SUSAN ABULHAWA traduit de l'anglais par PAJU IL EST 20H00 à Gaza, en Palestine en ce moment, la fin de mon quatrième jour à Rafah et le premier moment où j'ai dû m'asseoir dans un endroit calme pour réfléchir. J'ai essayé de prendre des notes, des photos, des images...
Pour publication immédiate Montréal le 18 avril 2024 La police de Montréal a arrêté 45 personnes après que des manifestants pro-palestine ont organisé un sit-in au siège social de la Banque Scotia, au centre-ville de Montréal, le lundi 15 avril. Des manifestants ont...
For immediate publication Montreal, April 18, 2024 Montreal police arrested 45 people after pro-Palestine demonstrators staged a sit-in at the Scotiabank headquarters in downtown Montreal on Monday, April 15. Protesters also targeted the Scotiabank headquarters in...
Ali Abunimah THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA 3 August 2014 PAJU NOTE: The call to genocide against Gaza’s Palestinian population did not begin with October 7, 2023. The extermination of Palestinians to make way for an exclusively Jewish colonial settler state has been...
Israel began strikes on the Gaza Strip, hitting targets across the already-besieged enclave.
The strikes began at around 18:00 local time (16:00 GMT), after Israel spent the day preparing for the assault. After claiming that a rocket was fired from Gaza on a town north of Tel Aviv, the Israeli army sent two army brigades – amounting to over 1,000 soldiers – to the Gaza fence and called up reservists from aerial units in preparation for air strikes.
Israel also locked down the Gaza Strip, closing the Kerem Shalom (Karm Abu Salem) and Erez (Beit Hanoun) crossings which allow goods and medical supplies into the enclave. It also reduced the fishing zone it imposes off Gaza’s Mediterranean coast, further blockading the territory.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – who also serves as the country’s defence minister – cut short his trip to the US to oversee the assault, returning to Israel “to manage our operations up close”. With just two weeks to go before Israel’s upcoming general election on 9 April, commentators have speculated that Netanyahu may hit Gaza with a particularly heavy hand in order to prove himself to the country’s right-wing and secure his re-election in the wake of struggling polling figures.
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