 On Thursday Israeli forces fired at hundreds of people in Gaza who had gathered to collect essential food aid. The death toll has crossed 110 and over 750 people have been injured at least. Now this is not the first time Israeli forces have fired at those who have gathered to collect aid. We know that the aid flow to Gaza has been quite less and people are in extremely difficult situation. The humanitarian crisis has been worsening but this is by far one of the most brutal incidents of this sort especially considering the death toll, considering the number of injured and considering the fact that it was not only army soldiers who were firing but the reports say that even tanks were present to it artillery was involved and this is there's perhaps no greater example of the brutality of Israel's assault since October 7th. We go to Abdul to talk more about this. Abdul, thanks so much for joining us. We did talk about the massacre in brief yesterday but could you maybe take us a bit more in detail as to what happened and we'll talk about the responses and the larger situation after that. Well Prashant as we all know there were hundreds of Palestinians gathered in Gaza city at Nablusi Square waiting for food aid. Of course as we know the humanitarian situation inside Gaza is quite bad primarily because of the war Israel has waged against Palestinians and also because of course the aid delivery has been disrupted by the Israelis because of the bombings because of the ground offensive because of restrictions imposed on it. So whenever there is some hope of aid coming a large number of Palestinians gather to collect it and that basically when they were waiting for it Israeli forces started firing at them later they claimed they fired because there was some kind of chaos of course the large number of Palestinians gathered they were moving here and there they were desperate to get food and other things and they used this situation to kind of instead of kind of attempting to create an order they basically fired at the Palestinians killing more than 100 people Palestinians and wounding around 750 plus people and there are reports coming that some of the people killed don't only have gun shots gun wounds but also they were trampled by the tanks there were also firing from the drones which were flying all over the place and apparently they were also fired from other unknown sources. So this is the situation in which of course this all Israelis claim first they denied that it is because of them that Palestinians have died but later on after it was clear that they have been responsible they admitted that of course their soldiers fired at Palestinians but they claimed that this was fired only after some of the Palestinians apparently started moving towards them of course this allegation has been rejected by a lot of eyewitnesses who claim that this basically happened because Israeli forces use the last gathering to basically target the Palestinians as they have done it before this is nothing new there are other instances in the past in the last five months of war where we have seen that how large number of Palestinians gathered at one place particularly for food and other aid delivery or for other reasons have been targeted by the Israeli forces and some of them been killed but this is the largest number of Palestinians killed at waiting for food aid so far. Right Abdul like you said this is nothing new for Israel it has happened in the past but I think the scale is something that has been that is quite unprecedented what have been the kind of responses that have emerged from various sections well of course most of the world has criticized the calling it masakir some of the countries of course called it masakir and some of them basically called it war crimes also of course for example a brazilian president call it another example of how israel is basically committing war crime after war crime in Gaza then of course most of the Arab countries in the neighbor have also condemned the killing and called it of course part of the genocide which israeli is carrying against the Palestinians some of them have also demanded thorough investigation and of course accountability for those who are responsible the most of course that is again not shocking but if you see US of course saying that the killing of so many people is sad and so and so forth but when the Algerians presented a kind of draft note in the United Nations Security Council basically condemning the violence and calling Israel responsible for it US blocked that statement and did not let it go even the US spokesperson have not kind of taken a kind of strong of course they avoided directly alleging Israeli forces for the killing and they have tried to kind of kind of some kind of kind of give Israel some kind of clean cheat if you see if you want to say it then there are also attempts made by for example UN has criticized the killing called it condemnable but their their spokesperson as per the reports avoided taking the name of Israel so these two kind of responses we see that of course the killing is bad but whether they are ready to name Israel at that where where it becomes a crucial because if you are not taking the name of the culprit which is who is responsible for for the killing of more than 100 people at one waiting for humanity in aid of course basically you are trying to kind of give some kind of indication that all these kind of killings are acceptable in the name of so-called security which Israel has been cleaning sorry claiming so the responses of course are varied most of the countries have condemned it but US and its allies have and even of course have not have avoided to take strong stand which is required at the moment to kind of force Israel to stop such kind of massacre of Palestinians. Thank you so much for that update. Doctors in Korea have been on strike over the past few days in protest against an increase in medical quotas now we talked about this issue before and this is a complex issue there are many views within the health community in Korea itself but the key news point here is that the government has begun cracking down on these doctors in various ways doctors were striking demanding better working conditions as well as any other demands we go to Anish to more talk about this. Anish thanks so much for joining us we have talked about this issue in the past and there are some nuances which we'll get to in some time but the immediate news is that the government is cracking down on the protesting doctors so maybe could you start by telling us a bit about that. Yes so the fact that most of the doctors pretty much like apart from a couple of hundred of the nine thousand or so doctors have not returned to work and they have essentially held back against the government's deadline for the return to work orders to come into effect which was yesterday. Now this they have been they have been raiding offices of the KMA the Korean Medical Association both in Seoul and other parts of the country they have you know seized electronic devices of the doctors there the organizers are being held and detained for actually for instigating that some of the charges include like they have instigated the doctors to strike and you know for the mass workout that is still in effect. So the whole point is pretty much to intimidate the striking doctors there's nothing new the UN government has been guilty of doing this for any kind of labor mobilization under his administration we have seen construction workers moments and other unions being targeted by the UN administration over various under various pretenses including in some cases of you know aiding the enemy which is North Korea in this case. So there has been targeting of workers unions workers movements trade unions and this is nothing new in that regard nevertheless most doctors have held on to it as of now there has been no announcement and most of them are in favor of continuing the strike which have you know some several sets of demands that the government right now is not ready to negotiate or even have any kind of talks with at the current moment. Right Anish but also in this context would you tell us a bit about the demands especially considering that even in the health community there are some divisions about it. Yes so some like the most important and immediate demand and the reason why the strike has happened is primarily the steep hike in doctors admissions they have increased the number by 2000 seats for the upcoming year which on top of the 3000 and so seats it's a massive hike and basically two-thirds more than what they have already. The doctors are arguing that at least the KMA are arguing that the the hike in the number of seats for medical admissions would actually put a strain on the existing infrastructure which is not up to the mark but there are definitely differences because multiple health movements and health organizations are you know of the opinion that there is severe medical workers and you know doctor shortage in South Korea we have talked about that in our previous show as well South Korea has the the lowest doctor to patient doctor to civilian ratio in real terms if you take out all the traditional medicine practitioners and other paramedical group professionals the actual number of medical doctors and the ratio that it brings down to two per 100 per thousand and that's a that's a very massive massively low proportion and that clearly shows the kind of shortage and it's even worse in some of the most essential sectors like gynecology, pediatrics and you know elderly care in many of these doctors are limited especially for in the physician like physicians are obviously a larger group because it's a it's it's a profession that actually brings you greater returns and greater income so there are other demands that the KMA and other medical health organizations have also brought out which is the fact that there needs to be better in investments the infrastructure needs to be you know brought out like simply and cosmetically increasing the number of doctors will not help the the already you know crisis rate in health infrastructure it was seen the severity of this shortage was seen during the pandemic but it was also seen that outside of Seoul pretty much and it's a larger surrounding metropolitan area the health infrastructure in South Korea is quite lacking especially rural outbacks and that those areas many of them have hospitals without any proper doctors even and this is something that needs to be that requires a more comprehensive plan than the government right now wants to do they are actually more concerned of preserving the existing market based model which pretty much has created this sort of very uneven shortage among the professions among specialties even and it has like you have more and over you know surplus number of doctors in cosmetics and you know allied fields disciplines and not enough for pediatrics that clearly shows there is a big big problem and the market based model is not working because obviously doctors are anybody any new incoming doctors would prefer to opt for professions and specialties that actually give them better results and on top of that infrastructure as I said needs to be chalked out and this is something that pretty much all of the unions agree on but it's the matter of you know quotas because obviously a large number of these doctors who are striking our physicians and for them in their sector it is you know it is not necessary to have more doctors and this is kind of their perspective which is not something that is shared by most others nevertheless there's a larger systemic problem that is being underdressed right now by the UN government Renanish in this context any suggestions or signs from the doctors as to what their future course of action will be holding on to the strike is something that we are seeing the previous like right before the government imposed deadline of return to work orders to be implemented there was some talks between the unions and including junior doctors about whether or not they want to return to work after you know the end of February but that did not happen either most of them refuse to do that nevertheless you know the continuing the strike might have significantly bigger legal implications and we need to wait and see if the trade of the doctors unions are you know ready to take on that sort of you know political repression in many ways and we also need to wait and see if how because there is general you know public disenchantment because there is a crisis because of lack of doctors but we also need but we need to wait and see if other unions are going to pitch in in the matter if they are going to pitch into the negotiations that may or may not happen we are still not sure the government is pretty much on a very belligerent mode at this point in time where it does not want to have any talks with any unions it's not just doctors unions it's pretty much any unions that they do not want negotiations at all so that is pretty much the situation that most of these doctors striking doctors have you know have to work under right now thank you so much Anish for that update that's all we have time for in today's daily debrief we'll be back with a fresh episode tomorrow meanwhile do visit our website follow us on all the social media platforms and if you're watching this on youtube please hit the subscribe button