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red. Rewind 2023: Climate Change Disasters have continued this year as capitalism has continued to let the planet burn, and thousands of people die from the impact of climate change, particularly in the Global South. Meanwhile, the talking shop for the rich jet-setting elite COP28 was held in one of the worst polluters in the world, the United Arab Emirates.
Europe recorded its highest-ever April temperatures during a heatwave as temperatures hit 38C in Spain. In May, 463 people were killed by Storm Mocha in Myanmar, while hundreds of people were killed in floods in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda. During the spring, 16 people were killed in the Turkish provinces of Adiyaman and Sanliurfa in flash floods that turned streets into rivers a month after the region experienced a devastating earthquake.
The year began with Storm Mara in the US, a deadly ice storm that hit Texas, Arkansas, and Tennessee from January 31 to February 2, killing 10 people and leading to 500,000 power outages. Similarly, Cyclone Freddy devastated Africa for five weeks in February and March, having formed over the Indian Ocean. It made landfall in Madagascar and Mozambique, killing at least 238 people.
During the summer, the Mediteran region was engulfed in forest fires during another record heatwave. Greece was the country that suffered the most, with 80 wildfires that killed 28 people and injured 75 as temperatures reached 45 C. Deadly fires in Hawaii in August killed 106 people.
Flash floods hit Greece, Bulgaria, and Türkiye in early September. In Greece, there were at least 17 deaths and damage of €2.5 billion, while a state of emergency was declared in Bulgaria, and 12 people were swept away in Türkiye. Over 300 people have also been killed in floods in East Africa, displacing over 1 million people in Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Tanzania.
#ClimateJustice #ClimateChange #ClimateProtests
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Two years ago today American author, feminist, educator, theorist, and social critic Gloria Jean Watkins better known by her pen name Bell Hooks died at the age of 69. Hook's writing focused on the intersectionality of race, capitalism and gender and the way that they perpetuate class domination and oppression. She published around 40 books including essays, poems, and children's books while also giving numerous public lectures and appearing in documentaries. Her writing also addressed a wide range of other topics such as love, art, history, and the mass media.
Born to a working-class African American family in the segregated Kentucky town of Hopkinsville in September 1952, she was educated in racially segregated public schools before moving to an integrated school in the late 1960s which influenced her own perspective as an educator. An avid reader, Hooks gained a BA in English from Stanford University in 1973 followed by an MA in English from the University of Wisconsin in 1976 and a doctorate in English from the University of California Santa Cruz in 1983.
Hooks began her academic career in 1976 teaching English and ethnic studies at the University of Southern California and went on to teach at Stanford, Yale, New College of Florida, The City College of New York, and Berea College in Kentucky. Her work was influenced by abolitionist and feminist Sojourner Truth, Brazilian educator Paulo Freire Peruvian theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez, Buddhist monk Thích Nhất Hạnh, and African-American writer James Baldwin.
In Ain't I a Woman (1981) Hooks discussed the historical impact of racism and sexism on Black women and the idea of a white- supremacist -capitalist patriarchy that marginalizes Black women. In Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center(1984) she was critical of white feminist racism in second-wave feminism which undermined feminist solidarity across racial lines. She also became a prominent leftist and postmodern thinker.
#BlackHistory #BellHooks #QueerHistory
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Did you know that Laos is the most bombed country in the world? On 14 December 1964, the US Air Force started Operation Barrel Roll, the carpet bombing of the Southeast Asian country of Laos. By the time of the end of the operation on 29 March 1973, the US had dropped 260 million bombs on Laos, more than all the bombs dropped during WWII combined.
#IndochinaWars #Communism #VietCong
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🟡 Latest War on Gaza news roundup:
🟡 The death toll from Israel’s relentless war on Gaza has reached 18,608, more than 70% of the victims are women and children.
🟡 63% of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and Gaza support armed resistance when asked about the best way to end the occupation and establish an independent state, a new poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research has revealed.
🟡 Almost half of Gaza’s population has been forced into the southern Rafah governorate close to the border with Egypt, the UN said. So far, Israel’s invasion of Gaza has displaced 1.9 million Palestinians, 85% of the enclave’s population.
🟡 The Palestinian Ministry of Health has detected 327,000 cases of infectious diseases while also noting that the actual number is probably much higher.
🟡 In an ambush that Israeli media referred to as “one of the deadliest single encounters since troops pushed into the Strip,” Hamas has inflicted heavy losses on Israeli troops. Israel said that 10 of its soldiers had been killed in the previous 24 hours, including several senior army officers.
🟡 The Israeli military has now begun pumping seawater into Hamas’ vast complex of tunnels beneath the Gaza Strip, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing US officials. A move that many fear will endanger some of the remaining 100 Israelis held captive by Hamas.
🟡 The Israeli occupation forces’ siege of the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, the second largest incursion this year, is entering its third consecutive day. Israeli forces have killed at least 11 Palestinians in Jenin as well as bombing houses and storming several mosques.
🟡 A US destroyer shot down a drone from Yemen’s Ansarallah after it attacked the tanker Ardmore Encounter in the Red Sea.
#GazaUnderAttack #Gaza #StandWithPalestine #MiddleEast #News
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“There is a martyred little girl” – Harrowing footage shows a Palestinian boy carrying his sister’s dead body through the flooded streets of Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. Gaza’s harsh winter rain and Israel’s extermination war have combined to produce more misery for Palestinians in the enclave.
#GazaUnderAttack #Gaza #StandWithPalestine #MiddleEast #News
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🟡 Latest War on Gaza news roundup:
🟡 Palestinians, including women and babies, were killed “execution style” in a school in the Jabalia refugee camp after Israeli soldiers attacked, local media said. Several dead bodies were found decomposed, many of them with bullet holes in them, after Israeli forces withdrew.
🟡 The death toll from Israel’s relentless war on Gaza has reached at least 18,412. With more than 50,100 Injured.
🟡 Of the hundreds of Palestinian detainees who have been photographed in handcuffs in the Gaza Strip over the last few days, only about 10-15% are militant operatives or identified with the group, senior security officials told Haaretz.
🟡 Over 690,000 women and adolescent girls in Gaza have limited access to menstrual hygiene products and inadequate water, hygiene, and privacy, putting them at risk of reproductive infections.
🟡 “Currently, only 11 out of 36 hospitals in the Gaza Strip are partially functional and able to admit new patients, although services are limited,” the WHO has said.
🟡 The economy of Gaza has ground to an almost total standstill as a result of the war. About 85% of workers are without jobs.
🟡 The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, as well as the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages. A US amendment condemning the 7 October attack and the kidnapping of hostages failed.
🟡 The Islamic Resistance in Iraq has targeted US forces in Iraq and eastern Syria using drones and rockets barrage to target military bases and oil fields.
🟡 H3zbullah has continued to target Israeli forces in the North. Several attacks were launched using rockets and drones.
🟡 Vasily Nebenzya, Russia’s Permanent Representative at the UN, drew similarities between the situation in the Gaza Strip today and the siege of Leningrad during WWII.
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With up to 20 million killed in China alone, the “Asian Holocaust” killed around twice as many as the Nazis. The bloodiest massacre occurred today in 1936 when Japanese troops killed 300,000 people in the Chinese city of Nanjing.
After the Japanese captured Nanjing in December 1937, their soldiers rampaged the streets, murdering anyone they saw. Hundreds of thousands of people were buried in mass graves.
Two Japanese officers engaged in a “killing contest” over who could kill 100 people the fastest while using a sword all the while Japanese newspapers reported the “contest” as a sports event.
As part of their ruthless imperialist subjugation of Asia, the Japanese frequently employed rape as a weapon of war, raping up to 80,000 women during the Nanjing Massacre alone.
In Asia, WWII began in 1931, when Japan invaded and occupied northeastern China to exploit its vast natural resources. The Imperial Japanese Armed Forces had murdered up to 20 million Chinese by the end of WWII in 1945.
Before Japan’s full-scale invasion of China in 1937, the Chinese national liberation movement had spent the last six years resisting the invaders.
As the Japanese faced resistance during their imperialist invasion of China, the Nanjing blueprint was applied to the whole country, serving as stark a reminder of what happened to anyone who resisted Japan’s imperialist ambitions.
Eighty-six years after the “forgotten Holocaust of WWII,” Japan still refuses to apologize for what took place in Nanjing and continues to downplay the massacre.
#NeverAgain #ChinaHistory #JapaneseEmpire
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🟡 Latest War on Gaza news roundup:
🟡 The death toll from Israel’s relentless war on Gaza has reached at least 18,205.
🟡 Yemen’s Ansarallah announced that they launched a missile at a Norwegian tanker off Yemen’s coast on its way to occupied Palestine after its crew ignored warnings. Ansarallah has said that they will continue to prevent all vessels heading to Israeli ports from traveling through the Arab Sea and the Red Sea until the necessary food and medical supplies are delivered to the Gaza Strip.
🟡 A quarter of all Palestinian deaths over the past 20 years have occurred in 2023 in what has been the deadliest year on record for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, where at least 483 Palestinians have been killed this year, including 106 children—three times more than last year.
🟡 “Israeli army forces are re-enacting the same crimes committed by Zionist gangs during the 1948 Nakba, which resulted in the collective displacement of Palestinians,” the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a statement.
🟡 The relentless war against Gaza will “take time,” Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said, pushing back against international calls for a ceasefire. He signaled that the current phase could stretch for weeks and that military activity could continue for months.
🟡 As part of several Israeli raids across the occupied West Bank, Israeli occupation forces have launched a drone strike on Jenin, killing at least four people. The death toll from Israel’s brutal attacks in the West Bank since October 7 has reached at least 279.
🟡 Jewish settlers targeted Palestinian farmers and olive harvesters in the occupied West Bank. According to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, since the beginning of the season in early October, there have been at least 333 incidents where Israeli occupation forces and settlers conducted attacks against Palestinian olive pickers.
🟡 The US mission to the UN said it would submit an amendment to a draft ceasefire resolution for Gaza. The US has previously vetoed multiple UN Security Council ceasefire resolutions.
#GazaUnderAttack #Gaza #StandWithPalestine #MiddleEast #News
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Journalists and activists in Gaza have called for a Global general strike to demand an immediate ceasefire as Israel continues its relentless war on Gaza. They asked people not to go to work, school, or university.
Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank have responded. The strike spread throughout cities in the West Bank today, paralyzing all aspects of life, including public transportation, while universities, banks, and shops were closed. The National and Islamic Forces, a coalition of major Palestinian factions, also called for the occupation to be confronted on the streets and at checkpoints across the West Bank.
Since 1936, during the British mandate over Palestine, general strikes became a tool of struggle for the Palestinian people, which was strengthened under the Israeli occupation to express anger to win rights as well as causing economic damage to the occupation power.
#GazaStrike #PalestineStrike #IsraeliOccupation
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🟡 Latest War on Gaza news roundup:
🟡 The death toll from Israel’s relentless war on Gaza has reached around 18,000, with at least 50,000 people injured.
🟡 The UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon, UNIFIL, warned that “the potential for a miscalculation that could trigger a wider conflict is increasing” after Israeli occupation forces bombed several towns and villages in southern Lebanon.
🟡 Israeli occupation forces are holding at least 142 female detainees from Gaza, including girls and infants, in Israeli prisons, the Prisoners’ and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club revealed.
🟡 A report by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz revealed a discrepancy between the numbers of wounded soldiers reported by the Israeli army and hospital records, highlighting the Israeli military’s attempts to conceal its losses in Gaza.
🟡 With fighting continuing across the Gaza Strip, Hamas spokesperson Abu Obeida said that “the enemy has failed in the north and south of the Gaza Strip, and will continue to fail as its aggression continues, and as it moves to other areas of the Gaza Strip.”
🟡 Journalists and activists in Gaza have called for a global strike in solidarity with Gaza to be held today while the Lebanese government announced the closure of all government offices and institutions.
🟡 Universities, banks, and shops remained closed across the West Bank in response to the general strike called for by journalists and activists from Gaza.
🟡 Yemen’s Ansarallah forced a merchant vessel bound for occupied Palestine to turn back after declaring that they would block the passage of all ships heading toward Israeli ports through the Arabian Sea and Red Sea.
🟡 Numerous protests condemning Israel’s war on Gaza were held worldwide as the international community observed Human Rights Day on December 10.
#GazaUnderAttack #Gaza #StandWithPalestine #MiddleEast #News
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Thousands protested against new ECOWAS sanctions in Niger that are devastating the country's food supply chain. The regional Western-backed ECOWAS alliance previously threatened to launch a military invasion of Niger, one of the world's poorest countries, following a coup in July.
The humanitarian situation in the country is deteriorating, according to the UN, with UNICEF stating that 2.3 million people are food insecure. The sanctions have restricted Niger's access to banking services and hindered trade with neighboring countries.
Other countries, including the US, have cut off aid after the fall of the previous pro-western government. Foreign aid accounted for almost half of Niger's annual budget. The sanctions have cut off over 70% of Niger's electricity supplies from Nigeria.
#NigerCoup #AfricaNews #AfricaPolitics
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🟡 Latest War on Gaza news roundup:
🟡 The death toll from Israel’s relentless war on Gaza has reached more than 16,248, with over 42,000 injured and at least 7,600 still missing under the rubble.
🟡 “Every day in captivity was extremely challenging. We were in tunnels, terrified that it would not be Hamas, but Israel, that would kill us,” a former Israeli captive in Gaza told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting.
🟡 The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has warned that the situation in Gaza is “getting worse each minute,” adding that “Another wave of displacement is underway in Gaza,” calling the entire Strip “one of the most dangerous places in the world.”
🟡 Since the end of the temporary ceasefire on December 1, Israeli attacks have killed at least 1,240 Palestinians in Gaza, 70% of whom were children and women.
🟡 Referencing Israeli military attacks on the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, Hamas announced yesterday that its fighters had targeted 25 Israeli army vehicles and dozens of Israeli soldiers in the town.
🟡 Senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan said that “Netanyahu and his war staff are sinking deeper and deeper into the swamp of Gaza” and that the group is “well prepared” to fight no matter how long the war lasts.
🟡 Israeli forces arrested at least 60 Palestinians from the West Bank overnight. 3,640 Palestinians have been arrested in the West Bank since October 7.
🟡 For the first time since October 7, Israeli shelling in southern Lebanon killed a Lebanese soldier and wounded three others. The attack occurred although the Lebanese army hasn’t engaged in any form of armed conflict with Israel since the Israeli forces started targeting H3zbo!lah in southern Lebanon in October.
🟡 Nicaragua’s Foreign Minister Denis Moncada traveled to the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank to express solidarity with the Palestinians, condemning Israel’s “brutal aggression.”
#GazaUnderAttack #Gaza #StandWithPalestine #MiddleEast #News
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Yemen's Ansarallah movement has transformed the seized "Israeli-owned Galaxy Leader" ship into a tourist attraction. Footage shows scores of Yemenis waiting on the coast to board the ship.
In a breathtaking military operation captured on camera, involving helicopters, soldiers, and speedboats, the Ansarallah movement took control of the ship on November 20. The naval blockade imposed due to Israel's war on Gaza is forcing the war cabinet to maneuver vessels from Asia and East Africa around the entire African continent.
Yahya Saree, the spokesman for the Yemeni armed forces, officially announced a unilateral naval blockade against all Israeli ships in the Red Sea. He emphasized that these ships will remain targets until Israel puts an end to its war against Gaza.
#Yemen #Houthi #PalestineWar #GazaWar #News
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Today, we commemorate Frantz Fanon, the Afro-Caribbean anti-colonial revolutionary who passed away in 1961. When he died at the young age of 36, his words had already inspired liberation movements worldwide.
Fanon was born 98 years ago in the former French colony of Martinique, part of the West Indies. Later, as a psychiatrist, Fanon analyzed the sociopathological structure of the colonial system and worked closely with the Algerian National Liberation Front, which fought against French colonial rule.
His flagship work, "The Wretched of the Earth," became a classic of anti-colonial literature, with a print run in the millions. In chapter one, Fanon wrote, "Colonialism is not a thinking machine, nor a body endowed with reasoning faculties. It is violence in its natural state and will only yield when confronted with greater violence."
The revolutionary Fanon died of leukemia in December 1961. More than half a century after Fanon's death, his writings are still vivid today.
#FrantzFanon #BlackLiberation #Imperialism #BlackHistory #PanAfrican
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🟡 The death toll from Israel’s relentless war on Gaza has reached at least 15,500. Israel’s war on the enclave has disrupted communications to the extent that it is impossible to provide accurate and up-to-date numbers in relation to the death toll.
🟡 The Israeli occupation forces extended their bloody ground invasion into the southern part of the Gaza Strip. IDF Chief of Staff, Herzi Halevi, said that the attack “Will be no less powerful than [the invasion in northern Gaza].”
🟡 Israeli attacks in Gaza have killed more than 800 Palestinians since Saturday. Southern Gaza experienced its worst bombardment since October 7, according to UNICEF spokesperson James Elder.
🟡 The head of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has warned that Israel’s attacks on the southern Gaza Strip could force 1 million Palestinian refugees towards the Egyptian border.
🟡 Around 70% of Israeli forces have already withdrawn from northern Gaza due to the failure of their operations and resistance attacks, the Gaza ruling group said.
🟡 In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces arrested at least 60 Palestinians after targeting several towns in overnight raids. Since October 7, Israeli forces have detained at least 3,540 Palestinians.
🟡 Israeli occupation forces ordered a Palestinian to demolish his house near occupied East Jerusalem, accusing him of building it without permission. So far this year, Israeli authorities have demolished more than 600 homes in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
🟡 Yemen’s Ansarallah targeted two Israeli ships in the Red Sea after they ignored warnings from the group’s navy, potentially marking a significant escalation following a series of maritime attacks since October 7.
🟡 US House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner revealed that Washington is helping Israeli intelligence agencies to track down the leaders of Gaza’s ruling group but is being “selective” about the information it shares with Israel due to Israeli intelligence failures.
#GazaUnderAttack #Gaza #StandWithPalestine #MiddleEast #News
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While the global elite is debating climate change at COP28 in the United Arab Emirates, African countries face the devastating impact of the El Niño weather phenomena. Flash floods in East Africa have displaced more than a million people in Somalia, leaving hundreds dead. Last month, Kenya was hit by deadly flooding, which killed dozens of people, destroying farmland and forcing at least 4,000 families to leave their homes.
Once again, we’re seeing how the Global North fails to take responsibility for climate change as the Global South suffers its consequences. Single-handedly, the Global North is responsible for 92% of excess global carbon emissions, a study done by Lancet Planetary Health revealed.
El Niño is a naturally occurring weather pattern originating in the Pacific Ocean, leading to increasingly warm conditions worldwide, heavy rain in some areas, and droughts in others. According to scientists, the impact of EL Niño is exacerbated by climate change.
#AfricaNews #COP28 #ClimateJustice #ClimateChange
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Yemen's Ansarallah further reinforced its blockade of Israeli ships in the Red Sea by targeting two ships yesterday. The naval blockade imposed due to Israel's war on Gaza is forcing the war cabinet to maneuver vessels from Asia and East Africa around the entire African continent.
Yemeni forces attacked with ballistic missiles and drones, while a US warship was also targeted, according to a US spokesman. Yemeni armed forces spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree announced a unilateral naval blockade against all Israeli ships in the Red Sea, emphasizing that ships will be attacked until Israel ends its war against Gaza.
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#GazaUnderAttack #Gaza #StandWithPalestine #MiddleEast #News
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🟡 Latest War on Gaza news roundup:
🟡 Israel resumed its bombing of Gaza mere minutes after the week-long ceasefire crumbled. The Israeli army says it has hit more than 200 targets so far today. The strikes have killed at least 109 people and wounded hundreds.
🟡 An investigation by +972 Magazine unveiled new AI technology employed by the Israeli military since the onset of the war on Gaza on October 7. The AI calculates targets based on Israeli databases, predicting civilian casualties. Former officials disclosed that Israeli military commanders authorized each bomb, fully aware that it would lead to the deaths of hundreds of civilians for each military target.
🟡 The death toll of Israeli-killed children in the occupied West Bank has surpassed 100 this year, with 63 of them since October 7, averaging more than one child lost each day.
🟡 The displaced population in the occupied Gaza Strip has surged to 1.8 million people, constituting approximately 80 percent of the enclave's residents.
🟡 The Yemeni Ansarallah movement has declared its commitment to blocking Israeli ships from the Red Sea, vowing to expand operations against Israel until the Gaza attack concludes
🟡 According to an Israeli poll conducted about a month into the conflict, 57.5% of Israelis support an escalation of the bombing in Gaza, while 36.6% consider the firepower used by the IDF as "appropriate."
🟡 Lebanese resistance forces launched strikes against Israeli military targets for the first time since the collapse of the ceasefire, breaking the comparative calm along the Israel-Lebanon border during the almost week-long truce.
🟡 Cracks within the Israeli war cabinet continue widening, with far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich advocating for the severing of "all ties and negotiation" with Gaza's ruling group. He vehemently opposes further ceasefires, deeming them a "terrible mistake" that projects weakness.
#GazaUnderAttack #Gaza #StandWithPalestine #MiddleEast #News
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Gaza is under non-stop Israeli bombardment, with the first strikes hitting just minutes after the one-week ceasefire fell apart today. The red. Media team was on the ground in Khan Younis as survivors pulled victims from the rubble with their bare hands, many of them children.
Over 109 Palestinians have been killed and dozens more injured by Israeli shelling in northern, central, and southern Gaza since the ceasefire collapsed. The Rafah crossing with Egypt has been shut down, blocking life-saving humanitarian aid trucks from reaching those in need.
UNICEF reported that Israeli bombs targeted the largest functioning hospital in all of Gaza, Al-Nasr, operating at a staggering 200% capacity. The Jabalia refugee camp, Gaza's largest, faced yet another round of Israeli strikes.
#GazaUnderAttack #Gaza #StandWithPalestine #MiddleEast #News