According to Wafa News Agency, on Thursday, December 14, Israeli forces opened fire on displaced families taking shelter in a school run by UNRWA and executed them inside Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza.
The report stated that Israeli forces shot members of two families, including children, women, and the elderly at close range after entering the premises. The report did not give an exact number of civilians killed.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/12/14/israel-continues-to-kill-hundreds-of-palestinian-civilians-in-gaza-and-west-bank/

Flooding in parts of Gaza has exacerbated the already dire conditions for Palestinians. The over 1.8 million internally displaced people who have been forced into makeshift tents and shelters not only face the continued threat of Israeli bombs, but also of infectious disease and unsanitary conditions.

🇵🇸/🇺🇳 Amid the growing international consensus that the atrocities Israel has been committing in Gaza amount to genocide, a UN panel ahead has also concluded that “genocide is already happening” in Gaza.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/12/18/it-is-clear-that-israel-is-committing-genocide-in-gaza-un-panel-concludes/

🇬🇾/🇻🇪 Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his Guyanese counterpart Irfaan Ali met at the airport in Kingstown alongside representatives from CARICOM, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), Brazil, Colombia, and the United Nations.

An article by Venezuela Analysis.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/12/16/venezuela-and-guyana-to-maintain-direct-dialogue-amid-essequibo-dispute/

In the 65th issue of the People’s Health Dispatch, we continue to cover the health siege in Palestine, the shortage of health workers in South Africa, outlooks for health policy reform in Poland, and much more. Click 👇🏾https://tinyurl.com/peopleshealthdisp65

On December 14, journalists, writers, activists, and students gathered at the Press Club of India for a panel discussion on the memoir of Prabir Purkayastha, a veteran activist and the founder and editor-in-chief of Newsclick.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/12/18/prabir-purkayastha-fighting-the-good-fight-from-the-emergency-to-today/

“Moral decay,” as Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) put it, is possibly the best way to summarize the past weekend of Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) attacks on health in the Gaza Strip.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/12/19/world-faces-days-of-moral-decay-as-israel-bulldozes-hospital-grounds-detains-more-doctors/

On a recent visit to China, Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov stated that this year the use of the Russian ruble and Chinese yuan in trade between the two countries has already reached 95%.
An article by Brasil de Fato.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/12/19/dedollarization-95-of-trade-between-china-and-russia-is-no-longer-done-in-us-currency/

Al Awda Health and Community Association and the People’s Health Movement (PHM) have launched a campaign calling for the release of Dr. Ahmed Muhanna, the director of Al Awda’s hospital in the area of Tal Al-Zaatar in Jabalya, northern Gaza.

Dr. Muhanna was detained by Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) following a raid on Al-Awda Hospital in Jabalya that began on December 17. While other staff members were detained by Israeli soldiers, they were released after several hours of questioning. On the other hand, Dr. Muhanna was not released, and his current status remains unknown.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/12/19/palestinian-and-international-networks-demand-israel-release-hospital-director-dr-ahmed-muhanna/

MVIWATA or the National Network of Farmers Groups in Tanzania just concluded its 30th-anniversary celebration and 28th Annual General Meeting (AGM). Fraternal organizations from all over the world traveled to Njombe to participate in the meeting. MVIWATA was formed in 1993 for farmers to unite and face the challenges presented by neoliberalism.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/12/19/celebrating-its-30th-anniversary-mviwata-vows-to-strengthen-peasant-solidarity-in-tanzania/

The High Court of Justice in London has decided to hear what could be Julian Assange’s final appeal against his extradition to the United States. A statement released by Wikileaks on Tuesday, December 19, announced that the High Court has confirmed a two-day hearing on February 20-21, 2024.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/12/20/uk-court-to-hear-assanges-final-appeal-against-extradition-in-february/

On December 18 and 19, 141 members of the two houses of India’s Parliament were suspended by the Speaker of the House, Om Birla. Each of these members belong to the parties that oppose the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its leader, Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

An article by Vijay Prashad.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/12/20/the-suffocation-of-democracy-in-india/

December 19 marked the 5th anniversary of the start of the December Revolution in Sudan. What did this process mean for the people of Sudan and what were they fighting for?
Eugene Puryear of Breakthrough News spoke about the significance of the revolution today as Sudan faces a prolonged, bloody civil war.
Check out the full video on our Youtube.

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🇨🇩 Incumbent president Félix Tshisekedi is seeking a second five-year-term, standing against 18 other candidates in Wednesday’s elections.

44 million people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) were eligible to cast their ballots on December 20, as the country held its presidential, parliamentary, and municipal elections.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/12/20/as-the-drc-holds-another-election-the-fight-of-the-congolese-people-is-still-for-liberation/

Trade unions and left-wing groups in Italy are organizing to resist recent attempts by deputy prime minister and transport minister Matteo Salvini to break strikes and workers’ protests.

In the past one month or so, Salvini has issued several decrees to cut short 24-hour strikes to just 4 hours, in a blatant challenge to the country’s trade unions and workers’ rights.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/12/20/italian-workers-resist-salvinis-strike-breaking-methods/