🇵🇸 Israel is going ahead with its all out assault on Rafah despite strong condemnation by world leaders & aid organizations.

1.4+ million displaced Palestinians taking refuge in Rafah and are now effectively trapped with nowhere else to go.

The World Health Organization’s chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, termed reports regarding the invasion “extremely worrying”, and on X noted that “proceeding with the plans could have gravely devastating consequences for the 1.4 million people who have nowhere else left to go, and who have almost no place left to seek health care.”
#Rafah #Gaza #Palestine
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/02/12/israel-declares-war-on-rafah-the-last-safe-zone-in-gaza/

Israel continues its genocidal offense against #Gaza and has declared war on #Rafah, which is the last safe zone of the enclave.

Over 1 million displaced people have sought refuge in Rafah. Israeli airstrikes targeted 14 residential buildings and three mosques in one day.
#Palestine

Senators are attempting to push through a USD 95 billion foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan by Wednesday.

he bill advanced in a cloture vote, also known as a motion to limit debate and move towards a final vote, and is now one step closer to being passed. Senators are aiming to push the bill through two more procedural hurdles on Monday in order to pass the bill on Wednesday.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/02/12/us-senate-is-one-step-closer-to-sending-billions-to-israel/

Emergency demonstrations were held yesterday in several cities to protest Israeli attacks on #Rafah, the last "safe zone" in #Gaza where over 1 million people are taking refuge.

The people demand an end to Israel's genocide on Gaza.

Pro-Palestine activists staged a day-long picket outside of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s office in midtown Manhattan.

“We’re here to make it clear that we… completely reject all US aid to Israel,” Layan Fuleihan of the People’s Forum told Peoples Dispatch. “This additional 14 billion dollars is now just literally paying Israel to commit genocide.”

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/02/16/constituents-mount-pressure-against-us-senator-chuck-schumer-chief-ally-to-israel/

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LULA CALLS FOR AN IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE!

While addressing an Arab League meeting in Cairo on February 15, Lula urged for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the funding and maintenance of UNRWA, the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza, and the recognition of the Palestinian state.

Israeli forces stormed the besieged Nasser hospital in the city of Khan Younis, on February 16, following more than three weeks of intense bombardment and ground attacks on the hospital and the surrounding area.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/02/16/israeli-forces-escalate-siege-on-nasser-hospital-several-patients-killed/

Zambia is facing its largest cholera outbreak in at least a decade, with over 600 deaths recorded since October 2023.

For one thing, the case fatality rate remains high at 3.5%, as opposed to the WHO threshold of <1%. There is also a limit to the public health interventions implemented since the beginning of the outbreak.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/02/17/cholera-still-poses-risks-in-zambia-despite-reduction-of-cases/

Peace and anti-imperialist groups also helped organize the 22nd International Munich Peace Conference held in the city from February 16 to 18.

On Saturday, February 17, thousands of people marched in downtown Munich protesting the 60th annual Munich Security Conference (MSC) held in the Hotel Bayerischer Hof from February 16 to 18.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/02/19/anti-war-groups-protest-60th-annual-munich-security-conference/

🇸🇳 Thousands of people gathered in Dakar for a silent march to demand that the government uphold the election calendar.

On February 15, the Constitutional Council, the country’s chief election authority, overturned a presidential decree that had postponed the presidential elections scheduled for February 25.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/02/19/senegalese-civil-society-remains-vigilant-as-top-court-overturns-election-delay/

High school students from across New York City walked out of school to demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza on February 16. The high schoolers declared that there can be no school as usual while their peers in Gaza are being brutally murdered by Israel. Protests have been happening across NYC for the last four months of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.