 As Israel's genocidal war on Gaza continues, conditions are worsening especially at the Al-Shifa hospital. What is the condition of patients? Leaders of Arab and Islamic countries met over the weekend and Palestine was on the agenda. What were the conclusions? And UK Home Secretary, Swela Brehmerman has been fired. What is the legacy? This is the Daily Debrief. These are your stories for the day. And before we go any further, if you're watching this on YouTube, please don't forget to hit that subscribe button. Hundreds of people, their relatives and displaced people are in an extremely dire situation at Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital. A spokesperson for the Palestinian Health Ministry said at least 32 patients have died over the past few days. Now, Israeli forces are claiming that there is a so-called safe corridor for patients, but many of them are unwell and need assistance, say media reports. The Al-Shifa hospital, which is the largest medical facility in the besieged strip, was forced to suspend operations on the morning of November 11th after it ran out of fuel. We go to Abdul for details. Abdul, Israel's attacks continuing relentlessly as another week starts. And a lot of focus now on the humanitarian situation, especially after reports, very scary, very horrifying reports coming from the Al-Shifa hospital as well regarding the situation of patients. So, maybe could you first take us through a ground update, what's happening? In the last few days, Israel has been targeting Al-Shifa and other hospitals in northern Gaza city. Particularly after its ground troops have taken control of the larger territory. And they have been claiming that Al-Shifa hospitals in particular have been used by Hamas for carrying out, as a headquarter to carry out all the attacks ever since October 7th and before. And therefore, they want to clear it. That's their claim, of course, which has been disputed. You see, since it is one of the biggest hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip, which has the most advanced facilities given the larger problem with the health infrastructure in the region since the Israeli blockade for more than one and a half decades now. Therefore, a large number of people have been basically treated in that hospital ever since the attacks started, the bombing started, more than 5,000 patients were there. And a large number of relatives and other Palestinians who have been displaced by the Israeli bombing from their homes have also been taking shelter there. So, this allegation that Hamas has been using that particular hospital for carrying out attacks, of course, is a bogus claim made by Israel and which has been proved time and again. But despite all those things and despite the repeated claims and warnings given by the health officials there and international organizations like Red Cross and Unroha saying that the hospital needs to be preserved and it to be not targeted by the Israeli bombing and the ground offensive, despite all those warnings, first, it has basically bombed the vicinity of the hospital. It has targeted the hospital on many occasions, which has basically led to, of course, the destruction of whatever infrastructure was there. There are also, of course, because of the lack of fuel, the electricity supply has been disrupted. That has led to the death of many infants because the life-saving mechanism which basically supports the newly born babies could not function because there is no electricity. The patients who were trying to, Israel was claiming that they have given repeated warnings for the people to leave but whenever they were trying to leave, they have been fired at. There are, according to the reports, snipers around the hospital which are targeting the people who are trying to leave the hospital. There are also reports of doctors being harassed, in fact, attacked by the Israeli soldiers repeatedly. Some of those doctors have come up and given their testimonies in public. And therefore, the entire infrastructure of the hospital has basically collapsed. But those doctors inside, they're still trying to do something, of course, because that is a sheer will which is basically preserving them. Otherwise, for all practical purposes, it is completely targeted and shut from the Israeli perspective. And they are treating it as a target, a legitimate target and that explains how the snipers are there, how they're not letting people go out, how they're bombing the vicinity of the hospital and not letting any people go in and out of the hospital. I believe the UN marking a day of mourning because of the number of relief workers who have been killed, and that's also a very horrifying aspect of this whole conflict. The fact that humanitarian workers, people providing assistance to those the most in need have been attacked. And Israel's response to that was its ambassador, I believe, speaking in the UN saying that even they even released relief workers, he was accusing them of being members of Hamas who have not been mistaken. So for Israel, ever since the attacks started on October 7, everyone, they have treated every Palestinian inside Gaza as Hamas either member or sympathizer. And that basically has led to them completely being indifferent to the repeated kind of concerns raised by the international organizations and the people on the ground that when an ambulance is being attacked or a medical officer basically is bombed, shot dead by now the ground troops, then there are complete shutting down of medical supplies, ever since October 9th, which basically has completely created a kind of lack of basic infrastructure, medicine in that reason, the number of out of 50 odd hospitals which Gaza has, more than 30 of them have been shot in the last one month. So I am therefore the remaining hospitals are also not in a very good condition because there is not enough medical supplies coming, whatever aid which is filtering through the Gaza, sorry, Rafa border is not enough to kind of run those hospitals. As we said, as we discussed earlier, because of the lack of fuel, the basic hospital machines which are required to kind of medical equipments to save lives or to kind of use them to kind of treat patients, none of them are functioning. So most of these things are done deliberately, because as you rightly pointed out, Israeli ministers, Israeli ambassadors on international forums have justified saying that these medical officials, the aid workers which work with Red Cross or the Red Crescent or UNRWA or any other group which is working in the ground are all basically members of Hamas and they are aiding Hamas, they are trying to basically shield them. Hamas is using the hospitals and the ambulances on the doctors basically to kind of shield their operations and therefore every target in Gaza is a quote unquote legitimate target and that explains the number of, if you see there are reports coming that apart from those who are wounded, there are other diseases breaking out in Gaza which basically, of course, it has also something to do with the complete collapse of the civil infrastructure, sanitation, water supply and so on and so forth and the blockage of course, but it has also to do with the complete lack of any medical care. So whatever is available is used for emergency care to treat wounded and people who are victims of Israeli bombings or other ground troops attacks and therefore the other diseases, other things which need immediate attention is by and large not taken care of and that explains the, apart from other things, explains the complete collapse of health services and greater rise of different kinds of epidemics in Gaza at this moment. Red Abul, thank you so much for that analysis but please do stay back because we are coming back to a very connected story. Leaders of Arab and Islamic countries took part in a keenly awaited meeting over the weekend during which Palestine was the subject of discussion. The meeting took place in Riyadh and the attendance of the Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was especially significant. The joint communique warned Israel of the disastrous consequences of its war crime. We go back to Abul for more details. Abul, so coming back a very significant meeting especially considering that both the Arab countries and their OIC sort of it is kind of a combined meeting at this point. Very challenging questions and before the leaders of many of these countries who have taken a wide variety of positions, let's be clear about that. Although in all these countries in the streets in any kind of popular space you see this massive solidarity with the Palestinian people. So a real question mark for many of these leaders. So what was the broad sort of conclusion of the summit or wherever the directions in which it was going? Well, when the initial round of discussions were happening of course there were proposals put forward because this is a meeting which includes both the Arab countries, the members of the Arab League which had 22 countries and OIC which is the larger body and which includes countries such as Indonesia in Asia and then a large number of African countries as well. So of course given the wide variety of countries which were represented in the summit there were different kinds of proposal coming in and some of them of course were pitching for a very strong kind of step against Israeli attacks on Gaza particularly Iran asking for a complete by-court by all the members of the OIC which is more than 57 countries from across the world. And apart it is not limited to the armed sanctions sanctions on the arms delivery and other military equipment delivery but also a complete by-court of it. So of course since this is a wide range of countries participating in the meeting some of them have very close relationship with both the U.S. and Israel as well which basically led to a much more you can say a milder version of kind of joint communique which was issued after the meeting and but despite the fact that it is milder than what initially what was initially proposed this is still a step ahead in a sense that despite the fact that there are countries as I said before which have very close relationship with the U.S. and Israeli some of them very close relationship with Israel as well none of them were able to reject the idea that what is happening in Gaza is not Israel's right to self-defense and they all agreed that this is not a justification it is basically an occupying force which is using an incident of attack to retaliate or to kind of take revenge against the people of all Palestinian people. All of them agreed to call it collect what is happening in Gaza as a collective punishment including both the attacks and the block it and asked ICC and other international groups to basically start an investigation for that. So give it all 757 countries agreeing on such a description of what is happening in Gaza is a great achievement in this we should remember that as I said before that there are countries represented here in this group which do not share this opinion at least so far they have not said such things in public. That is one apart from that the Comunic is a very long Comunic it also talks about immediate need for starting international peace conference which will lead to a two-state solution agreeing that without a two-state solution there is no peace and stability in the region and there is no possibility of any normalization of relationships with either Israel or if this continues. They also very much underlined that if this continues this there's some of them the Comunic call it a biased implementation of international law and if this continues the relationship between the members of OIC and the US will also be because they did not name US of course but that was the hint that Israel is doing what it is doing because there are certain countries which are letting it do such things and therefore if it continues. Their relationship might also get affected so in a way it is a strong statement of course sort of any concrete action but rhetorically it is something which needs to be seen in the larger context and it is a radical step forward. Abul of course interesting very briefly to go back to that point interesting that Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi was at that meeting I believe which is a very rare visit of Iranian president to Saudi Arabia. So do we see that trend of you know closer integration or I wouldn't say integration but closer cooperation between countries which are earlier in very different blocks that trend is actually strengthening as a result of what has been happening over the past month. Of course this is the first visit of an Iranian president to Saudi Arabia in more than a decade 11 years in fact. So the process is started in March what generally is called a projma between Iran and Saudi Arabia has led to a kind of an unfolding of events which basically and if we see what is happening ever since the war in Gaza started. Iran and Saudis have been coordinating their clear indication that they have been coordinating their responses to not only to the what is happening in the region but also on the global for us. And that is something which has which is something unique given the history which Saudi Arabia and Iran had has for all these years. And if you see in that context Syria was also invited again for the this OIC summit. And so Syria Iran being a permanent and kind of welcome presence to all these forums where Saudi Arabia and other countries which are not very friendly which have not been very friendly to both these countries. Is a sign that of course a greater intake a kind of integration at least on regional issues is happening greater coordination on regional issues is happening. And this in particular is very significant given the nature of the Palestinian issue and the US role in it. So US has been very clear about kind of not letting the Arab countries unite behind a stand. And of course trying to alienate is Iran completely from the group of countries which it considers to be close to it. And all those attempts are still visiting a blink and visiting Biden visiting the region going to a going and meeting people in Iraq. People in leadership in Iraq leadership in Saudi Arabia leadership in Jordan given particularly these three countries which post 2003 have been quite US pro US. If you see the responses and the way have they have they have kind of a kind of some kind of symphony with is Iranian position on Palestine. This is a clear indication that the US efforts to dominate the reason the way it used to dominate. Till now is not working and and and there is a growing kind of realization among the countries in the region that they need to kind of coordinate their stance to so that external intervention as they call it some of them is minimized. And the countries of the region can have much more assertive independent positions on the issues which matters to them and to the people the people there. Well, thank you so much for that analysis. We'll keep watching this space as you know, I think the lot of potential in terms of how many of these governments might move. Thank you so much. And finally, after an extremely controversial career as Home Secretary, Swela Brehoman has been fired by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. The action is believed to be due to an article she wrote which is critical of the police for supposedly being too lenient with protesters who express solidarity with Palestine. But this is not the first outrageous statement that Brehoman has made and she's often made a lot of offensive comments about asylum seekers and refugees and her record as Home Secretary has been severely criticized by activists. We go to Anish for more. Anish, a lot of the media reporting is going to be focusing on David Cameron's return to do mainstream political life, all this talk about political comeback, et cetera, et cetera. But the key point we need to sort of focus on is I think Swela Brehoman's record, especially her recent statements, but also which is building on a long trajectory of extremely offensive remarks against various sections. But for the benefit of viewers, could you maybe first take us through why the Home Secretary of a country like the UK was fired by the Prime Minister? Well, the most immediate thing is the fact that she criticized the police for apparent double standards when it comes to pro-Palestinian protests. But the thing is like she wasn't really stating the truth. We know for a fact that there has been a clear when she was criticizing double standards. She was saying the police should have been violent against exactly exactly like that. The police should have really cracked down on the Palestinian protesters, but we know that that's not the case. The police have been not very friendly for the pro-Palestinian cause, especially with some of the, you know, hounding of some of the activists and organizers of heated protests. But that aside, she has very clearly gone against the government in many ways with this criticism. And because the Home Department is the one that is leading the police, essentially she pretty much criticizes not just her own government, but her ministry as well. So it was a very confused set of statement. And this is the most jarring thing that the fact that her criticism of the police for whatever reasons, like despite the fact that it is not based on facts, was the reason, was the last straw for the government to actually take her out. Considering she has said and done far worse things over her tenure as the Home Secretary and not least of all against immigrants being an immigrant herself. The irony of it just flows through it, but being against immigrants, against asylum seekers, against people who are seeking refuge by going through a very precarious and dangerous voyage across the Mediterranean. And obviously being the most upfront and the most honest of the conservative parties policies and being very honest about its policies and defending it. Whatever criticism that might be held against her, that none of these factors actually really affected her stand or her standing within the government. And that's the most important thing I feel and it's quite clear with the replacement. It's not that different. It's just that the person might be more diplomatic when it comes to stating some of the things that she might have done in a more crude manner. That aside, it's also a very clear indication of how desperate the Sunni government is. Recent Bipole routes that they have lost seeds that they have held for decades even and to pretty much any significant opposition party that might exist in those constituencies has really alerted the government to its growing unpopularity among the people and the fact that its policies are really not translating to any kind of support on the ground. And this attempt to reshuffle the cabinet in even bringing back Cameron who was pretty much kept in the back benches for so long clearly shows how desperate this government is right now to try to shore up some amount of support that they might have among the more conservative or right wing voters. Well Anish, thank you much for that quick update. Like you said, I think nothing really changes. There's no, Breverman was not an outlier in terms of her policy preferences, maybe in terms of some of her statements but definitely not in terms of what her policy framework was. And she'll of course I think always be remembered for especially her Rwanda policy which was I think one of the most inhuman proposals that came at that time. Thank you so much for us. We'll come back to you later. And that's all we have in this episode of Daily Deep Brief. Do come back tomorrow for another episode. Meanwhile also visit our website peoplesdispatch.org and follow us on all the social media platforms.