Every year on April 4th, people, municipalities, and self-government councils plant trees all over Rojava to celebrate the birthday of Abdullah Öcalan.
It is an act of ecological as well as anti-colonial struggle and gained a place in the consciousness of the people of whole Kurdistan and beyond.
Also this year, despite all the attacks on the people and nature of Rojava by the Turkish state, thousands of trees are going to be planted in the region on this date.
As Make Rojava Green Again, we call on all our friends to join the people of Rojava and plant trees everywhere on April 4th to contribute to the ecological revolution and show solidarity with the people of Rojava.
Send us the pictures of your planted trees: makerojavagreenagain@riseup.net
By Julia Conley Common Dreams Concerns about the safety of paraquat, a highly toxic herbicide, pushed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 2021 to ban its use on golf courses — but the weedkiller is still permitted for agricultural use, and a new first-of-its-kind analysis shows how the EPA’s continued approval of the substance […]
El ejército israelí ha anunciado este lunes que 600 de sus soldados han muerto desde el 7 de octubre de 2023, inicio de la guerra con el movimiento islamista palestino Hamas en la Franja de Gaza. “Nadav Cohen, de 20 años, de Haifa (…) murió en acción en el sur de la Franja de Gaza”, ha anunciado un portavoz del ejército israelí en su página web oficial, lo que eleva a 600 el número de soldados israelíes muertos en Israel y los Territorios Palestinos desde el comienzo de la guerra.
De los 600 soldados, al menos 256 han muerto en la Franja de Gaza desde el 27 de octubre, inicio de la operación militar terrestre lanzada en represalia por el ataque de Hamás en el sur de Israel el 7 de octubre, según un recuento de AFP basado en datos oficiales israelíes. Más de la mitad de las 600 personas muertas lo fueron en el ataque sin precedentes de Hamas contra Israel el 7 de octubre.
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Otros soldados murieron en Cisjordania ocupada o en la frontera con Líbano, donde los intercambios de disparos han sido casi diarios desde el 7 de octubre. Además, más de 1.523 soldados han resultado heridos en territorio palestino desde el inicio de la operación terrestre, siempre según el ejército israelí.
La lista de “bajas de guerra” publicada por el ejército israelí y en la que figuran los fallecidos desde el 7 de octubre de 2023 incluye a soldados y reservistas. Los israelíes que han cumplido el servicio militar, es decir, una gran parte de la población judía adulta, están obligados a ser reservistas hasta los 40 años, aunque algunos israelíes deciden seguir sirviendo después de esa edad. 169.500 soldados están bajo contrato (de servicio y profesional).
It seems Housing Secretary Michael Gove is abandoning a promise to abolish a regulation known as Section 21, which gives landlords power to evict without giving a reason, by the next general election.
Instead, protection against so-called “no-fault” evictions, is being watered down to apply only to new tenancies.
Thought this may have been an early April Fool. Rishi Sunak faces revolt over plan to criminalise homelessness. A homeless person could be jailed for having “an excessive smell” or sleeping in a doorway. Are these the British values we keep hearing about?https://t.co/PPNIU6w0xc
You can tell the Tories don’t have any hope for the next election; that’s why they’re still looking after their own and sticking the boot into everybody else. This is a taste of their true colours.
Immense destruction has befallen the area, caused by the killing and terror machine of this barbaric and lawless Israeli army ..
The Government Media Office in Gaza says that the Israeli occupation detained around 300 people from Al-Shifa Hospital and its vicinity while 100 individuals remain missing.
Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas condemned the brutal Israeli crimes in the Al-Shifa Medical Complex and its surroundings, which have gone beyond the bounds of civilization and humanity, and held the administration of President Joe Biden responsible for the “horrific crime” as it continues to back and support the occupation.
After 14 days of seige and occupation of the medical facility, Israeli occupation forces withdrew from the Al-Shifa late Sunday, leaving behind hundreds of bodies both inside the hospital and in its vicinity, in addition to mass destruction, leaving the hospital completely out of service.
The Resistance group highlighted some vital points “in light of this morning’s revelations following the withdrawal of the terrorist occupation army from the Al-Shifa Medical Complex and its
surroundings,” in addition to “the immense destruction that has befallen the area, caused by the killing and terror machine of this barbaric and lawless army .. and the horrifying executions discovered, as well as the bodies of martyrs found tied-up and buried alive .. or those crushed by tanks, in addition to other atrocities.”
Al Mayadeen’s correspondent: An Israeli aggression targets the Yarmouk Basin area in the western countryside of Syria’s Daraa province
United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) received reports of an incident 150 NM northwest of Yemen’s Hodeidah
IRGC: The criminal Israeli operation came after “Israel’s” irreparable defeats and the steadfastness of the people of Gaza
IRGC: We offer our condolences to the leader of the Revolution on the martyrdom of Iran’s senior military advisors who were veteran freedom fighters of the Islamic Revolution
The Iranian ambassador in Damascus to Al Mayadeen: The attack reflects the reality of the entity that does not recognize any international laws and is ready to commit anything that goes against humanity
Iranian Ambassador to Damascus Hussein Akbari to Al Mayadeen: We will continue to stand by the resisting people, and we do not fear the criminality of this entity
Syrian FM Faysal Mekdad from the Iranian Embassy headquarters in Damascus: The Israeli occupation entity will not be able to affect relations between Iran and Syria
White House: Aware of reports of Iranian Consulate in Damascus hit by Israeli airstrike on Monday
Amir-Abdollahian holds “Israel” responsible for the consequences of the attack: State media
Iranian FM Amir-Abdollahian says Israeli attack on Iranian consulate in Damascus is a breach of all international conventions: State media
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Three of the UK’s high street banks have been funding a large oil conglomerate with millions to pursue exploitative activities in the North Sea.
HSBC and NatWest, two of the United Kingdom’s largest banks, have been exposed and accused of funding fossil fuel expansion in the North Sea despite signing a pledge to comply with net zero climate goals, TheGuardian reported.
Another high street bank, Lloyds, was also involved in similar funding activities but slowed them down since signing the agreement.
The three banks are part of the Net Zero Banking Alliance and have pledged to cease direct financing for new oil and gas projects and to align their lending and investment portfolios with net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 at the latest.
However, a report called Banking on Climate Chaos 2023 indicates that between 2016 and 2022, Lloyds, HSBC, and NatWest provided significant financial support to Ithaca Energy, with Lloyds subsequently selling off its debt facilities to the company and having no ongoing lending to Ithaca.
Ithaca Energy is a British oil and gas conglomerate that has been majorly involved in the exploitation of the Rosebank oilfield northwest of the Shetland Islands and has been funded with between $60 million to $78 million from each of the three banks.
Ithaca has invested billions in developing Rosebank
Rosebank is the UK’s largest untapped oil field and holds around 500 million barrels of oil, which could emit 200 million tonnes of CO2 if fully utilized. Ithaca has been investing billions into developing Rosebank and aims to kickstart production by 2026, however, it has not officially declared its intentions to venture into renewables production, prompting critics to coin it a “pure play” company.
It is worth noting that the UK authorized the exploitation of Rosebank in September 2023.
The Israeli army withdrew from inside the Al-Shifa Hospital and the surrounding areas west of Gaza City early Monday, leaving scores of casualties and extensive destruction in the hospital and its vicinity, Anadolu news agency reported.
The army fully withdrew from inside the hospital and the surrounding neighbourhoods towards areas south of Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood, southwest of Gaza City, witnesses told Anadolu.
The Israeli forces burned all buildings in the hospital resulting in complete cessation of services, the witnesses added
They also noted that the army destroyed the specialised surgery building and burned the main reception and emergency building.
Israeli forces also burned the buildings of the kidney and maternity wards, mortuary refrigerators, and cancer and burn facilities, and destroyed the outpatient clinic building, according to the witnesses.
Israel has ended its assault on the al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, because there is nothing left to assault. The facility — the largest medical complex in Gaza where hundreds of civilians had been sheltering — is now an empty, unusable, burnt-out husk. Witnesses report hundreds of…
According to Palestinian medical sources, the hospital is now completely out of service and the army destroyed all medical equipment in the complex, operation rooms, and intensive care units.
The witnesses reported that scores of scattered bodies were found in the hospital and in the streets surrounding it.
They explained that the army destroyed the makeshift cemetery established by Palestinians in the facility and removed the corpses from it, scattering them in various areas of the hospital.
They further noted that Israeli forces burned and destroyed many homes and residential buildings in the vicinity of the hospital.
The Israeli army raided the hospital, the largest medical facility in the Gaza Strip that houses thousands of patients and displaced people, on 18 March.
La masacre del hospital Al-Shifa es peor que las masacres de Deir Yassin y Tantoura de la Nakba de 1948 juntas
Más de 300 mujeres, niños y hombres masacrados. Muchos atados y ejecutados, algunos aplastados por tanques, quemados y despedazados por misiles, restos de esqueletos y… pic.twitter.com/j552iQymvU
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