Yearly Archives: 2024

Israeli snipers accused of killing fleeing Palestinian civilians in Gaza City

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https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/israeli-snipers-accused-killing-fleeing-palestinian-civilians-gaza-city. Many articles from the Morning Star today.

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in the central Gaza Strip, July 10, 2024

ISRAELI snipers were accused of killing fleeing Palestinian civilians in Gaza City today.

This comes as the United States announced the resumption of 500-pound bomb shipments to Israel.

Palestinians who fled Gaza City after the latest Israeli evacuation order say snipers shot dead civilians near Yarmouk stadium.

Exact numbers of the dead are as yet unclear but the shooting comes after Palestinians were ordered by the Israelis to evacuate to the south as it steps up its offensive across the enclave.

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Multiple people said they saw a man walking in the street shot in the head by a sniper in a tower. Several people later managed to retrieve the body.

Israeli authorities have repeatedly ordered hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to leave areas they had previously declared were safe to return to — in both northern and southern Gaza.

This is not the first time Israeli forces have been accused of sniper fire against civilians.

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https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/israeli-snipers-accused-killing-fleeing-palestinian-civilians-gaza-city. Many articles from the Morning Star today.

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Pressure mounts on Labour to scrap cruel ‘sibling penalty’

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Zionist Keir ‘Kid Starver’ Starmer. Image thanks to The Skwawkbox.

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/pressure-piles-labour-scrap-cruel-sibling-penalty-campaigners-warn-most-large. Many articles from the Morning Star today.

PRESSURE piled on Labour to scrap the government’s cruel “sibling penalty” today as campaigners warned it’s set to push the majority of large families below the poverty line by the end of this parliament.

The two-child benefit limit, introduced in 2017, stops parents from claiming universal credit or child tax credit for more than two children.

But figures from the Department for Work and Pensions show 1.6 million children are now affected by the policy, rising by 100,000 in a year.

The Resolution Foundation warned the policy will push most large families below the breadline by the end of the parliament and said abolishing it would lift 490,000 children out of poverty.

Sir Keir Starmer pledged to reduce child poverty at Labour’s manifesto launch, but failed to commit to scrapping the cap.

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https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/pressure-piles-labour-scrap-cruel-sibling-penalty-campaigners-warn-most-large. Many articles from the Morning Star today.

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Morning Star Editorial: Water disgrace: Labour’s contortions keep the privatised gravy train rolling

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https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/water-disgrace-labours-contortions-keep-privatised-gravy-train-rolling. Many articles from the Morning Star today.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer (centre front) next to Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner (front row, third from left) and Chancellor Rachel Reeves (front row, fourth from right) stand with Labour Party MPs, some of whom won seats in the 2024 General Election, at Church House in Westminster, central London, July 8, 2024

CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves is right to say that steep increases in our water bills are a “bitter pill to swallow” — especially since her government could stop them if it wanted to.

Maybe its reluctance to take the obvious step — nationalisation — is linked to the lucrative rewards waiting for former ministers who play ball. After all, Water UK, the trade association lobbying for still steeper rises, is headed by former Labour minister Ruth Kelly.

Water UK slams Ofwat’s refusal to endorse its own proposed increases as “the biggest-ever cut in investment.”

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No other country has surrendered its water to private companies in this way and it is unlikely that any will, given that the outcome here has been poisoned waterways, sewage-strewn beaches and soaring bills. Earlier this year, over half the people polled said the sewage scandal would affect their vote. It may well have driven the Tory collapse across swathes of southern and coastal England. An even higher proportion, 69 per cent, want water back in public hands.

Labour says the cost of renationalisation is prohibitive and lands the public with private-sector debt.

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https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/water-disgrace-labours-contortions-keep-privatised-gravy-train-rolling. Many articles from the Morning Star today.

Image of a burst water main.
Image of a burst water main.
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Amnesty launches tells new Labour government ‘a lot needs fixing’

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https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/amnesty-launches-ads-tell-government-lot-needs-fixing. Many articles from the Morning Star today.

One of Amnesty International’s adverts in the London Underground, July 11, 2024

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL launched an ad campaign featuring yellow and black hazard tape on the London Underground today, telling the government that “a lot needs fixing.”

The posters, set to run until the end of the month at Westminster station, also say that “human rights are the answer.”

A to-do list has been made by the group for the first 100 days of the new Labour government, which includes an immediate suspension of arms to Israel, addressing homelessness and the housing crisis, and a major overhaul of the asylum system.

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https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/amnesty-launches-ads-tell-government-lot-needs-fixing. Many articles from the Morning Star today.

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Welsh First Minister accused of lying

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https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/welsh-first-minister-accused-of-lying. Many articles from the Morning Star today.

First Minister of Wales Vaughan Gething gives a speech during King Charles III and Queen Camilla visit to the Senedd in Cardiff, to mark its 25th anniversary, July 11, 2024

News outlet Nation.Cymru says Vaughan Gething is ‘unequivocally’ lying about Hannah Blythyn being its source

NEWS outlet Nation.Cymru said today that Hannah Blythyn was not the source of its deleted texts story that led to her sacking from the Welsh government — and accused First Minister Vaughan Gething of lying.

Nation.Cymru’s chief executive Mark Mansfield said Mr Gething had failed to behave with integrity by suggesting he had “incontrovertible evidence” that the former social partnership minister was the source of their story.

He said that following his response on Wednesday to her personal statement to the Senedd, “in this unprecedented situation, the board of Nation.Cymru does not consider we can stand by and see Ms Blythyn’s reputation unjustly besmirched by the First Minister.”

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“We can state unequivocally that Mr Gething is not telling the truth when he suggests that he has incontrovertible evidence that Ms Blythyn was our source,” Mr Mansfield said.

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https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/welsh-first-minister-accused-of-lying. Many articles from the Morning Star today.

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