The classic proclamations against sexist violence have been intertwined with a unanimous cry to call for an end to the genocide in Palestine.
Cientos de miles de mujeres han salido a la calle este 8M.
9 Mar 2024 Las clásicas proclamas contra las violencias machistas se han entrelazado con un grito unánime para pedir el fin del genocidio en Palestina.
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Henry Pacheco* Biden ha apoyado de forma diplomática y militar el genocidio de Gaza y hasta hace poco creían que solo ellos (él y Netanyahu) estaban dirigiendo la escena, pero ya confirmaron que no es así. El mundo está a punto de ver una guerra regional de grandes magnitudes donde Estados Unidos no va a ganar, […]
A Palestinian man holds a child as he mourns the death of twin babies Naeem and Wissam Abu Anza, killed in an overnight Israeli air strike, during their burial in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on March 3, 2024 | Photo by Mohammed Abed/AFP via Getty Images The Palestinians, facing down the most powerful […]
An unpublished report from UNRWA said some of its employees released from Israeli detention were tortured into falsely stating that the agency has Hamas links and that staff took part in the 7 October attacks, Reutersreported on 9 March.
The testimonies are contained in a report by the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) reviewed by Reuters and dated February 2024.
Israel`s Hostages… Since 7 October, Israel has arrested over 7,000 Palestinians, mostly still incarcerated without trial.. [Qassam Muaddi/TNA]
“Agency staff members have been subject to threats and coercion by the Israeli authorities while in detention and pressured to make false statements against the Agency, including that the Agency has affiliations with Hamas and that UNRWA staff members took part in the 7 October 2023 atrocities,” the report says.
The report included allegations of abuse and torture in Israeli detention, including severe physical beatings, waterboarding, and threats of harm to family members.
Haaretz newspaper reveals Israel's killing of 27 detainees from Gaza after October 7th in detention camps near Be'er Sheva and Anatot in Jerusalem, and other investigation centers, without the Israeli army providing information about these deaths.https://t.co/wsHoPu4eIk
Though waterboarding is widely viewed as torture by human rights groups, the Reuters report described Israeli actions only as “coercion” and “pressure” to force detained Palestinians to make false statements.
In addition to describing the torture of UNRWA employees, the report stated that Israel has subjected Palestinian detainees more broadly to beatings, humiliation, threats, dog attacks, and sexual violence. Some detainees have also died after Israel denied them medical treatment, the report added.
UNRWA communications director Juliette Touma said the agency planned to hand the information in the 11-page, unpublished report to human rights investigators at UN agencies and outside rights groups.
“When the war comes to an end there needs to be a series of inquiries to look into all violations of human rights,” she said.
Amid the torture and medical neglect, 27 Palestinians have died in Israeli prisons since the start of the war on 7 October
Israel has accused UNRWA employees of participation in the 7 October Hamas attack on Israeli settlements and military bases. Israel provided no evidence for the claim, but 16 countries, including the US, paused $450 million in UNRWA funding in response, throwing its aid operations into crisis just as starvation was beginning to grip Gaza.
Israel’s campaign against UNRWA is part of a broader campaign started years ago to dismantle the agency, which helps keep the hope of Palestinian refugees returning to their stolen lands and homes in what is now Israel alive.
In November, Palestinians released during the Hamas-Israel deal shared testimonies of abuse and torture in Israeli prisons. Earlier in February, the UN experts said in a report that at least two female Palestinian prisoners were facing sexual abuse.
Global art sensation Pigcasso – a 500-kilogram pig known for painting with her nose and a paintbrush – has passed away in South Africa at the age of eight, after suffering from chronic rheumatoid arthritis, her owner said on Wednesday.
In a statement to Caters News, Joanne Lefson – a 52-year-old artist and animal rights activist – announced that her creative partner had passed away after her symptoms rapidly worsened in September 2023. By early October, Pigcasso had lost the use of her hind legs due to calcification of the lower spine.
“There is much sadness that such an inspiring figure for welfare animals has passed, but we also celebrate a life well-lived and the profound difference she made,” Lefson said.
In loving memory of Pigcasso who has sadly passed away.
Rescued from a factory farm in South Africa, Pigcasso changed the hearts and minds of so many, encouraging them to reconsider how they saw farmed animals. She will leave a lasting legacy.
In 2016, Lefson rescued Pigcasso, who was then four weeks old, from a factory farm just before she was due to be sent to the slaughterhouse. From there, the pig was relocated to a sanctuary for rescued farm animals in Franschhoek, South Africa.
As famine stalks enclave, aid workarounds criticised as a distraction from Israel’s blocking of aid through land routes. Gaza has no ports or airports due to the western supported 17 year long Israeli blockade/ Finally the US says it will “build a pier”
Five people were killed and several injured after a parachute landing a humanitarian airdrop failed to open, bringing a pallet crashing down into a crowd of people waiting for food north of Gaza City’s Shati refugee camp.
The government media office in Gaza confirmed the casualties after the incident occurred on Friday, lambasting the “useless” airdrops as “flashy propaganda rather than a humanitarian service” and calling for food to be allowed through land crossings.
“We previously warned it poses a threat to the lives of citizens in the Gaza Strip and this is what happened today when the parcels fell on the citizens’ heads,” it said in a statement.
Reporting from Rafah, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud said that people are experiencing “a tragedy” in the north of Gaza.
“Not only are they confronted with the lack of food and medical supplies, but as they wait for packages of food, they are either targeted by the Israeli military or killed by a non-functional parachute,” Mahmoud said.
The deaths occurred as famine stalked the enclave, with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reporting last month that at least half a million, or one in four people in Gaza, face famine.
It highlighted the problem of getting desperately needed humanitarian relief into Gaza amid Israeli restrictions.
UNRWA, the largest UN agency in Gaza, says Israeli authorities have not allowed it to deliver supplies to the north of the strip since January 23.
Palestinian children wait to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen in Rafah [File: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters]
The World Food Programme, which had paused deliveries in Gaza because of security concerns, said the military forced its first convoy to the north in two weeks to turn back on Tuesday.
In response, a number of countries – including the United States, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt – have conducted airdrops, which have been criticised by aid agencies as a costly and ineffective way of delivering food and medical supplies.
On Wednesday, the WFP said that the controversial method should be considered “a last resort”. By way of contrast, it said that the week’s airdrops had only delivered six tonnes of food, while a failed 14-truck convoy would have brought 200 tonnes of food to people.
#Airdrops are only a last resort to reach Northern Gaza. Road routes are the only way to bring in the large quantities of food desperately needed to avert #famine.
For comparison:
🪂 This week's airdrops = 6 tons of food 🚛This week's failed 14-truck convoy = 200 tons of food pic.twitter.com/xkR3ZfDgmt
— WFP in the Middle East & North Africa (@WFP_MENA) March 6, 2024
On Friday, Juliette Touma, UNRWA’s communications director told Al Jazeera, “There is an easier and cheaper way to bring in much-needed supplies into the Gaza Strip … That is via the road including sending more trucks from Israel into the Gaza Strip.
Militancy is not masculine, fragility is not feminine
Despite the theme of International (Working) Women’s Day 2024 being “Invest in Women”, the socialist origins of International Working Women’s Day must not be forgotten.
In Australia, IWWD was commemorated for the first time in 1928 with a rally in Sydney, organised by the The Militant Women’s Movement of the Communist Party of Australia.
In campaigning for better wages and conditions, working women knew that the struggle to recognise their lives and labour as valuable was not going to come from asking to be invested in, but by demanding it.
As French anarchist Louise Michel said, “our place in humanity as women must not be begged but taken”.
This IWWD, we stand in solidarity with Palestinian women and their struggle for liberation. The slaughter, displacement and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians has disproportionately affected women in Gaza.
Opposition to the systemic colonial violence perpetrated by Israel must be active and direct. We must call out cynical bourgeois white feminism and it’s hypocritical ignorance towards the Palestinian struggle.
Here in Geelong and Australia, we are directly connected to the genocide by arms manufacturing and the governments support for the Israeli regime. As feminists, anarchists, and human beings with beating hearts we believe it is our duty to fight for a Free Palestine.
A revolutionary socialist movement will not be won without organised, class conscious, militant women.
Vapid slogans and breakfasts used by bosses, politicians and corporations have no place in our struggle for liberation.
The working class women of today must draw inspiration from the radical origins of International Working Women’s Day to struggle against domination, imperialism and discrimination and organise for a world that is free, equal and just.
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