Palestine Affairs

Posted by: John Phoenix “Europe Exploded with Rage” against Israel: Global Demonstrations, the Shifting Ground of Policy The flotilla, though intercepted, continues to sail: in memory, in mobilization, and in the refusal to be silenced Global Research, Author’s Note: This essay traces the October 2025 mobilizations — the mass demonstrations that erupted and surged across Madrid, Rome, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, and London following Israel’s interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla and Minister Ben Gvir’s public accusation of the activists involved as “terrorists.” Each city’s response builds on its own history of pro-Palestine and anti-zionist activism: migrant-led coalitions, legal defense campaigns, and cultural resistance. Though slow, these inroads have become su...

Posted by: John Phoenix Global Research, Gaza is a toxic waste hole: Toxic waste sites can take years or decades to clean. The EPA Superfund established various guidelines and time specific types and methods for assuring a site is habitable via different methods of cleanup. The depth to which Gaza has been subjected to toxicity could easily fall within the 30 year threshold leaving Netanyahu, Kushner and Trump holding a worthless land grab in Palestine.  Toxic waste from bombs includes heavy metals like uranium, lead, and cadmium, and explosive compounds like TNT and RDX, which contaminates deep into soil and groundwater causing cancer, liver failure and neurological disorders. The only rainwater pond in Gaza is a toxic waste dumpsite. The entire area is ...

LIVE BLOG: Resistance Continues Search for Israeli Bodies as Airstrikes Target Beit Lahia – Day 768 Israel continues to violate the ceasefire in Gaza. (Photo: social media, via QNN) By Palestine Chronicle Staff   Israeli warplanes carried out a series of airstrikes targeting residential areas in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza, in a new violation of the ceasefire agreement.  Meanwhile, Palestinian resistance factions continue to search for the bodies of Israeli soldiers believed to be buried beneath the rubble in several areas of the enclave. Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed 69,185 and injured 170,698 others, the majority of whom are women and children, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza. Click here for the previ...

Posted by: John Phoenx Israeli forces continue to violate the ceasefire agreement. (Photo: via QNN) By Palestine Chronicle Staff   The Gaza ceasefire agreement is facing critical challenges on multiple fronts, marked by persistent Israeli military violations. Reports from Palestinian media indicate ongoing security breaches by Israeli occupation forces across the occupied Gaza Strip, raising concerns about the long-term commitment to the de-escalation agreement. Israeli Violations Israeli warships reportedly opened fire off the coasts of Rafah and Khan Yunis. Israeli occupation forces conducted an airstrike near the Education area in northern Beit Lahia. Furthermore, artillery shelling was reported targeting the town of Bani Suheila. In a signi...

Posted by: John Phoenix Illegal Jewish settlers invade the lands of Umm Safa, in the occupied West Bank. (Photo: via @ytirawi Tw page) By International People’s Tribunal The International People’s Tribunal for Palestine will expose all who are complicit in these crimes and serve as a rallying call for global boycotts and mass movements to support Palestinian liberation. As we pass one month of the ceasefire agreement signed between Israel and the Palestinian Resistance, the former has continued to consistently violate the agreement on a daily basis. Israel has killed at least 250 people since the agreement came into effect, and it has continued to occupy 58 per cent of Gaza through an arbitrary ‘yellow line’, to which they have supposedly withdrawn. This comes as Is...

Posted by: John Phoenix A Qassam fighter in a Rafah tunnel. (Photo: video grab) The presence of Qassam resistance fighters remaining inside Rafah’s tunnel network has become a central point in negotiations over the next phase of the ceasefire agreement, with discussions ongoing between US and Israeli officials. The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported that an official from Israel’s inner cabinet said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US envoy Jared Kushner had reached a provisional arrangement concerning approximately 200 Palestinian resistance fighters located in tunnels in Rafah, in southern Gaza. According to the official, the proposal would allow those fighters to leave safely. Meanwhile, the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation reported that Kushner reques...

Posted by: John Phoenix UNRWA has warned that tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians are sheltering in unsafe buildings by Dave DeCamp  At least one Palestinian was killed in Gaza on Thursday when a damaged building collapsed in Gaza City’s Daraj neighborhood, Al Jazeera has reported, an incident that comes as the UN’s Palestinian relief agency is warning that tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians are sheltering in unsafe buildings. “Shelter needs remain largely unmet,” UNRWA said in a report on the situation in Gaza on Tuesday, adding that the UN and partnered organizations “continue to face significant challenges in bringing supplies into Gaza” as Israel continues to impose restrictions on aid entering the Strip in violation of the ceasefir...

Posted by: John Phoenix Workers, artists and political groups must demand our right to a voice, and to independent political action. Party leaflet When the mural in support of Liam Óg/Mo Chara was unveiled in Belfast, Kneecap wrote on Twitter: ‘West Belfast knows political policing. West Belfasts knows colonialism. West Belfast knows solidarity.’ https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/2168644182&color=%23ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true Download this leaflet as a pdf. Kneecap’s lead singer Mo Chara (meaning friend/comrade) is being prosecuted under the Terrorism Act 2000 for raising the flag of Hezbollah, the Lebanese political and military resistance group that has been a thorn in the side of Isra...