Middle East tensions have been on the rise the past week following the assassinations of senior Hamas and Hezbollah figures and vows of revenge by Iran and Hezbollah. Numerous countries, including the U.S., the UK, France and many others, have urged their citizens to leave Lebanon as soon as possible in fear of a possible escalation of violence. What is the latest situation in the Middle East? Is a violent response by Iran now a certainty?

And how should the world community react and help bring the region back from the boiling point? Guests in this edition of Dialogue are Kawa Hassan, a nonresident fellow from the MENA program of the Stimson Center; Sara Yael Hirschhorn, visiting professor at the University of Haifa; and Rob Geist Pinfold, lecturer in peace and security at Durham University.

"The USA and its allies in Latin America have refused to recognize the results of Venezuela's elections, as far-right opposition extremists try to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro, with the help of billionaire oligarch Elon Musk. Ben Norton documents the many US-backed coups since Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez came to power and launched the Bolivarian Revolution."

"What will Arab journalists say after they see Xinjiang themselves?"

"China firmly condemns the assassination of Hamas politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh, said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian at a press conference in Beijing on Wednesday."

"Avenging Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh's assassination is "Tehran's duty" because it occurred in the Iranian capital, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday. CGTN's correspondent, Ehsan Keivani, has the latest from Iran's capital, Tehran."

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“Isr*el“ continues to unleash hell upon the 22-by-5-mile concentrated area of Gaza, in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, with relentless airstrikes and indiscriminate bombings of hospitals, residential buildings, schools, and other civilian sites. As besieged Palestinians shelter and flee and die within the walls of their cage in Gaza, Resistance forces are mobilizing to rise up against an Occupation that has presided over lives for 75 years.

Where there is occupation, there is resistance, and numerous Palestinian resistance groups exist across the Occupied Territories. These groups consist of occupied subjects turned freedom fighters—those who have been directly targeted by “Isrel“, who have witnessed their friends and families die at the hands of occupying forces, and who have been labeled "terrorists" for resisting their slow extermination. In Jenin, a 1km square ghetto-like refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, and the target of numerous “Isreli“ incursions, there are many who have chosen the path of armed resistance, and many who felt they had no other choice.

For those who suffer under the direct oppression and daily practices of apartheid—including the suspension of human and civil rights, military-imposed blockades and checkpoints restricting people's movements, the demolition of homes and killing of family members—there comes a breaking point. Generations of Palestinians, born into Occupation and violence, do not live a life of dignity. As they describe, under these conditions, they have nothing to live for and nothing to lose, and they have everything to fight for.

In July of this year, before the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attacks and “Isr*el“'s genocidal retaliatory offensive in Gaza, The Real News Network spoke to members of the community in Jenin refugee camp about their lives under Occupation, the role of the Resistance there, and the fight for freedom.