For two weeks, French farmers have been protesting, demanding fair prices for produce and retention of fuel subsidies. Now, vowing to "siege" Paris, farmers have blocked highways to the capital.

Across Europe, massive farmer protests swell - as in Germany and Belgium - over agricultural policies seen as insufficiently supporting rural livelihoods.

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🔴 UNRWA faces fund cuts
🔴 Imran Khan sentenced to 14 years in prison
🔴 US-Iran tensions
🔴 Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger withdraw from ECOWAS
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The death toll in Gaza from Israel’s genocidal war crossed the 27,000-mark as Israel continued its intense and incessant bombardment and ground attacks on the enclave. Israeli military raids and violence have also been taking place across the occupied West Bank, with dozens of Palestinians arrested over the last 24 hours.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/02/01/death-toll-in-gaza-crosses-27000-as-possible-ceasefire-hangs-in-the-balance/

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) is a central figure in the unfolding healthcare crisis in South Gaza. As expected, Israeli forces are destroying health infrastructure through relentless bombardments, sniper fire, and evacuation orders, forcing thousands to move to Rafah, the next target of the Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF).

Between October 7, 2023, and February 1, 2024, more than 100,000 people in Gaza were killed, injured, or are missing presumed dead, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).


https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/02/02/israels-attacks-continue-to-decimate-ambulance-and-maternity-services-in-southern-gaza/

#PeoplesHistory | Today, we remember the over 1 million martyrs of the battle of Stalingrad. Despite suffering heavy losses, the Soviet Red Army victory over Nazi Germany marked the turning point in WWII.

Don't let Hollywood fool you. USSR not only lost over 27 million people during WWII, but it was their sacrifice and determination that defeated fascism.

On Friday, the US made good on its threats and bombed Iraq and Syria, in retaliation against an attack on a US military outpost by the Islamic Resistance Forces in Iraq.

Not only is the US supplying military aid to Israel, the United States is now actively bombing Syria, Iraq, and Yemen in a regional West Asian conflict that the Western nation has only widened.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/02/02/in-major-escalation-us-bombs-iraq-and-syria/

Read Brian Becker’s exclusive interview with Haytham Abdo, a leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/02/02/the-terrorist-is-the-zionist-occupation-says-palestinian-resistance-leader/

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- Imran Khan sentenced in multiple cases
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While these days, hospitals in Gaza are attacked with tanks and bombs, those in the West Bank are exposed to intrusions of special forces—yet the Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) commit both acts with the intention of dehumanizing Palestinian healthcare and, eventually, ethnically cleansing the territories.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/02/05/dehumanization-of-healthcare-in-the-west-bank-a-blueprint-for-ethnic-cleansing/

“We will fight in the streets of #Nairobi for our brothers and sisters in #Haiti” if #Kenya’s government proceeds to deploy its police to the #Caribbean nation, warns Booker Omole, National Organizing Secretary of the Communist Party of Kenya.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/02/05/we-will-fight-in-the-streets-of-nairobi-for-our-brothers-and-sisters-in-haiti/

The latest diplomatic efforts by the United States, Egypt, and Qatar to address Israel's genocidal war on Gaza have produced a widely unpopular deal, the Paris proposal, which would not even secure a permanent ceasefire.
We spoke to a leader of the Palestinian left to understand the proposal and its implications for the Palestinian people.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/02/05/the-paris-proposal-is-an-israeli-proposal-in-contradiction-with-the-demands-of-the-resistance/

Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans hit the streets of Caracas to remember the spark that lit the flame of the Bolivarian Revolution: the Feb 4 coup attempt led by Hugo Chávez. 32 years ago, Chávez, leading the Bolivarian Movement-200, attempted to overthrow neoliberal president Carlos Andrés Pérez. The heroic effort did not succeed but is seen as a key event in leading up to Chávez's victory in 1998.

US and British forces carried out nearly a dozen airstrikes inside Yemen targeting the capital Sanaa and Hodeidah port.

The fresh round of attacks followed dozens of strikes on Saturday and deadly attacks on Syria and Iraq on Friday.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/02/05/us-and-uk-carry-out-dozens-of-airstrikes-in-yemen/

Legendary Indonesian artist Amrus Natalsya passed away at the age of 90.

The artist, who came of age just as his country emerged from colonialism, leaves behind nearly seven decades of creative work.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/02/05/amrus-natalsya-the-last-farewell-and-thank-you/

The United Nations Security Council met to discuss the US violations of Syrian and Iraqi sovereignty during last week’s attacks.

Russian ambassador to the UN, Vassily Nebenzya, called the February 2 attacks the latest instance of the US engaging in unlawful and irresponsible acts.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/02/06/at-unsc-meeting-us-lambasted-for-attacks-on-iraq-and-syria/

#PeoplesHistory | Today we honor Dandara dos Palmares, An Afro-Brazilian warrior who along with other enslaved Black people, freed herself from slavery and was part of the Quilombo de Palmares. In 1694, facing imminent re-enslavement, Dos Palmares took her own life. Her legacy lives on among those fighting against racism and oppression today.
#AfroBrazilianHistory #Quilombo #Slavery #Resistance #WarriorWomen

Protesters with the #ShutItDown4Palestine movement took the streets of New York City once again on February 4 to demand an end to all US funding of Israel and a permanent ceasefire

Despite the New York City Police crackdown on protesters, pro-Palestine demonstrators have vowed to continue with their shows of solidarity until there is an end to the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza.

Hundreds of thousands of internally displaced Palestinian have been forced to move to further south in Gaza as fresh airstrikes and ground operations by the Israeli military kill and injure dozens of civilians in Khan Younis following the military issuing evacuation orders in the two areas.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/02/07/khan-younis-and-gaza-city-under-attack-as-blinken-lands-in-israel/

Late on the night between February 5 and 6, the deputies in the National Assembly of Senegal voted to postpone the presidential election to December 15, 2024.

The vote was held after the Gendarmerie forcibly removed opposition deputies from the Chamber, and passed with 105 MPs in favor, and one against.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/02/06/anger-grows-over-constitutional-coup-in-senegal-after-deferral-of-presidential-election/