Monthly Archives: November 2023
ISRAELI occupation forces stormed the West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp overnight on Tuesday and throughout yesterday, destroying infrastructure. Occupation forces launched a massive campaign of raids on homes in the eastern neighbourhood and in the Jenin camp amid the outbreak of violent confrontations. Occupation bulldozers continued to destroy...
Russian forces destroyed a Ukrainian combat drone training centre and three radar stations over the course of Tuesday in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defence Ministry has reported. That is one of many advances that the Russian military and the forces of the Donetsk People’s Republic who are...
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday issued a statement on the occasion of the ‘International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People’, stressing that the dangerous escalation in the region is mainly caused by the absence and disregard for rights. The President added that the Gaza Strip is under an existential...
BRITISH-Palestinian surgeon Professor Ghassan Abu Sitta has recounted harrowing health-related ordeals Palestinian civilians went through during Israel’s onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip. The brutal onslaught was launched after Palestinian resistance groups launched Operation al-Aqsa Storm on October 7th against the occupying entity, the largest retaliatory attack in decades.
Professor Sitta,...
SPEAKING at a press conference yesterday, Majed al-Ansar, the Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesperson, said that Israel was the ‘toughest party’ in negotiations on the Gaza ceasefire process. Qatar has been a prime mover in negotiating a pause in the barbaric genocidal war against Gaza being carried out by the Israeli...
THE TORY government issued details about how it intends to use its Minimum Service Levels (MSL) anti-strike laws to wage war against education workers and their trade unions yesterday. The law requires employers to issue ‘work notices’ to employees instructing them to work during strikes, and MSLs to their unions...
PALESTINIAN Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour called for an immediate permanent ceasefire when he addressed a special session of the United Nations in New York on the situation in Gaza yesterday. He called on the UN to reaffirm its ‘permanent responsibility towards the question of Palestine’, and for...
Courage is not confined to a specific segment of society; it extends beyond soldiers in battle. In the midst of the ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza, civilians are making sacrifices and displaying extraordinary bravery, whether in an attempt to save others or by reaching out to help those in need. Rami...
WHEN Tory Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his Chancellor Jeremy Hunt boasted last week that they were responsible for bringing down the official inflation rate they were met with derision from even the most faithful of Tory-supporting media. Everyone knew that the fall in inflation had nothing to do with...
QATAR announced yesterday that the truce between Israel and Gaza has been extended for two days, with 20 Israeli captives to be handed over in exchange for the release of more Palestinian prisoners. Hamas said the truce, which was due to conclude at 7.00am this morning, has been extended by...
THE Israeli military has warned Palestinians against returning to northern Gaza, saying ‘the war is not over’. Israel has said that northern Gaza is out of bounds as displaced Palestinians attempt to use the pause in fighting to return to their homes. Large numbers of displaced people were attempting to return...
LAST Saturday, a massive demonstration of over 300,000 workers and youth marched to Whitehall, close to 10 Downing Street, calling for the trade union leaders to pick up the gauntlet that has been thrown down to them by both the Israeli regime of child killers, and its major ally,...
ISRAEL continues to declare that northern Gaza is out of bounds for the Palestinian people, while at the same time the Israeli army and its supporters are continuing to seek to take action in the occupied territories to terrorise and drive out the Palestinians, displacing them in an attempt...
In a remarkable series of events, Wells Fargo employees from Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Bethel, Alaska, are spearheading the bank’s first-ever union elections. This historic move towards unionisation, under the banner of the Communications Workers of America’s Wells Fargo Workers United (WFWU), indicates a significant paradigm shift within the US...
THE Israeli military has warned Palestinians against returning to northern Gaza, saying ‘the war is not over’. Israel has said that northern Gaza is out of bounds as displaced Palestinians attempt to use the pause in fighting to return to their homes. Large numbers of displaced people were attempting to return...
A GROUP of lawyers representing Palestinian victims of Israeli attacks on Gaza have filed a complaint to the International Criminal Court (ICC), arguing that Israel’s actions amount to the crime of genocide. Gilles Devers, a veteran French lawyer and the victims’ representative before the ICC, submitted the complaint to the...
TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement has been derided for its claims to represent a way out of the economic crisis strangling British capitalism, and driving forward a mass movement of workers against being forced into poverty to ‘save’ the profits of the bosses and bankers. His boast that cutting...
THE secretary general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement has met with a delegation of senior officials with the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement, as hundreds of Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks around hospitals and refugee camps in the Gaza Strip. Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah met with prominent figures from the Gaza-based...
TORY Chancellor Hunt turned his fire on the sick, the disabled, the mentally ill and the unemployed in his vicious, vindictive anti-working class Autumn Statement yesterday. While announcing massive tax cuts and handouts for the rich and big business, he delivered a warning that the most vulnerable in society are...
A high-ranking official with Lebanon’s Hezbollah says the popular resistance movement is in a state of war with Israel, calling on the Muslim world and Arab countries to do more for Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip than just supply them with food. Sheikh Naim Qassem, Hezbollah’s deputy secretary general, made...
HAMAS and Israel have expressed in statements their readiness to resume hostilities after they agreed to a Qatar-mediated pause in fighting. The deal includes the release of 150 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails in exchange for 50 people held captive by Hamas in Gaza since the armed group stormed...
IT WAS World Children’s Day on Monday, when it emerged that at least 5,500 children have been killed in Gaza since October 7th. According to the United Nations agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA), which issued its latest situation report on Sunday, nearly 884,000 internally displaced persons are sheltering in 154...
AS THE Tory Party continues to disintegrate by the hour, demands from the ruling class for a new right-wing party to emerge from the ashes are becoming more and more strident. The emergence of a new reactionary break with the old ‘conservatism’ that paid lip service to governing the country...
‘THE government is setting itself on a collision course with nursing staff,’ the RCN (Royal College of Nursing) has warned. The RCN, which represents over 500,000 nursing staff, responded on Monday night to the setting of ‘minimum service levels’ of nurse numbers required to work on strike days under the...
AT LEAST 20 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza yesterday morning, with the houses of a nurse and a civil defence worker among those targeted. In the north, attacks continued in the vicinity of the Indonesian Hospital. The Director-General of the Health...
YESTERDAY was World Children’s Day, the United Nations annual day for action on children’s rights which marked the adoption by the UN of the Convention of the Rights of the Child. Yesterday was also marked by at least 5,500 children killed in the Gaza Strip by the Zionist Israeli regime’s...
JORDAN’S King Abdullah II said yesterday the international community should push for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza to stop the unfolding humanitarian catastrophe caused by Israel's ‘ugly war against civilians.’ In remarks made during a meeting with European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen, the monarch said the international community...
ON WORLD Children’s Day yesterday it was recorded that at least 5,500 children have been killed by the Zionist Israeli regime since it began its genocidal onslaught on Gaza on 7th October. Celebrated annually on November 20, World Children’s Day is a global initiative promoting children’s rights, safety, education, health...
SCORES of people, including many women and children, were killed in Israeli air attacks on two UN-run schools in northern Gaza on Saturday – Al Fakhoura school in the Jabalia refugee camp and the school in Tel al-Zaatar. Almost 200 people may have been killed in these attacks, with the...
Workers at hundreds of Starbucks branches walked off the job and went on strike during a key promotional event last Thursday, demanding improved staffing and schedules, Starbucks Workers United said on Friday The walkout comes on the coffee chain’s ‘Red Cup Day’ event, during which Starbucks hands out free red-coloured, reusable,...
SCORES of Palestinian civilians were brutally murdered and many others injured yesterday as the Israeli genocide campaign in Gaza entered its 44th day in a row. WAFA correspondents reported that at least six civilians were killed, and others injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting homes in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood...
WORKERS and youth throughout France are demonstrating today for a ceasefire in Gaza, following a call by the CGT trade union federation. A union statement said on Wednesday: ‘After the mobilisations in France on October 22, then that of November 4, the CGT calls on workers and more generally the...
THE UN’s World Food Programme has warned that Palestinians in Gaza are facing starvation after Israel launched a brutal aggression on Gaza last month. Palestinians now face the prospect of being shot to death by Zionist gangsters who want to see a ‘Greater Israel’ established over the dead bodies...
SCORES of Palestinian civilians were murdered and many others injured on Friday as the Israeli genocide campaign in Gaza continued for the 42nd day in a row. Reports from Wafa correspondents confirmed that four civilians were killed in an Israeli airstrike which targeted a house in the southern city of...
HUNDREDS of Israeli soldiers are continuing their raid in all sections of al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, with bulldozers destroying buildings in the southern section of the hospital compound. Al-Shifa Hospital Director Dr Muhammad Abu Salmiya, speaking from inside the hospital, described the situation as ‘catastrophic’.
‘There were Israeli soldiers in the...
‘Ceasefire Now!’ demanded 5,000 pro-Palestinian demonstrators outside Parliament on Wednesday night as MPs were voting on amendments to the King’s Speech over Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the West Bank. ‘1,2,3,4 Occupation no more! 2,4,6,8 Israel is a terror state!’ they chanted, and: ‘Free, Free Palestine.’ Many spoke to News...
PRIME minister Rishi Sunak saw the Tory plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda shredded by the Supreme Court ruling them unlawful on Wednesday. Five judges at the highest court in the country ruled that the scheme was unlawful on the grounds that Rwanda was an unsafe country. The judges noted...
THE TORY plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda was yesterday dismissed by the Supreme Court, ending over 18 months of legal battles in the UK. Lord Reed announced the ‘unanimous’ judgment from the court’s five justices saying those sent to the country would be at ‘real risk’ of being...
ISRAELI occupation forces (IOF) stormed Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City at dawn yesterday, kidnapping dozens of injured, displaced people, forcing them outside undressed, blindfolded and handcuffed and transporting them to an unknown destination. Eyewitnesses inside the hospital reported that Israeli forces and their armoured vehicles stormed the western area of...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) warned on Tuesday that al-Shifa Hospital is ‘nearly a cemetery’ and unable to bury dead bodies as the facility is also tackling power cuts and a lack of fuel amid ongoing Israeli onslaught. Christian Lindmeier, a spokesman for the WHO, said more than 600 patients were...
Early yesterday Israel entered al-Shifa hospital, the largest medical complex in the Gaza Strip, with troops, tanks and bulldozers invading the facility where around 7,000 Palestinians are sheltering along with 1,500 patients and medical staff. The general director of hospitals in Gaza, Munir al-Bursh, reported that people attempting to leave...
‘WE WERE forced to bury them in a mass grave,’ al-Shifa Hospital Director Mohammad Abu Salmiya reported yesterday as he announced that 179 people, including seven babies and 29 intensive care patients, had been buried in the complex. Orthopaedic surgeon Fadel Naim said patients with injuries ‘up to the moderate...
IRAN has urged the international community to act against the ‘unbridled’ Israeli regime and stop its ‘horrible crimes’ committed with impunity against the oppressed Palestinian people in the blockaded Gaza Strip. Speaking at a weekly press conference on Monday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan’ani said the Zionist regime ‘brazenly’ bombards hospitals and puts them under...
FRESH from sacking Suella Braverman as Home Secretary in the morning, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak turned up on Monday evening to deliver a speech on UK foreign policy to the assembled bankers and business leaders at London’s annual Lord Mayor’s Banquet. Sunak opened by expressing his pleasure at appointing David...