INTERNATIONAL

Palestinian Authority forces crack down on rallies across the occupied West Bank after the hospital ‘massacre’ in Gaza   Palestinians rally in solidarity with the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on 17 October 2023 (AFP) Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces used live fire to disperse protests that erupted across the occupied West Bank, over Israel’s bombing of …

It’s been playing out in slow motion for more than 100 years, writes Jonathan Cook. Israeli forces bombing Gaza Strip, Oct. 10. (Al Araby, Wikimedia Commons,CC BY-SA 3.0) By Jonathan CookJonathan-Cook.net The missing context for what’s happening in Gaza is that Israel has been working night-and-day to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian people from their homeland since even before Israel become a state — …

Wounded Palestinians wait for treatment in al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, central Gaza Strip, after arriving from al-Ahli hospital following an explosion there, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. The Hamas-run Health Ministry says an Israeli airstrike caused the explosion that killed hundreds at al-Ahli, but the Israeli military says it was a misfired Palestinian rocket. (AP Photo/Abed Khaled) KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza …

The ICJP’s notice of intention to prosecute senior members of the Labour Party for complicity in war crimes [Photo: ICJP] British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and senior government officials, alongside Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, Shadow Attorney General Emily Thornberry and Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy, have been notified they will be prosecuted as accomplices to war crimes if they continue …

Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles speaks in parliament [Photo: Richard Marles] In a display of bloodthirsty militarism, the Australian Labor government and the Liberal-National Coalition opposition came together yesterday to pass a parliamentary motion giving full support to Israel’s genocidal bombardment of defenceless Palestinians in Gaza. The motion, introduced by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, proclaimed that the parliament “stands with Israel …

Hamas’ coordinated rocket attack on Israel, which killed hundreds of Israeli citizens and brought a new Palestine-Israel War, is another chapter in the history and expansion of the Zionist settler state. To start with, this war is not a Hamas-Israel War or Gaza-Israel War as deliberately misnamed for Western propaganda machines.  This verbal misnomer is nothing but a calculated ploy …