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Posted by: John Phoenix ACCORDING to organisers around 500,000 took to the streets of London on Saturday 28 October to demand a ceasefire as the Israeli onslaught in Gaza continues to escalate. In a post on Facebook aimed at the British press, Stop the War Coalition officer John Rees argued that the figures reported by the media – most gave the police estimate of 100,000, some even lower – were incorrect. He compared it to the mass demonstration against the Iraq war in February 2003 which saw at least 1 million march in the capital, in which Rees was one of the organisers. “I can tell you with certainty that yesterday’s Palestine demo, which I also helped organise, was half a million strong, not a figure one fifth of that,” he wrote. It was certainly one of the big...

Embrace the honourable Jewish people who reject Israeli atrocities We reproduce below articles by Gideon Levy and Ilan Pappe who are representative of the hundreds of thousands of Jews in the world who hate the fact that the Nazi Holocaust ended up driving so many Jews into feeling that they could not be safe except in an ethnically-cleansed environment, thereby leading them to the same Nazi barbarism directed against innocent Palestinian Arabs inhabiting the land imperialism was keen to allocate to them as a ‘Jewish homeland’. Israel Can’t Imprison Two Million Gazans Without Paying a Cruel Price Under Israeli blockade since 2007, Gaza is the world’s largest open air prison. While major Western media outlets are painting Israel as the victim of a surprise attack, Israeli ...

Posted by: John Phoenix “The attackers came at dawn, quickly occupying the town.  The men were separated from women and shot.  One of the attackers, opening the door of homes, found an old man standing there.  He shot him. ‘He enjoyed shooting him’, an eyewitness to the attack said afterwards. “Soon the town was empty.  The entire population of 5,000 had either been killed or expelled.  Those who survived were put on trucks and driven to Gaza.  The empty homes were looted. ‘We were very happy’, one of the participants said afterwards. ‘If you don’t take it, someone else will.  You don’t feel you have to give it back.  They were not coming back’”. Reading this one could be forgiven for taking this narrative to be culled from the fron...

Jewish people condemn Israeli aggression The call of the US organisation Jewish Voice for Peace has issued this important statement reflecting the true voice of Jewish humanitarian tradition that the Holocaust sought to stifle. The Root of Violence Is Oppression. Right now, Palestinians, Israelis and all of us with family on the ground are terrified for loved ones. We grieve the lives of those already lost and remain committed to a future where every life is precious, and all people live in freedom and safety.  Following 16 years of Israeli military blockade, Palestinian fighters from Gaza launched an unprecedented assault, in which hundreds of Israelis were killed and wounded, and civilians kidnapped. The Israeli government declared war, launching airstrikes, kil...

As rain begins to fall on Gaza, one million displaced Palestinians are suffering from cold and lack of shelter, while few are able to enjoy the partial relief it provides amidst the water shortage imposed by Israel's genocidal siege. BY TAREQ S. HAJJAJ  DISPLACED PALESTINIANS PREPARE TENTS NEAR SHUHADA AL-AQSA HOSPITAL IN DEIR EL-BALAH, CENTRAL GAZA, AFTER RAINFALL IN GAZA, NOVEMBER 14, 2023. (PHOTO: NAAMAN OMAR/APA IMAGES) For the first time in Gaza, rain has become a curse for the poor and the displaced. The family of Osama Hajjaj, comprised of his wife and eight children, gathers in a makeshift tent that they had erected to shield them from the scorching sun, never thinking that they would soon be met by a downpour of heavy rain. By “tent,” I do not mean an official tent er...

‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 42: Communications blackout obscures full picture of Israel’s devastation in Gaza Israel’s purported proof of Hamas command center under al-Shifa hospital is seen as ‘anticlimactic’ as bombardment continues across the Gaza Strip, leaving only 4 percent of Gaza’s 2.3 million inhabitants with access to safe drinking water. BY MONDOWEISS PEOPLE SEARCH THROUGH BUILDINGS, DESTROYED DURING ISRAELI AIR STRIKES A DAY EARLIER, IN THE SOUTHERN GAZA STRIP ON NOVEMBER 16, 2023 IN NUSEIRAT, GAZA. (PHOTO: BASHAR TALEB/APA IMAGES) Casualties 11,470 killed*, including 4,707 children, and more than 29,000 wounded in Gaza 197 Palestinians killed and 2,750 injured in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem Israel revises its estimated October 7 death to...

Video: “The Value of Life”. Families of Israelis Held in Gaza Speak Out against Netanyahu. Condemn Member of Knesset’s Call for Destruction By Middle East Eye “My cousin is there. My cousin’s wife is there. There are babies Jews, and Arabs.” Video: Israeli Warplanes Hit UNRWA Schools in Gaza with White Phosphorus Gil Dikman, an Israeli with family members held captive in Gaza, publicly responded to statements made by Galit Distel Atbaryan, a Likud Party and Knesset member who had controversially suggested that “Gaza should be wiped off the face of the earth.” During a meeting in the Knesset, which included relatives of Israelis held by Hamas in Gaza, Dikman emphasised the value of life in Gaza, stating that his own family and others reside there. He urged for a ...

International Campaign Urging ICC Investigation Into Israel’s Alleged War Crimes in Gaza An Initiate of CODEPINK By CODEPINK In the wake of alarming statements by Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which have been perceived as incitement to genocide in Palestine, CODEPINK and its international partners are spearheading a global letter-writing initiative calling for an investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) into Israel’s actions in Gaza. Since the commencement of Israel’s military offensive after October 7, 2023, Gaza has been subjected to a series of war crimes and crimes against humanity. According to Article 5 of the Rome Statute, the ICC holds jurisdiction in cases where states are “unable” or “unwilling” to prosecute t...

Ceasefire Now! Stop Apartheid Israel’s Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing of the Palestinian People By Khaled Mouammar Global Research An Angus Reid poll published on November 7 shows two-thirds of Canadians are calling for an immediate ceasefire. On October 31, 25 close family members of Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish professor of Global Health at the University of Toronto – including his sisters, nephews and nieces – were killed in their homes when apartheid Israel’s occupation forces bombed the Jabalia refugee camp in the occupied Gaza Strip. On November 11, apartheid Israel’s occupation forces bombed the Mahdi Maternity Clinic in the occupied Gaza Strip killing Dr. Basel Mahdi along with his brother Dr. Raed Youssef Mahdi and his wife Iman Khre...