It’s nearly 20:00 GMT (11pm in the Palestinian territories and Israel). Here’s all you need to know about the latest developments:
At least 50 people have been killed in various areas across the Gaza Strip in the past hour, says Ashraf al-Qedra, the Palestinian Health Ministry spokesperson
More than 700 Palestinians have been killed in overnight Israeli air raids on Gaza, according to Palestinian officials, creating the highest 24-hour death toll since Israel’s offensive on Gaza began.
Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari says Israel is still staunchly opposed to allowing fuel into the Gaza Strip.Al Jazeera
The WHO has called for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” to allow for the passage of fuel and healthcare supplies into Gaza, warning that thousands of vulnerable patients will be at risk otherwise.
The UN says 20 trucks that were due to deliver aid to Gaza via the Rafah crossing with Egypt have not yet entered the enclave, marking a day without any aid delivery.Al Jazeera
Situation in Gaza Strip is getting more catastrophic every day. In our attempt to better understand the situation in the region , we made an interview with an Israeli anarchist. We talk about the modern anarchist movement, the Israeli occupation of Palestine, resistance against it and prospects for the future.
Hi there. Maybe we could start with you quickly introducing yourself?
Sure. I’m an anarchist from Haifa, Occupied Palestine. Been active for more than a decade, mainly in the anti-colonial movement and solidarity with Palestinians, animal liberation and ecological issues.
How did you become an anarchist?
The short answer is punk. The longer answer is of course a bit more difficult. Growing up as a settler under a colonial apartheid regime, on the „right” side of the fence, being assigned Jewish by the state, naturally you’re expected not to rebel and become a prison guard like the rest. You’re growing up surrounded with militarist imagery, Zionist indoctrination in school, and historical events like the holocaust and the Jewish religion are weaponized to boost patriotism and nationalist propaganda. The version of Judaism being taught here is that we are the chosen people, this land belongs to us by divine decree, God is a real estate agent that can be used in any land dispute, and everyone else is destined to be second class citizens at best.
It’s really hard to explain to comrades abroad how collective the Zionist project is. Israel doesn’t have a real civil society. everything is acceptable, as long as it is within very limited, pre-defined borders. You can be leftist, gay, freak, whatever you want- we’re enlightened liberals and there’s a place for everyone- but be a Zionist, serve in the army, be a loyal citizen, and don’t push it. If you can, be also white and rich on top of that. Any step outside the national consensus and you’re an illegitimate traitor.
The narrow vision or rebellion within Zionist landscape can be demonstrated for example in the mass protest movement to „save Israeli democracy” during the land few months (currently on hold due to war) against the judicial reform.
Even when Israelis would step out to the streets in their hundreds of thousands every weekend against what is clearly a far-right coup attempt, they would still do anything they can to not mention apartheid and occupation over the Palestinians, and would fight to save „Jewish democracy”; i.e., ethnic superiority regime only for them, the status quo.
The two sides of this movement characterize an inner-settler conflict of how to manage apartheid better, the liberal approach versus the fascist approach. Obviously, whoever wins, the non-Jewish populations of this land, first and foremost Palestinians, would always lose.
So, given this context, the „Israeli left” is not appealing to anyone looking for actual justice for this place. For me, given the nature of the situation here, settlers with good conscience looking to join the anti-colonial resistance, which is the only revolutionary movement in region and the forefront of any actual radical change, cannot do it as an Israeli, from inside the Israeli society, looking for ways to reform and improve it.
On the contrary, we must shed ourselves off any colonial identity and develop tools and resources for effective race treason. We must develop an anti Israeli politics, turn against our society, and join the oppressed and the colonized, under their terms and leadership.
Anarchism gives me both the language and the tools to imagine this politics. For me, there is no ‘anarchist society’ to strive for as this is not an end goal, I see anarchism as a resistance movement, an arsenal of tools for the oppressed around the world to fight the current dystopia, and this is mainly what draws me to it.
You used to be involved in a project called „Radical Haifa” , but you told us it’s defunct now. It sounds like a very interesting initiative. Can you tell us more about it?
Nothing much to say here to be honest! We had a small group of friends in Haifa, organized as an anarchist collective a few years ago. We did stuff like having mutual aid and food distribution project during the covid lockdowns, initiating other community organizing, and joining local struggles in the city.
The group is currently not active, although maybe a new collective will appear in the near future. Meanwhile, Radical Haifa became mainly a Twitter account, circulating news and analysis from Palestine from a pro-resistance and anti-authoritarian perspective, and after the platform was taken over by fascists the account moved to Mastodon/Kolektiva.
One of the most well known anarchist groups coming from that area seems to be Anarchists Against the Wall. Were you involved? What is your opinion about that group?
Anarchists Against the Wall were definitely the most active and significant group amongst Israeli radicals and anti-authoritarians during the 2000’s. Born in the midst of the second Intifada, by solidarity activists participating in local struggles in West Bank villages against the construction of the apartheid wall, its main significance was in the fact that it broke every established norm and rule of operations of the Israeli left.
For once, people on both sides of the fence met not as enemies, nor as some shallow „coexistence” spectacle, but as fighters for the same cause, comrades, co-conspirators and accomplices, on equal terms. Aspects of co-resistance and joint struggle were prioritized, and under a regime like this, the sole action of meeting a Palestinian as a human being and a friend was enough for it to be considered radical and outside the mode of operation of the regular, established left.
During its peak, the group was able to bring hundreds of Israelis to the West Bank, to march with Palestinians directly and experience resistance first hand. Also, many direct actions have been conducted, like physically damaging the fence and sabotaging equipment. In the end, though, the group slowly withered away and no longer exists.
Personally, I was involved near the end, as a teenager coming out of the then Tel Aviv anarcho-punk scene, and as many well-intentioned radical solidarity initiatives organized by people from the privileged side in a colonial context, the group was not exactly immune to power relations and a hidden hierarchical behavior.
Many criticisms have been made about the group towards the end, and what role do settlers joining the anti-colonial resistance actually have. At a certain point, we also saw some of our privileges physically slipping away from us and it became impossible to act in the old way. Right-wing „investigators” infiltrated a protest with hidden cameras and the images broadcasted on television.
Comrades got in legal troubles for direct actions in a way that paralyzed their ability to continue. Others have been doxed and attacked by fascists. The political situation has changed, with it the available means of struggle. Overall, I do think it was a valuable experience with many lessons to teach comrades everywhere.
(ANSA) -Dolce, 37, from Trieste, who is now in prison at Imperia, was identified at the end of a complex investigation involving the DIGOS security police in Trento, Treviso, Trieste, Genoa and Brescia.
Dolce has several previous convictions and has been in prison in Tolmezzo, Ferrara – where he was detained together with anarchist leader Alfredo Cospito – and Modena. He must serve 3 years, 6 months and 15 days in prison for his political activism.
The fugitive anarchist from Trento, Luca Dolce, known by the pseudonym ‘Stecco’, has been arrested by the State Police. Captured by the Nocs of the State Police near Bordighera, in the province of Imperia, at the end of a complex investigation by the Central Directorate of the Prevention Police which had set up a working group with the Digos of Trento, Trieste, Treviso, Genoa and Brescia. Fugitive since 2021, at the time of his capture he had a false identity card.
At the same time as his capture, various searches were carried out in Trento, Trieste and Liguria conducted by Digos personnel aimed at crystallising places and contacts functional to Dolce’s fugitive status.
The anarchist was taken to Imperia prison to await immediate trial as he was responsible for possessing false identification documents. He will also have to serve a sentence of 3 years and 6 months for convictions that have become final and serve the precautionary measure in prison pending for another proceeding.
Who is Luca Dolce, known as ‘Stecco’
Luca Dolce, 37 years old, is originally from Trieste and has become an integral part of the Trentino anarcho-insurrectionist group since 2009, engaged in propaganda activities, contributing to the drafting of numerous writings and publishing numerous texts and articles very often characterized by profiles instigators and apologetics.
During a period of detention, expiated in 2019, he maintained a constant production of writings mainly aimed at anti-prison issues, intended for area sites, in particular attributable to the Trentino anarchist group. The various investigative activities have made it possible to ascertain the presence in Trentino of a deep-rooted anarcho-insurrectionist organization and of a network aimed at providing economic and logistical support to the fugitive members. Dolce from Trieste is firmly placed in this context.
The investigations highlighted the thirty-seven-year-old’s role in coordinating anti-prison activities at a national level by promoting initiatives and maintaining strong links with important representatives of the area and the conduct characterized by the use of violence on the occasion of public demonstrations resulting in invasion of land and buildings, littering, resisting a public official, lighting dangerous things, seditious gatherings and carrying objects capable of offending.
For all these crimes he was convicted in various criminal proceedings. Among these was the League demonstration in December 2018 in Rovereto: on that occasion a group of around 70 people from the anarchist movement, with helmets and sticks, clashed with the police forces present. With a sentence of 2023, the man was sentenced to 3 years in prison for crimes relating to public order for the disorders relating to the year 2016 when the Trentino anarchist movement participated in the demonstration against the borders at Brenner.
In prison with Cospito
Luca Dolce had been detained in the Tolmezzo prison, and in 2019 in the Ferrara prison where from May to December he shared a period of detention with Alfredo Cospito. Subsequently he was transferred to Modena prison.
Furthermore, from the investigations it emerged that Dolce, 37 years old, after a first imprisonment, maintaining relations with the Trentino team, becomes a point of reference for the Triveneto: in this capacity he also takes on the role of liaison figure with the adjacent realities of antagonism and Marxism-Leninism at both local and national levels.
This is a transversality that he had already covered between 2013 and 2018, when he also maintained epistolary contacts with well-known prisoners belonging to the Red Brigades.
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Israeli bombs reportedly hit Gaza’s largest refugee camp and residential buildings..
The Israeli military has launched one of its most violent attacks on the Gaza Strip since its latest bombing campaign began two weeks ago, further devastating the occupied territory as its overwhelmed healthcare system and humanitarian services teeter on the brink of collapse.
Over just the past 24 hours, Israeli airstrikes have killed more than 400 people in Gaza, bringing the enclave’s total death toll since October 7 to more than 4,500. Israeli bombs reportedly hit Gaza’s largest refugee camp on Sunday, killing dozens.
Children in Palestine’s besieged Gaza Strip are having their names written on their hands to facilitate the identification of their bodies in case they are massacred in an isr@eli airstrike. pic.twitter.com/H7ruUzIk3w
Gaza’s Interior Ministry said Israel also struck “residential apartments in the town of Khan Younis and the Nuseirat refugee camp, both of which are south of the evacuation line,” The Associated Pressreported.
The Israeli military said Monday that it had bombed more than 320 targets in Gaza in the past 24 hours.
The intense bombardment came as Israel prepared for what’s expected to be a large-scale ground invasion of the Gaza Strip. In recent days, the Israeli military has been conducting ground raids in Gaza but has thus far held off on fully invading, as the U.S. advises the Israeli government to delay the operation.
The Free 