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Posted by: John Phoenix A Palestinian family sit around a fire amid the rubble of buildings destroyed by the Israeli army at Jabaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip on February 17, 2025. (Mahmoud Issa/Reuters) I was raised to love books. I never thought I would have to feed them to a fire so I could have a meagre meal – but existence is resistance. by Hend Salama Abo Helow, reposted from Al Jazeera, April 29, 2025 When we were children, my siblings and I regularly spent our pocket money on new books. Our mother had instilled in us a passionate love for books. Reading wasn’t just a hobby; it was a way of living. I still remember the day our parents surprised us with a home library. It was a tall and wide piece of furniture with lots of shelves that they ...

Posted by: John Phoenix Massa's older brother, 16, grabbed her little body and rushed to the hospital on a donkey cart. When she was pronounced dead, he wailed, holding her. (The Associated Press/Getty). In roadside Gaza attack, Nazi army kills 4-year-old girl and other children Four-year-old Massa Abed was killed by an Israeli strike while playing with her doll and ball in central Gaza – an all-too-common event. reposted from The New Arab, April 30, 2025 Massa Abed, 4, brought a rubber ball and her doll to play with friends on the street near her family’s home on Sunday. It was a mundane day in Zawaida, the central Gaza town where the Abeds returned weeks ago, with calm largely restored in the area. But that afternoon, an Israeli strike hit a tent on ...

Gaza Holocaust Day: 575 Posted by: John Phoenix Relatives of Palestinians killed in an Israeli attack, mourn in Khan Younis, Gaza on May 3, 2025. At least 3 babies were killed today. (Hani Alshaer - Anadolu Agency) Compilation of news reports – IAK staff NOTE: The Gaza Health Ministry’s daily casualty figures are based on the number of dead and wounded Palestinians brought to hospitals, and does not include victims that are under the rubble or elsewhere, where ambulance and civil defense crews can not reach them. At least 40 Palestinians were killed and scores wounded Saturday in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip, according to the Health Ministry. Among the dead were ten people in one house in Gaza City, eleven in one house in Khan Youn...

Posted by: John Phoenix Model motion: No cooperation with genocide in Palestine! Trade unions must mobilise the organised power of the working class to force an end to British complicity in the Zionists’ atrocities. Proletarian writers Subscribe to our  channel Dockers in many ports around the world, including in Spain and Belgium, have refused to handle weapons bound for Israel. British workers must join this campaign and go further, refusing all assistance to the genocidal apartheid Israeli regime. Note to trade unionists: The following text has been compiled to help those who want to submit a motion on this topic to their union branch or annual congress. Feel free to take as much or as little as you deem suitable, depending on the rules operating in your org...

Gaza Nazi Holocaust Day: 572 Posted by: John Phoenix Displaced Palestinians receive hot meals distributed by aid organizations in al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, Gaza on April 29, 2025 (Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu Agency) Compilation of news reports – IAK staff NOTE: The Gaza Health Ministry’s daily casualty figures are based on the number of dead and wounded Palestinians brought to hospitals, and does not include victims that are under the rubble or elsewhere, where ambulance and civil defense crews can not reach them. At least 35 Palestinians were killed in the last 24 hours in Israeli attacks across Gaza, including a strike on a building in Nuseirat refugee camp that residents said felt like an “earthquake”. The Palestinian Ministry of Education&n...

Posted by: John Phoenix Graduation day, August 2023. Obaida earned a degree in nursing from Al-Israa University. (PHOTO COURTESY MALAK SERRIA) (source) Daily Life and Shattered Dreams in Gaza—Writers Share Their Stories by Sara Serria, reposted from the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, March 18, 2025 Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, May 2025, pp. 16-18 What is this hell we are living in? What awaits us after all this? It is truly unbearable. Its cruelty goes beyond human imagination. How can we live through this bitter reality with our spirits broken? How can we live with the absence of my one and only beautiful brother? Obaida’s beauty was always a beauty of his soul and character as much as it was his face. My eyes long to see his a...

Posted by: John Phoenix Palestinian farmers’ agriculture fields and greenhouses are damaged after an airstrike by Israeli warplanes on November 22, 2020 in Khan Yunis, Gaza ([Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu Agency]). The bombing has destroyed agricultural land and poisoned the soil, while Israel’s sweeping blockade has made water scarce for farmers who once provided a third of Gaza’s food needs. By Rasha Abou Jalal, Reposted from Drop Site News On an afternoon in early February, Sami Abu Amr, a 61-year-old farmer, walked through his roughly three-acre stretch of land that lies east of the Gaza City neighborhood of Shuja’iyya where he once tended olive trees and grew seasonal vegetables, including cucumbers, tomatoes, and potatoes. Before the war, the sale of his produce to lo...

Posted by: John Phoenix After an Nazi air strike hit the home of the Abu Mershud family in the Nuseirat refugee camp, northeast of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, killing seven people, Palestinians gather items from the debris on March 18, 2025 (Hassan Jedi/Anadolu) By Shaimaa Eid, Reposted from The Electronic Intifada, 24 March, 2025 As rubble removal continues across Gaza, concerns are mounting over airborne dust that may carry asbestos fibers, posing health risks, including asbestosis, cancer, and chronic respiratory diseases, health officials in Gaza say. Asbestos, a fibrous material once used in construction for its heat and fire resistance, is now globally classified as a carcinogen. Because of Israel’s intense bombardment of Gaza, and its destruction o...