
FAR-RIGHT Israeli protesters stormed an army base today in a show of support for soldiers accused of abusing a Palestinian prisoner.
The attack came after the United Nations revealed that almost all of Gaza is now under an evacuation order.
The protesters, including extremist MPs from Israel’s far-right coalition government, burst into the Sde Teiman compound after military police had entered it to take the reservists into custody to continue an investigation of their behaviour.

ROGER McKENZIE expounds on the motivation that drove him to write a book that anticipates a dawn of a new, fully liberated Africa – the land of his ancestors

While much attention is focused on Israel’s aggression, we cannot ignore the conflicts in Africa, stoked by Western imperialism and greed for natural resources, if we’re to understand the full picture of geopolitics today, argues ROGER McKENZIE