600,000 Palestinian kids in Rafah can’t “evacuate” safely, UNICEF official says

The Intercept Jeremy Scahill May 8, 2024 600,000 Palestinian Kids in Rafah Can’t “Evacuate” Safely, UNICEF Official Says “The reality for kids living there is shocking, honestly,” said an official who recently returned from Gaza. “People are living in really squalid conditions.” Rolling its tanks this week into Rafah, in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli […]

600,000 Palestinian kids in Rafah can’t “evacuate” safely, UNICEF official says

UN: Over 100,000 Palestinians displaced from Rafah as Israel intensifies strikes

Press TV – May 10, 2024 The United Nations says more than 100,000 Palestinians have been forced to leave Rafah, amid intensified Israeli strikes on the southern city in Gaza.

“More than 100,000 people have fled Rafah,” Hamish Young, UNICEF’s senior emergency coordinator in the Gaza Strip, said at a briefing in Geneva via video-link […]

UN: Over 100,000 Palestinians displaced from Rafah as Israel intensifies strikes

Petro pide a la CPI que emita una orden de detención contra Netanyahu

El mandatario colombiano también dijo que el Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU debería “considerar el establecimiento de una fuerza de paz en el territorio de Gaza”.

El presidente de Colombia, Gustavo Petro, ha instado a la Corte Penal Internacional (CPI) a emitir una orden de detención contra el primer ministro de Israel, Benjamín Netanyahu, luego […]

Petro pide a la CPI que emita una orden de detención contra Netanyahu

Workers mount massive general strike against right-wing Argentine government / by Morning Star

A few public buses drive through empty streets near the Retiro train station during a general strike against the reforms of President Javier Milei in Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 9, 2024. | AP

Reposted from the Morning Star: The People’s Daily (UK)

Argentina’s biggest trade unions mounted one of their fiercest challenges to the free-market fundamentalist government […]

Workers mount massive general strike against right-wing Argentine government / by Morning Star

Ceasefire movement deserves the credit for Biden’s weapons pause / by C.J. Atkins

A man holds a sign calling for the U.S. military to stop sending aid to Israel during a rally calling for a ceasefire outside the office of Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa, in Philadelphia.

Reposted from Peoples World

So many bombs, tank shells, bullets, […]

Ceasefire movement deserves the credit for Biden’s weapons pause / by C.J. Atkins

Houston’s Market-Driven Housing Solution Is No Triumph / by Sam Russek

A homeless man seeks shelter from the rain in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, August 27, 2017 in Houston, Texas. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images) Mayors of large US cities are looking to Houston for inspiration in solving their homelessness problems. But Houston’s “Housing First” policy is designed to clear the streets and […]

Houston’s Market-Driven Housing Solution Is No Triumph / by Sam Russek

Turkish occupation plans and resistance in Southern Kurdistan (Iraqi State)

https://riseup4rojava.org/ — https://t.me/RiseUp4RojavaEng

Summary of Turkish occupation plans and resistance in Southern Kurdistan:

➡️ AKP regime launching offensive in the mountains

➡️ Trade agreements as pretext for war against PKK

➡️ Guerrilla resistance vs international complicity

More background information:
https://riseup4rojava.org/intensified-turkish-attacks-in-kurdistan-and-new-acts-of-repression-in-europe/