change, the awareness of people inside
00:21:16these various countries, and taking it to the next level.
00:21:20their government in ways that they have
00:21:23not, and lot of people will say, well, it's
00:21:26quite dangerous. well, i think that just sitting and
00:21:30watching a genocide continue, sitting and
00:21:34watching journalists being picked up for nothing but doing their
00:21:38job, i think that is danger for all of
00:21:41humanity, because if you don't stop it
00:21:43here, this expansionist project
00:21:47will just devour, not only the... region, but we are
00:21:51seeing the type of effect the zinanis regime is having and trying to
00:21:55control, for example, what is happening inside the US, what's happening
00:21:59inside the UK, what's happening now in in several South
00:22:03American countries, that know
00:22:05you the founder the Islamic Revolution, Imam Komaini said many years
00:22:09ago that the entity, the zionist entity is a
00:22:13cancer, it's like a cancer that you have to stop it, otherwise it will
00:22:17spread, and we look at how much... has spread
00:22:21and how much it continues that with the goal of trying to spread
00:22:25more, so this is a threat not only to the Palestinian, it's for the
00:22:28Palestinians, it's for the whole world, and it is up to the
00:22:32whole world to make that decision to say
00:22:35enough, enough to their governments that don't represent what
00:22:39their people want want, to change that reality
00:22:43on the ground to change it in Washington, to change it
00:22:47in London to change it. in all the different
00:22:51capitals, if your so-called elected
00:22:54officials are not representing your perspectives, then they're not really
00:22:58elected officials, they're not really chosen by you, so
00:23:02perhaps you need to do something else that you can actually get
00:23:05in those who represent you, because the
00:23:09time is now, we cannot wait, how many
00:23:13journalists right now are in jail, how many
00:23:16physicians we saw in Gaza being taken? how
00:23:20many across the board, any type
00:23:23of of you say whatever they were
00:23:26doing, any type of vocation, we have seen it all
00:23:30from babies, students to the elderly,
00:23:34no one is respected by the zionist regime, and that is
00:23:38something that can spread and already is spreading throughout the
00:23:41world, and I think the time is now that we have to
00:23:45stand up against it, no matter what it takes, we have to stop
00:23:49this... entity: absolutely, marzia, before
00:23:53we wrap up this section, um, according to different
00:23:56accounts, the occupied westbang is the second most
00:24:00dangerous place on the face the earth to be a journalist, and
00:24:04number one has been Gaza, as you have been mentioning in your previous
00:24:08response, I'm interested in uh knowing your thoughts when
00:24:12it comes to the discrimination uh against the Palestinian
00:24:16journalists in different sides the world, and let's compare that to an...
00:24:20is really journalist in the US, let's say,
00:24:23and um, according to some the analys that we have
00:24:27been inviting to speak in this matter, they have been saying that there has been
00:24:31a message to press tv by this detention
00:24:35of a correspondent to of press tv and the
00:24:38occupied of span, your thoughts on that as
00:24:40well, well of course i
00:24:44mean
00:24:44the they always try to send messages to Iran to press
00:24:48tv um because because yes, we are the thorn in
00:24:52their side, because we are the ones uh exposing the
00:24:56truth and standing up for the truth, um, and
00:25:00unfortunately, yes, they have no red lines, they do not
00:25:03care that this woman or other journalists that they're just doing
00:25:07their job, they're just pr doing their job, they're
00:25:11just presenting what they see on the ground, they're
00:25:14interviewing eyewitnesses to various situation, they have their
00:25:18lens turned and the reality on the ground, why is that
00:25:22a crime? this is my question, why is that a crime?
00:25:26because you know what you are, the zinus entity, you
00:25:30don't want the truth to be shown, um,
00:25:33although you realize that more and more people are becoming
00:25:37aware, but you want to create this
00:25:41entity as if one you're invincible, and to that you'll do
00:25:45anything, that you want to create terror in the
00:25:49hearts. the people um and
00:25:53in governments really that you're out of control and you will do whatever
00:25:57you want, but the zionist regime met its
00:26:00match of course with the... Islamic Republic that
00:26:04and not only Islamic Republic, but also
00:26:07the whole resistance front that definitely do
00:26:11not fear the zionist regime. That is for sure,
00:26:15and we have seen that the zionist regime is not
00:26:18invincible, and that their days are
00:26:21definitely numbered. Thank you so much for your
00:26:25insights, that was Press TV's Marzia hashemi, Press TV's
00:26:29news newsroom director. Thank you so much, Marsia.
00:26:32and that brings us to the end of this edition over a special one-on-one interview
00:26:36after the detention of press tv's correspondent in the
00:26:40occupied west bank
00:26:41Narohammed.
00:27:06On June 13th, 2025, war came to Dr. Ali Fuladman's
00:27:10home and Israely strike killed his wife and left the Iranian scientist
00:27:14seriously wounded. It was not the last attempt on his life. Less than
00:27:18year later, during the 20-26 war, Fuladvan was
00:27:21targeted again, this time he was martered. Fuladvan was not
00:27:25a politician, he was not a military commander, he was
00:27:28scientist, a senior researcher who spent years work.
00:27:32working on strategic technologies and national defense
00:27:36projects. He served at Iran's Organization of
00:27:40Defense of Innovation and Research, known as SPND, eventually
00:27:44becoming his head of research. His work had already made him
00:27:47a target of American pressure. On October 1st, 2025, the
00:27:51U.S. Treasury department sanctioned him, but foul advan's
00:27:55most important contribution could never be captured in a sanction
00:27:59list or an official title. He taught,
00:28:03he trained young researchers, shared what he had learned and helped
00:28:07prepare new generation to work in some of Iran's most
00:28:11advanced fields of science and technology. For him, scientific power
00:28:14was not simply about what one scientist could achieve, it was about
00:28:18what could be passed on from one generation to the next, and what may
00:28:22explain why scientists like Fuladvan can become
00:28:26targets, eliminating scientist may silence one voice, but
00:28:30it cannot erase the knowledge of that voice. has already passed to
00:28:33others, just days after his martterdom, the prestigious journal
00:28:37science in its April 6th, 2026 issue reported on the growing
00:28:41Israeli campaign targeting Iranian scientists and universities. full
00:28:44advanced death had become part of a larger story, a
00:28:48war in which those capable of advancing Iran's scientific
00:28:52and technological future were themselves being targeted, but
00:28:56there is limit to what an attack can destroy a
00:29:00laboratory can be hit, a researcher.
00:29:02can be killed, a generation can lose one of its teachers, but
00:29:06knowledge survives. it is carried by the students, they trained, the
00:29:10researchers they inspired, and the people who continue the work
00:29:13after they are gone. that was Ful Advance's other legacy: one,
00:29:17no missile could
00:29:18eliminate.
00:29:53There has been over this weekend a major exchange of missile
00:29:57fire by Iran in the US targeting oil tankers
00:30:00and even a US
00:30:03destroyer, uh, the new
00:30:06secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security
00:30:09Council, Mohsen Razi said a very recent
00:30:12interview that Iran didn't use ballistic missile for
00:30:16that attack on the destroyer, but new
00:30:20weapon, but let's go to Iran's escalation ladder,
00:30:24which we've talked about before, this is a country that takes its
00:30:28time to send messages and only does so when
00:30:31necessary and to serve a strategic objective,
00:30:35unlike the Americans, um, what,