Starmer’s spy flights for Israel linked to this Gaza massacre
Illegal Israeli settlers storm Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque amid tension
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Scores of illegal Israeli settlers forced their way into the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem on Wednesday morning, local media said.
The settlers toured the compound and performed Talmudic rituals under the protection of Israeli police, the official news agency Wafa reported.
The settler incursion came amid rising tensions across the occupied West Bank over Israel’s deadly assault on the Gaza Strip, where nearly 63,000 Palestinians have been killed since October 2023.
Al-Aqsa Mosque is the world’s third-holiest site for Muslims. Jews call the area Temple Mount, claiming it was the site of two Jewish temples in ancient times.
Israel occupied East Jerusalem, where Al-Aqsa is located, during the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. It annexed the entire city in 1980 in a move never recognized by the international community.
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UNRWA chief condemns Israel’s denial of Gaza famine as ‘shameful’
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The head of the UN agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) on Tuesday slammed the Israeli government’s policy of denying the famine in Gaza as “shameful”, Anadolu reports.
Speaking to the press at a seminar held in Santander, northern Spain, Philippe Lazzarini said: “There is a famine right now in Gaza. This is a man-made famine driven by political and military will.”
Lazzarini said Gaza is facing a situation that has “hit rock bottom” in humanitarian terms, adding that the failure of the international community to heed warnings about the famine is “shameful.”
“Gaza today is like hell. People are not only dying under bombardments, they are dying of hunger, and even when they go out to look for food, they are killed. Those who could reverse the situation in Gaza are doing nothing — no measures, no condemnation.
“Today we are witnessing complete impunity for Israel. There is no economic, political, or diplomatic cost for those committing these violations,” he said.
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Calling for an immediate ceasefire and unrestricted access for humanitarian aid in Gaza, Lazzarini noted that aid equivalent to 6,000 UNRWA trucks, enough to cover the food needs of the Palestinian population for two months, is being held outside the Gaza Strip.
“The Israeli government’s policy of denying the famine in Gaza is shameful,” he said.
He also recalled that the number of humanitarian workers killed in Gaza is very high, with more than 360 UNRWA staff members having lost their lives.
Lazzarini strongly condemned the Israeli army’s airstrike on the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, which left journalists civilians dead.
He also called for support for Palestinian journalists, stressing that they remain the only witnesses to what is happening in Gaza, as Israel refuses to allow international reporters into the enclave to verify the situation on the ground.
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‘Divisive and reckless:’ unions and charities condemn Farage’s mass deportation plans
Nigel Farage unveils his mass deportations schemeUNIONS and charities condemned Reform’s “divisive and reckless” plans today to detain and mass-deport women and children.
Party leader Nigel Farage vowed to strip asylum-seekers of their human rights and spend £2 billion securing returns deals with countries such as Afghanistan, Eritrea and Iran should he become prime minister — leading to accusations he would be paying the likes of the Taliban to take in refugees.
His speech in London sparked outrage as he confirmed that “women and children, everybody on arrival will be detained” as he pledged to deport up to 600,000 asylum-seekers in the party’s first parliament if elected to government.
Yet PM Sir Keir Starmer refused to criticise Reform UK’s proposals to broker returns deals with countries with dire human rights records.
“We’re not going to take anything off the table in terms of striking returns agreements with countries around the world,” the Prime Minister’s official spokesman told reporters.
But a spokeswoman for Momentum told the Star: “Farage’s Trump-like plan for ‘mass deportation’ is divisive and reckless.
“This is the far right’s playbook: scapegoat migrants and sow division in our communities.
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Launching his party’s plans alongside senior figure Zia Yusuf, Mr Farage said that everyone who arrives on a small boat would be detained, including women and unaccompanied children.
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The party would leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and replace the Human Rights Act with a British Bill of Rights which would apply only to British citizens and those who have a legal right to live in Britain.
They would also bring forward legislation to make everyone who arrives illegally ineligible for asylum and allow asylum-seekers to be detained until deportation.
Reform would also revoke the 1951 Refugee Convention and the UN Convention Against Torture, and the Council of Europe’s anti-trafficking convention, said Mr Yusuf.
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Dates for the diary: UK Labour Party Conference 2025
UK Labour Party conference is held in Liverpool 28th September to 1st October 2025.
