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What’s with the world’s fascination with dead, dying and orphaned children? Wait, before you condemn what seems to be callousness, my point is this: our focus is to the exclusion of those children’s fathers, uncles and big brothers? Intentional or not.  Fascination or fixation, it’s basically the same – it amounts to a diversion, perhaps to make the toll appear …

All the conflict in Gaza is achieving is civilian misery, and the US can stop it at any time Robert Inlakesh is a political analyst, journalist and documentary filmmaker currently based in London, UK. He has reported from and lived in the Palestinian territories and currently works with Quds News. Director of ‘Steal of the Century: Trump’s Palestine-Israel Catastrophe’.  @falasteen47 This handout …

UN humanitarian official Lynn Hastings has said that the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza is only going to get worse amid Israel’s expanding assault [Getty] A UN official warned on Monday that “an even more hellish scenario” looms in Gaza in which humanitarian aid simply grinds to a halt. “The conditions required to deliver aid to the people of Gaza do not exist,” …

Farah recalls a traumatic journey from north to south, as her family desperately sought refuge from Israeli attacks Children react during the funeral of the Faojo family, killed in Israeli bombing on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on 11 November, 2023 (AFP) From the moment Farah first opened her eyes, she was living in the world’s biggest open-air prison.  …

Regrettably, most western European nations have aligned with an American-led imperialism that suppresses liberation movements and stifles global dissent US President Joe Biden looks on during a meeting with Angolan President Joao Lourenco in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on 30 November, 2023 (AFP) There is a prevalent belief in the dominance of western civilisation, …

US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin said Israel may face a strategic defeat in the Gaza Strip if Palestinian civilians are not protected. “In this kind of a fight, the centre of gravity is the civilian population. And if you drive them into the arms of the enemy, you replace a tactical victory with a strategic defeat,” Austin said at …