
ISRAELI forces killed at least 18 Palestinians today, including four people sheltering in a tent camp inside a hospital complex in Gaza.
This comes as two people were killed during a stabbing incident in a Tel Aviv suburb.
Tensions have soared following nearly 10 months of war in Gaza and the assassinations, widely blamed on Israel, of a Hamas leader in Iran and a senior Hezbollah commander in Lebanon within 12 hours of each other last week.

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