
THREE people were killed in an overnight Israeli strike on a home in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said today.
It said the strike had hit the Tulkarem refugee camp, a built-up residential area dating back to the 1948 war that accompanied Israel’s creation.
The Israeli military said its aircraft had struck “several” militants in Tulkarem as ground forces continued a search for buried explosives.

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