 As our reporters have been saying consistently from the time we started our coverage of what is happening in Gaza and in Israel since the 7th of October and in line with what humanitarian agencies working on the ground as well as aid workers have been saying, the situation gets worse on a daily basis, if not an hourly basis for the Palestinians living in Gaza, as well as those who are of course in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank. It's been another deadly day of bombardment, hundreds more have been killed and much of the world's response to it has remained the same. Each day becomes more and more horrific and now a telecom complete blackout means that Gaza is essentially cut off from the rest of us completely. What exactly do we know about what's happening on the ground as well as what are the United Nations doing about it? That's our top story today on Daily News as it has been since the 7th of October as I was saying earlier. We'll also be looking today at the visit of the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to the United States where among others he met with President Joe Biden at the White House. A potential meeting has been agreed on, the details I think still are in the works but the two, the leaders of the world's two largest economies will potentially meet later on. Does this indicate some sort of a shift, a reset or at least a relaxation or a thaw in what's been a pretty cool relationship between the United States and China? Salams, you're watching Daily Debrief coming to you from People's Dispatch. As always, this is a chance to ask you to subscribe to our YouTube channel. As I was saying earlier, each day gets harder and deadlier for the over 2 million residents of the Gaza Strip. Things are also intensifying in occupied East Jerusalem as well as the West Bank. The deadliest day of bombardment so far in what's been a series of deadly days one after the other. Anna is with us now. Anna, if you can hear me, the communications telecom blockade and I'm making it almost impossible to get any real news, real voices, updates out of Gaza except of course those who have access to perhaps satellite devices and satellite communications. What do we know as of now? What's the update since we last had a chance to speak to the viewers of People's Dispatch? Well, as you said, the situation seems to evolve, you know, not even hour by hour, but minute by minute and in comparison to what was reported on the People's Dispatch just yesterday. You know, we've seen actually what is definitely the biggest and most intensive attack of the Israeli occupying forces on the Gaza Strip, which started yesterday, later during the day yesterday. So the little reports that we are getting from the ground say that it's something that people have never experienced before. It's a coordinated attack from air, from land, from sea. And of course, it is making it more terrifying that essentially there is no communication except for very, very little limited input from which occasionally gets true to the Gaza Strip. So as we started getting terrifying images of the mass bombardment of the Gaza Strip, internet was cut off, which meant that essentially the people were there on their own. It was known in the world that they are getting bombed, they are getting killed, but there is no way for them to communicate anymore. So what we are seeing right now, and based on the latest information that was shared by the Palestinian Ministry of Health, at least 7,700 people have died since the beginning of the attacks on October 7. This is very likely to increase as ambulances essentially manage to reach people who are still trapped under the rubble and unreachable. Also, of course, because the communications lines are down. So this is something that should be definitely kept in mind when we talk about what happens when you cut internet and phone and communication lines. Absolutely. It's not only that we can talk to people who we know in Gaza, but it's also about how they can communicate among themselves, how they can actually reach an ambulance if they need one. It's also something that impacts the communications of UN agencies, which should be some sort of guarantee of essential aid, of essential help for people who are there. But unfortunately, since last night, we have heard and we have seen communications from different UN agencies. Also the international, so the Red Cross, the Red Creek and the humanitarian organizations who are on the ground who are saying that they are not able to reach the people who work for them. They are very worried about whether they are alive or not and whether they'll be able to get in touch with them soon. So it's essentially a very scary situation. It's scary also because we have heard multiple reports of attacks happening in the proximity of major hospitals, including the Al-Shifa hospital and the Indonesian hospital in northern Gaza. The Al-Shifa, of course, is one of the largest institutions of this sort. Israel has put forward a very far-fetched explanation that the hospital was hosting Hamas organizations and tunnels and that, because of that, it was sort of considered essentially that that explanation should make it okay to attack the proximity or the hospital itself, which of course, you know, it's something that's completely, it's essentially out of touch with anything that we know. The Al-Shifa is not only a hospital right now, it's hosting tens of thousands of people who are looking for shelter who have nowhere else to go. So bombing something so close to the hospital is completely, it's not something that we can explain. And of course then we should add to all of that that we have more than 600,000 people displaced right now who are living in overcrowded areas. They're living in UN schools, they're living in hospitals. They have moved south, that's something that should be pointed out because they were looking for, you know, for a safer place if we can call it that way. But yet they have seen attacks in the south of Gaza as well. And in addition to that, they are not receiving the adequate amount of aid that should be coming into the strip right now. And so again, coming back to the UN estimates, you know, when the UN looks at the minimum needs that we are seeing on the ground right now, they're saying 100 trucks a day as a minimum. So 100 per day since the Israeli occupying forces have begun letting some aid in, some 84 trucks enter the Gaza Strip. So you know, it's not even what should have come in in one day. In one day, yeah. In one day. So it's, and if we compare that to what was happening before October 7, several hundred trucks on average could enter the Gaza Strip to deliver the essential. Essential essential essential goods needed. So this means that still the hospitals are running without fuel. That means no generator. That means no power. That means you're getting operated under the light of a smartphone or a phone. And of course, you know, it means it means an increased risk of epidemics of communicable diseases as people live without food, without water, without sanitation, adequate sanitation. And without, for example, the possibility of sorting out waste management. So it's a very dire situation for the people of Gaza. And it's very worried, worrying to see, you know, what's what's been said by Israeli and by global North governments at this point in time. Yeah, absolutely. Then like that as per the same, I suppose, briefing from the Ministry of Health that you were referring to. It's all of these factors coming together to lead to the collapse of the paralysis, as we were saying of the health system, the medical systems in Gaza. And I'm going to what you mentioned just now about what the leaders from the global North are saying in response to it. Some of the discussions, if you can call them that happening in the United Nations, which seem to belong to a different plane altogether. And of course, including the irony of the fact that we are cut off from what is going on and seeing images of what is being unleashed on the people living in Gaza. But we do have access to live sort of streams of some of these discussions happening between these leaders and these top ranking diplomats. Just sort of take us down that track for a minute. What's the latest from that multilateral organization? And then we can take it a bit further. Essentially, yes, Israel was unleashing this very horrifying attack on Gaza yesterday on October 27. The representatives of the United Nations met in New York to discuss a motion proposed by Jordan, which is, which essentially aims for humanitarian truth. So it's shaped in a way to allow for the attacks to stop and for essentially to be delivered. So this motion, this resolution was passed. 120 countries in the room voted in favor of this resolution. 45 abstained and the shameful 14 voted against. And of course, you know, we have Israel, we have U.S. among these. We have some Pacific Island states, but of course we have also a couple of countries from the European Union. Austria, the Czech Republic and Croatia, which took a very problematic stand as this as the vote was unrolling. So what also needs to be said is that the Jordanian proposal that was voted on does not name either Hamas, it does not name Israel. This was this was criticized heavily by the Global North as during during this disassembly. And it was essentially pushed by Canada an amendment to that to that resolution, which would include a mention of Hamas and of essentially opposing terrorism. So in comparison to the to the text that Jordan proposed, this amendment did not pass. So it got widespread support from the Global North. But it failed to achieve the the majority that it's needed to actually pass the document on this kind of thing. But, you know, if if you look at it, so the the discussion that took place around this kind of amendment made by Canada was quite interesting because there were countries in the room present and Pakistan, I think, made a particularly strong intervention. Near the end of the discussion, which called out the Global North for double standards and for essentially not being prepared to to judge both sides in the same way. So people were saying that in case the Global North was insistent on putting only one side inside the text, then then other countries present in the room would insist that Israel is called out for the occupation that has been going on for the for the decades that preceded this. And so the discussion again that happened after the vote on the Jordanian proposal was quite different. And that's also, you know, something that needs to be singled out, because the vote was interest was, well, it was not interesting. It was sad, but it was interesting because it showed a split between the European Union countries. So, as I said, some voted against some voted as most abstained. So, but in their abstention and in the explanation of their abstention, they made very clear the side that they're taking on. So it's not something that, you know, they have not abstained because they feel like they, they should not take a stand in this. I would call it that they abstained because of cowardice. So it's essentially something that's, you know, their comments and their, essentially their siding still lies with Israel. There is no, there is no doubt about that. Yeah. Yeah, all right. Farid, thanks very much for that. And our last bit on what is going on in the West Bank in the meanwhile, and what little maybe aid distribution is happening on the ground. How effective has that been? I mean, if you just round off our coverage from the region for today. Yes, of course. You know, we've been talking about Gaza a lot, but of course, the report that reports that we're hearing from the West Bank are also very unsettling. And people continue to talk about the increased violence that they are exposed to. They're talking about the increased number of of imprisonment of people in the West Bank by the Israeli occupying forces. And it's, it's also an atmosphere of persecution and fear. At the same time, of course, we're seeing protests in support of Gaza and essentially the determination of supporting the people of Gaza, what no matter what happens. In addition to that, it has to be said that in the West Bank, we're also seeing reports of not only official Israeli occupying forces representatives taking violent action against the people. Of Palestine, but also settlers who are armed and who engage in engaging violence against against the people who own land there, who own olive trees there. So it's essentially not. It is equally equally unsettling what we are seeing in the West Bank right now. Things are probably going to become even, even, even more complex and more difficult to deal with. But what also just maybe needs to be said is that, you know, it's the, the discourse that came from the Israeli representatives at the UN yesterday just after the vote came, the vote was completed shows very little indication that things will in any way become calmer or become less violent toward towards Palestinians. So, you know, what we have heard from the Israeli representative there is not even denialism denialism does not even address one part of what was said, said there. It was what was said in that room was completely against anything that is comparable to the reports that we are actually seeing coming from the people. And that denies that any kind of breach of human rights is happening in Gaza and that there are needs of humanitarian aid coming in and ceasefire coming in right now. So as this kind of discourse persists and it still permits a lot of the discourse that we're hearing in the global north, both Gaza and the West Bank are still are still very much in danger of more intensified attacks. All right. Thanks for joining us on daily debrief, Anna, and that will conclude at least on this show, our coverage of Gaza for the week will be back of course, on Monday with more. And hopefully, as Anna was pointing out, the rhetoric or the some of the comments that are coming out are not indicative of it, but we can only hope that things change dramatically and quickly. Our second and concluding bit for today is as I was mentioning earlier, conversation with Anish on the recent visit of the Chinese Foreign Minister to the United States where he has also met Joe Biden, he's met Jake Sullivan, the NSA, as well as Anthony Blinken, of course, his counterpart, the Secretary of State for the United States. Anish, if we have you, I think we do have you. Anish, yeah, key points from some of these meetings and what can we look ahead to? Yeah. So what we are looking right now is certain, as you said, like there is some level of thawing in the relations, because what we're looking at is a very positive or a very hopeful sort of statements and, you know, attitude even from Chinese side, with this visit by Wang Yi, and this visit actually also marks a sort of an attempt at the very least to keep communications and diplomacy open and possibly also as the first form of as the first recourse for pretty much any kind of dispute that we may be seeing. But this is also a very tense time for both the US and China, especially their relations in, you know, East Asian region where the US is trying to pretty much create an axis of allies against China in many ways, you know, expanding its military relations, expanding its military presence in the region, and also expanding, you know, also the increasing number of confrontations that you've seen very recently, just on the 26th, we saw a very dangerous maneuver. And that clearly shows that, you know, relations are going to continue to be tense, but at the same time, the fact that such a visit happens, and that there is an expectation for a proper visit between Xi Jinping, President Xi Jinping to the United States and meet Biden in San Francisco, possibly next month, clearly shows that there is some very serious diplomacy afoot that might include some, at least some attempts to have some resolution to a certain set of conflicts and disputes in the region. At the same time, both sides have clearly shown that they, like if you look at the statements given by both of them, that they have a certain stand and certain set of position on certain issues, including the South China Sea and obviously Taiwan, which has become a very sensitive point of contention for both of them in the region right now. And so, but nevertheless, you can't really, but what we have seen is a previous set of meetings. It was never, you know, there was a certain level of readiness with how the Chinese perceived it, the kind of statements they made. It was always, you know, clearly showed that they were very, very aware of the fact that the US might change its position quite soon. And so they didn't really pin as much hope as they do right now, where they're looking for some kind of breakthrough in the short run at the very least. Right, so a degree of cordiality then hopefully entering some of those conversations. Yeah, hopefully that goes on on each particularly in the context of how both these countries have essentially also taken different stands on wider issues at multilateral platforms. China on the one hand is unequivocally calling for, I think, ceasefire in the current situation in Gaza, United States can be considered as the key force blocking that ceasefire. So, so those differences remain, are they trying to put things in some kind of silos. Anish, I have to ask, like the economic relationship between these two big countries on one side and then their role when it comes to regional or even international politics or another. Yeah, there has been, you know, a shift, not a shift, but there has been that sort of standard procedure where both these aspects definitely remain on separate planes of diplomacy and discussion. And if it happens, confrontations as well. So, nevertheless, they do, you know, collide very often than what we would like to think. For instance, one of the key things that we have seen recently in the region is how the Taiwan issue has blown up. And obviously, China has a dual certain degree tolerated trade extensive trade relations that Taiwan has with the United States and also the West and also different countries in the region, including some of its, you know, you know, past rivals like Japan and you know, you know, Philippines as well. But nevertheless, it has raised issues with the expansion of military deals and arms deals with Taiwan and also the fact that the US is trying to, you know, put a military footing on the island there and make its presence felt in the Taiwan state with increasing numbers of, you know, jet jets and warships going through that place, sorry, going through the straight and, you know, having certain level of confrontation with Chinese vessels as well. So that clearly shows that there has been, there is some level of collision in both of these factors where even economic concerns might like, and obviously we shouldn't forget the kind of damage that was that has been brought about during the whole trade wars period under President Donald Trump, and which has been, which was not, you know, continued as much or in the same intensity as Biden. But at the same time, it definitely left a mark that this sort of separation between diplomatic relations and, you know, their attempt to, you know, exert a certain influence and international sphere is started, started to affect their trade relations as well. So, but nevertheless, we do not know how things are going to move forward. We do not know how, you know, things are going to unravel in the coming months, because any meeting that might happen in November will actually include all of these talking points, considering the statements that has been made by both sides right now. So it has to, and both of them have made their stand very clear. So we need to wait and see how they're going to make any breakthrough, especially Taiwan, because it's a very sensitive point for China. It's a matter of its sovereign, sovereignty actually, and it's, you know, sovereign claims over Taiwan Island, Taiwan East Island, and vice versa, obviously the government in Taiwan, as we have to keep reminding also claims the entirety of China and obviously Mongolia and other parts of other countries as well. But nevertheless, this is a very sensitive talking point. A status quo ante in the sense of, you know, the current situation is favorable. But we do not know how that is going to be achieved at considering the kind of provocations that have happened in recent years. On the other hand, we also need to remember that communication and diplomacy is always a way to go. And if any kind of attempt is being made to actually resolve these differences, resolve these conflicts, and have US not interfering them as much, or, you know, some level of commitment at the very least would be a big breakthrough if they can actually achieve that in the coming months. All right, we'll see how that goes, Anish. But we will also have you back on the show much before November. I have no doubt about that. Thanks for your time today. And with that also, we bring to an end this week's coverage. A lot of it has been, of course, from Gaza and what's been happening there as well as of course, the rest of Palestine and Israel. We'll be back next week with more but updates will continue on our website peoplesdispatch.org. So please head there for details on these stories plus all of the other stuff that we've been covering over the weekend will continue over the weekend as well. See you on Monday. Goodbye.