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By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Renewed Israeli bombardment of Gaza sparks calls for global protests and immediate sanctions.

Israeli aerial and artillery attacks have intensified across the Gaza Strip, resulting in scores of casualties.

According to Al-Jazeera, three Palestinians were killed and others wounded in an Israeli strike on Beit Lahia in northern Gaza. 

In the south, two people were killed when an Israeli…

NABLUS, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) imposed a hermetic closure on Beita village in southern Nablus since yesterday, Wednesday, after an Israeli soldier was seriously injured in the blast of an explosive device in an IOF military vehicle.

The Beita Municipality said in a statement on Thursday that the IOF closed all entrances leading to the village and stormed the village in big numbers while firing at citizens’ homes and their water tanks.

It added that the IOF…

As extreme weather events become the new normal, informal workers across South Asia are bearing the growing brunt of intersecting crises. Labour rights violations and poor social protections are worsening under the climate crisis. In India, amid the ongoing heatwave, we may have come to a boiling point as street vendors, waste pickers, and other informal workers rise in defiance, coming together in solidarity.

Their demands for compensation for losses and other damages are aimed squarely at…

Charles Ong’ondo Were had complained his life was in danger before attack, local reports say

The fatal shooting of an opposition MP in Kenya appears to have been a targeted killing, police have said.

Charles Ong’ondo Were was shot dead on Wednesday evening after his vehicle stopped at a traffic light on Ngong Road, in the capital Nairobi, according to police.

Police said bystanders witnessed the passenger of a motorcycle open fire on the MP’s car while it was stopped at the…

A wave of Russian missile strikes hit residential buildings in the Ukrainian city of Odesa, killing two people and injuring at least 15. Emergency crews evacuated hundreds of survivors from burning buildings after the attacks.