Monthly Archives: October 2024
The president of the Palestinian National Council, Rawhi Fattouh, has called for Israel’s expulsion from the United Nations if it fails to reverse its ban on the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), functioning in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory. Fattouh said Israel’s decision ‘is in...
THE Hamas Ministry of Health said on Wednesday that 102 Palestinian citizens were martyred and 287 others injured in 5 Israeli massacres in Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours. The ministry added in its daily statistical report on the casualties of the Israeli war of genocide on Gaza that...
THE Members of the Security Council emphasised the vital role of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in providing life-saving humanitarian assistance to Palestinian refugees through essential education, health, relief and social services programmes and emergency assistance in the occupied Palestinian territory, Jordan, Lebanon...
CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves launched a vicious war on benefit claimants in her Budget yesterday, warning that she intends to take over the Tory ‘work capability assessment’ and use it to ‘crackdown on fraud in our benefit system’ She admitted ‘this budget raises taxes by £40 billion’, and announced ‘funding for...
THE British Medical Association (BMA) has condemned the use of physician associates warning of serious risks to patients. Responding to revelations from Channel 4 News that over 109 doctors’ shifts in hospital trusts had still been covered by physician associates (PAs) between April and September, Professor Phil Banfield, chair of...
The Israeli parliament, the Knesset, on Monday passed a motion banning UNRWA (the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency) from operating inside Israel and occupied Palestine. 92 Israeli MPs voted in favour of legislation, with only ten voting against, that bans the UN relief agency from providing any humanitarian relief, food or...
ISRAELI occupation forces (IOF) committed a horrific massacre yesterday morning, bombing an apartment building in Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip. An Israeli warplane bombed the five-storey apartment block reducing it to rubble, with over 100 civilians, mostly women and children, inside. According to medical and media reports, 107 people...
THE entire population of the Gaza Strip is at risk of dying in Israel’s genocide, says special rapporteur Francesca Albanese. The United Nations expert on the occupied Palestinian territories wrote on X on Sunday: ‘The entire population of Gaza is at risk of dying in a genocide that has been...
LABOUR Prime Minister Keir Starmer vowed to ‘embrace the harsh light of fiscal reality’ in a speech delivered in Birmingham yesterday, in what was a pre-emptive defence of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ budget due tomorrow. The need for Starmer to come out to defend the budget before details have even been...
ABOUT 100,000 people are besieged in Jabalia, Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza without medical or food supplies, the Palestinian Civil Emergency Service said yesterday. Israeli troops have for weeks been denying the entry of aid into the north of the coastal enclave.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said the Israeli...
THE UNITED Nations (UN) Security Council is to convene today at the request of Iran to discuss Saturday’s Israeli strikes on the country. Iran says Israel violated international law and undermined its sovereignty and territorial integrity in the first direct missile attacks on Iran that the Zionist regime has ever...
‘WE believe that we will win! We believe that we will win!’ chanted one thousand marchers on the United Families and Friends March from Trafalgar Square to Downing Street on Saturday afternoon. It was the 25th Annual Families and Friends March against deaths at the hands of the state and...
THE movements of Hamas and Islamic Jihad on Sunday gave their full support to the Tel Aviv operation that targeted Israeli soldiers working for a military intelligence unit, describing it as a natural response to the Israeli occupation’s continuing massacres and crimes of genocide in the Gaza Strip. At least...
FEARS over the alleged ‘fiddling’ of government debt figures by Chancellor Rachel Reeves ahead of Wednesday’s budget panicked the money markets yesterday as interest rates on government debt of £1 trillion soared to 4.5 per cent. Oblivious to warnings from the IMF of the dangers of changing so-called debt rules,...
JERUSALEM – Palestinian leaders have condemned Israel’s ongoing offensive in northern Gaza, labelling the actions as war crimes and genocide aimed at uprooting the Palestinian people from their ancestral lands. Rawhi Fattouh, Speaker of the Palestinian National Council, stated on Friday that the Israeli occupation’s assault and siege on northern...
ISRAELI forces have assaulted the last functioning hospital in besieged northern Gaza, bombing it and killing children inside, according to doctors. Medical sources reported that at least 63 Palestinians lost their lives in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip early yesterday morning. They stated that ‘a large number of the martyrs...
GREEK teachers delivered a major blow to the right wing government of Prime Minister Mitsotakis last Wednesday after courts had declared as ‘illegal’ the primary teachers’ strike. With backing from ADEDY (Federation of Public Sector Workers), teachers staged a highly successful strike and held mass rallies in all major cities. Angry...
YESTERDAY, the Palestinian news agency WAFA detailed that Northern Gaza is being subjected to ‘the most heinous massacres’ by Israeli forces for 20 days as the Israeli occupation forces deliberately displace Palestinian civilians completely from the area. WAFA reports this ‘displacement’ is being driven by an intensification of aerial and...
THE NHS trade union leaders have given a muted response to Monday’s Declaration of War on the NHS by the Labour government. PM Starmer and Health Secretary Streeting stood in front of a group of paramedics in East London and announced that the National Health Service is to be transformed...
THOUSANDS of people in northern Gaza are facing an imminent massacre as the Israeli military continues its weeks-long siege and heavy bombardment of the region, the Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations declared yesterday. Riyad Mansour, in identical letters addressed to UN Secretary General António Guterres, President of the UN General Assembly...
‘THE MASSACRES that are being committed on the ground by the Israeli army indicates that there is a plan being implemented at an unprecedented speed to empty the land of its inhabitants and eliminate the Palestinian presence,’ the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said on Tuesday. Accusing Israel of systematically and...
THE GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER yesterday reported that the UK police chiefs have formally asked the government to make it harder to investigate and prosecute officers, after the fatal shooting of Chris Kaba led to a Scotland Yard sergeant being acquitted of a murder charge. This search for immunity from prosecution for...
The Ministry of Public Works in Gaza has reported that more than a quarter of a million housing units have been completely or partially destroyed in the year-long genocide, and are now uninhabitable. In a press statement on Monday, the ministry said that over 80 per cent of the roads...
RACHEL Reeves is due to deliver her first Autumn Budget as Labour Chancellor next Wednesday, and is already promising ‘tough decisions’ on cuts and tax increases to plug a £40 billion ‘black hole’ in the economy. Yesterday, it was announced that UK government borrowing shot up sharply last month. Official...
HAMAS has called on the international community to take immediate action to ‘stop the crime of forced displacement, ethnic cleansing and massacres’ carried out by Israel in northern Gaza. The Palestinian group said the Israeli army has been ‘besieging schools and hospitals, committing massacres against defenceless and displaced citizens, and...
‘TODAY, we are devastated. The not guilty verdict leaves us with the deep pain of injustice, adding to the unbearable sorrow we have felt since Chris was killed,’ members of Chris Kaba’s family stated outside the Old Bailey in central London on Monday night. Chris Kaba, a 24 year old...
CLEANERS, caterers, porters, housekeepers and other East Suffolk and North Essex support staff began a new 48-hour strike yesterday, demanding to stay in the NHS. They want to defend the quality of services they provide to the public as well as their own pay and conditions. The workers marched from Colchester...
KEIR Starmer and Labour Health Secretary Wes Streeting yesterday launched a ‘public consultation’ on their plans to transform the NHS from ‘analogue to digital’ in the next ten years. Starmer and Streeting promised ‘patient passports’ containing individuals’ health data that can be quickly accessed by GPs, hospitals and ambulance services. This vast...
QUADCOPTER drones equipped with loudspeakers instructed Palestinian families trapped inside a UN-run school in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza to flee yesterday, but when they gathered at the front gate Israeli artillery fired on them, killing at least seven. The attack spread a great deal of fear and...
OVER 10,000 workers, youth and their families rallied in Trafalgar Square on Saturday for a ‘day of action for Palestine.’ The rally was called by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) ‘to demand that Britain ends its complicity in Israel’s genocide in Palestine, and its bombing and ground invasion of Lebanon.’ The...
From the start of Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip, United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken was deeply involved. Just after 7th October, Blinken became the first senior US official to visit Israel – on 11 October. He stated before departure: ‘I’m going with a very simple and clear message...
OVER 10,000 demonstrators took to the streets of London on Saturday, protesting against the ongoing genocide in Gaza and Lebanon. The protest, organised by the Palestine Coalition – which includes the Palestinian Forum in Britain, Friends of Al-Aqsa, the Muslim Association of Britain, Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), Campaign for Nuclear...
HAMAS leader Yahya Sinwar was murdered on Thursday in Rafah, southern Gaza, by Israeli troops after a tank shelled the building he entered. Seen defiantly throwing his stick at an Israeli drone seconds before being shot in the head and executed Sinwar expressed the absolute determination of the Palestinian people...
ARGENTINIAN universities began a 24-hour strike on Thursday. The National Interuniversity Council (CIN), professors’ and workers’ unions, and student organisations held the 24-hour strike in defence of Argentina’s public universities.
Besides demanding salary increases and a larger university budget, the national strike aimed to oppose the latest decisions made by the...
THE ISRAELI military announced on Thursday that it killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Sinwar was reportedly killed on Wednesday by ground troops who did not realise they were engaged with Israel’s most-wanted man, apparently having no prior intelligence of his location. Israel’s police claimed...
THE High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, said on Thursday that the United Nations is under attack by Israel on all fronts. In press statements, Borrell expressed his hope that the European Union Council would condemn the Israeli attacks on the United...
‘BUDGET 2025: an austerity plan that doesn’t say its name!’ declared French trade union federation Force Ouvrière (FO) on Tuesday. A FO press statement said: ‘The 2025 finance bill presented to the Council of Ministers confirms an unprecedented budgetary effort of 60 billion euros savings. ‘The spending ceilings drawn up by the...
ON Wednesday October 30, Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves is due to deliver the first Autumn budget by Starmer’s government. The ground work for this budget has been laid by Reeves ever since Labour won the election in July when she announced that to her shock and horror, the Tories had...
AFTER widespread outrage over the United States’ continued backing of Israel’s devastating year-long genocidal assault on Gaza, several media outlets reported on Tuesday that the Biden administration had threatened to cut off military support if Israel failed to take ‘urgent and sustained actions’ to improve the humanitarian crisis in...
AROUND 50 Members of Parliament from seven political parties backed a motion calling for sanctions against the Israeli regime for committing ‘crimes against humanity’, on Tuesday. The Early Day Motion (EDM), tabled by Leeds East MP Richard Burgon, called on the government to impose sanctions on Israel for its repeated...
THE Hamas Movement has described what is happening in northern Gaza and Jabalia as a ‘full-fledged genocide’, expressing its belief that the Israeli ‘Generals’ Plan’ in northern Gaza would be doomed to failure. ‘The escalating crimes and massacres in northern Gaza are happening in the midst of news and reports...
BOEING strikers are standing firm despite the announcement last Friday that Boeing will cut 17,000 jobs, 10% of its global workforce, delay first deliveries of its 777X jet by a year and record $5 billion in losses in the third quarter. CEO Kelly Ortberg said in a message to employees...
PRESENT at Labour’s International Investment Summit on Monday were representatives from Lilly – the world’s largest pharmaceutical company. This coincided with an announcement from the Labour government that Lilly was making a £279 million investment to launch a scheme in the UK that includes a real-world trial of weight-loss injections...
‘WE have the right to attack anywhere in Israel, since Israel has attacked anywhere in Lebanon,’ Hezbollah Deputy Leader Naim Qassem said in a televised news conference yesterday. ‘The resistance will never be defeated because they’re the ones that own the land. They will fight and die in dignity. Victory...
‘AS the Israeli regime’s bombing campaign against Lebanon continues to claim innocent lives, the indiscriminate use of internationally banned weapons has come under the spotlight. International law experts say the Israeli regime is flagrantly breaking international conventions by using banned weapons that use depleted uranium such as phosphorus bombs, smart...