 Israel has intensified its offensive on Khan Unis and other parts of Gaza with media reports indicating that hospitals and education facilities are being targeted. The death toll in the region has crossed 25,000 since October 7th with over 63,000 injured. Meanwhile, the impact of the war on the region also continues to escalate. We go to Abdul for the details. Abdul, thank you so much for joining us. A very brutal Israeli offensive taking place in the southern parts of Gaza as we speak. So could you tell us what's happening right now? As per the latest reports coming from Khan Unis, particularly, there is a ground offensive going on there. And the videos which are there, circulating on social media and media channels, shows that Israeli forces have completely destroyed entire neighborhood, consisting of around 40 plus Palestinian houses. They have completely detonated it with explosives. There are also reports coming that the Nasir hospital has been under attack. More than a dozen Palestinians have been killed. And the number of Palestinians killed in the hospital and around that locality is increasing every hour as the reports coming from the ground. It is very similar to the attacks which were carried out in the northern Gaza, in al-Sifa and al-Quds hospitals. And that's exactly what the Israeli forces are repeating. Apparently, they're claiming that they have found evidences in some of the houses destroyed by it that the Israeli captives were kept there. And hence, the Israeli Defense Ministry claiming that they will be able to kind of get the hostages released. Of course, this is a bogus claim. They have claimed it before also. And in none of those instances, there was any success. In fact, when there was reporting, when Hamas proposed last week about a kind of ceasefire in exchange of the release of hostages, Israeli Prime Minister has completely rejected it. And this rejection continues despite the fact that there are reports coming from inside Israel of how the family members of the hostages have been demonstrating in front of the Israeli parliament, not letting the people move, go in and out of the parliament, demanding the release of the hostages and the ceasefire. So, yeah, that is the latest thing which is coming. As per the latest report, Netanyahu met with the family members protesting in Jerusalem, occupied Jerusalem. But the results of that meeting is not yet clear. We also need to talk about the regional dimensions that are taking place. So how is the impact on the larger region, on larger West Asia itself continuing? Well, if you see what Saudi Foreign Minister said in Davos, basically that reflects the mood of the larger region. Since the beginning of this round of Israeli war in Gaza, there has been a consistent position taken by the Arab countries in the region that there is no alternative to a state solution and Israel has to agree with it. And we should remember that last we talked, Netanyahu had completely rejected the two-state solution in a way. So yeah, so Saudi Arabia, the similar statements were repeated by Jordanian officials, Jordanian Foreign Minister. And of course, if you see the axis of resistance which basically has been raising a kind of resistance against the Israeli war in Gaza and the US support to the Israeli war in Gaza has been continuously striking against both the Israeli and the US targets wherever it is possible. On Sunday, there was a report coming of the latest round of attacks against US base in Ain al-Assad in Iraq where a couple of US soldiers are reportedly injured and this is one of the largest attacks so far on an US base. And of course, if you see the Houthis continue to, despite the fact that Houthi has been designated as terrorist and been bombed by the US and UK they have been resisting what they have stood with their position of not letting any ship pass through the Red Sea to Israel. Similarly, Hezbollah has been, in fact, there is a report coming on Sunday night that Hezbollah basically attacked an Israeli military base which also led to certain casualties. Of course, this was in response to Israel bombing southern Gaza, killing one of the top leaders of Hezbollah in the region. So if you see in and around the region there is both active armed resistance to Israeli war in Gaza, ongoing by the axis of resistance forces and also the diplomatic pressures which are applied by the Arab countries to force Israel and the US also to basically come to table and find a solution which can bring peace to the region and that is the two-state solution independent of Palestine and independent of Palestine in the state. Right Abul, thank you so much for that update. The current constitution of the Philippines was drafted in the aftermath of the mass movement that overthrew the dictator Ferdinand Marcos senior in 1986. Now under the presidency of his son Bongbong Marcos there are efforts to revise the constitution and change some of the economic clauses. However, critics say that this will further help entrench the current elite. We go to Anish to understand what is happening. Anish, thanks so much for joining us. Quite a bit of controversy building up over this proposal to amend the constitution of the Philippines. So before coming to some of the arguments as to why people are unhappy with this, could you maybe take us through what is this process of amendment itself, what are the proposals being talked about? Yes, so right now what we are looking at is an attempt to create what is called as the People's Initiative as per the Filipino constitution where you have to collect a certain number of signatures to put into place a constitutional amendment or a charter change, as they say, which can actually affect a lot of very fundamental laws of the Philippines and which were pretty much more or less, if not remained unchanged, but they more or less remain stable since the 1986 EDSR Revolution. Now the thing is that this entire process that is being pushed by this group called as PERMA, which is People's Initiative for Reform Modernization and so on, is something that is pushing for only very specifically economic amendments in the Filipino constitution, which would actually affect clauses that deal with foreign ownership and foreign investments, especially into areas which are still considered to be complete nono, like for instance mining, resource exploration and so on, or even agroforestry or even land, the use of agricultural land or the ownership of agricultural land, which are completely out of bounds for foreign investors, that might be opened up if this obviously is something that is being affected. And this is something that is also being pushed for by various people in the government, many lawmakers who are very pro-government or who sit in the, you know, the Marcus Jr. supporting bloc within the Congress and all of them pretty much are keen on these economic clauses more than anything else. Obviously there have been previous attempts to even change the political character of the Constitution, take out, you know, turn limits and even, you know, put in a parliamentarian type of government, but that's a different set altogether. Right now what we are looking at is a lot of resources and a lot of money being pushed into it. This whole process became especially controversial because per mother group that has been pushing for this sort of people's initiative, which is a difficult thing to begin with, has put out this ad earlier this month, which had the hashtag called etsa para, which is a wordplay, which means that, which could imply that there are people who have been left out in the 1987 etsa revolution, and that kind of, you know, seeks to undermine the etsa revolution, the democratization process that happened. And also the Constitution that came within because the Constitution was something that, you know, that pushed for very pro-people policies at the time that requires even now, protects the country from, you know, very predatory kind of foreign capital that can, you know, influence or even destroy parts of the Filipino economy. And considering the history that Philippines has had when it comes to foreign investment and foreign capital, this is something that this whole classification or, you know, trying to undermine the revolution itself is something that a lot of people have been alarmed by at the current moment, obviously. Right, so Anish, coming to some of those concerns, why are people, you know, what are the main grounds people are or activists or groups that are opposing this on? Well, for one, there is very clear attempt to support the current Marcus Junior government. And obviously coming at the time when Marcus Junior is in power is something that has alarmed a lot of people because obviously attempts to change the Constitution or the Constitution that was framed in response to overthrow or replace the dictatorial system that existed under Marcus Junior's father. It's something that has obviously alarmed a lot of people. But specifically speaking, it's the, as I pointed out, it's the part where they want to change foreign ownership laws. And these are things that are constitutionally regulated. These are not simply laws that can be changed by the Congress. These are things that the Congress, that has to be a constitutional amendment or, you know, a sweeping constitutional amendment of the kind that we've seen very recently in Indonesia and other places. And that is something that alarms a lot of people because that could imply a lot of things. And we do not know the final blueprint of what these people's initiatives, so-called people's initiatives can actually bring about. But definitely a lot of resources, private money is being funneled into it. Obviously the people who are considered to be leftovers or left outs of the revolution have been named as landowners, businessmen, entrepreneurs and so on and so forth. So we are very clearly seeing elite, Filipino elite, obviously. There's also foreign capitalists being involved in here. And there is complete opacity of who is funding these programs and where this money is coming from and who is behind this, obviously. So all of that has actually, you know, created alarm bells for a lot of people, for a lot of progressive activists, but also many who are very of foreign capitalists. It's predatory nature, obviously, into the Filipino economy. And that is something that has been highlighted in the current set of protests that we're also seeing in Philippines. Please, thank you so much for that update. And that's all we have today. We'll be back with a fresh episode tomorrow in the meanwhile. Do visit our website peoplesdispatch.org, follow us on all the social media platforms. And if you're watching this on YouTube, please hit the subscribe button.