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00:00:02that what the Israelis are doing is a
00:00:25or anything could reach us in
00:00:42that the north was open from
00:00:49days. Then we returned, of course, to
00:01:19Welcome to Women of Resistance. Halima
00:01:22Gaban's story reveals to us quite clearly
00:01:26the incredible pain that both men and women in Gaza
00:01:30have been facing since the occupation, but how
00:01:35F-35 entered the picture, one of much more compounded that has become since October 7th. We are
00:01:38witnessing the men's struggle and resilience to provide
00:01:41even at the cost of life, and the resistance of the
00:01:45Palestinian women to do everything to keep the next
00:01:48generation going. These struggles will be large chapters
00:01:52in history books, so will stories like
00:01:54Halima's.
00:01:59network, a much clearer picture of
00:02:01The place that was once home now holds incredibly different memories
00:02:05for Halima. Like most Palestinians, this new genocide
00:02:09is redefining what it means to be home and what home
00:02:15perhaps that is the most important part of represents.
00:02:21I was born in 1995, in February.
00:02:24My house was just before the yellow line, not far.
00:02:27I couldn't go back to it, of course, because it's
00:02:31all on completely destroyed. Nothing can be salvaged from it, because it's dangerous
00:02:34there. The Jews, of course, shell
00:02:37and snipe. The militias, they don't leave anyone alone. They come down
00:02:41on us in the field. When I used to go to my house there,
00:02:44they would come down on us in the field. Anyone in front of them
00:02:47they would take and hand over to the Jews. My house
00:02:50is not fit for habitation, completely destroyed. Also, I don't want to go back there because
00:02:54my husband's memories are also linked to the house itself. I don't want to go back
00:02:58there.
00:03:24my children to school. Then rockets started falling, and everyone started saying there were no
00:03:27schools, the war had started. So the children were scared.
00:03:41to feed them. We started living on
00:03:50in the tents. The food is not healthy My daughter, of course, my eldest daughter, due to the fear and terror she experienced,
00:03:53developed rheumatism and was hospitalized. She stayed there for almost three
00:03:57weeks. Her blood count dropped to five. The fear
00:04:00and terror made her lose her appetite. The doctors told me her condition was
00:04:04bad, and she might not survive. I kept running,
00:04:07during the war, at the beginning of the war, I spent
00:04:09south. I urged my husband to go it in the hospital, of course. So I had
00:04:13to buy for my mother. Back then, goods were very
00:04:16expensive. I would save
00:04:19to earn a living in a little from whatever I could get. I used to tell my husband,
00:04:22may he rest in peace, I used to tell him, "This daughter of yours will be taken
00:04:26from us." And he would say, "No, God willing, it will be fine. God willing, the war will stop." We were hopeful
00:04:31there was no transport to go it would stop, but we didn't think it would last
00:04:34this long.
00:04:39It was already an unbearable situation when these really
00:04:42onslaughts started, but then came the
00:04:45displacement. It was almost sport for the Zionists at this
00:04:48point, seeing how much chaos and confusion they could
00:04:52inflict on the
00:04:54all the time we have for this edition of population.
00:04:57We left. The Jews, of course, threatened us and dropped leaflets on us. We left
00:05:01our homes and went to the camp schools. We stayed in
00:05:04the camp, of course, and then the shelling started, scaring
00:05:07us. They terrified us a lot. They started dropping leaflets on us, telling us to leave,
00:05:11to go to safe places in western Gaza.
00:05:14We came to western Gaza, of course. We stayed here, we went through
00:05:18a period of unnatural fear, of course.
00:05:22The children were scared, and we kept running from place to place to find a safe
00:05:25place. At that time, it was a safe place for us.
00:05:29The Jews besieged us in the schools, and we remained in the schools under siege by
00:05:33the Jews. No food supplies
00:05:37the school. So the children were very disturbed, very
00:05:41much so. And... But I,
00:05:44you know, the games, we would put games on their phones
00:05:48and tell them stories that this is normal.
00:05:51We are, for life, with the Jews
00:05:54until the Day of Judgment, of course.
00:05:57So we left. This happened for three
00:06:02the north. I returned to my house. It was, you know,
00:06:05standing but half gone. I stayed
00:06:09there, of course, and my husband, may he rest in peace, insisted on staying in our house.
00:06:12We stayed for almost three
00:06:14months. The Jews started shelling us,
00:06:18telling us to leave. So we left
00:06:21for the camp schools again. They threatened us to leave, so we left through
00:06:25the checkpoint.
00:06:31Halima, like thousands of Palestinian women, found themselves
00:06:34even further isolated and vulnerable when IOF
00:06:38soldiers kidnapped her husband and dragged him off to an Israeli
00:06:41prison.
00:06:51They took my husband. He stayed for six months. I suffered during those six months,
00:06:54of course, an unnatural suffering.
00:06:58I didn't find anyone to give me a tent. I didn't find a place
00:07:01to sit. No one stood with me to support me.
00:07:05I stayed in Palestine Stadium. God sent me some initiators.
00:07:08I stayed in a tent, of course, with a few other families. The tent was
00:07:12shared by me and another family. Of course,
00:07:15aid started coming, but it was not much, just a little.
00:07:19Of course, benevolent initiators would come and provide us with aid. And
00:07:22aid kitchens would also come. I used to, for example, go to organizations, run
00:07:26to organizations to help me with income, with anything.
00:07:30There was no income. Then the truce happened. They said, "It's over."
00:07:33A truce between us and the Jews.
00:07:36So I had to go back with my children to my house. I went back to
00:07:40my house, but I didn't find a house. It was
00:07:44the ground. So I isolated
00:07:48myself. I set up my tent
00:07:51there. I managed to get some covers
00:07:55and wood, and I made a tent and stayed in it. They started giving us
00:07:58aid, and I would get aid, and we lived on charity
00:08:01kitchens. We continued living like that.
00:08:05Then my husband was released, thank God. He was released after six
00:08:08months.
00:08:11A Palestinian hunted by the Israeli soldiers
00:08:14and being released from an Israeli prison was no
00:08:17protection against their constant oppression. The
00:08:21beautiful reunion between Halima and her husband would be short
00:08:25lived in this realm at
00:08:27least.
00:08:31So I stayed for about two weeks.
00:08:33We rejoiced and said, "It's over." He's with me, and I was happy, and my
00:08:37children were happy. We said, "Goodness has returned." The war started again.
00:08:41So we had to flee. We fled and came here to
00:08:44Gaza. We stayed here. Famine
00:08:47struck. We couldn't provide a morsel for our children
00:08:50نوفر اللقمه لاولادنا انهم
00:08:53lentils and rice. One day lentils, one day rice, one day lentils.
00:08:57Every day was lentils and rice. It never changed. There was
00:09:01an unnatural famine. Then some
00:09:04zakat opened up, and my husband would go and bring us, for example,
00:09:07whatever he could. So, thank God, things opened up a bit
00:09:11for us. Then my husband got injured. He stayed injured
00:09:14for about a month and stopped bringing us anything. Of course, the Jews started
00:09:18hitting us and telling us to go
00:09:22south, but he refused. He said, "I don't want to go south." He stayed in Gaza. We stayed in Gaza.
00:09:25Of course, before I went south, three
00:09:29days before, he had gone
00:09:31the street. They hit him with a drone
00:09:35and he was martyred instantly. He was martyred
00:09:38instantly. So I suffered an unnatural suffering afterward, because
00:09:43south. I couldn't find a safe place
00:09:46to go with my children. I started saying, "Where do I go with my children?"
00:09:50I had thoughts like, "I don't want this life anymore. I just want to die
00:09:54here with my children." It was over. There was no safe place to
00:09:57go. No transport. No one to
00:10:01help me and my children. I had no support.
00:10:05So I didn't know how to manage myself, of course. Then God
00:10:08sent me people who told me, "You have to go." They would
00:10:12get us a car, and benevolent people came and gave me
00:10:16200 shekels. They told me, "Go south and trust in God, for the sake of
00:10:20your children, for the sake of your husband. These are your responsibility."
00:10:23So I had to go.
00:10:55I would go wherever I could to get
00:10:58supplies for my home. I would return to my home and sell the rest to
00:11:01buy food other than onions and potatoes for my children. They announced
00:11:07the south. So I traveled from the south to the north.
00:11:11I went to see my home.
00:11:14I found my home completely destroyed. I couldn't return
00:11:17to it. They told me it was a yellow line,
00:11:21dangerous there. Indeed, they started shelling us, and there was smoke.
00:11:26So no one was allowed to go there. So I had to come and live here in
00:11:29Gaza in a tent, and I stayed there.
00:11:32I put myself in a camp. I started going to
00:11:35orphan organizations, to register my children, or I would go
00:11:39here and there hoping for aid, that they would help
00:11:42me with my family. Thank God, Abu
00:11:45Muhammad took me in at his camp. Thank God, whatever aid comes out,
00:11:48he asks about me, he asks about my children. Whatever
00:11:51comes out, he tells me, "You are more deserving because you are a mother of orphans."
00:11:59And my husband, of course, had left. He left. I
00:12:02and he were not getting along, of course. I had an intense argument with him. The most
00:12:05difficult moment I went through was that I was not sad, and my husband
00:12:08left. I was not sad with him, and I didn't see him, nor did he
00:12:12see me. I wanted to ask for his forgiveness, to forgive me,
00:12:16to tell him, "Please forgive me." There was an argument
00:12:19about what, about a tent. I argued with him about
00:12:22a tent.
00:12:25Because he couldn't provide me with a tent. Back then, it was very expensive. It cost
00:12:284000 shekels, 5000 shekels. He couldn't provide it for me so
00:12:32we could go south with it. So I was in an apartment,
00:12:36in a house that was a bit small. I was staying
00:12:39there. I managed there. So the most
00:12:42difficult moment was losing my husband and my children becoming orphans. This is
00:12:46the most
00:12:46difficult moment.
00:12:54a rocket
00:13:25falls on you and you don't know. I mean,
00:13:27some time ago I was going to Tel
00:13:30Al-Hawa. There was shelling not far,
00:13:34maybe 20 meters or so. We could have been hit
00:13:38by it. So there
00:13:40are no safe places here in Gaza because
00:13:44the war is not over, of course. The solutions are still
00:13:47pending. The Jews are still on the
00:13:51yellow line. There are yellow lines, there are red lines. The Jews are still, I mean,
00:13:55we want to live in safety and peace in Gaza.
00:13:59We want our children to live with dignity. We want our children
00:14:02to go back to school, to study in the best
00:14:05schools. We want their homes to be rebuilt, and their children to be in
00:14:09clean places, not in tents. We are all
00:14:12eaten by insects and rats
00:14:15either. We cook on fire. We don't have
00:14:18firewood. We use nylon
00:14:21and hoses, things like that. So
00:14:25our food is not safe either. They should provide us with safe food,
00:14:28and provide us with something other than tents. We won't be able to live in tents
00:14:32in the heat, of course. The temperatures will be high. The water
00:14:36is not very suitable for drinking. I mean, sometimes the water tastes good,
00:14:40sometimes it tastes normal. The water is salty.
00:14:43Our life should be much better than this. I also
00:14:47demand that I and my children live a better life, that
00:14:50their needs are met. Sometimes,
00:15:04joining me today to discuss Halima's story is Sarah
00:15:07Callaway of the Women of Color in the Global Women's
00:15:11Strike. Welcome Sarah, thank you so much for joining me. Thank you
00:15:15for having us. You know, Halima's story,
00:15:18Sarah, this is something we've been watching now for so long, the
00:15:22genocide happening and how
00:15:26are just targeted sport, they just kill for
00:15:29fun. Is this because this
00:15:33is part of a tactic to
00:15:35weaken, to exhaust Palestinians, or do you think
00:15:39sometimes it's just a bunch of these crazy Zionists? You think that they are
00:15:43playing computer games when they're shooting people
00:15:45around. It's it's hard to know what's in
00:15:49the minds of, you know, the Israeli government and the
00:15:52IDF, but we do know that it's
00:15:56horrifying. When we see our sisters like
00:15:59Halima, the suffering that they're going through
00:16:03is beyond anything. It's unimaginable.
00:16:06And are carrying a very heavy burden, not only giving
00:16:10birth to children, raising children, looking
00:16:14after a disabled child, trying to
00:16:17put food on the table, all in the midst of a genocide and
00:16:21famine. And you know, it's
00:16:23reproductive genocide, and we have to stand with the
00:16:26women and make, we have to end this. And
00:16:30it's it's really horrifying. Why do you
00:16:33think has it not ended? I mean, of course we
00:16:36know that the global powers, the US, the West, is supporting these
00:16:40Zionists, but on the women front, because we you
00:16:44work for the women's organization, and this
00:16:47show promotes Palestinian women. We speak about them
00:16:50because they don't have a voice themselves. But then, you know,
00:16:54globally, we should have seen more women really coming out and
00:16:57speaking out for them. Why hasn't this
00:16:59happened? I think two things are happening.
00:17:03Overwhelmingly, women have been at the forefront of
00:17:06supporting Palestine. We know that from the UK and the
00:17:10US, you know, every day there are women doing
00:17:13protests. On the other hand, as you pointed out, women's
00:17:17organizations generally have not done enough, and we've
00:17:20been working with women against rape, and they've put out
00:17:23calls specifically to women's groups, but also to
00:17:26governments to end the detention
00:17:30and the torture and the imprisonment. We know there
00:17:33are thousands of Palestinians imprisoned, many women and
00:17:36children. So they have put out calls and to try to put
00:17:40fire under women's organizations because they need to
00:17:43speak up more and do more along with governments, because we know
00:17:47most governments have been complicit with Israel in this
00:17:50genocide. So that's what we do as women. We attend pickets,
00:17:54we speak out, we support boycott, divestment and
00:17:58sanctions wherever we can at a grassroots level. And
00:18:01yeah, absolutely. I think there is a lot of if, even if sometimes it's not in the
00:18:05forefront, I know that, you know, the majority of the globe by now
00:18:09supports the Palestinians. And, you know, when we talk about,
00:18:12of course, we are talking about the women of resistance,
00:18:16Palestinians. And there's a lot of voices because these women
00:18:20didn't have a voice. But the reality is, it's not only women. I
00:18:23mean, you know, the story of Halima really touched me because you can see
00:18:27that she is living with this pain that she had an argument with her
00:18:31husband, his inability to be able to provide
00:18:34a tent for her. And then he was martyred. Um, a
00:18:37society where men are expected to provide, how
00:18:41difficult it is for Palestinian men who can't even put basic
00:18:44food on the table? I
00:18:47mean, we know that the men suffer, but
00:18:51sometimes from my experience, men don't
00:18:54appreciate how much harder it is for women, because
00:18:58women carry the heaviest burdens, um,
00:19:01because we are the carers for children, and
00:19:05also older people, people who are sick. And so we
00:19:08need men to appreciate, on one hand, there's their
00:19:12honor, but on the other hand, there's all the
00:19:15invisible, unwaged work that women do. And women are really the
00:19:18pillar. You know, if the woman is doing well, the men will do
00:19:22well, and sometimes men don't appreciate that
00:19:26enough. But we certainly know that everybody is suffering,
00:19:29but the particular work that women do for survival and for
00:19:33justice, and the Palestinian movement, we know that women
00:19:37have always been central to it, as well as all the, alongside all the
00:19:40caring work. Yeah. And so that's what we try to put at the
00:19:44forefront, because that's what women are doing everywhere in the world. Totally. And
00:19:47even Palestinians, when we speak to them, men and women, will
00:19:51accept that it is the women of Palestine who have kept the
00:19:54whole resistance going and ensuring that, you know, there
00:19:58is still a Palestinian population to
00:20:01live. Exactly. Let's just remind our viewers that you are watching Women
00:20:04of Resistance, where we highlight the plight of women who have been
00:20:08subjected to the Zionist state's brutal oppression in
00:20:11Gaza, in Lebanon, and further
00:20:13afield. Sir, you're now talking about the same women.
00:20:17Every other Palestinian woman is now a widow. They are
00:20:21caring for multiple orphaned
00:20:23children. They seem to be very strong. They are
00:20:27resilient. They have the resistance in them, but
00:20:30it's not easy. I mean, they are suffering. How long do you think they'll be
00:20:34able to go on like that? I
00:20:37don't know how they do
00:20:40it, but all we know is that so
00:20:43far the Palestinians have not given
00:20:46up. We know that women have been central to
00:20:49that. We know
00:20:52reproductive genocide, to attack women
00:20:56and children, and try to destroy the next generation, not
00:21:00only by bombing, but by starvation, by manufactured
00:21:04famine, by imprisonment, by
00:21:06torture. And yet the Palestinians have not given
00:21:10up. So we don't know how long. But we do
00:21:13know that the apartheid system in South Africa
00:21:17was abolished. Yeah, the the
00:21:20slavery was ended. I mean, I'm a descendant of enslaved
00:21:24people. We know that was ended. It took 500 years,
00:21:27and we're still fighting the effects. So we know that these
00:21:31things can be overcome, but we
00:21:33have to do it soon. We have to stand with the Palestinian people
00:21:37and call out everyone in the world to hold our governments to
00:21:40account. And that's what's happened in the UK. Just
00:21:43recently Ed Miliband has come out with sanctions against West
00:21:47Bank. It's too little and too late. And it was the
00:21:51movement here that forced the Labor government to take that
00:21:54position. And we intend to keep fire under all the
00:21:58politicians. Right now, the only party that's been
00:22:02speaking for Palestine is the Green Party, and we hope that
00:22:05they'll stick to their pledges. But that's where we
00:22:09are at this moment in the UK that we've been
00:22:11trying to help the Green Party to speak out.
00:22:15Their leader, Natalie Bennett, has been the only political leader to
00:22:19stand firm, and he stood with Palestine. Do you think
00:22:23the movement that we have here, with the work that you do, do you think this
00:22:26is really having that political effect?
00:22:29We are very sure that what
00:22:33Ed Miliband and the Labour Party coming out for
00:22:37sanctions in the West Bank, which is little, because we
00:22:40need them to stop selling the arms, that's the bottom line. But we know
00:22:44it's the pressure from the movement that got rid of Keir
00:22:47Starmer, and he's been replaced with a man named
00:22:50Burnham. And so this government is much more
00:22:53sympathetic to Palestine. But
00:22:56how far they go depends on how much pressure we can put on
00:23:00them. But definitely the Labour Party was
00:23:04fearful for their vote, because so many people are with
00:23:07Palestine. They had to change their position. Absolutely.
00:23:11Tell me a little bit, Sarah, about the work you do. I know you've just come from
00:23:14a court, you know, case whereby you are supporting
00:23:18some of these women who
00:23:21are facing really crazy court cases. I mean, they don't have any meaning, but it's
00:23:24harassment. Tell me what it was about and what do you do generally as
00:23:28as an organization? Well, first of all, we
00:23:32focus on anti-ending racism,
00:23:34sexism, poverty, and genocide.
00:23:38Um, we stand with Palestine, and our main
00:23:41demand is to invest in caring and not
00:23:44killing. And we've been demanding care
00:23:47income, and we see the care income as a kind of
00:23:50reparations. Our sisters have just been working with the
00:23:54UN in Geneva, the road
00:23:57map against poverty and environmental
00:23:59destruction. In that, they've included a
00:24:03guaranteed care income for all women, for all carers,
00:24:06all generations, everybody who does caring work. So that is the
00:24:10main thrust of our work. But alongside that, we attend
00:24:14a weekly picket for Palestine.
00:24:17It's organized by the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network,
00:24:21which are Jewish anti-Zionists who are calling for Israel to
00:24:25stop the bombing and end the genocide and the
00:24:28apartheid system that they operate. And that's been
00:24:31a big strength in the movement that Jewish
00:24:35people are speaking out against Israel. We attend that picket
00:24:38every week, and it's a point where people can speak out. So we get
00:24:42reports from Italy, from Japan,
00:24:46from Spain,
00:24:48other parts of the global south. People come and speak about how they're supporting
00:24:52Palestine and what's happening in their country. Absolutely, that is, that
00:24:56is amazing work you're doing, Sarah. And we have this
00:25:00major strike coming up on October 9th,
00:25:03where we are supposed to all strike for Palestinian
00:25:07women. Yes. And whatever the color of our skin, whatever faith
00:25:10we, you know, practice, whichever
00:25:14side of political mindset we have, the
00:25:17reality is that we have to come together, especially women,
00:25:21we have to come together to liberate our sisters, because these are, you
00:25:24know, just like me and you, they deserve to
00:25:27have basic facilities, you know, basic freedom.
00:25:31So if our Palestinian sisters are listening to us, you know, we are fighting
00:25:35for you, and we will continue to do that forever. Thank you so much, Sarah, for
00:25:38being with me, really appreciate your input. And that's
00:25:44the program. Sarah was our special guest. And thank you all
00:25:47for watching. We will be back next time with more stories of
00:25:51resilience and hope. Now we leave you with the sounds of
00:25:54Palestine by the artist Saif.
00:25:57Goodbye.
00:26:35July 31st, 2026. Nighttime
00:26:38Strait of Hormuz, southern Iran. The United
00:26:41States launched a heavy wave of strikes against command centers,
00:26:45radars, surveillance systems, and air defense
00:26:49positions across southern Iran, intended to make the skies over
00:26:52southern Iran safer for American aircraft. But just hours
00:26:56later, something unexpected
00:26:58happened.
00:27:00An American MQ-9 Reaper was shot down over the Strait of
00:27:04Hormuz. The MQ-9 is no ordinary
00:27:07drone. It is one of America's primary platforms for
00:27:11intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and precision
00:27:13strikes, capable of remaining airborne for more than a full day
00:27:17while carrying an advanced suite of sensors and weapons. And this was
00:27:21not the first Reaper lost. Since the beginning of the war, Iran
00:27:25has taken around 50 MQ-9 Reapers out of operation,
00:27:28roughly one quarter of the entire U.S. Reaper fleet. But the real
00:27:32story was only beginning. Shortly afterward, an
00:27:37the world's most advanced combat aircraft, designed specifically
00:27:41to penetrate sophisticated air defense networks. But
00:27:44stealth does not mean invisible. One
00:27:47radar may detect only a faint signature. An infrared sensor
00:27:51may pick up the heat from its engines. Another system may detect
00:27:54its electronic emissions. And when the information from all of these
00:27:58systems is connected through a single
00:28:01the target begins to emerge. That same night, the
00:28:04tracking of the F-35 reached the level of a weapons-quality
00:28:08lock, a warning the pilot could not ignore. The F-35 did
00:28:11not continue its mission and quickly left the area. And
00:28:17the story: air defense success does not always mean shooting
00:28:21an aircraft down. Sometimes it is enough to stop an aircraft
00:28:24designed to penetrate hostile airspace from completing its
00:28:28mission. And now for the United States, the issue is no
00:28:31longer simply the loss of an MQ-9 or the
00:28:35retreat of an F-35. The bigger question is, how could a
00:28:38network whose radars and key components had been attacked only hours earlier
00:28:42remain operational and still force one of America's most
00:28:46advanced aircraft to abandon its mission, an incident that
00:28:50now forces the United States to rethink not just a flight
00:28:53path, but its entire calculation over Iran's
00:28:57skies.
00:29:00The equation in Iran's sky. This is no longer the same.
00:30:01Well, good stories on Press TV: Iran's president criticized the US for failing to
00:30:05abide by the terms of the agreement, saying agreement can be the basis for
00:30:09the reopening of the Strait of
00:30:10Hormuz.
00:30:14Rocky Premier calls for exemptions for US sanctions targeting global companies that
00:30:18work with Iranian airlines
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00:30:25the West Bank Israel raises a burset university and Romal and other areas of the
00:30:28Palestinian territory also seen incursions.