Palestinians inspect damage during an Israeli military incursion in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank on 12 December. Mohammed NasserAPA images
Israeli forces started to withdraw Thursday from the northern occupied West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp following a major military offensive that lasted more than 60 hours and killed at least 12 Palestinians, including four children.
“This tragedy underlines the importance of why we’re doing this. The barge must be stopped. The Bibby Stockholm is wholly unsuitable as housing for asylum-seekers,” says Carralyn Parkes, a local resident of Portland, Dorset.Her words come after the tragic news that a man died on board the barge this week.Carralyn is taking new legal action against Dorset Council to try and stop the barge. The hearing will take place in February.
Carralyn says in her most recent update:
“The barge was designed to accommodate up to 222 people for short periods whilst working, yet the government intends to pack 506 asylum-seekers and 40 staff on board. There are currently around 350 people on the barge.”I’ve spoken to many of the barge’s residents and they describe it as overcrowded, claustrophobic, and more like a prison than a home.”
It’s shocking but true: mental distress among young people has never been higher. Almost half of all young people now report that they face mental health problems.
Precarious jobs and housing, climate anxiety, a traumatising and privatised school system, and social media platforms which push anxiety-inducing content are all driving this crisis. Corporate business decisions are creating a world which for many people, especially young people, is brutal.
The US has paralyzed the UN, voting against the rest of the world and preventing peace in Gaza by vetoing three resolutions in the Security Council. Meanwhile, Washington sends more weapons to Israel.
The United States has used its veto power in the United Nations Security Council three times in less than two months to kill resolutions calling for peace in Gaza.
The Tories spent £3.8bn on PPE through the so-called VIP lane – but now we can reveal they overpaid by at least £925m.
We’ve run the numbers on an internal health department document, and the contracts signed with VIP lane companies cost an average of 80% more.
Some of them were paid at even higher rates than that. The average price for medical gowns was £5.87. But the gowns bought from Meller Designs Ltd – a fashion company run by a Tory donor – cost more than twice that: £12.64.
And more than a quarter of this VIP lane stuff was just no good. One deal brokered by an adviser under Liz Truss wasted more than £145m on unusable masks.
Live! from the National Press Club in Washington D.C. on Saturday Dec 9 at 2pm EST – 7pm GMT, the Belmarsh Tribunal for imprisoned journalist Julian Assange.
A call to disengage from Bristol’s Arnolfini until it stops censoring Palestine
Will you stand with arts workers in Bristol who are refusing to engage with Arnolfini International Centre for Contemporary Arts until its leadership commits to uphold freedom of expression on Palestine?
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Left-progressive websites don’t always get it right. Take Media Lens, for example. In October, we discussed the corporate media invention of so-called ‘disinformation experts’. We lampooned the claim that although journalists are ‘working within profit-maximising, billionaire-owned, advertiser-dependent, government-subsidised media, they are nevertheless exposing “disinformation” without the slightest trace of bias’.
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An Israeli air force colonel has said that Israeli airstrikes may have intentionally killed Israeli captives rather than let them be taken to Gaza. On the livestream today, Asa Winstanley will report on these latest revelations about what really happened on 7 October.
Nora Barrows-Friedman, Jon Elmer, Asa and I will be joined by Ahmed Al-Sammak, a regular contributor to The Electronic Intifada from Gaza, who is now in Dublin.
With people in Gaza extremely difficult to reach, Ahmed will update us on what he is hearing about the situation back home as Israel’s genocide enters its third month.
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An extraordinary email uncovered by a Dutch researcher under freedom of information laws confirms what many have long charged: Bellingcat, the “open source” collective widely cited by mainstream journalists and loved by the CIA, collaborates directly with Western intelligence agencies.
Russia wanted a peace deal with Ukraine in March 2022, but NATO countries sabotaged it, according to Germany’s former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and top Zelensky official Davyd Arakhamia.
🔴 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine:
— The city of Khan Younis faces a zionist holocaust with an American green light and direct planning.
What the city of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, experienced last night and early this morning is a zionist Holocaust in every sense of the word, with an American green light and direct planning, coinciding with zionist shelling that targeted all areas of the Strip.
The intensive, brutal bombing and the belts of fire targeting the city from all sides—which led to a large number of martyrs and injured, most of whom are children, women, and elderly, and the destruction of infrastructure and citizens’ homes—are attempts by this cowardly and defeated enemy to commit more massacres, and kill as many of our people as possible, deluding itself that it can achieve any accomplishment in light of its miserable failure to achieve any in the north.
The resistance in the southern Gaza Strip is heroically confronting the enemy’s attempts to advance on several fronts in the south, engaging in fierce clashes with it, and is ready to destroy its armored vehicles and finish off its soldiers, as is happening in the north and Gaza. Khan Younis of steadfastness and every place in the Strip will be a hell burning the zionist soldiers, thwarting the illusions of all the traitors, conspirators, and collaborators.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Central Media Department
5-12-2023
Late on Saturday 2 December, the Minister of Defence (MoD) issued a short online statement saying that the UK “will conduct surveillance flights over the eastern Mediterranean, including operating in air space over Israel and Gaza.”
Palestinians inspect damage during an Israeli military incursion in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank on 12 December. APA images
Gaza’s Al-Azhar University before Zion’s bombs… And Gaza’s Al-Azhar University after Zion’s bombs.
The New Dark Age 