Workers hold massive protest in Australia, demanding food for Gazans
Reuters, 8/3–Tens of thousands of demonstrators braved pouring rain to march across Sydney’s iconic Harbour Bridge on Sunday calling for peace and aid deliveries in the war-torn Gaza Strip, where a humanitarian crisis has been worsening. Nearly two years into a war that Palestinian authorities say has killed more than 60,000 people in Gaza, governments and humanitarian organisations say a shortage of food is leading to widespread starvation. Some of those attending the march, called by its organisers the ‘March for Humanity’, carried pots and pans as symbols of hunger”...
London police arrest hundreds of workers to shut down Palestinian support
Al Jazeera, 8/9–Police in London have arrested hundreds of people at a protest in support of the group Palestine Action, which was classified as a “terror organisation” by the British government last month. The Metropolitan Police said 466 demonstrators had been arrested at Parliament Square by 9pm local time (20:00 GMT) on Saturday “for showing support for Palestine Action”. “It will take time, but we will arrest anyone expressing support for Palestine Action,” the police force said in an earlier post on X.
Italian dockworkers block passage of weapons en route for Israel
The Cradle, 8/10–Workers in the Italian port of Genoa have blocked passage of a Saudi vessel carrying weapons shipments for Israel. The Bahri Yanbu, operated by Saudi shipping firm Bahri, which arrived from Baltimore, Maryland, was slated to take on military hardware made by Italian arms giant Leonardo…inspections revealed that the ship was carrying weapons and ammunition for Israel after 40 dock workers boarded the vessel. “We don’t work for war,” said Jose Nivoi from the Autonomous Collective of Port Workers and the Union Sindicale di Base…Italian union leaders have warned that handling such shipments constitutes complicity in the war crimes carried out by Israel in the Gaza Strip, vowing a ban on unloading weapons for warzones “by any means.”
Evidence mounts of IDF targeting of civilians
Guardian, 8/9–A Guardian investigation analysing visual evidence, bullets, medical data and patterns of injuries from two hospitals, as well as interviews with medical organisations and surgeons across approximately 50 days of food distribution, appears to show a sustained Israeli pattern of firing on Palestinians seeking food…More than 2,000 Palestinians were injured during the 48 days investigated, mostly by gunshots. In the footage, machine-gun fire can be heard on at least 11 days near the food distribution sites. Bullet casings recovered from patients, and patterns of fire analysed by weapons experts, suggest they were Israeli munitions.
By attacking Iran’s nuclear program, the U.S. may have guaranteed nukes in Iran
Foreign Affairs, September/October–Ultimately, by resorting to military force, Israel and the United States may have accelerated the very outcome they sought to forestall: an even more repressive and adversarial Islamic theocracy with a bomb in the basement and a score to settle in its backyard…In the wake of the joint U.S.-Israeli assault in June, an atomic insurance policy may become exponentially more desirable for the Islamic Republic. Iran’s leadership could now double down on its nuclear bet by attempting to salvage the wreckage and launch an all-out effort to acquire a weapon—but more quietly this time…
Refugee crisis in Spain leads to battles in the streets
CNN, 7/14– Spanish police have arrested eight people after three nights of clashes between far-right groups and North African migrants in a town in southeastern Spain, the government said on Monday. In one of Spain’s worst such flare-ups of recent times, several dozen youths, some hooded, hurled glass bottles and other objects at riot police in Torre Pacheco on Sunday night, Reuters journalists saw. Police fired rubber bullets to quell the unrest. The trouble stemmed from an attack last week on a man in his late 60s that left him injured and recovering at home.