Feb 16, 2024 The Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) welcomes today’s joint Australian, Canadian and New Zealand statement urging Israel to refrain from furthering its catastrophic military offensive in Rafah and urges the Australian Government to take tangible steps to prevent genocide in Gaza. Words are not enough. APAN acknowledges and echoes the government’s expression of grave concern for Palestinians trapped in Rafah  as Israel prepares to double down on its genocidal campaign in Gaza.   Israel’s brutality has resulted in more than 100,000 Palestinians killed,

(The Age, 14/2/2024) How do you murder 1.4 million people? Answer – ask Israel to provide a safe space then bomb the hell out of it, evil, evil, evil – Mark Before the war, five people lived in Mohanad Alsaadawi’s family home in Rafah. There are now 31 people huddled beneath its roof as the last “safe” place in Gaza waits for Israel to launch what could be its deadliest military offensive. The mass of people crammed into a two-storey house, most of them having

Unless a way towards Palestinian independence is opened, the region will remain a cauldron seething with tensions constantly threatening to erupt The Guardian | Peter George | 13 February 2024 There is no way Dutton will ever see Palestinians as humans with rights because there is no votes or political gain for him – this has to be down to Albanese and Wong to lead from the front – Mark If foreign policy is predicated on self-interest, then now’s the time for Australian political parties

Thank God for the release of the 2 hostages – shame 67 innocents had to be killed to achieve it – maybe Israel could get all hostages released if it stopped the genocide and made a deal with Hams – Mark Israel has launched a special forces operation that freed two Israeli hostages in Rafah amid air strikes, which local health officials said killed 67 people and wounded dozens in the southern Gaza city. A joint operation by the Israel Defense Forces, Israel’s domestic Shin

ABC News/John Lyons/12.2.2024 A great question – how can it go on – answer is when Netanyahu and Israel has killed them all – Mark The most dangerous place in the world to be a child. That devastating description is now being applied to Gaza by UNICEF as the true extent of the catastrophe of this war emerges. That devastation is leading to one of the worst humanitarian crises of our time – where, for example, a nurse has had to perform emergency caesarean operations