Greenpeace activists outside Westminster Magistrates’ Court, London, where environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg is due to appear charged with failing to comply with a condition imposed under Section 14 of the Public Order Act, November 15, 2023
ENVIRONMENTAL campaign Greenpeace UK has called for Westminster action after a United Nations report said governments are abjectly failing to meet carbon emissions targets.
The UN report covers 196 countries that were part of the 2016 Paris Agreement on climate change, warning: “Current national climate plans fall miles short of what’s needed to stop global heating from crippling every economy and wrecking billions of lives and livelihoods across every country.”
Greenpeace called on the government to take action. Policy director Dr Doug Parr said: “Together with ending all new oil and gas licences, the Labour government must at least triple renewables and double home energy efficiency rates by 2030, as well as properly support workers to transition away from polluting industries.
“Failure is not an option.”
The UN said its report must be a turning point, with “much bolder new national climate plans from every country.”
Deputy Labour Party Leader Angela Rayner calls for police to kill and harass innocent people.
There are news reports that Jeremy Corbyn and Diane Abbott have been urged to apologise for backing gangster Chris Kaba after criticising police following his death. [ed: uncertain that he should be called a gangster.]
He was unarmed and police didn’t know who he was when he was killed. There were claims following his inquest that he had shot somebody 6 days previous to him getting killed by police. He was never tried of this alleged crime of course because he was dead. You can’t retrospectively justify his killing when an unarmed, unknown man was killed by armed police.
Current UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has been fundamentally dishonest in obscuring the extent of his and the UK military’s active support for Israel’s genocide. Starmer has been urging Israel to be restrained while secretly Israel would not have been able to conduct it’s genocidal campaign without UK support. The UK air force has conducted 49% of spy flights over Gaza identifying targets, UK’s 77 Brigade specialising in psychological warfare has been advising Israel – no doubt about all the lies that have enabled hospitals to be destroyed – and weapons have been supplied to Israel through UK bases in Cyprus. It is now revealed that Starmer & Co are intimately involved in the slaughter of non-combatants, aid workers, journalists and health workers and in the deliberate starvation inflicted on Gaza.
Starmer has proved himself to be totally unfit to be UK’s Prime Minister. We need him and his fellow Zionist conspirators to be tried and convicted of genocide and war crimes.
10.15p.m. Israel’s Gaza genocide and wider militarism should be regarded as mostly a joint venture between United States, United Kingdom and Israel. The parties cannot be distinguished. In UK current Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Foreign Secretary David Lammy – who very recently claimed that it was not a genocide – are every bit as guilty of war crimes as the Israelis.
A picture shows the damage to an ambulance at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on October 26, 2024. (Photo: /AFP via Getty Images)
“Such blatant disregard for basic humanity and for the laws of war must stop,” the official said.
Israel could kill everyone left in Northern Gaza if its assault on the enclave continues, a United Nations relief official warned on Saturday.
U.N. Acting Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Joyce Msuya also called for an end to the Israeli attack.
“What Israeli forces are doing in besieged North Gaza cannot be allowed to continue,” Msuya said.
“Instead of receiving aid, we are receiving tanks.”
In particular, Msuya emphasized Israel’s targeting of hospitals and shelters and interference with relief work.
“Hospitals have been hit, and health workers have been detained. Shelters have been emptied and burned down. First responders have been prevented from saving people from under the rubble. Families have been separated, and men and boys are being taken away by the truckload,” she said.
Msuya estimated that Israel’s actions in the north had killed hundreds and displaced tens of thousands. According to Al Jazeera, an Israeli siege on the north that began earlier in October has killed around 640.
“The entire population of North Gaza is at risk of dying,” Msuya said. “Such blatant disregard for basic humanity and for the laws of war must stop.”
The U.N. official’s remarks came as Israeli troops withdrew from a deadly attack on Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, which Al Jazeera correspondent Tareq Abu Azzoum said “is considered a medical lifeline for the two-thirds of Palestinians in northern Gaza.”
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had surrounded the hospital for days before entering and opening fire on Thursday and Friday, the Gaza Health Ministry and the hospital’s director told CNN.
“Instead of receiving aid, we are receiving tanks,” hospital director Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya said in a video.
Medics told Al Jazeera that the IDF had detained 44 members of the hospital team, later releasing 14 of them. The director of field hospitals in Gaza, Marwan Al-Hams, said that soldiers had also destroyed medications as they left, “preventing us from saving the wounded.”
“It is a catastrophic situation as patients and the wounded are left on the floor without any medical attention,” hospital spokesperson Hisham Sakani told Al Jazeera. “We are facing grave dangers, and here I am once again sending an SOS to the whole world. We pray to God almighty our plight comes to an end and Israeli massacres [are] ceased.”
“The entire population north of Gaza Strip are now without any medical service after all the hospitals have been destroyed and forced out of operation,” Sahani continued.
Msuya’s statement also came a day after U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk called Friday’s attacks on northern Gaza the “darkest moment” of the war.
“The Israeli Government’s policies and practices in northern Gaza risk emptying the area of all Palestinians,” Türk said. “We are facing what could amount to atrocity crimes, including potentially extending to crimes against humanity.”
Msuya and Türk’s statements reflect the opinion of human rights experts that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The International Court of Justice is still considering the genocide case brought by South Africa against Israel. To date, the Israeli assault has killed at least 42,924 people and wounded 100,833, but the true numbers could be much higher.
Emergency medical doctor Mads Gilbert, who has volunteered in both Gaza and Lebanon, criticized Western governments for allowing the raid on Kamal Adwan, as well as Israel’s systematic attacks on healthcare workers and facilities in Gaza.
“We need an additional factor to understand why this has been allowed to go on, and that is actually that the Palestinian people are defined as under-humans,” Gilbert told Al Jazeera. “We would never have allowed this to happen, for example, in Ukraine. Almost 250,000 people in the northern part of Gaza have now no healthcare, and that in itself is part of the genocide.”
The Institute for Middle East Understanding called on both the international community and the U.S. government to respond to Israel’s violations of international law.
“The Biden-Harris administration must stop the flow of U.S. weapons to Israel which constitutes a necessary step to halting Israel’s ongoing war crimes,” IMEU wrote on social media Saturday. “It’s time for an arms embargo now.”
