A CALL TO THE CHURCHES IN AUSTRALIA from the Palestine Israel Ecumenical Network (PIEN) On 2nd August 2024, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Justin Welby, issued a strong statement regarding the Palestinian Occupied Territories. In it, he said, in part: … it is clear to me that the regime imposed by successive Israeli governments in the Occupied Palestinian Territories is one of systematic discrimination. Through many strategies, the state of Israel has been denying the Palestinian people dignity, freedom and hope. …it is clear

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26-9-2024 Last week, in two mass terrorizing attacks, over 4,000 people were injured and 20 people killed in Lebanon by hacking and exploding pagers and electronic devices manufactured by Motorola. While Israel claimed the killings were a targeted campaign to assassinate Hezbollah members, casualties included three children as young as 6 and many civilians. Caregiving God, no place feels safe as long as the oppressor acts with impunity. Holy Spirit, be with the doctors, nurses, and medical staff who are responding with bravery and conviction. Give

So apart from murdering journalists they now also shut down any organisation that might report the truth – Mark Dubai: Israeli troops raided the offices of the satellite news network Al Jazeera in the Israeli-occupied West Bank early Sunday, ordering the bureau to shut down amid a widening campaign by Israel targeting the Qatar-funded broadcaster as it covers the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip. Al Jazeera aired footage of Israeli troops live on its Arabic-language channel ordering the office to be shut for 45 days.

All out war is Israel’s ultimate goal and has been since the extreme right wing took over the Government some 15 years ago – so very sad because Israel is making itself an International leper – Mark Beirut/Cairo: Israel and Hezbollah exchanged heavy fire on Sunday, as Israeli warplanes carried out the most intense bombardment in almost a year of war across Lebanon’s south and Hezbollah claimed rocket attacks on military targets in Israel’s north. The Israeli military said it had conducted a wave of strikes across

Please God stop these murderous attacks – Mark Gaza’s civil defence agency says at least 17 people have been killed and more than 30 others wounded in an Israeli strike on a school housing displaced people in Gaza City. Israel says it was targeting Hamas militants that were in an adjacent school. The number of people killed in an Israeli strike on Beirut on Friday has risen to at least 31 people, Lebanon’s health ministry said. At least 17 people have been killed in an Israeli

by Jonathan Kuttab On Tuesday, Israel carried out an unprecedented attack on Lebanon consisting of simultaneous explosions in thousands of pagers across the country. This was followed on Wednesday by another wave of explosions involving mobile phones, two-way radios, and other electronics. Numerous civilian casualties are reported, including children. Israel followed with threats of additional attacks, and indeed on Thursday it carried out aerial attacks and seems to be planning a major ground invasion. Today, a major attack was carried out within a dense residential suburb

Lebanon is a smoke screen to divert attention from the continuing murder and genocide in Gaza and the West Bank – evil, evil, evil – Mark Israeli forces have killed at least 14 Palestinians in tank and air strikes on north and central areas of the Gaza Strip, medics say, as tanks advanced further into northwest Rafah near the border with Egypt. The unrelenting fighting between the Israelis and Hamas militants in the enclave carried on even as a parallel conflict in the Lebanon-Israel border area