
AT LEAST 30 Palestinians, including children, were killed in Gaza by Israeli air strikes early today, bringing the number of people killed in the past 24 hours to 56.
This came as stalled ceasefire talks were set to resume and as a United Nations rapporteur said the United States and Germany were responsible for providing Israel with 99 per cent of its weapons and ammunition suppilies.
At the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, staff said more than a dozen women and children had been killed in strikes that hit various places in central Gaza, including Nuseirat, Zawaida, Maghazi and Deir al-Balah.

ROGER McKENZIE expounds on the motivation that drove him to write a book that anticipates a dawn of a new, fully liberated Africa – the land of his ancestors

While much attention is focused on Israel’s aggression, we cannot ignore the conflicts in Africa, stoked by Western imperialism and greed for natural resources, if we’re to understand the full picture of geopolitics today, argues ROGER McKENZIE