 The world watched in shock, yet again as Israeli troops withdrew after a long siege from Al-Shifa Hospital on April 1st. The death toll was catastrophic. Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that hundreds of bodies of civilians were found at different corners of the hospital building by Gaza authorities following the withdrawal. A large number of bodies were even found burnt and decomposed. This is the latest instance of Israel's very calculated attack on health facilities and those seeking shelter in them. We go to Abdul for more on this situation there. Abdul, thank you so much for joining us. Very horrifying scenes that came out in the media yesterday showing the extent of the Israeli slaughter that took place, the carnage that took place. Could you maybe give us some more details as to what happened? What was the siege for according to Israel and what kind of toll it has taken on Palestinians? Well Prashant, as usual Israel has used the excuse of Hamas taking shelter in various places, various civilian establishments including the hospitals and has attacked in the last six months. If you see all hospitals inside Gaza and Al-Shifa in fact has been attacked several times in the past using the same excuse that has been used by Hamas to launch attacks on Israel, has been a center for Hamas's operations and so on and so forth. So that there was nothing new here apart from the fact that unlike the in the earlier situations where they came they attacked and in few hours or something they left the premises there. They came on March 18. They took over control of the hospital premises where apart from the more than 100 patients there were hundreds others who were taking shelter because as we all know since the war began our hospitals have been used by the Palestinians as a shelter home considering that they will not come under attack but Israel forces March 10 on March 18 and till April 1st they basically completely destroyed the building, burnt it. They basically dug out in fact the symmetry which was created to bury some of the people who died during the seas earlier raids and so on and so forth on the hospitals and on the nearby areas and also killed some of the Palestinians who were taking shelter inside. So all the destruction was visible, one could only see it once they left the premises on Monday and that has basically exposed the level of devastation which has been caused by the Israelis inside the al-Shifa hospitals. The images are there in the public domain for people to see. Right Abdul, what is the kind of response been to this incident like you said even by Israeli standards this has been a shocking siege? Well Prashant if you see Israel has been again have completely denied that they have killed any Palestinian citizens. They claim that whoever was killed inside the hospital for 14 days they were all Hamas operatives of course without providing any evidence and this claim has been completely refuted by the Palestinians including Hamas which has said that none of those people were killed were Hamas operatives. Most of the people were those who were taking shelter and not only in al-Shifa hospital by the way people from the nearby buildings were also brought in and shot dead inside the hospital by the Israeli forces these are the allegations. Of course then if you see World Health Organization has said that the patients were killed and of course this has not happened several other times in the past and of course they have condemned but beyond that there has nothing more has happened. There are eyewitnesses from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society who have claimed that most of the people who are basically the bodies were found inside the hospital where civilians or the people who were dug up from the cemetery from the from inside the hospital and there has been a widespread condemnation and there has been calls for action against Israel that has been this basically proves that how Israel is carrying out genocide inside Gaza. All those reactions have come from across the world apart from the fact that of course the close Israel allies like US have reiterated their standard reactions which basically is to investigate what has happened and of course they don't care after a point that such atrocities are being committed without any action taking against Israel. In fact you see even on Tuesday Israel carried out an attack on the aid workers killing seven of them most of them are foreign nationals and nothing so far has happened on that as well. So it seems that Israel has complete impunity as if now. Continuing impunity of course and Abdul also finally wanted to get your views also on the fact that in addition to all these atrocities Israel also clearly deciding to target media organizations which cover these atrocities the latest bill regarding Al Jazeera the character on Al Jazeera as one example could you tell us a bit about that also. Well that is another way of kind of Israel kind of trying to shutting down whatever little information which is coming out from the region from Gaza and from of course the other occupied Palestinian territories where their forces are directly involved in committing humanitarian violations committing war crimes and genocide elect and and the new law basically gives the Israeli government power to shut down Al Jazeera in particular because that was the only major channel which was which had a local base which has correspondence in the region which were reporting on the daily basis what was happening. So aliasing Al Jazeera to basically kind of collaborating with Hamas calling it a terrorist organization the bill basically gives Netanyahu government power to shut it down to seize all its equipment and basically shut down its website as well. So that is the law which of course it says it is a temporary law but we know the history of Israel has been all these laws have been temporary but we'd have been renewed several times in the past. So it says that this law will be valid till July 31st but of course there is a provision to renew it. It basically if it is implemented and as I said before Netanyahu has already claimed that it will be implemented as soon as possible it would mean that the Al Jazeera will have to withdraw all its offices and equipment from the country and that would mean a significant shutting down of the flow of information. So what will have less information to kind of know that what is what Israel is exactly doing inside of course inside Gaza and other occupied territories. Thank you so much for the update but do stay back we'll come back to you for the next story. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan suffered a major defeat when opposition parties won the local body polls in key cities including Istanbul and Ankara. The contest in Istanbul was keenly watched as Erdogan and his AKP party pulled all stops to regain the city from the incumbent mayor Ikram Imamoglu but failed miserably. What does this defeat mean for Erdogan and Turkey? We go back to Abdul. Welcome back Abdul. Very interesting election results from across Turkey. We know that I believe last year Erdogan won the elections it was quite a decisive victory and we see that within this time period has the pendulum really shifted. How do you sort of see these results? Well Prashant these are local body elections of course despite the fact that the elections were held all across the country and all the major urban centers in particular went for elections and it seems that a large part of them of course not the majority but where the major urban centers are located where the majority of the Turkish people live all those regions have seen the victory of opposition Republican people's party candidates. In fact in Istanbul which is the largest city in the country Imamoglu is basically has won with more than a million votes margin against AKPs the ruling party's candidate and similar things were repeated in Ankara in other cities major cities and that shows as you rightly pointed out that there is a shift from AKPs to the opposition particularly because there are reasons of course which are cited one of the main reasons is though it has been less than a year since Erdogan won the last elections and with of course not great margin but still significant margin that he has failed his government has failed to deliver on the promises which he made when he was contesting as he was campaigning for his election and those were related to the massive inflation which has led to the rise of the prices of essential commodity to a level which has not nobody no country has seen for a very long time and the inflation is still running above 50% in the last few months so the failure to curb the inflation and the failure to deliver on the other major issues has basically led to you can say shift of as a part of AKPs voters to the Republican party and that basically is shown in the election and if this trend continues for the next few years AKP would be in danger given the fact that as I said before these are the major population centers where you can say majority of the Turkish population lives and that has voted decisively against in fact in Ankara again the voting winning margin is huge more than 20-25% so that shows that the majority of the people in urban Turkey has shifted away from AKP primarily because it has failed to deliver on the major issues it's not to mention this is at least Erdogan's last term unless he decides to play with the constitution or effect some kind of proxy power change well analysts were speculating that if AKP is able to win a part of these cities majority of these cities Erdogan might would have gone to kind of amend the constitution and have another term for himself because he's only 70 and given the fact that there is a trend at the global level where people with older age are contesting elections and winning it may have would have been the possibility but now given the fact that the as I said before the decisive victory for the Republican party would mean Republicans people's party would mean that Erdogan is not sure whether he will if he contests again will win the elections and maybe as during the campaign for the city for Istanbul elections in particular he said that this would be my last election it seems that that is going to be the fact till he is at comments in 2028 but Abdul thank you so much for that update and that's all we have in today's DLD brief we'll be back with a fresh episode tomorrow 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