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Israel face new storm of condemnation after dozens die in Rafah strikes

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Palestinians look at the destruction after an Israeli strike where displaced people were staying in Rafah, Gaza Strip, May 27, 2024

ISRAEL faced fresh condemnation today for strikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah that local health officials said had killed at least 45 Palestinians, including displaced people living in tents that were engulfed by fire.

The country has provoked a growing storm of international condemnation over its military action in the now devastated coastal strip, with even close allies expressing outrage at civilian deaths.

Israel is seeking to wipe out Islamist resistance group Hamas, but, showing that it’s far from beaten, the resistance group launched a barrage of rockets on Sunday from the city towards central Israel, causing no injuries.

Tel Aviv said today it was looking into the civilian deaths in Rafah after its forces struck a Hamas installation and killed two senior militants.

Sunday night’s attack, which appeared to be one of the deadliest since the start of the current violence, helped push the overall Palestinian death toll above 36,000, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

“We pulled out people who were in an unbearable state,” said Mohammed Abuassa, who rushed to the scene in the north-western district of Tel al-Sultan. “We pulled out children who were in pieces. We pulled out young and elderly people. The fire in the camp was unreal.”

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Post published:28 May 2024
Post category:Fascism human rights violations Israel Palestine politics Zionism
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Scotland could be a ‘clean energy superpower’ say Labour

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RWE’s Gwynt y Mor, the world’s 2nd largest offshore wind farm located eight miles offshore in Liverpool Bay, off the coast of North Wales, July 26, 2022

MORE than 69,000 new green jobs could be created as Scotland turns into a “clean energy superpower” under a Labour government, the party has claimed.

Labour controversially dropped plans for a £28 billion Green New Deal earlier this year, promising a Green Prosperity Plan instead which would invest £8.2bn, raised from windfall tax receipts on oil and gas profiteers, to form a new state-owned power company based in Scotland.

The party said boosting investment in green technologies such as wind, hydrogen and controversial carbon capture could generate as many as 53,000 jobs in Scotland, with 16,000 more being created by a drive to insulate thousands of homes which still fall below energy efficiency standards.

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Scottish Green co-leader Lorna Slater remained unconvinced, however, saying: “Labour has already dropped its flagship green transition plan before a single vote has been cast, and has refused to rip up a single Tory oil licence.

“They are betraying future generations and selling off our North Sea to fossil fuel giants.”

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dizzy: I am expecting Keir Starmer’s Red Tories / Labour party to fail to address the climate crisis by committing to any real green policies and instead to promote it’s flaccid GB Energy fudge to confuse and distract from the urgent need to transition from fossil fuels.

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Post published:28 May 2024
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Greens respond to Labour’s economic plans

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Green Party Co-leader Adrian Ramsay. Wikipedia CC.

Reacting to Labour’s plans to chase narrow economic growth over other priorities, Adrian Ramsay said:

“The transition to a green economy provides major opportunities which we must grasp – opportunities for warmer homes, lower bills and good new jobs. The Green Party would invest in the technologies we need to ensure a sustainable and secure future.

“But we would not be chasing growth for growth’s sake. We need to ensure our economy works in a way that safeguards our climate and enables nature to flourish.

“And we need to make sure the economy we are building is fairer as well as greener.

“This is why we would secure the investment needed to restore our public services by asking the very richest in society to contribute more. Even modest changes to the tax system for the wealthy could make a big differences – and only the Green Party is pledging to do this.”