
GUNMEN opened fire on a bus carrying Israelis in the occupied West Bank today, killing at least three people and wounding seven.
Violence has surged in the territory since Israel began its brutal retaliation to Hamas’s October 7 2023 attack from Gaza.
Today’s attack occurred in the Palestinian village of al-Funduq, on one of the main east-west roads crossing the territory. Israel’s Magen David Adom rescue service said two women in their sixties and a man in his forties had been killed and the military said it was looking for the attackers.

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