The National Emergency Briefing outlines the need for urgent action to address environmental crisis, says PAUL DONOVAN, warning that there’s no time to indulge the arguments of the fossil-fuel-funded climate-change deniers
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Projecting the scale of human catastrophe in Gaza
Researchers have used techniques from epidemiology to estimate possible deaths in Gaza under different scenarios as the genocide continues, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
A mass grave in Gaza
Campaigners say criticism of Labour MP Stephen Morgan’s position on Gaza has been met with police intervention and cancelled opportunities for debate. HESTER WOLFE reports
The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights warns of escalation danger in Iran war
Claudia Webbe pays tribute tribute to KANYA KING CBE, February 12 1964 to June 3 2026
The Milburn review presents itself as a plan to help young people into work, but Dr DYLAN MURPHY argues it is laying the groundwork for a harsher benefits regime
Campaigners from across the continent will gather in Brussels on June 14 to oppose Europe’s accelerating militarisation and cuts to public services, write MAGGIE SIMPSON and BOB ORAM of No Cold War Britain
THE humanitarian impact of Israel’s attack on Gaza is difficult to comprehend. Not only the bombardment but the severe restriction of aid into Gaza has killed tens of thousands of people.
Most awfully, these factors often combine, as on February 29. A crowd of desperate Palestinian civilians had gathered to wait for an aid convoy delivering bags of flour when Israeli troops fired into the crowd for a reported hour and a half. At least 118 civilians died in the “Flour Massacre,” as the event has been dubbed, with hundreds more injured.
As Al-Jazeera reported, though there is dispute over what led the Israeli forces to fire, the basic facts are clear: “Israeli forces fired indiscriminately into the crowd which killed dozens of people and led to a stampede in which more people died.”
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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
Israeli media awash with leaks and rumours of Netanyahu’s plans to seize Gaza. Meanwhile, the unrelenting siege of Gaza continues unabated
