While international actors discuss governance and reconstruction, Netanyahu has made it clear that Israel has no intention of ending its military occupation, says RAMZY BAROUD
WITH 2020 coming to a close, the Palestinian people are holding their breath. Will 2021 be a more welcoming one — one that will heal their long-sustained wounds and calamities?
The United Nations stated in a report that by 2020, Gaza would be “uninhabitable.” Has this gloomy prophecy come true for us?
When I first read that part of the report, I imagined Gaza becoming a ghost town with cracked signs reading “a people once lived here.”
MATT ALLEN salutes the workers and reps who push back against bosses, win for members and make the Unite union what it is
The catastrophe unfolding in Gaza – where Palestinians are freezing to death in tents – is not a natural disaster but a calculated outcome of Israel’s ongoing blockade, aid restrictions and continued violence, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
For those in the West, hunger is often just the familiar feeling of a growling stomach between meals — in Gaza, it has become a strategic weapon of slow, systematic and deadly destruction, writes MARC VANDEPITTE


