Monthly Archives: August 2024
THE ISRAELI-American genocidal war on the besieged Gaza Strip has completed 325 days and there are still no signs of this murderous aggression ending or even slowing down. From dead bodies lying scattered on the streets to hospitals and schools razed, down to children orphaned and millions rendered homeless, the...
WHILE welcoming the limited ‘humanitarian pause’ in the Gaza war to allow the polio vaccination of young Gazan children by the World Health Organisation on Sunday 1 September, Hamas Political Bureau member, Ezzat al-Resheq, condemned the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement allocating only a nine-hour window for 3...
Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), a US-based advocacy group, has unequivocally condemned Washington’s role in Israel’s genocidal violence against Palestinians. In a series of pointed social media posts on Wednesday, JVP declared that the United States has long ‘facilitated’ Israel’s atrocities, demanding an immediate halt to the flow of US...
FOREIGN doctors volunteering in Gaza’s overwhelmed hospitals have shared distressing accounts of the dire medical situation and war crimes they’ve witnessed. With 80% of the healthcare system non-operational, medical professionals struggle to treat tens of thousands of injured civilians amidst severe shortages and continuous bombardment. Dr Ahmad Youssef, an American specialist...
IN a statement issued on Wednesday, the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said he was ‘deeply concerned’ about the Israeli regime’s all-out military assault on the occupied West Bank and called for ‘an immediate cessation’ of the military attack that was continuing yesterday. On Wednesday morning, Israeli troops launched...
THE head of Hamas resistance movement in the occupied West Bank says Palestinians have the right to resist the occupying Israeli regime, and are resolved to continue the path of resistance despite hardships. ‘The Palestinian people have no other option’ but to resist, Zaher Jabarin told al Jazeera on Tuesday.
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THE International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) stressed that hospitals must be a safe place to guarantee human safety and protection. The spokesman for the committee, Mohammed Hamayel, said that the life of any patients, doctors, paramedics or ambulance drivers should not be in danger. The Israeli occupation forces launched...
THE Gaza Strip-based Palestinian resistance movement Hamas and the West Bank-headquartered Palestinian Authority have vehemently condemned the escalation of the Israeli regime’s deadly aggression across the occupied territory. At least 11 Palestinians were killed on Wednesday after the regime began taking various areas throughout the territory, especially those lying in...
THE Health Ministry in Gaza has warned that healthcare facilities in the war-wracked territory are nearing closure due to an acute fuel shortage for generators and a severe lack of medical supplies, caused by Israel’s heavy import restrictions. The director general of Gaza’s Health Ministry, Munir al-Bursh, said more than...
PM STARMER told an invited audience yesterday morning in the Downing Street Rose Garden: ‘I promised this government would serve people like you.’ He told his audience that wealth creation ‘is the number one priority of this Labour government. ‘That’s why, in our first few weeks, we’ve set up a National...
‘SALARIES, pensions, public services, industry: our demands are those of the majority and must be implemented,’ says the CGT French trade union federation. It has produced a campaign leaflet warning: ‘It’s time to defend our social demands.
‘Our working conditions are deteriorating, our salaries are not keeping up with inflation, our...
LABOUR Prime Minister Keir Starmer will focus on growth and wealth creation, he told selected guests and media in the Downing Street rose garden yesterday morning. He made it clear that the working class would experience pain, stating that the first Budget in October is ‘going to be painful’. He added...
A NEW report published last Thursday, 22 August, by the Health Foundation found that the UK’s performance on hospital-based care is consistently languishing near the bottom in a public survey of 10 high income countries. The analysis of the 2023 Commonwealth Fund survey highlights key areas where the UK performs...
MASSIVE Israeli air strikes against Hezbollah ‘are not the end of the story’ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared – after Israeli jets bombed south Lebanon on Sunday morning, in a major escalation of the limited actions of Hezbollah into a full-scale war engulfing the entire region. ‘We are striking...
SOME 60 media and rights organisations yesterday urged the European Union to suspend a cooperation accord with Israel and impose sanctions, accusing it of ‘massacring journalists’ in Gaza. The organisations urged the EU’s Foreign Minister Josep Borrell and Trade Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis to suspend the partnership agreement, which specifically deals with trade...
SEVERAL civilians were killed and injured yesterday in an Israeli shelling targeting areas west of Gaza City. Eyewitnesses said the occupation warplanes bombarded a residential apartment near the al-Oyoun intersection west of Gaza City, resulting in the killing of several civilians and the injury of others. Since the start of the...
When a group of more than 100 Israeli settlers, masked and armed with pistols and automatic rifles, killed a Palestinian, injured others and burned homes in the Palestinian town of Jit in the northern occupied West Bank last week, the Israeli government swiftly condemned them. ‘It is an extreme minority...
THE Tories are now in the grip of a hysteria which has being displayed by newspapers like the Telegraph on a daily basis. It prints horror stories about the carnage that Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is about to let loose on the UK population, screaming that Labour has a...
The destruction of Palestinian residences by Israel in the West Bank is intensifying at an alarming rate. In the period following 7 October, Israeli forces have razed more than 400 homes within the West Bank, resulting in 2,368 Palestinians being forced from their dwellings, among them 1,047 minors. Prior to August...
‘THE US is staring at a possible hard landing while Europe is struggling and China is sinking!’ This is the message from the Daily Telegraph’s Ambrose Evans Pritchard in Friday’s issue of that paper. Clearly the developing capitalist crisis is creating an even bigger crisis in the ranks of the panic...
US Democratic presidential nominee, Kamala Harris, has unequivocally reaffirmed Washington’s unwavering support for Israel’s genocidal campaign, brazenly asserting Tel Aviv’s ‘right to defend itself’ in the face of mounting evidence of war crimes. ‘Let me be clear, I will always stand up for Israel’s right to defend itself and I...
HAMAS, the Palestinian resistance movement, has issued a call for an end to Israeli occupation and terrorism against Palestinians on the International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism. The group released a statement on Wednesday, highlighting the plight of Palestinians as victims of Israeli aggression for...
JUST 50 days after being elected with an unassailable landslide 141-seat majority, the Labour government has replaced the hated Tory austerity cuts with Labour austerity cuts, announcing that the British state has a £22 billion ‘black hole’ in the government finances – effectively the state is already bankrupt. Chancellor Rachel...
LAST Friday, National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) commemorated the mass murder of striking miners in Marikana, who were gunned down for demanding a better life. NUMSA said: ‘Thirty-four workers were massacred on this day, August 16, 2012. We must also remember the lives of ten workers, including...
THE ISRAELI regime escalated its genocide in and around Khan Younis, the most densely populated area of the Gaza Strip, yesterday. Palestinian casualties mounted, bringing the total toll of the war to 40,223 killed and 92,981 injured, the Gaza Health Ministry reported, adding that there are more unrecorded victims still...
THE Zimbabwean authorities must immediately release human rights defenders who have been arbitrarily detained for over two weeks and drop charges against them, independent UN human rights experts said on Tuesday. Woman human rights defender Namatai Kwekweza, teacher and labour rights defender Robson Chere, the Secretary-General of Amalgamated Rural Teachers...
THE Israeli occupation forces (IOF) kidnapped Tuesday night and on Wednesday morning a number of Palestinian citizens during raids in the West Bank, amid clashes with local youths. Similar IOF raids took place in villages in the south of Tulkarem, amid assaults on local residents. In Ramallah, Israeli forces kidnapped a...
UNI Global Union and IndustriALL are calling on international fashion brands to continue their long-term commitment to Bangladesh to help secure the country’s democratic and economic future. The global unions have written to 200 signatories of the International Accord, the factory safety programme in Bangladesh, urging the brands to maintain...
ON World Humanitarian Day, the Hamas movement called for ‘criminalising the occupation’s violations against humanitarian work, and stopping its escalating terrorism against the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and Jerusalem.’ In a statement issued on Monday, the movement also called for urgent action to intensify humanitarian and relief work ‘in...
‘BOMBARDMENT is overwhelming the entire Gaza Strip, with no respite since the early hours of this morning,’ Palestinians reported from Gaza yesterday. At least nine Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a market in Deir Al Balah in central Gaza yesterday afternoon, with children among the dead. In the...
HAMAS has condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the failure to reach a ceasefire agreement in Gaza, following two days of talks in Doha that concluded on Friday, in which the Palestinian resistance movement did not participate. Hamas gave its official response in a statement on Sunday, after reviewing...
United States universities are imposing ‘police state’ rules in an attempt to avoid a repeat of campus protests against Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, with students and faculties warning of the chilling effect such bans would have on free speech. As the summer break comes to an end, university administrations...
LAWYERS seeking an order to prevent the United Kingdom government from continuing to grant arms export licences to UK companies selling arms to Israel submitted their case to the High Court in London yesterday. The lawsuit, which is backed up by 14 witness statements by Palestinian and Western medical doctors,...
‘EVERYONE understands that (Israeli Prime Minister) Netanyahu and his government are not willing to reach a ceasefire deal,’ Hamas warned yesterday. The Hamas Palestine liberation movement spokesman Osama Hamdan said: ‘In fact, the Israelis in those two days of negotiations (in Qatar last week), rejected the paper which was introduced...
UKRAINE’S incursion into Russia’s borderline region of Kursk was planned with the participation of NATO and Western special services, and was prompted by Kiev’s realisation of its imminent collapse, Russian presidential aide Nikolay Patrushev said on Friday. ‘It was the West who brought the criminal junta to power in Ukraine....
A SENIOR member of the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement has said that there is no real will on the part of the United States to establish a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. Osama Hamdan, who represents Hamas in Lebanon, stated on Saturday that the United States’ new ceasefire proposal does...
THE Palestinian Hamas and Islamic Jihad resistance groups have condemned an attack by illegal Israeli settlers on the village of Jit in the northern West Bank, where they killed a Palestinian and set fire to homes and cars belonging to other residents. In a statement on Friday, Hamas called for...
Far-right violence erupted across the UK in early August, prompting an alliance of football fans to rally in defence of threatened communities. In Liverpool, supporters from a group called Fans Supporting Foodbanks (FSF), mobilised to protect the Abdullah Quilliam mosque, which had previously welcomed them for the Euro 2024 final...
ON the day the Palestinian death toll in the Gaza genocide reached 40,000, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas defiantly announced he will visit Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem with the entire Palestinian leadership, to stop the Israeli killing. He was addressing the Turkish parliament on Thursday, alongside Turkish President Recep...
US AND Israeli officials have once again conceded the occupying regime’s failure in its months-long aggression on the besieged Gaza Strip, stressing that the possibility of defeating the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has notably decreased. The New York Times quoted unnamed American and Israeli officials as saying in a report...
TEACHERS in Kenya are to down their tools as unions KNUT, KUPPET announce a joint strike. Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) chairperson Omboko Milemba has announced that teachers will begin their strike on August 24, 2024.
Speaking during an interview with a local TV station on Wednesday, August 14th,...
SINCE the onset of Israel’s brutal war on the besieged Gaza Strip, the Israeli military’s use of live ammunition to kill and wound Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank has significantly increased compared to the previous 10 months, the United Nations has just warned. In its Humanitarian Situation Update...
HAMAS has slammed the US Biden administration’s announcement that it is rushing another $20 billion worth of arms to Israel to escalate its genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. The package includes new F-15 fighter jets, 50,000 120mm mortar shells and 32,000 120mm tank shells, 30 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles...
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics reported this week that the Israeli occupation forces have killed, in the ongoing genocide war on the Gaza Strip over the past 10 months, around 1.8% of Gaza’s population, 24% of them from the youth category. This came in a press statement on the...
THE mass of the UK workers support the heroic national liberation struggle of the Palestinian people for their state of Palestine, and the enormous heroism that they are showing on a daily basis to secure it. The Israeli army has resorted to the foulest of tortures to try and break...