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A view of makeshift tents flooding after heavy rainfall at the Nuseirat Refugee camp as the Palestinian families struggle to live under harsh living conditions while the Israeli attacks continue in Nuseirat, Gaza on November 25, 2025. [Hassan Jedi – Anadolu Agency]
Heavy rains have submerged dozens of tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in the southern Gaza Strip amid bad weather conditions in the enclave, witnesses said Tuesday.
Several tents were destroyed by rainfall in al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, while others were blown away by strong winds in the area, they told Anadolu.
“The situation in the city is extremely catastrophic due to the destruction of most roads, water, and sewage networks by the Israeli war,” Saib Luqan, a spokesman for Khan Younis Municipality, told Anadolu.
According to local authorities, the Israeli army has destroyed 220,000 linear meters of road networks over the past two years.
Nearly 900,000 people in Khan Younis are currently facing “tragic and grim” conditions due to bad weather conditions, Luqan said.
The spokesman added that municipal teams are working with insufficient equipment to help displaced civilians affected by the bad weather.
According to the Gaza Government Media Office, 1.5 million Palestinians are displaced in Gaza, living in catastrophic conditions with little access to basic necessities and severely limited essential services due to Israel’s ongoing blockade.
Since October 2023, the Israeli army has killed nearly 70,000 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, and injured more than 170,900 people in the two-year war that has left much of the enclave in ruins.
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Orcas discuss Genocide-supporting and complicit Zionists. Donald Trump, Keith Starmer, David Lammy, Rachel Reeves, Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting are acknowledged as evil genocide-complicit and supporting cnuts.Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.Genocide denying UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy says that UK is suspending 30 of 350 arms licences to Israel. He also confirms the UK government’s support for Israel’s Gaza genocide and the UK government and military’s active participation in genocide.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves speaks to the media about the October inflation statistics from the Office of National Statistics, during a visit to a Tesco supermarket in Earl’s Court, west London, November 19, 2025
CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves was branded “deluded” by disability campaigners today after suggesting an extension to her benefit fraud crackdown will help balance the books in tomorrow’s Budget.
The Labour minister has pledged to extend targeted case reviews, which root out inaccuracies in universal credit claims, with the aim of bringing in an extra £1.2 billion by March 2031.
While she is expected to announce the long-awaited scrapping of the two-child benefit cap at a cost of about £3bn, she is also expected to raise taxes to bridge a multibillion-pound gap in her spending plans.
Disabled People Against Cuts co-founder Linda Burnip told the Morning Star: “I think Rachel Reeves must be even more deluded than we thought if she thinks she is going to raise more money from clamping down on benefit fraud which for PIP has never been more than 0.5 per cent and more recently has been zero.
“We are already seeing people in receipt of social care having their universal credit claims closed wrongly due to having a separate bank account to pay for their social care which is not their money to spend on other items but which is provided by social services departments to solely fund their care. DWP is a complete shambles and not fit for purpose.
“Reeves also fails to grasp the very basic economic principle that growth of the economy will only happen if people have disposable income to spend.”
Fran Heathcote, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services union which represents job centre staff, added: “A government serious about economic growth should fix the broken social security system and ensure that those with the broadest shoulders contribute more through a fair tax system.
“There is far more to be gained from going after the billions of tax avoided or evaded by wealthy individuals or large businesses.”
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The UN Security Council adopted a US-drafted resolution endorsing President Donald Trump’s plan to end the war in Gaza by establishing a new transitional Board of Peace (BoP) and authorizing an International Stabilization Force (ISF) to oversee governance, reconstruction and security efforts in the Gaza Strip, on November 17, 2025. in New York City, United States. [Selçuk Acar – Anadolu Agency]
The UN Security Council Resolution 2803(2025) undermines all the purported purpose of maintaining peace and security. Talking about Gaza without including Gaza, the resolution intensifies the colonial efforts Israel intended through its genocide.
The international community’s rhetorical opposition to the US-Israeli alliance over the overt ethnic cleansing of Gaza through genocide and a US take over, has been dressed up as “The Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict”, now endorsed by the UNSC.
The resolution itself is worded ambiguously – nothing new when it comes to international standards. However, Palestinians have suffered a genocide for two years during which all the issues debated and never agreed upon are now presented as relief. The ceasefire is mentioned without the genocide context, while the usual plans of humanitarian aid, rebuilding Gaza and the Palestinian Authority’s reform give a semblance of the earlier status quo with a twist – the US is granted complete control, in accordance with Israel’s colonial expansion plans. Amid all the vague statements, US supremacy in Gaza is plain to see.
“After the PA reform is faithfully carried out and Gaza redevelopment has advanced, the conditions may finally be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood,” the UNSC resolution states. “The United States will establish a dialogue between Israel and the Palestinians to agree on a political horizon for peaceful and prosperous coexistence.”
PA reform will never bode well as an international imposition. Already distanced from the Palestinian people, further reform will only bring the PA closer to the US-Israeli alliance, with complete endorsement by the international community. First a willing pawn for illusory state-building, the PA’s reform after genocide ushers in a new phase in which the PA is once again in control of both Gaza and the occupied West Bank. This simplistic perception not only ignores the fact that Hamas is still a formidable presence in Gaza, and even if the resistance movement loses support, the Palestinian people would still not opt for the PA. What the UNSC endorsed is a gradual elimination of Palestinians, if not their presence, their politics.
The EU endorsed the UNSC resolution and said it will “continue to engage closely with the UN and regional partners to support implementation in line with international law.” Even though international law has long absconded when it comes to Israel’s colonial expansion and genocide.
At this point, with Israel above international law and now determining its deterioration, how is the EU speaking about implementation? Since the genocide, words have become more elusive than ever. With Gaza’s visible destruction, the possibility of a Palestinian state diminishes, and the language of hypothesis looms higher. Participating in the US plan for Gaza brings more political actors under US and Israeli dominance. The UNSC endorsing the US plan gives President Donald Trump higher authority than the international community put together, which did nothing anyway to stop the genocide in Gaza. The more these games are played at the higher political echelons, the more Palestinians in Gaza will be in some way eliminated.
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Orcas discuss Genocide-supporting and complicit Zionists. Donald Trump, Keith Starmer, David Lammy, Rachel Reeves, Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting are acknowledged as evil genocide-complicit and supporting cnuts.Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.Genocide denying UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy says that UK is suspending 30 of 350 arms licences to Israel. He also confirms the UK government’s support for Israel’s Gaza genocide and the UK government and military’s active participation in genocide.
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Tens of thousands of people take part in a pro-Palestinian march in London, United Kingdom, following a ceasefire agreement signed yesterday, two years after Israel’s attacks on Gaza, on October 11, 2025. [Raşid Necati Aslım – Anadolu Agency]
Public sentiment in Britain today is markedly different from what it was two years ago. A society that once observed developments in the Middle East from a comfortable distance is now expressing a clearer and more confident moral position on the genocide in Gaza. The scale of this shift can be considered one of the most significant transformations in British public attitudes towards Palestine in recent decades.
Figures published in the autumn of 2025 indicate that sympathy for Israel has fallen to approximately 12 percent, the lowest level recorded, while sympathy for Palestinians has risen to around 38 percent in some national polling. A majority of respondents also state that Israel’s actions in Gaza cannot be justified on either moral or legal grounds. However, these figures represent only the surface of a deeper transition taking place within British society.
The primary catalyst for this shift has not been political realignment, diplomatic pressure or changes within party leaderships, but rather the scale and visibility of the atrocities committed in Gaza. As the genocide expanded to include the targeting of hospitals, schools and refugee camps, alongside collective punishment and reports of widespread abuse in detention, traditional claims about self-defence lost credibility.
Unfiltered images circulated widely across British media and social platforms. Families killed in their homes, children pulled from the rubble and patients evacuated after power cuts became daily realities rather than distant headlines. For many, Palestine was no longer viewed as a remote political issue but as a profound human tragedy unfolding in real time. The collapse of official narratives in the face of visible evidence contributed further to this reassessment, reinforcing the understanding that what is taking place is not a symmetrical conflict but the systematic destruction of a besieged population.
Over the past two years, Britain has also witnessed an unprecedented wave of public mobilisation. London and other major cities saw some of the largest demonstrations in Western Europe, continuing week after week without subsiding. Solidarity evolved from street marches to university encampments, from civic spaces to trade unions and professional bodies, and eventually to parliamentary scrutiny concerning arms exports and the UK’s legal responsibilities.
Notably, this movement was not driven solely by Palestinians, Arabs or Muslims. Large numbers of students, academics, health workers, legal professionals, artists and members of the clergy took part. British Jewish groups opposing the genocide played an important role in challenging attempts to delegitimise or isolate the solidarity movement. Two years on, public mobilisation remains active despite increasingly restrictive protest regulations, indicating that this is not a temporary emotional response but a deeper shift in public conscience.
This evolving landscape has also reshaped how many Britons, particularly younger generations, understand the question of resistance. Public debate is no longer confined to simplistic binaries. There is growing recognition that resistance emerges from dispossession, blockade and the absence of any viable path to justice, rather than from ideological motivations alone.
Policy-makers in Britain are aware of these developments, even if official positions have not shifted dramatically. Pressure is visible in calls to suspend arms exports to Israel, demands for independent investigations into potential complicity and a noticeable shift in political language, especially within the Labour Party. The driving force behind this pressure has not been a change of government but the continuing reality of the genocide itself, which has made unconditional support for Israeli policies increasingly difficult to justify publicly.
The genocide in Gaza has reshaped how many people understand their place in the world. In Britain, solidarity with Palestine has become a reflection of moral responsibility rather than a peripheral political stance. Although the path ahead remains complex, the transformation witnessed over the past two years demonstrates that sustained exposure to reality can alter public attitudes in ways that once seemed unlikely.
The decline in sympathy for Israel marks not the conclusion of this shift, but its beginning. Palestine is no longer perceived as a distant or marginal issue, but as a central concern within British public consciousness — one that is unlikely to fade in the foreseeable future.
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Orcas discuss Genocide-supporting and complicit Zionists. Donald Trump, Keith Starmer, David Lammy, Rachel Reeves, Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting are acknowledged as evil genocide-complicit and supporting cnuts.Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.Genocide denying UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy says that UK is suspending 30 of 350 arms licences to Israel. He also confirms the UK government’s support for Israel’s Gaza genocide and the UK government and military’s active participation in genocide.
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Sumaya Jawabra [X]
A Palestinian journalist in the northern occupied West Bank has entered her second year under house arrest, after an Israeli military court confined her to her home over writings documenting Palestinian suffering under Israel’s brutal occupation.
Sumaya Jawabra, whose work has long focused on conveying the Palestinian narrative, has been barred from leaving her home for more than two years. The ruling has effectively silenced her journalism and restricted her communication with the outside world.
Her husband and fellow journalist, Tariq al-Sarkaji, said the Israeli occupation authorities have imposed sweeping restrictions on her movement and communication. “Sumaya has not stepped outside for two years. The house has become a prison,” he told reporters, noting that she is even prohibited from stepping into the yard or accompanying her children to medical appointments.
Al-Sarkaji added that the window of their home has become her only link to the outside world. “Her dreams have become very simple. She says the first thing she wants after her release is just to go to the market,” he said.
He stressed that the conditions of her confinement have deprived her of basic rights, including visiting family members and sharing ordinary daily activities with her children.
Journalist groups and human rights organisations say the case exemplifies Israel’s expanding restrictions on Palestinian media and freedom of expression in the occupied West Bank.
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Orcas discuss Genocide-supporting and complicit Zionists. Donald Trump, Keith Starmer, David Lammy, Rachel Reeves, Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting are acknowledged as evil genocide-complicit and supporting cnuts.Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.Genocide denying UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy says that UK is suspending 30 of 350 arms licences to Israel. He also confirms the UK government’s support for Israel’s Gaza genocide and the UK government and military’s active participation in genocide.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves speaks to the media about the October inflation statistics from the Office of National Statistics, during a visit to a Tesco supermarket in Earl’s Court, west London, November 19, 2025
