The humanitarian group Oxfam reports that Israel’s war on Gaza has killed more than 6,000 women and 11,000 children.By Jake Johnson , CommonDreamsPublishedOctober 1, 2024 God help and bless them all – Mark Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip has been the deadliest year of conflict for women and children anywhere in the world over the past two decades, according to an analysis released Tuesday as Israeli forces continued to bombard the Palestinian enclave and launched a ground invasion of Lebanon. The global humanitarian group Oxfam noted in its new report that Israel’s U.S.-backed assault

Australia’s obsession with a handful of people who waved Hezbollah flags at protests on the weekend expose a wider problem. Nasser Mashni As Israel expands its bloody campaign of settler-colonial violence into Lebanon, intensifying its year-long genocide in Palestine, Australia’s political and media establishments are fixated on what they deem a more pressing concern: a handful of flags flown by a minority at the weekend’s solidarity protests. This theatrical obsession with flags serves as a convenient distraction for those who have spent the past year searching

The Age / Reuters | Maya Gebeily | 2 October 2024 The truth is that Iran is responding to Israeli aggression and murder within its borders NOT the other way round – Mark • Iran launched more than 180 ballistic missiles at Israel in retaliation for Israel’s attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon, using hypersonic Fattah missiles for the first time.• Israel and the US responded with missile interceptors, and while damage occurred, no injuries were reported in Israel; however, a man was killed near Jericho from

Nesrine Malik Israel has lost its soul and its reasons for these wars are not valid – nobody is trying to destroy Israel – Israel is trying to destroy all Muslims wherever they are in the Middle East – Mark A common defence of Israel’s belligerence, both within the Palestinian territories and in the wider region, is the claim that it must act in this way because it is surrounded by countries that are trying to annihilate it. Like many of the arguments that attempt to justify Israel’s

3-10-2024 Last week, Israel launched indiscriminate assaults on Lebanon, resulting in the deaths of at least 550 people and thousands more injured. Among the dead is Hezbollah’s Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah. This escalation follows a year of rising tensions along the Israeli-Lebanese border. So far, an estimated 1 million people have been displaced in Lebanon due to Israeli strikes. In addition to air raids, Israel is deploying reserve brigades to the northern border, signaling a possible preparation for a ground invasion of Lebanon.  Merciful and Loving

(The Age, SMH, 30/9/2024) How can the idiot Biden not acknowledge that Netanyahu has started WW3 and wont stop until he can fire a nuclear weapon at Iran – this level of evil and criminality is worse than any action in history – how devastating that it is Jews who are responsible – Mark Israel bombed Houthi targets in Yemen on Sunday as part of an attack it said was in response to missile fire by the Iran-aligned militants at Israel over the past two days.The

By Riley Stuart in Jerusalem and Cherine Yazbeck in Beirut Every time Netanyahu speaks he LIES and sticks 2 fingers up to both the USA and the world – there has NEVER been anybody more EVIL than this man – Mark Israel’s attacks in Lebanon will continue for the foreseeable future, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said, despite confirmation the leader of the country’s main adversary there, Hezbollah, had been killed. About 15 hours after it launched massive air strikes in southern Beirut on Friday night, the Israel Defense Force (IDF)

By Riley Stuart in Jerusalem More evidence that Netanyahu has started and WANTS / NEEDS World War Three and it seems the USA wants the same – Mark Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has used an address to the United Nations General Assembly to warn there is “no place” Israel’s weapons cannot reach in the Middle East. As calls for ceasefires in his country’s wars against Hamas and Hezbollah continue, Mr Netanyahu told Friday’s sitting in New York his country “would not rest until our citizens can return safely

Penny Wong says she shares frustration of ‘great majority of countries’ about a lack of progress to recognise a Palestinian state Isn’t it about time Australia uses ‘actions’ instead of just words – how about banning all goods / weapons made in Israel or by Israeli Companies – or throw their diplomatic staff out and close the embassy – this may start a real peace process off – Mark asing frustration about the stalled peace process. The foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, will float the idea

The Age/28.9.2024 Cruelty on top of everything else – Mark The first person from Gaza to challenge his cancelledAustralian visa in court has been refused information onwhy he was knocked back on security grounds, and is now stuckin Cairo without rec0urse. Hosni Imad is one of a smallgroup of Palestinians to have their visas cancelled by ASIO after the Albanese government granted almost 3000 touristvisas to help people with strong connections in Australia fleethe conflict in Gaza. The 45-year-old painter hadalready fled to Cairo, and his