In practice, this ceasefire amounts to a one-sided truce, where Israel can carry out a relentless, low-grade war on Gaza, while Palestinians are systematically denied the right to respond or defend themselves. A "Yellow Line" block in Gaza -- image via Drop Site News video screenshot on X By Ramzy Baroud, Common Dreams The so-called Gaza ceasefire was not a genuine cessation of hostility, but a strategic, cynical shift in the Israeli genocide and ongoing campaign of destruc

The coming months and years mark the most critical fight for truth in the conflict’s history. Catastrophic devastation in Gaza -- UNRWA video screenshot from November 2025 By Ramzy Baroud, Common Dreams Israel’s allies worldwide are desperately scrambling to help Tel Aviv reestablish a convincing narrative, not only concerning the Gaza genocide , but the entire legacy of Israeli colonialism in Palestine and the Middle East. The perfect little story, built on myths and outr

The most urgent task, to end genocide, requires truthful coverage about Israel’s war crimes. People amid the catastrophic devastation in Gaza as winter approaches -- UNRWA video screenshot from November 2025 By Kathy Kelly, Common Dreams On Saturday, 8 November, 2025, Dan Perry wrote in The Jerusalem Post about Israel’s projected lifting of the media blockade on Gaza . Perry laments that Israeli censorship has left all reporting of the atrocity in the hands of Palestinian

Netanyahu surrounded by US officials at the White House, September 29, 2025 By Vijay Prashad No dia 26 de outubro, Caroline Willemen, do Médicos Sem Fronteiras, afirmou que Israel continua usando a necessidade de ajuda humanitária em Gaza como “meio de exercer pressão”. “A situação humanitária em Gaza não melhorou de forma significativa”, disse Caroline à imprensa, “já que a escassez de água e abrigo persiste e centenas de milhares de pessoas continuam vivendo em tendas à me

“The occupation targets whoever it wants, stopping and resuming the genocide every few days as if playing with our lives,” said one young woman from Gaza. An IDF helicopter in Gaza, October 13, 2025 -- / IDF Spokesperson's Unit By Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams More than 800 Palestinians have been killed or wounded since the October 10 truce between Israel and Hamas , leaving many residents of the still-embattled, still-starved strip to question whether there is actually any

A mural painted on the rubble of a destroyed building in Al Thawra Street in Rimal, Gaza. The mural was created by Mostafa Mehna with 25 children from Gaza. The Arabic text reads "There is hope" -- photo, February 2025 via Hla.bashbash, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Biljana Vankovska As a professor who has spent more than forty years studying questions of war and peace, international law and relations  —and above all, the human consequences of armed conflict— I once bel

UN Special Rapporteur for Palestine, Francesca Albanese is in the country at the invitation of the Nelson Mandela Foundation Francesca Albanese at the Groot Kerk event organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. All photos by Mzi Velapi By Mzi Velapi, Elitsha, South Africa The United Nations Special Rapporteur for Palestine, Francesca Albanese, has urged South Africans to use their consumer power to intensify their actions in support of the broader campaign for boycotting

Trump and Netanyahu with a number of US officials at the White House, September 29, 2025 -- public domain image By Vijay Prashad On 26 October, Caroline Willemen of Médecins Sans Frontières stated that Israel continues to use the need for humanitarian aid in Gaza as “means of pressure”. “The humanitarian situation in Gaza has not improved significantly”, she told the press, “as water and shelter shortages persist and hundreds of thousands of people continue to live in tents

For ordinary people, survival, continuity, and self-assertion are the ultimate signs of victory against Israel, a country that does not hesitate to use genocide for temporary political gains. By Ramzy Baroud, Common Dreams For the last two years, my social media algorithm has been relentlessly dominated by Gaza , particularly by the voices of ordinary Gazans, displaying a blend of emotions that centers on two core principles: grief and defiance. Grief has characterized life

By Vijay Prashad Aos poucos, o panorama completo da devastação de Gaza por Israel está se revelando. O Escritório Central de Estatísticas Palestino (PCBS) divulgou um relatório no período do cessar-fogo que começa a apresentar os números: o bombardeio de Gaza por Israel resultou na destruição total de 190.115 edifícios e na destruição quase total de outras 330.500 unidades habitacionais. Os constantes ataques de artilharia e aéreos durante os 734 dias do genocídio resultaram

The PCP on US imperialism, NATO warmongering, Palestine and the Middle East, Venezuela, the Nobel Peace Prize, and the blockade of Cuba. A PCP flag at the 2025 Avante! Festival -- image via the PCP From the Communiqué of the Central Committee of the Portuguese Communist Party of October 14, 2025 (For the full communique looking at the results of the local elections, addressing various aspects of the Portuguese national situation and the elections for President of the Republic

Trump and Starmer, September 25, 2025 -- Number 10 https://www.flickr.com/number10gov/, OGL 3, via Wikimedia Commons "Labour should quit its competition against Reform UK and the Tories to see who can sink the lowest in their grovelling to President Trump, their connivance in Israeli genocide and their attacks on human rights and democratic liberties", Robert Griffiths told the Communist Party's executive committee last weekend. "We have a Prime Minister who shows more conce

By Vijay Prashad Slowly, a full picture of the devastation of Gaza by Israel is becoming clear. The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) released a report around the time of the ceasefire that began to lay out the numbers: Israel’s bombardment of Gaza resulted in the total destruction of 190,115 buildings and the almost total destruction of another 330,500 housing units. The constant artillery and aerial fire over the 734 days of the genocide resulted in the wrec

Images via the KKE The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) reports that on Friday October 10, trade unions and other mass organizations held a rally in solidarity with the Palestinian people outside the Israeli embassy, following a call by the All Workers’ Militant Front (PAME). Thousands of protesters called for an intensification of the struggle for an independent Palestinian state within the 1967 borders, with territorial continuity and East Jerusalem as its capital, free from

South African Communist Party condemns United States aggression against Venezuela, denounces Nobel Peace Prize on a sworn apartheid Israel supporter, an imperialist coup agent in Venezuela against a democratically elected government Saturday, 11 October 2025 : - The South African Communist Party (SACP) condemns the military aggression perpetrated by the United States against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. The US military attack on Venezuela is a clear violation of int

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