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Palestinian women chant slogans while taking part in an anti-Israel demonstration during a general strike in the West Bank city of Ramallah
BRITISH trade unions expressed solidarity with Palestinians staging a historic general strike today, which saw shops shut across Gaza, the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and Israel.
Despite decades of attempts to fragment the Palestinian people geographically and politically, Israel faced a united front as tens of thousands withdrew their labour in protest at its occupation and ongoing bombardment of Gaza.
Today trade unions in Britain lent their support to striking Palestinians.
Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
MICAELA TRACEY-RAMOS explains how Britain’s largest union is putting pressure on the British government to recognise the Palestinian state and end its complicity with Israel’s murderous actions
