Monthly Archives: April 2024
MEMBERS of the UN Security Council have failed to reach a consensus on the Palestinian bid to become a full member state of the United Nations. Two-thirds of the council’s members were in favour of full Palestinian membership, but ‘there was no consensus’ during the closed-door meeting held on Thursday,...
THE UN Security Council committee has not reached a consensus on Palestine’s latest application for full United Nations membership, despite substantial support. Meeting in New York, the committee, chaired by Malta’s ambassador Vanessa Frazier, found two-thirds of its members backing Palestine’s bid, while five opposed it. This division makes it improbable...
AFTER a night of airstrikes, the Israeli military has initiated a ground operation into the northern section of the Nuseirat camp, described by an Israeli army associated broadcaster as a ‘limited operation’. Despite announcing its withdrawal from southern Khan Younis, the military maintained a brigade in the area separating northern...
‘A system that was already in chaos is going to (experience) a lot more chaos,’ United Nurses of Alberta President Heather Smith warned on Tuesday as she pledged to fight against the privatisation of healthcare and thousands of her members’ jobs. Major health-care unions in Canada are fighting the Alberta...
AT a press conference on Wednesday evening, US president Joe Biden announced that American imperialism was prepared for an all-out war in the Middle East to protect its client Israeli state from any retribution over its illegal attack on Iranian territory. Last week, Israel launched a missile attack on the...
TORY PM Rishi Sunak said he won’t stop selling arms to Israel yesterday, declaring that exports to the genocidal Zionist entity will continue as before and the flow will not be suspended. Ignoring demands that he publish the legal advice he is known to have received regarding the legality of...
ISRAELI police stormed the funeral tent of Palestinian hero, writer and prisoner Walid Daqqa in the West Bank city of Baqa al-Gharbiya in Occupied Palestine on Monday evening, removing the tent, and arresting five of the mourners. Walid Daqqa, 61, a Palestinian prisoner incarcerated since 1986, died in Israel’s Shamir...
SPEAKING in Madrid yesterday, the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said that the recognition of a Palestinian state is ‘in Europe’s geopolitical interests’. The Spanish PM also warned that Israel’s ‘disproportionate response’ in its Gaza war with Hamas risks ‘destabilising the Middle East, and as a consequence, the entire world’. Sanchez...
THE International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague held preliminary hearings on Monday on the case filed on 1st March by Nicaragua against Germany, alleging ‘genocide’, in connection with Israel’s war on Gaza Nicaragua stated that Germany is ‘facilitating the commission of genocide’ by offering political, financial and military...
JAMIE DIMON, boss of JP Morgan, the largest,bank in America, has issued a stark warning that the US is facing its worst crisis since World War II. In his annual letter to the bank’s shareholders, Dimon made no attempt to disguise the fear stalking the US ruling class that the...
ISRAELI air attacks throughout Gaza caused scores of Palestinian deaths yesterday, following the targeted assassination of al-Maghazi mayor Hatem al-Ghamri on Monday evening. The Government Media Office (GMO) in the Gaza Strip strongly denounced the Israeli action, calling it a ‘war crime aimed at increasing the humanitarian crisis in the...
KHAN YOUNIS residents returned home yesterday to a landscape of shattered multi-storey buildings, charred overturned vehicles and their Nasser Hospital in a shambles, after Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) retreated from the southern Gaza city on Sunday. The Government Media Office (GMO) issued a statement yesterday refuting Israel’s claims regarding its...
GOLDSMITHS University UCU (University and College Union) members, who have overwhelmingly voted to strike against the sacking of more than one-in-six academic staff at the institution, begin a marking boycott on Friday 19 April. The boycott will cover all marking and assessment, including in writing, online, or verbally.
It will also...
YESTERDAY, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) started a hearing on a case brought by Nicaragua against Germany, which puts the German government in the dock over accusations that it is facilitating genocide and breaching international law through its continuing military aid to Israel in its genocidal war on...
‘THE people behind me haven’t had a pay rise for half a decade,’ ASLEF General Secretary Mick Whelan said yesterday, speaking on the picket line outside Waterloo Station in central London. ASLEF pickets halted thousands of trains again yesterday, following last Friday and Saturday’s strike action, targeting the 14 rail...
Israeli occupation forces kill an average of four children every hour in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics reported yesterday, the six-month anniversary of the launch of Israel’s genocidal onslaught. More than 14,350 children have been killed, constituting 44 per cent of the total number of deaths...
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and its affiliate, the Communications Workers’ Union (CWU) marched to the Treasury’s Head Office in Tshwane on Friday in support of striking workers at the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) and the South African Post Office (SAPO). The CWU said in a...
SIX months into Israel’s criminal war on Gaza, Israeli forces and Palestinian fighters have been engaged in intense combat around the city of Khan Younis with Hamas claiming it killed 14 Israeli soldiers during ambushes there. The Israeli military announced yesterday that it has reduced its ground troops in the...
IRAN’S President Ebrahim Raeisi says Operation Al-Aqsa Storm was a turning point in the history of the Palestinian cause. The region and the wider world, the Iranian president stated, will not be the same after the glorious
operation.
Raeisi made the remarks in an address to the virtual Al-Quds Pulpit ceremony, which...
THE United Nations Human Rights Council has adopted a resolution calling for a halt to all arms sales to Israel, and for the regime to be held accountable for possible war crimes in the Gaza Strip. The resolution was passed on Friday with 28 votes in favour, six against, and...
YESTERDAY, on Al- Quds Day, thousands of people took to the streets of London in a powerful march orchestrated by the Justice for Palestine Committee, voicing their demand for an immediate ‘end to genocide and apartheid’. Supporters assembled outside the Home Office in the afternoon and marched to Downing Street...
THE intensifying global condemnation of Israel’s fatal attack on international humanitarian workers in Gaza is putting immense strain on the British government’s unconditional backing of Israel’s actions. This crisis is unfolding as Members of Parliament, including Tories, are urging Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to reconsider Britain’s stance in the light...
OVER 600 UK lawyers, academics and retired senior judges, including three former supreme court justices, have written to Rishi Sunak warning that the UK government is breaching international law by continuing to arm Israel. The 17-page letter sent on Wednesday night, delivered a blunt legal opinion that given the International...
THE Israeli army carried out a massive, shockingly horrific massacre during its military operation in Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City recently over the course of two weeks. The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med) has revealed in a statement that the massacre was carried out indiscriminately, targeting and attacking Palestinians...
GENERAL Practitioners (GPs) across England have voted overwhelmingly to reject the new 2024/25 national GP General Medical Services (GMS) contract that was imposed on them by the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England on Monday. More than 19,000 GPs and GP registrars took part in the BMA’s...
HUNDREDS of health workers blocked the entrance to NHS England’s headquarters in central London yesterday. They were demanding the cancellation of business deals with American company, Palantir, which supplies software to the Israeli military, citing Israel’s ‘war on hospitals’. A statement from Health Workers for a Free Palestine accused Palantir of...
Workers at Barnes & Noble, the United States largest chain of bookstores, are gearing up for a nationwide union drive after six shops voted to organise over the past year. ‘Many more’ stores will unionise, according to workers who have joined the newly formed Barnes & Noble Union, demanding better...
THE UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories says the Israeli military has ‘intentionally killed’ the aid workers of the World Central Kitchen (WCK) in the Gaza Strip. Francesca Albanese made the remarks in a social media post on Tuesday, after seven employees...
VLADIMIR Padrino López, the Venezuelan Defence Minister, has denounced what he has called a new US-backed attempt to destabilise the country before the Presidential election at the end of July. Lopez said that there isn’t major unrest in the country and claims about problems in Venezuela are untrue and come...
ON MONDAY, Israeli warplanes bombed the Iranian consulate, which is situated next to the embassy building in the Syrian capital Damascus, killing seven Iranian military advisors including three senior members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. Israel has mounted numerous attacks and air strikes on Syrian and Iranian military leaders in Lebanon...
SEVEN aid workers from the relief group World Central Kitchen (WCK), including three Britons, were killed in a ‘targeted attack’ by the genocidal Israeli regime in central Gaza on Monday night. The murdered WCK team members came from Australia, Palestine, Poland and the United Kingdom, one was a dual citizen...
ISRAELI forces executed many health workers and other civilians at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza during their two-week occupation which ended overnight yesterday morning. Many departments were ‘set on fire’ and ‘many bodies’ are lying around the hospital, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), reported. In a statement yesterday, Gaza’s Health Ministry...
IN TRAFALGAR Square, the chairwoman introduced the 11th national demonstration for Freedom and Justice for Palestine on Saturday 30 March, as of special significance as it commemorates the Land Day of 1976 when Israeli police killed six Palestinians protesting against the expropriation of their land. The first speaker, Palestinian ambassador...
YESTERDAY, Israeli troops pulled out of Al-Shifa, the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip, after two weeks of brutal attacks that left behind a scene of utter devastation and death in the medical complex which provided shelter for thousands of displaced Palestinians as well as housing numerous staff and...
A HUGE rally of over 200,000 people marched from Russell Square to Trafalgar Square in London on Saturday 30th March, Palestinian Land Day, to end the Israeli genocide in Gaza. There were banners from all the major trade unions, including Unison, Unite, GMB, RMT, Aslef, UCU, PCS, FBU and NEU. There...