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Did you know that nine countries have withdrawn their ambassadors from Israel, and one has cut diplomatic ties entirely in protest of Israel’s relentless war on Gaza? Last week, the Bolivian government said that it was severing diplomatic ties with Israel completely, making it the first country to do so since the start of the war in Gaza.
On Monday, South Africa announced that it was recalling its ambassador to Israel due to the failure of Israel to “respect international law and the United Nations.” Last week, Jordan recalled its ambassador describing the decision as an “expression of Jordan’s position of rejection and condemnation of the raging Israeli war on Gaza.” Turkey, Chile, Colombia, Chad, Honduras, and Bahrain have also followed suit, citing Israel’s continued attacks on civilians.
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◾ The death toll from Israel’s genocide in Gaza is more than 10,518, including 4,412 children and 2,761 women.
◾ An average of six children and five women are killed every hour; meaning 144 children and 120 women are killed every day by Israeli attacks. Meanwhile, hospitals in Gaza receive one wounded person every minute and 15 bodies every hour.
◾ UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has renewed his calls for a ceasefire, calling Gaza “a graveyard for children” as the death toll from Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza surpassed 10,000 people, with almost half being children.
◾ The Israeli army told the administration of the Rantisi Specialised Hospital for Children to evacuate, an indication that it would be bombed.
◾The heavy bombing of Gaza City has continued as the Israeli occupation forces prepare to take over the city. Fifty percent of housing units in Gaza have been damaged because of, the attacks, leaving nowhere for those in Gaza City to shelter. Almost 70 percent of Gaza’s population is displaced.
◾ The journalist Muhammad Abu Hasira was killed along with at least 42 of his family members after Israel bombed their homes in Gaza City.
◾ At least two people have been killed and 12 wounded in Israeli overnight raids across the occupied West Bank, with fighting reported on the outskirts of the Jenin refugee camp. At least 164 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank since October 7, including at least four prisoners who died in Israeli custody. More than 2,200 have been detained.
◾ Yemeni Armed Forces have launched a batch of drones on various sensitive Israeli targets in the occupied territories, while militias in Iraq and Syria have carried out attacks against US forces in the region this morning; the number of attacks on US forces in Iraq and Syria increased over the weekend from 30 to 38.
◾ South Africa is the latest country to recall its ambassador to Israel, raising the number to nine.
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The speech by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah last Friday introduced a "new dimension" whereby the Resistance Axis to Israel now also has the US in its sights. Read the latest analysis from Al Akhbar translated here:
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“Leave your planes and come [...] We’ll defeat you.” – Watch this Palestinian expressing his unwavering support for resistance forces to red. Media colleagues in Gaza, moments after Israeli airstrikes razed residential buildings to the ground. “We will defeat them with our own hands. Let Netanyahu’s army come.”
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◾ The death toll from Israel’s genocide in Gaza has surpassed 10,000 rising to at least 10,022.
◾ The US Navy has dispatched a guided-missile submarine capable of launching nuclear missiles to the Middle East in their latest show of force.
◾ The “highest number” of “UN fatalities ever recorded in a single conflict” was reported by the UN; 88 UNRWA staff have been killed in Gaza since October 7.
◾ “The Israel-Gaza war has become the deadliest four-week period for journalists covering conflict since the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) began documenting journalist fatalities in 1992.” According to the CPJ, at least 36 journalists and media workers have been killed since October 7.
◾ At least 70 Palestinians were arrested overnight in yet another wave of violent raids across the occupied West Bank. More than 2,000 people have been arrested in these raids since October 7, including at least 49 women and 17 journalists. Settlers and the Israeli military in the occupied West Bank have also killed at least 155 Palestinians.
◾ The Israeli army is recruiting Jewish settlers who have not served in the Israeli military to post them as “defense militiamen” in various settlements in the occupied West Bank and are accepting those with criminal records.
◾ In the West Bank, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich wants to “create sterile security areas around [Jewish] communities and roads and to prevent Arabs from entering them.”
◾ Israel’s Iron Dome defense system was overwhelmed by rocket barrages coming from Gaza, with an Israeli interceptor rocket landing in the central area of the city of Rishon LeZion, south of Tel Aviv.
◾ Hezbollah has fired a barrage of rockets at an Israeli town after Israel killed three children and their grandmother in a targeted drone attack on their car.
#Gaza #GazaUnderAttack #Palestine
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◾️ Israel’s 30 days of uninterrupted bombardment killed 9,770 Palestinians in Gaza, including 4,800 children and 2,509 women. Additionally, 2,200 more Palestinians are reported as missing, with half of them being children, and almost 25,000 others have been injured.
◾️ Ultra-nationalist Israeli official Amichai Eliyahu called “dropping nuclear bombs on Gaza [...] one of the possibilities.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refused to remove the minister from parliament but suspended Eliyahu from subsequent sessions.
◾️ Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas said the PA could return to power in the Gaza Strip at a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. He confirmed the PA could play a “central role in what comes next in Gaza.” Since October 7, massive anti-PA protests have erupted in the West Bank, condemning the PA’s inaction in response to the ongoing war.
◾️ As Israeli ground troops penetrate deeper into urban areas in Gaza, videos released by Palestinian armed groups depict extreme close-combat situations. The footage shows numerous Merkava tanks being destroyed, each valued at $3.5 million.
◾️ Iran threatened the US to be “hit hard” if a ceasefire is not implemented. Israeli PM Netanyahu and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken maintain that a ceasefire is not currently an option.
◾️ Three different refugee camps in Gaza were targeted by Israeli bombings this week, including Jabalia, Gaza’s largest refugee camp, which was bombed three times in just four days. The other targeted refugee camps, Maghazi and Bureij, are located in Gaza’s southern area, which Israel designated as a “safe evacuation area.”
◾️ The Gaza ruling armed group said over 60 of the 200+ hostages captured on October 7 have gone “missing” following renewed Israeli airstrikes. Israel has repeatedly called the release of all hostages as a precondition for a ceasefire, while Gaza’s armed groups claim Israel repeatedly rejected offers to hand over captives.
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"Any father who is defending his land is not a terrorist." Watch this heartbreaking video of a Palestinian girl whose father was killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza earlier this year.
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◾️ Israel killed 9,488 Palestinians in Gaza over the last 29 days. More than 3,900 of the victims are children, meaning Israel is killing one child every 10 minutes. Israeli settler attacks and military raids also killed 147 in the occupied West Bank where more than 1,900 have also been arrested in the last four weeks.
◾️ Over 25,000 tons of explosives, equivalent to the explosives used in two of the atom bombs the US dropped on Hiroshima, have been dropped by Israel on Gaza, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said. That is equivalent to pounding the enclave with roughly 10 kilograms of explosives per resident.
◾️ After Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's long-awaited speech on the Gaza war, clashes escalated on Israel's northern border. For the first time, Hezbollah attacked several IDF targets with "Burkan" rockets, which carry heavy warheads.
◾️ US Secretary of State Antony Blinken leaves Israel empty-handed after unsuccessful talks to secure a temporary ceasefire. Blinken's diplomatic tour continues to Amman for a summit meeting with US Arab allies Jordan, Egypt, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, as well as Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas.
◾️ Israel is increasingly targeting Gaza's schools, hospitals and mosques. Israel bombed a convoy of ambulances carrying mostly injured women to al-Shifa Hospital, at least 15 people were killed.
◾️ November 4th is expected to be a new high point for global protests in solidarity against Israel's genocide. In several Western countries, organizers are expecting a record-breaking turnout. Organizations in Germany, the epicenter Palestine solidarity crackdowns, activists announced they would defy possible protest bans. In Baghdad, protesters are chanting to be transferred to fight in Palestine. Already fighters from Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces have traveled to the Jordanian border waiting to be transferred.
◾️ The Israeli military claims it has opened a three-hour window for evacuation from northern Gaza to the south, an impossible task for the thousands of injured in hospitals. Earlier routes Israel claimed could be used for evacuation were attacked by Israel.
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Massive protests erupt against US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to key ally Jordan for humanitarian negotiations during Israel’s genocide in Gaza. “The entire Jordanian people are united behind the resistance and Gaza,” - say protesters, starkly contrasting the political line of Jordan’s King Abdullah II.
On his ongoing diplomatic tour, Blinken will meet the foreign ministers of Jordan, Egypt, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, all US allies, as well as a senior aide to PA’s Mahmoud Abbas. Previously, Blinken left Israel empty-handed after talks on humanitarian measures. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ruled out any temporary ceasefire in Gaza, pushing back against US pressure.
#Jordan #Ceasefire #Gaza #News #MiddleEast
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The question of terror is as old as the liberation struggle itself. Revolutionaries are constantly confronted with the mainstream narrative that labels anti-colonial movements as “terrorists,” de-legitimizing their struggle. Watch as Pan-African Black Revolutionary Malcolm X expresses his support for the Mau Mau resistance movement in Kenya when a journalist tried to get him to condemn the movement, calling it a “terrorist organization” that “initiates acts of terrorism.”
Similarly, mainstream media today is quick to label the Palestinian resistance as consisting of “terrorists” that initiated an act of terror on October 7, totally ignoring the 75 years of brutal occupation at the hands of the Israeli state and Jewish settlers that forced the Palestinians to react and resist.
#MauMau #Kenya #MalcolmX
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Garment workers in Bangladesh have been on strike since Monday (October 30th) and are on the streets again today, despite heavy repression, to demand a monthly minimum wage of Tk 23,000 (209 USD). Their current salary is Tk 8,300 (75 USD).
One worker, Rasel Howlader, was shot and killed by police on Monday. Yesterday, 25 protesters were injured in Dhaka as police cleared barricades erected by protesters along crucial highways.
The main protests have been in the capital city, Dhaka, and the industrial center of Gazipur, where workers have been blocking highways, torching factories that do not accept the livable wage demands, and organizing daily street protests. As of Friday, November 3rd, 300 factories have been closed by workers.
The country’s garment industry capitalists generate around 55 Billion USD annually in exports, mainly to the US and Europe, providing cheap clothes for the Western market. Meanwhile, 4 million garment workers, the majority of whom are women, face poverty wages and unsafe working conditions.
This strike over wages has been triggered by rising inflation that has rendered essential goods unaffordable for many. The monthly inflation rate stands at almost 10% as the currency devaluation sets in, resulting from IMF loan conditions earlier this year that forced Bangladesh to scrap its fixed exchange rate system.
#Bangladesh #AntiCapitalism #News
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◾ The death toll from Israel’s genocide in Gaza has soared to 9,227, including 3,326 children and 2,405 women.
◾ Thousands of Palestinian workers from Gaza who were employed in ‘the territories occupied in ‘48 and the West Bank when the war started have been sent back to Gaza following a campaign of mass arrests.
◾ Heavy fighting has been ongoing on the outskirts of Gaza City as Israel attempts to penetrate deep into urban areas. The Israeli military claims to have surrounded Gaza City during their apparent mission to divide the enclave in two. Multiple civilian cars, ambulance vehicles, and UN-designated vehicles were targeted on the main roads the Israeli military blocked.
◾ Palestinian resistance groups in Gaza have released multiple videos showcasing their guerrilla warfare tactics and destroying several Merkava tanks in Gaza.
◾ Israel’s latest attack on refugee camps was on the Al-Maghazi Refugee Camp this morning, flattening an entire residential complex once again. The attack comes following four consecutive attacks in two days on the Jabalia refugee camp.
◾ Palestine TV correspondent Mohammed Abu Hatab and at least 10 members of his family were killed when an Israeli airstrike hit their home in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. At least 27 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Gaza since October 7.
◾ Nine Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces across the West Bank this morning, as Israeli occupation forces have intensified their violent raids across the occupied West Bank, massively destroying roads and infrastructure in the Jenin refugee camp. This raises the total death toll of Palestinians in the West Bank since October 7 to at least 140.
◾ The Islamic Resistance in Iraq has attacked a vital Israeli target on the Red Sea coast and a US base adjacent to Erbil Airport, expanding its attacks against Israeli and US forces. Additionally, they announced the beginning of a new phase in confronting enemies next week.
◾ The Algerian parliament has officially authorized President Abdelmajid Tebboune to enter the war in support of Gaza, with a unanimous vote of 100/100.
#GazaUnderAttack #Palestine #WestBank
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Thousands of Greek anti-fascists confronted an international call-out fascist event in Athens, organized by the now-banned Golden Dawn party and the far-right group Casa Pound. Footage shows violent clashes in which iron bars, improvised shields, and motorbike helmets were used.
The authorities deployed 3,000 additional police, including riot police and national police, in areas close to the fascist gathering. Police attempted to separate the protesters with tear gas grenades, causing one rally participant to suffer serious head injuries. Refugees and migrants in the area were attacked by the fascists, who also attempted to set fire to a metro carriage with petrol.
The far-right rally took place on Wednesday to mark the tenth anniversary of the deaths of two members of Golden Dawn, Manolis Kapelonis and George Fundoulis, in front of the party's office in Neo Iraklio in northern Athens. Greek far-right groups had called on fascists from all over Europe via Telegram to take part in the rally, which was banned by the police.
#AntiReport #AntiFascist #Antifa
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A record 6.9 million people have been displaced in Africa's longest-running conflict and one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. What’s going on in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)? Read on to find out.
At least 80% of the displaced population are from the eastern provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu, Ituri, and Tanganyika, areas that have been increasingly dominated by armed groups looking to control resources in those regions, particularly gold.
An estimated $300 million to $600 million in gold is smuggled out of the DRC each year. While some Belgian companies are involved in the DRC’s gold industry, much of the smuggled gold ends up in the UAE, which imported $37 billion in gold in 2020, making it one of the biggest players in the market.
Banyamulenge woman Esther Nanduhura told local reporters the armed groups “sell gold to white people to buy weapons — that’s why they sell the gold. I want to tell these white people to stop buying from them.”
One such armed group are the mainly ethnic Tutsi M23 rebels whose conflict with the DRC has intensified in North Kivu since early October, particularly in the area north of the provincial capital Goma.
In North Kivu alone 1 million people have been displaced due to the ongoing conflict with the M23 as violent fighting escalates. Since October 1 almost 200,000 people have fled their homes in North Kivu’s Rutshuru and Masisi territory north of Goma.
The IOM is involved in managing 78 displacement sites which are hosting 200,000 people and are also providing mental health services for people who are facing psychological distress. However, only $37 million of the $100 million funding needed has arrived to date.
The large-scale displacement has also led to an increase in sexual violence against women, particularly in the East. For example in the Bulengo displacement camp and other nearby sites an average of 70 sexual assault victims a day visit clinics run by Doctors Without Borders.
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On this day in 1917, Britain promised a Jewish state on land it had stolen, Palestine. Watch Black revolutionary explain the absurdity of Zionists claiming historic Palestine as their own: "If you say that Israel belongs to you, then you don't go to a thief".
#BalfourDeclaration #History #Gaza
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"Hezbollah is ambiguous, yes, secretive." red. media spoke to Hezbollah MP, Ibrahim Moussawi, who explained the party's strategy in the face of Western and Israeli threats. Watch the full interview here: http://tiny.cc/jb4dvz
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◾ The death toll from Israel’s genocide in Gaza has soared to 9,061, including 3,760 children and 2,326 women.
◾ Israel bombed a UNRWA-run school packed with displaced civilians in the Al-Shati refugee camp with internationally prohibited white phosphorus munitions.
◾ Another UNRWA-run school in Jabalia refugee camp was targeted, marking the third consecutive attack on the refugee camp, with at least 1,000 casualties, including 195 killed and 777 wounded, and many more still missing.
◾ The Indonesian Hospital, a key hospital in Gaza which is flooded with victims of the Jabalia attacks, is now relying on a backup generator.
◾ Violent fighting between the resistance and IDF in the north of Gaza is continuing. The IDF says 17 of its soldiers have been killed so far since the expansion of ground operations last weekend, making Israel’s official death toll of soldiers 332 since the war started.
◾ Violent raids in the occupied West Bank continue with at least 60 detentions overnight, raising the total number of Palestinians detained since October 7 to over 1,800. The number of Palestinians killed in the West Bank since the beginning of the year has risen to at least 340, including at least 132 since October 7.
◾ Over 800 Palestinians from at least 98 households in the occupied West Bank have been displaced by Israeli settlers since October 7.
◾ In Germany, the crackdown on Palestine solidarity is escalating as the government announced a ban on Samidoun, a Palestinian prisoner solidarity organization unrelated to Hamas. Berlin also implemented a complete ban on the activities of Hamas.
◾ The Yemeni Armed Forces, Iraqi militias, militant groups operating in Syria, and Hezbollah have all carried out attacks against Israeli and US forces. Hezbollah has further issued a statement in support of the resistance in Palestine, saying their “finger is on the trigger.”
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On this day in 1917, Britain's Foreign Secretary, Arthur Balfour, gave formal backing for the creation of a Zionist state on Palestinian land. This is the Israeli state's origin story, a letter that is three sentences long and written in London.
For Britain, the zionist colonialism represented a way to police the Middle East more efficiently and enforce Europe's colonial interests. While for anti-Semites like Balfour, creating a "Jewish" state, was an efficient way to expel Jews from Europe.
In 1905 Balfour himself introduced the anti-Semitic 'Aliens Act' to crackdown on Jewish immigration into Britain. Huge numbers of Jews were seeking refuge from the pogroms in Tsarist Russia, and Balfour closed the door.
Balfour's declaration also came at a time of fierce debate within the Jewish movement. On one side were zionists who believed it was futile to fight anti-semitism in Europe and so the solution was to create a Jewish state with backing of imperialism.
On the other side, were left-wing Jews, such as the Socialist Bund, who believed that Jews should stay in their respective countries and fight to assert their political rights. They opposed the colonization of Palestine and supported resistance against it.
The Balfour Declaration called on the Zionist colonisers to respect others, saying, "nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine".
In reality, Britain gave the colonists free-reign to expel Palestinians. Zionist leader Chaim Weizman said, "The declaration implies that we have been given the opportunity to become masters”.
When there was an anti-colonial revolt in the 1930s, the Zionist Haganah paramilitaries were incorporated into the British Army to help crush the revolt, the Haganah took advantage to expel Palestinians off their land, with the violent tactics that would later be used in the Nakba.
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#Colonialism #Palestine #Israel
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Workers unions and social movements in Panama have mobilized in huge numbers against a copper mining contract. The protests have been ongoing for the 8th consecutive day, despite concessions from government. Here is why.
The government signed a public contract for open-air copper mining with the Canadian company First Quantum Minerals (FQM). The environmental damage caused by mining in Panama is the primary cause of the mass unrest.
Last Friday, the President of Panama, Laurentino Cortizo, announced the suspension of all new mining contracts and on Sunday presented a referendum on whether to continue with the contract with First Quantum Minerals.
In response to this news, and to the continued protests, the shared price of FQM was down 28% at the close of trading on Monday.
Saúl Méndez, leader of the construction workers union, one of the largest groups organizing the protests, stated that the protests will continue regardless of these concessions.
More protests are planned for the coming days. The teachers union has also announced that they will begin an indefinite strike until the contract is cancelled.
FQM has been mining and exporting copper in Panama ever since 2019, but protesters are tired of the huge environmental damage it has caused to rivers, drinking water, and wildlife, as well as the low revenues it brings for the country.
#PanamaProtest #Antiimperialismo #Anticapitalismo