Smoke rises from Israeli airstrikes on Taybeh village, seen from the southern town of Marjayoun, Lebanon, September 23, 2024
CHRISTMAS 2025 is celebrated under the shadow of the hunger strikers imprisoned in British jails because of their solidarity with the Palestinian people.
ISRAEL’S intensified bombing raids over Lebanon are pulling the entire region towards a war of unknown proportions.
Tel Aviv’s Western sponsors will try to portray Hezbollah as the aggressor, given its deputy leader Naim Qassem’s announcement of an “open-ended battle of reckoning” with Israel.
But the Lebanese militia’s escalating rocket fire follows Israel’s murderous exploding-pager stunt last week, and its subsequent serious bombing of Beirut.
LINDA PENTZ GUNTER reports from London’s massive demonstration, where Iranian flags joined Palestinian banners and protesters warned of the dangers of escalation by the US, only hours before a fresh phase of the war began
