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IDF’s Combat Engineering Corps conducts training in the southern part of Israel, in order to strengthen the security grip on one of the country’s largest land borders. Photo from Wikimedia Commons by the IDF on May 31, 2011. By Vijay Prishad / Peoples Dispatch On the night of December 19, 2023, Israeli military forces surrounded the Al-Awda building in Gaza City’s Al-Remal neighbourhood. Four families were inside the building, including the Annan family, after whom the building is popularl...

On December 4, President Umaro Sissoco Embalo dissolved the National People’s Assembly citing an alleged coup attempt. The move followed just months after a coalition led by the African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGC) won a decisive majority in the elections.

 

A Palestinian woman weeps next to a collection of bodies. Photo from Wikimedia Commons by Wafa from October 2023. By Peoples Dispatch At least 10 Palestinians were killed and several others were injured when Israeli strikes targeted an UN school and some residential buildings in Khan Younis in southern Gaza on early morning Friday, December 15, Wafa News Agency reported. The UN refugee agency, UNRWA, has converted most of its schools in the besieged Palestinian territory as shelter camps for

Crowds of thousands take to the streets across the country, disrupting centers of power, responding to a call to “Shut It Down for Palestine” SCHEERPOST, By Peoples Dispatch, December 10, 2023 From Alaska to Florida, people in the US once again took to the streets en masse to demand a permanent ceasefire in Israel’s war on…

Jeremy Corbyn announced his Peace and Justice Project (PJP) in December 2020, with a mission statement that included: “To bring people together for social and economic justice, peace, and human rights, in Britain and across the world… [It] will work with labour and social movements and provide platforms to those campaigning for change for the many, not the few.”

A delegation of Arab-Islamic countries also met Chinese and Russian foreign ministers earlier this week in order to push for an end of of Israeli violence against Palestinians and lasting peace in the region By Abdul Rahman / Peoples Dispatch, November 24, 2023 Leaders of the BRICS bloc called for an immediate end to the hostilities…

Leaders of the IX Summit of the BRICS.. Photo from Wikimedia Commons by Beto Barata. By Abdul Rahman / Peoples Dispatch Leaders of the BRICS bloc called for an immediate end to the hostilities in Palestine in an online meeting held on Tuesday, November 21. The meeting was attended by the heads of government of Brazil, Russia, China, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Ethiopia, Egypt, and the UAE. The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres also joined the meeting. India and Argentina were

The South African Parliament voted on a motion to close the Israeli Embassy in the country. The motion was PASSED with 248 votes for and 91 against. "Free

There is no room to doubt that Israel’s bombing of Palestinian civilians and depriving them of food, water and other necessities of life are grounds to invoke the 1948 Genocide Convention.  By Craig Murray CraigMurray.org.uk There are 149 states party to the Genocide Convention. Every one o