In today’s world no one is innocent, no one a neutral. A man is either with the oppressed or he is with the oppressors. He who takes no interest in politics gives his blessing to the prevailing order, that of the ruling classes and exploiting forces.” —George Habash

“Decolonization, which sets out to change the order of the world, is, obviously, a program of complete disorder. But it cannot come as a result of magical practices, nor of a natural shock, nor of a friendly understanding” —Frantz Fanon

With Israel in particular, it is immediately apparent how willfully ignorant Americans are to the level of sheer violence that it takes to uphold a settler society. Every day that Israel exists as an apartheid State is a violent event for Palestinians. Further, every missile that strikes Gaza and every raid on a refugee camp in the West Bank is propped up by financial support from the United States. The focus of condemnation should therefore be Israel and the United States for creating the material conditions that have necessitated a liberation movement.

The purported concern about violence rings empty when it is devoid of any reference to Israel’s history as a settler colonial project; without any reference to the Nakba of 1948 or the 11-day bombardment of Gaza in 2021 which resulted in hundreds of lost lives and thousands of destroyed residences. Throughout the onslaught, hospitals and news agencies were deliberately targeted by the air strikes—which of course utilized U.S.-made warplanes and bombs. The conditions of colonialism and apartheid ensure that even the most ordinary day is subjected to violence in less blatant forms (e.g. the violence like hunger and poverty that Kwame Ture described as being “so institutionalized that it becomes a part of our way of life” and is accepted as normal). But 2021 was also preceded and followed by other explicitly jarring events, such as the senseless shootings during the Great March of Return in 2018-2019 (over 8,000 hit with live ammunition, over 30,000 injured) and the settler rampage of Huwara earlier this year (leaving hundreds of homes and vehicles torched).

All of this illustrates that, as put by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, “Settler colonialism, as an institution or system, requires violence or the threat of violence to attain its goals.” Israel’s colonization of Palestine is the embodiment of violence—and any notion that violence is “committed equally by the colonized and the colonizer [ ] blurs the nature of the historical processes.” Dunbar-Ortiz’s point has been reiterated by many voices committed to self-determination, decolonization, and universal freedom. Paulo Freire, the great Brazilian educator instructed that “with the establishment of a relationship of oppression, violence has already begun. Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed.” Walter Rodney, the radical Guyanese intellectual, put it similarly, “Violence aimed at the recovery of human dignity and at equality cannot be judged by the same yardstick as violence aimed at maintenance of discrimination and oppression.”

With this framework in mind, to call the recent militancy “unprovoked” is to ignore the systemic nature of oppression in Palestine. To those that opt not to ignore it, the response was inevitable for the same reasons that Angela Davis called certain tactics taken during the black liberation struggle inevitable: “Because of the violence that exists on the surface everywhere, you have to expect that there are going to be such explosions. You have to expect things like that as reactions.” An acknowledgment of how violence permeates prior to the reaction is crucial.

And it should be clear that what we expect and what we desire are not always one and the same. Malcolm X, an early advocate of Palestinian liberation articulated this point well: “I don’t believe in violence that’s why I want to stop it. And you can’t stop it with love. So, we only mean vigorous action in self-defense and that vigorous action we feel we’re justified in initiating by any means necessary.” When Palestine resists its oppression, it acts in self-defense; it aims at “the recovery of human dignity.” For anyone whose crucial guiding moral and political directive is self-determination and freedom, it is clear which side of the struggle we stand on.

To a Free Palestine in our lifetimes.

“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.” —Assata Shakur

“The way the oppressor tries to stop the oppressed from using violence as a means to attain liberation is to raise ethical or moral questions about violence. . . . [V]iolence in any society is neither moral nor is it ethical. It is neither right nor is it wrong. It is just simply a question of who has the power to legalize violence.” –Kwame Ture

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It has been 15 days since Israeli Occupation Forces started their continuous bombings of Gaza following Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, threatening a complete genocide of Palestinians living there

Oct. 23 — In what has been described as the most intensive bombing of the besieged Palestinian territory since October 7, at least 400 more people were killed in Israel’s indiscriminate strikes in Gaza strip on Sunday October 22.

Israel bombings inside Gaza continued on Monday as well with over 60 people killed in overnight attacks alone.

The Israeli military claimed on Monday that it bombed over 300 targets in Gaza on Sunday. Their aircrafts continued to target residential areas in Khan Younis, Al-Fallujah, and other localities killing civilians including children, on the 15th day since the Palestinian resistance movements launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.

Israeli warplanes targeted densely populated Jabalia refugee camp where at least 30 people were killed, as well as other localities close to the Al-Shifa and Al-Quds hospitals.

Footage released by the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) on Monday clearly shows Israeli bombing in the vicinity of the Al-Quds hospital.

These hospitals are overcrowded with wounded and in danger of being bombed like Al-Ahli Arab hospital last week. Close to 500 Palestinians were killed when Israel bombed it on October 17.

According to the Gaza Ministry of Health more than 5,000 Gazans have been killed in the Israeli bombings so far, of those over 2,000 were children. More than 15,000 people have been wounded in these attacks and over a million have been displaced.

Israel has also killed over 95 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and wounded over 1,600 of them in the last 15 days. Israeli occupation forces arrested hundreds of Palestinians in different raids in the occupied West Bank on Sunday as well.

The Israeli blockade on food, fuel and medicine supplies to Gaza continued on its 15th day and despite the small number of humanitarian aid trucks reaching the territory through Egypt’s Rafah border since Saturday there is an urgent need for the full resumption of the free transit of these supplies.

Lack of fuel and medical supplies have made around 10 hospitals in Gaza go out of service, increasing pressures on the remaining hospitals and endangering hundreds of lives including newborn babies.

Philippe Lazzarini, head of United Nations Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA) warned on Monday that, “in three days UNRWA will run out of fuel, critical for our humanitarian response across the Gaza strip.”

Lazzarini stated that without fuel it will be difficult to run the hospitals and supply basic amenities including food to the affected people. UNRWA runs several hospitals and also shelters over 500,000 Palestinians displaced due to Israeli bombings in Gaza.

51 health workers have also been killed in airstrikes since October 7 and over 87 others have been injured.

Meanwhile, China’s special envoy to the Middle East, who is currently touring the region, said on Monday that his country is willing to do whatever it takes to start a dialogue to explore an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. He stated that the situation in Gaza is very serious and if no steps were taken to achieve a ceasefire now there is a possibility of a region-wide escalation.

In the meanwhile, Israel is already bombing Lebanon targeting Hezbollah, which has supported the actions of the Palestinian resistance during Al-Aqsa Flood and targeted positions of the Israeli army near the Lebanese border.

Oct. 20 — The West’s ongoing military support and international propaganda campaign to cover up the enemy’s crimes does not appear sufficient to ensure the success of the enemy campaign against the Gaza Strip. The heinous crimes against civilians do not aid the enemy in achieving its lofty political goals. Consequently, the occupation government is seriously discussing preparations for a ground operation.

Regardless of the significant operational support provided by the West, led by the United States, the leadership of the occupation army is still confused and unclear on the strategy and timing of the ground operation. Particularly because they seem unable to agree upon the potential casualties and losses that may be inflicted by the Axis of Resistance forces outside of Palestine.

Coordination within the Axis of Resistance

In this context, Al-Akhbar learned that [since the start of Al-Aqsa Flood,] all the forces of the Axis of Resistance, spanning across Arab and Islamic countries, have solidified strategies for providing the highest level of “effective support” for the resistance in Palestine. Multiple joint operations rooms have been established to monitor the field conditions for tactical and strategic operations, in addition to political activities. Furthermore, numerous plans have been drawn up to reinforce the strength of several Resistance factions in various arenas.

Over the past 36 hours, the Resistance forces have translated this into practical steps. In addition to political stances rejecting the West’s demands to cease support for Gaza, a series of coordinated military operations have been carried out across multiple fronts. Palestinian Resistance factions continued to launch rockets deep into the heart of the entity, specifically into Tel Aviv. Moreover, a Palestinian Resistance group launched a Kornet ATGM at an enemy armored vehicle east of Khan Yunis. At the same time, the Al-Qassam Brigades carried out missile strikes from Lebanon towards the northern occupation settlements, while the Al-Quds Brigades detonated high explosive devices in Tulkarem, killing and wounding enemy soldiers. Meanwhile, Hezbollah continued its operations [destroying sensors, radar, and cameras] aimed at “blinding the occupation” along the Lebanese border.

According to Al-Akhbar’s sources, the Resistance strikes against reconnaissance outposts have destroyed a significant amount of enemy technological systems, including advanced surveillance cameras capable of covering extensive areas, some with a range of up to 20 kilometers. Additionally, specialized radars for personnel and vehicles installed on towers in the locations have been destroyed, along with systems for intercepting communications and jamming, as well as specialized sensors that can use thermal imaging to remotely track any moving object across a wide area. According to the sources, the enemy is trying to compensate for these losses by deploying more high-altitude and medium-altitude drones to cover the border front.

Furthermore, Hezbollah has dealt a significant blow to the occupation armored units by destroying a significant number of enemy Merkava tanks. Among the destroyed tanks is a Merkava Mark V, which boasts special armor and electronic jamming devices designed to thwart Kornet missiles. It is noteworthy that in recent days, the Resistance has heavily utilized the Kornet missile system as a multi-purpose tactical weapon. This reflects a vast stockpile of these missiles in their possession in conjunction with various types that have yet to be deployed.

Activating battlefield unity

Simultaneously, the Joint Operations Room of the Axis of Resistance organized operations in other battlefields. A group of Iraqi Resistance factions carried out multiple drone strikes against U.S. bases in Iraq and Syria, causing direct casualties. The United States later announced that its naval units intercepted missiles launched by Ansarallah in Yemen, but did not specify whether the missiles targeted its own warships or military points inside occupied Palestine. According to the occupation army radio, “Israeli officials confirm to us that between two and five missiles were launched from Yemen and targeted Israel.”

The Kataib Hezbollah Resistance group in Iraq also targeted the illegal U.S. occupation base at Al-Tanf on the border triangle between Syria, Iraq, and Jordan with artillery, missiles, and drones. The Resistance group also announced a drone attack on the U.S. Ain al-Asad base west of Baghdad, two days after the same base was subjected to a similar attack by drones at the same time as another attack on the Al-Harir base in northern Iraq. Yesterday evening, strong explosions were heard in Deir Ezzor and Al-Omar oil fields. At the same time, the gas line connecting to the Coneco natural gas plant, which is controlled by the U.S. occupation army through its base in the northern countryside of Deir Ezzor, eastern Syria, was blown up.

Meanwhile, large groups of Iraqi fighters and civilians have started moving towards the Iraqi border with Jordan. According to Al-Akbar’s sources, this coordinated action is part of an organized, strategic framework and will include tens of thousands of people in the coming days. This has prompted Israeli military movements along the Jordanian-Palestinian border.

Al-Akhbar News learned that the operational coordination between the Resistance Forces aims to pressure the enemy on multiple fronts and make it clear to Washington that its threats against the forces and nations of the Axis of Resistance will be met with direct action, not mere words. This led to an unprecedented rise in U.S. and Israeli security measures. Several diplomatic missions in the region have been closed, and the U.S. Department of State has issued a warning to its citizens worldwide, urging them to exercise caution due to the potential for retaliatory strikes against U.S. interests as a result of its support for the occupation in Palestine. At the same time, “Israel” advised its citizens in foreign countries to return directly to Tel Aviv while urging various Arab and regional governments to take measures to safeguard “Israeli” businesses, embassies, and citizens due to the widespread mobilization against the enemy in the Arab and Islamic world.

This information suggests that the existing coordination between the Axis of Resistance forces will translate into significant political and popular actions against Zionist aggression and the U.S. presence in the region as popular support for the Palestinian Resistance surges in countries within the Axis of Resistance. These actions are part of a growing campaign to increase on-the-ground support for the Resistance both inside and outside of Palestine. This is particularly crucial as the enemy has intensified its security and military activities in the West Bank and urged Jordan to “exert maximum efforts” to prevent any movement of people through its territory.

U.S. parameters for the ground operation

In the midst of these developments, Israel buzzed with news that a decision to launch a ground operation has been approved, and the military has been tasked with presenting detailed plans for approval at the political level. It is evident that Washington is now in control of “Israeli” decisions, as leaked reports from President Joe Biden’s meetings with Israeli officials two days ago revealed that Washington “provides significant political and military support to Israel and will prevent any international institution from issuing a call for a ceasefire or limitations.” However, the U.S., in return, demanded that the enemy commanders ensure that the goals of any ground operation are realistic and achievable. Enemy media noted that, in reply to enemy ministers who stated “a ground operation is necessary,” U.S. President Biden responded by demanding they define the goals of such an operation. President Biden also publicly stated that he never told “Israel’s” leaders that the U.S. military would join the fight against Hezbollah if the latter launched a preemptive war against the occupation.

Al-Akhbar learned that the leadership of the Al-Qassam Brigades and Al-Quds Brigades informed the Joint Operations Room of the Axis of Resistance that it was in a state of complete readiness and that the Israeli aggression had not disrupted its capabilities in any significant way. They also confirmed that their preparations for countering any ground assault were well underway, and they were fully equipped to deliver severe blows to the occupation forces. Al-Akhbar’s sources have confirmed that the enemy has failed to destroy the tunnel system in the Gaza Strip, that the operation to mobilize thousands of Resistance fighters has not been interrupted, and that the Resistance also possesses multiple new secret weapons specifically designed for ground confrontations.

Source: Al-Akhbar

Translated by Orinoco Tribune

Oct. 20 — The strikes carried out by the Axis of Resistance against the Zionist-American forces of aggression in all fields and arenas of confrontation constitute the most effective response to the escalation of the aggressors’ camp in its war of genocide and crimes against our people.

The heroic exploits undertaken by the forces of the resistance, each from its position, will be witnessed by the history of our nation and the world. They are the ones who will achieve victory and defeat the coalition of aggression.

The fires of the resistance have been consuming the aggressor’s army at the hands of the heroes of Hezbollah from the start of the aggression. Meanwhile, the heroes of the resistance in Iraq rose with their stance and angry supportive actions before they launched the noble Arab people’s fire on the U.S. occupation bases, epitome of evil and aggression. When the Yemeni lightning strikes the fleets of the U.S. aggressors, it confirms the unity of the nation and reflects the solidarity between the oppressed and downtrodden peoples and the forces of resistance against the colonial invaders.

This emphasizes that continuing to target the interests and bases of U.S. terrorism and its Zionist agents serves as a protective shield for our people, especially after the U.S., Britain, and France made the Security Council and U.N. institutions hostage to the will and policy of American-Zionist terrorism.

The Front extends its condolences to the families of the martyrs of the resistance in Lebanon and to the leadership of the resistance, which has never abandoned Palestine for a single day. The Front salutes its heroes in all arenas, emphasizing that this cohesion and rallying around Palestine by the Axis of Resistance, in defense of its people, and the convergences of their fire and positions with the resisting Palestinians within the occupied homeland, will defeat the aggression and open the doors to victory and liberation.

In conclusion, the Front emphasizes that our people’s confidence in the Axis of Resistance is great. The Front underscores the importance of supporting this heroic effort, tremendous revolutionary work, and the unified confrontation strategy. This is achieved by rallying the masses of our nation and the free people of the world, escalating their activities, besieging the embassies of the forces of aggression in all countries worldwide, and fighting against the bases of the evil U.S. regime and its interests.

This is in defense of our oppressed, patient, resistant, and steadfast people in Palestine in the face of the war of extermination and in rejection of all attempts and plots of displacement.

Translated by Panagiotis Karystinos

 Source: PFLP on Telegram

It’s not just ‘unlikely’ that a Palestinian rocket hit the Gaza hospital. It’s impossible. The media know this; they just don’t dare say it

Oct. 18 — Let’s say it again: The BIGGEST fake news comes from the establishment media. When the stakes are high, it barely bothers to hide its role as mouthpiece for Western propaganda.

This is another Iraqi WMD moment. We are being gaslit. Believe your eyes and ears, and the laws of physics, not the lies being peddled by our leaders and media about last night’s missile strike on the Baptist hospital in Gaza:

1. No Palestinian group has a rocket that can hit a hospital, killing hundreds. What they have are glorified fireworks that can cause minor damage and the occasional death or two. If Hamas or Islamic Jihad could cause the kind of damage that happened last night, you would hear about it happening in Tel Aviv or Ashkelon too. You don’t, because they can’t.

2. Israel’s apologists (and there are lots of them) are sharing all sorts of videos unrelated to the hospital strike. But the video of the strike itself shows that an incredibly large and powerful weapon is used. Listen to the noise the missile makes just before the hit – that whooshing noise is caused by its phenomenal velocity as it cuts through the air. That is not the noise of a falling Palestinian rocket.

If you watch videos being shared of Palestinian rockets being fired, notice how slowly they travel. Almost at a snail’s pace. If they fail, they drop at free-fall speed, not the near-supersonic speed of the missile that hit the hospital. To think otherwise is to misunderstand the laws of physics.

3. Israel’s apologists are trying to further muddy the waters by suggesting that either a Palestinian rocket fell, or was intercepted, and the rocket or fragments of it hit a very large ammo dump in the hospital. Let’s just accept the racist premise that hundreds of families were quite happy to seek safety next to a huge stash of explosives in the middle of a relentless Israeli bombing campaign. Let’s also accept the fantastical idea that a falling glorified firework or fragment of it could penetrate the hospital’s strong walls and set off such an explosion. If all this was true, you would still see a series of secondary explosions as the arms were detonated by the initial explosion. You don’t because there is only one explosion – from an enormous missile.

4. It’s a desperate psyop, so Israel has now released a recording of two Hamas militants conveniently having a chat after the missile strike, discussing whether they or Islamic Jihad did it. This is the same Israel that did not detect months of planning by Hamas that was needed to organise its breakout 10 days ago. But Israel got lucky this time, it seems, and just happened to be listening in when Huey and Louie decided to self-incriminate.

Remember Israel has a whole unit of ‘mistaravim’, Israeli Jewish undercover agents trained to pose as Palestinians and secretly operate among Palestinians. Israel produced a highly popular TV series about such people, set in Gaza, called Fauda. You have to be beyond credulous to think that Israel couldn’t, and wouldn’t, rig up a call like this to fool us, just as it regularly fools Palestinians in Gaza.

Most of the people spreading these lies know they are lies, including the media, and most especially the Middle East and defence correspondents. At least a few, like the BBC’s Jeremy Bowen and Jon Donnison, are trying cautiously to suggest it’s unlikely a Hamas rocket could cause damage on the scale seen at the Gaza hospital. But it’s not unlikely. It’s impossible, and they know it. They just don’t dare say it.

Jonathan Cook is a Nazareth- based journalist and winner of the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism

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Women in Struggle – Mujeres en Lucha, a U.S.-based organization and member of the Women’s International Democratic
Federation, condemns the Genocide that the murderous state of Israel is committing against the Palestinian population in the
Gaza Strip, a population composed mostly of women and children.

We also condemn the criminal actions of the United States government that hypocritically repeats ad nauseam the justification
of helping in the “defense” of Israel, sending it powerful weapons so that Israel increases its capacity to devastate this invaded
territory that constitutes the largest prison on the planet. But what else can you expect from a country like the United States
that burned to death tens of thousands of Japanese people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Who launched white phosphorus bombs
against the Vietnamese people? Who provided the white phosphorus, prohibited by International Law, to Israel to use against
Gaza and Lebanon, according to the NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW)?

It is also sickening and outrageous that to justify massacring a people, they use the religious fervor of people around the world
as a shield.

We also refuse and condemn the silence of governments that, for their economic interests, excuse and condone this genocide.

We, however, embrace the Palestinian people and support their just struggle of Resistance that has not ceased since the beginning
of the invasion and occupation by Israeli Zionism. We emphasize that the Armed Struggle used against the subjugation of
a colonized people, their right to resist in the way they deem convenient and possible, is valid within International Laws.

Long live Free Palestine!

Declaración de Mujeres en Lucha-Women in Struggle sobre Palestina

Mujeres en Lucha – Women in Struggle, organización basada en los Estados Unidos y miembro de la Federación Democrática
Internacional de Mujeres, condena el Genocidio que el estado asesino de Israel está cometiendo contra la población palestina en
la franja de Gaza. Población compuesta en su mayoría, de niños y niñas y de mujeres.

Condenamos asimismo la actuación criminal del gobierno de los Estados Unidos que hipócritamente repite hasta el cansancio la
justificación de ayudara la “defensa” de Israel, enviándole poderosos armamentos para que de este modo, Israel tenga la capacidad
de arrasar este territorio invadido que constituye la cárcel más grande del planeta. Pero, ¿qué más se puede esperar de un país como
los Estados Unidos que quemaron vivosa decenas de miles de japoneses en Hiroshimay Nagasaki? ¿Que lanzó bombas de fósforo
blanco contra el pueblo vietnamita? ¿Quién le proveyó el fósforo blanco, prohibido por las Leyes Internacionales,a Israel para
usarlas contra Gazay el Líbano según reportó ONG Human Rights Watch (HRW)?

Resulta además asqueantee indignante que para justificar masacrara un pueblo utilicen como escudo el fervor religioso
de las personas alrededor del mundo.

Rechazamosy condenamos asimismo, el silencio de los gobiernos que por intereses económicos excusany condonan este genocidio.
Nos abrazamos sin embargo al pueblo palestinoy apoyamos su justa lucha de Resistencia que no ha cesado desde el inicio de
la invasióny ocupación por el sionismo israelí. Recalcamos que la Lucha Armada en contra de la subyugación de un pueblo
colonizado, su derechoa resistir de la forma que lo crea convenientey posible, es válida dentro de las Leyes Internacionales.

¡Viva Palestina Libre!

Israel has demanded that 1.1 million Palestinians evacuate the northern half of Gaza while subjecting them to constant bombardment. This ruthless move is part of Israel’s plan, backed by unwavering support and active participation from the U.S. and a majority of European states, to carry out unprecedented and heinous massacres against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza and to ethnically cleanse it altogether. Since Oct. 14, Israel has indiscriminately and intensively bombarded Gaza and cut off fuel, electricity, water, food, and medical supplies. Israel has killed more than 2,600 Palestinians — including 724 children — leveling whole neighborhoods, wiping out entire families, and injuring more than 10,000 people. Some international law experts have begun warning of Israel’s genocidal acts.

Elsewhere, Israel’s far-right government has distributed more than 10,000 rifles to extremist settlers in ‘48 Palestine and the occupied West Bank to facilitate their escalating attacks and pogroms against Palestinians. Israel’s actions, massacres, and rhetoric point to its intention to implement its long-promised second Nakba, expelling as many Palestinians as possible and creating a “New Middle East” in which Palestinians live in perpetual subjugation.

The response by Western states has been one of complete and total support for the state of Israel, without even a cursory nod toward international law. This has amplified Israel impunity, giving it carte blanche to carry out its genocidal war without limit. Beyond diplomatic support, Western states are supplying Israel with armament, sanctioning the operation of Israeli weapons companies within their borders.

As Israel escalates its military campaign, Palestinian trade unions call on our counterparts internationally and all people of conscience to end all forms of complicity with Israel’s crimes — most urgently halting the arms trade with Israel, as well as all funding and military research. The time for action is now — Palestinian lives hang in the balance.

This urgent, genocidal situation can only be prevented by a mass increase of global solidarity with the people of Palestine that can restrain the Israeli war machine.

We need you to take immediate action — wherever you are in the world — to prevent the arming of the Israeli state and the companies involved in the infrastructure of the blockade. We take inspiration from previous mobilizations by trade unions in Italy, South Africa and the United States and similar international mobilizations against the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in the 1930s, the fascist dictatorship in Chile in the 1970s and elsewhere where global solidarity limited the extent of colonial brutality.

We are calling on trade unions in relevant industries:

1. To refuse to build weapons destined for Israel.
2. To refuse to transport weapons to Israel.
3. To pass motions in their trade union to this effect.
4. To take action against complicit companies involved in implementing Israel’s brutal and illegal siege, especially if they have contracts with your institution.
5. Pressure governments to stop all military trade with Israel and, in the case of the U.S., stop funding it.

We make this call as we see attempts to ban and silence all forms of solidarity with the Palestinian people. We ask you to speak out and take action in the face of injustice as trade unions have done historically. We make this call in the belief that the struggle for Palestinian justice and liberation is not only a regionally and globally determined struggle. It is a lever for the liberation of all dispossessed and exploited people of the world.

Signers:

Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions, Gaza

General Union of Public Service and Trade Workers

General Union of Municipal Workers

General Union of Kindergarten Workers

General Union of Petrochemicals Workers

General Union of Agricultural Workers

Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees

Generation Union of Media and Print Workers

Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU)

General Union of Palestinian Teachers

General Union of Palestinian Women

General Union of Palestinian Engineers

Palestinian Accountants’ Association

Professional Associations Federation including:

Palestinian Dental Association – Jerusalem Center

Palestinian Pharmacists Association – Jerusalem Center

Medical Association – Jerusalem Center

Engineers Association – Jerusalem Center

Agricultural Engineers Association – Jerusalem Center

Veterinarians Syndicate – Jerusalem Branch

Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate

Palestinian Bar Association

Palestinian Nursing and Midwifery Association

Union of Kindergarten Workers

Palestinian Postal Service Workers Union

Federation of Unions of Palestinian University Professors & Employees

The General Federation of Independent Trade Unions, Palestine

The Palestine New Federation of Trade Unions

Palestinian General Union of Writers

Palestinian Contractors Union

Federation of Health Professionals Syndicates

Palestinian Union of Psychologists and Social Workers

To get involved, contact us at: workersinpalestine@gmail.com

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Saturday, October 21, 2 p.m.
FLOOD THE STREETS for PALESTINE!
Penn Train Station – Baltimore

March and rally!!
Bombing schools and hospitals is a war crime—US/Israel are responsible.
#freepalestine #freepalestine🇵🇸 #palestinesolidarity #solidaritywithpalestine #internationalsolidarity

Statement by New York City Councilmember Charles Barron.

Let’s be very clear. The attack on Israel by Hamas, on October 7, 2023 was not an “unprovoked attack”; it was inevitable and must be put into historical context and cannot be used as a justification for escalating the continuing genocide against the Palestinian people.

Let me state unequivocally that I have always deplored any intentional killing of innocent non-combatant women, children, and men in any theater of war, anywhere in the world including the so-called Middle East.

The road to peace in the so-called Middle East can be achieved if the international community calls for the apartheid Israeli government to end its decades-long colonization and illegal, immoral occupation of Palestinian land, since the Balfour Declaration in 1917. The international community must support the right of Palestinian refugees who were forcibly displaced from their land, to return to their homes.

From the Englishman Lord Balfour’s Declaration, in 1917, to support the Jewish people in establishing a “national homeland” in Palestine; to the Nakba (“Catastrophe”) when 700,000 Palestinians were displaced from their homes in 1947 to establish a Jewish state in 1948; to the present; tens of thousands of innocent Palestinian women, children, and men have been killed by Israeli forces.

In 2014, a United Nations report documented that in the attack on the Gaza strip, the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) killed 1523 Palestinians, which included 509 children.

Earlier this year, before the October 7th attack, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Donald Trump of the Middle East, and his fascist right-wing government annexed more settlements in the West Bank, killing over 239 Palestinians and 40 of them were children. The armed Jewish civilian settlers participated in the killings, according to international reports.

The United States for decades has supplied the state of Israel with billions of dollars worth of arms to continue the occupation of Palestinian land. For over 16 years, Israel has imposed an illegal blockade on Gaza. Nothing comes in by land, sea or air! No food, no electricity, no fuel! The blockade did not start as a reaction to the latest attack.

This madness must stop! How much blood must be spilled before Israel ends its occupation of Palestine?

Free Palestine and there will be peace in the Middle East!

Oct. 12, 2023