Archive for August 29th, 2024

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29/08/2024

West Bank Strikes: UN Human Rights Body Condemns Israeli Military Escalation

Human Wrongs Watch

By Daniel Johnson

(UN News)* — Amid further raids, airstrikes and settler attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday [], the UN human rights office, OHCHR, warned that the Israeli military’s actions risked further enflaming an “already explosive situation”.
Palestinian refugees stand next to their demolished home in Jenin, West Bank. (file)
© UNRWA/Firas Shehadeh | Palestinian refugees stand next to their demolished home in Jenin, West Bank. (file)

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29/08/2024

US: Democratic National Convention Fiddles while the World Burns

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By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service*

While election year politics dominates the news, the control of both major U.S. political parties by the fossil fuel industry and the military-industrial complex makes the policies they agree on more dangerous than their disagreements.

DNC delegates unfurl banner during Biden’s speech at the DNC. Photo credit: Esam Boraey

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29/08/2024

World Food Programme Halts Operations in Gaza after Team Attacked

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(UN News)* — The World Food Programme (WFP) announced on Wednesday [] a pause in the movement of its employees in Gaza until further notice following an attack on a team returning from an aid delivery mission on Tuesday evening, just metres from an Israeli-controlled checkpoint.

A WFP team came under fire on the evening of 27 August, a few metres from an Israeli checkpoint at the Wadi Gaza Bridge.
WFP | A WFP team came under fire on the evening of 27 August, a few metres from an Israeli checkpoint at the Wadi Gaza Bridge.
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“This is totally unacceptable and the latest in a series of unnecessary security incidents that have endangered the lives of WFP’s team in Gaza,” said the UN agency’s Executive Director Cindy McCain, calling on the Israeli authorities and all parties to the conflict to act immediately to ensure the safety and security of all aid workers in Gaza.

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29/08/2024

Is the UN Ready for a Second Trump Presidency?

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By Thalif Deen

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 29 2024 (IPS)* – The Communist Manifesto of a bygone era, authored by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, begins with an implicit warning: “A specter is haunting Europe—the specter of Communism.”
 

US President Donald Trump (2017-2021) presiding over a meeting of the UN Security Council. Credit: United Nations

And today another specter is haunting– this time at the United Nations — the specter of a second Trump presidency.

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