Israeli police attacked mourners attending the funeral of Walid Daqqa, who died after spending 38 years in Israeli jails, and arrested five people. London 09 April, 2024 Absolutely inhumane but sadly consistent behaviour by this criminal Government – Mark Israeli forces have cracked down on mourners going to attend the funeral of 62-year-old Palestinian intellectual Walid Daqqa, who died of terminal cancer in Israeli custody on Sunday. Daqqa, who was diagnosed with bone marrow cancer in December 2022, after earlier being diagnosed with leukaemia in 2015, was a prominent

April 5, 2024 at 5:00 pm The Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, was distraught and testy.  It seemed that, on this occasion, Israel had gone too far.  Not too far in killing over 32,000 Palestinians in Gaza, a staggering percentage of them being children.  Not too far in terms of using starvation as a weapon of war.  Not too far in bringing attention to the International Court of Justice that its actions are potentially genocidal. Israel had overstepped in doing something it has done previously to

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The Age & Sydney Morning Herald | Ben Saul | 9 April 2024 How can anybody believe a single word that comes from the mouths of the Government of Israel – bravo to Australia for standing up to something that EVERY nation should be doing – Mark Israel’s swift investigation into the killings of seven aid workers by Israeli forces in Gaza has rightly not satisfied the victims’ families, their employer World Central Kitchen, or the Australian government.The Israeli investigation has admitted the killings were a

The Age & Sydney Morning Herald / AP | Jack Jeffery, Tia Goldenberg | 9 April 2024 There is no point in occupying a huge pile of rubble because that is all that is left after Israel has continued its genocidal destruction and murder of all Palestinians – Mark JERUSALEM: Israel’s military has announced it has withdrawn its forces from the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, wrapping up a key phase in its offensive against Hamas and bringing its troop presence in the territory to

The Age | James Lemon | 04.04.2024 ACCIDENT – Mark Zomi Frankcom, an Australian aid worker, left Rafah in southern Gaza early on Monday with six others to help unload 400 tonnes of food at a makeshift jetty. They were all dead less than 24 hours later – killed by a series of Israeli drone strikes. The Jennifer, a 78-metre cargo ship, arrived in Gaza on April 1 after leaving Cyprus a few days earlier. Aid charity World Central Kitchen (WCK) said there was enough food

The Age | Farrah Tomazin | 05.04.2024 The threats by Biden simply don’t stand up to the ongoing supply of arms that Israel continues to use to murder so many innocent men, women and children – come on America put your money where your mouth is and stop this genocide – Mark Washington: US President Joe Biden has warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that America’s ongoing support for the war in Gaza will depend on whether he can limit the killing of innocent civilians and

Previously, I wrote of the importance of bread for Palestinians, of the horrors of starvation, and the need to grant immediate and unencumbered access to the truckloads of food and supplies waiting