Health facilities operated by UNRWA in Gaza are on the brink of exhausting at least 60 essential medications by the end of the month if Israel continues to block health supplies from entering the Strip.

The shortage of medical supplies is worsening the risk of infections and complications from generally treatable conditions.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/04/gaza-faces-complete-medicine-shortage-amid-ongoing-israeli-blockade/

🇵🇸 Students at Birzeit University gathered to honor their martyrs.

Dhafer Rimawi (19), who was studying at Birzeit University, and his brother Jawad Rimawi (22), who had recently graduated from Birzeit, were shot dead by Israeli Occupation Forces during a raid carried out in Kafr Ein village near Ramallah city in the occupied West Bank in November 2022. The two brothers are among dozens of Birzeit University's students, graduates and scholars, who were killed by the IOF throughout decades.

According to the United Nations Humanitarian Affairs Office (OCHA), 155 Palestinians were killed by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) in 2022.

“What strengthens the popular movement in Niger is the synergy between the leaders and the people. That makes the government strong.”

Philippe Toyo Noudjènoumè, general secretary of the Communist Party of Benin, spoke with Brasil de Fato in an exclusive interview.

This article was translated from an article originally published in Portuguese on Brasil de Fato.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/04/there-is-no-terrorism-there-is-only-france-says-president-of-the-west-african-peoples-organization/

Michel Barnier was forced to hand in his resignation as France’s Prime Minister after a majority of parliamentarians supported a no-confidence motion led by the progressive New Popular Front.

Barnier’s administration had been in office for just three months, and will now go down as one of the shortest-lived in French history. The situation already sparked warnings about a looming political crisis, as the country finds itself under pressure from EU institutions due to deficit management matters.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/05/no-confidence-vote-overthrows-french-prime-minister-barnier/

Violence in Syria has escalated in the past week. Terrorist groups like HTS have driven the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) out of key cities and continue to gain ground.

The US, Israel, and their allies seemed to hope that Hezbollah would be unable to assist Syria, Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem reaffirmed on Thursday that the organization remains committed to supporting Syria and thwarting what he described as an assault orchestrated by “US-backed Takfiri terrorists.”
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/06/iraq-and-hezbollah-respond-to-escalating-violence-in-syria/

🇰🇷The Korean people defeated martial law, but the struggle continues!

In cities across the US, activists are mobilizing in solidarity with people in South Korea, who are demanding the resignation of President Yoon Suk Yeol after he attempted to impose martial law.

The North America-based Korean diaspora group Nodutdol organized rallies in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco on the night of December 4, which were joined by organizations such as the Korea Peace Now Grassroots Network, Korean Americans for the Progressive Party, the Palestinian Youth Movement, the People’s Forum, and the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) announced on December 6 that it has accepted an Egyptian proposal to form a joint Palestinian social support committee to govern the Gaza Strip after the Israeli genocidal aggression on the besieged enclave ends.

Analysts voiced their “cautious optimism” regarding the progress of the talks, which have been marked by procrastination and the exchange of recriminations for 14 months.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/06/hamas-accepts-egypts-post-war-gaza-proposal-amid-ceasefire-talks/

Demonstrators stage rallies across the US, joining popular demands within South Korea for the resignation of President Yoon Suk Yeol.

After mass mobilization by the South Korean people, as well as a unanimous vote in parliament, President Yoon’s decree of martial law was defeated. Now, demands for Yoon’s resignation grow within the country.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/05/people-across-us-mobilize-in-solidarity-with-south-koreans-calling-for-resignation-of-president-yoon/

Two years ago, Peruvian President Pedro Castillo was overthrown in a coup, arrested, and put in prison-where he remains till today. The move sparked mass protests across the country which were brutally repressed by Peruvian security forces who killed and gravely injured dozens.

Today, the struggle for justice and democracy in Peru continues.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/06/25/will-there-be-justice-for-protesters-killed-in-perus-anti-coup-protests/

21 labor unions and labor leaders join dozens of elected officials and organizations, marking a major step in the labor movement uniting around foreign policy demands.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/06/us-elected-officials-and-labor-leaders-join-international-call-to-take-cuba-off-uss-state-sponsors-of-terrorism-list/

As Israeli forces advanced into the Golan buffer zone and initiated airstrikes on targets in the Syrian capital of Damascus, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared in a video published on X that the collapse of Assad’s government on Sunday, December 8, “is a direct result of our forceful action against Hezbollah and Iran, Assad’s main supporters.” Meanwhile, images circulated across social media of members of the armed opposition groups led by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) taking control over Damascus, invading the Iranian embassy in the capital and tearing down posters of late Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Iranian General Qassem Soleimani.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/08/netanyahu-takes-credit-for-fall-of-syrian-government-as-israel-advances-on-golan-heights/

🇰🇷The failed attempt by South Korean President Yoon Seok Yeol to impose martial law and the subsequent impeachment vote have blown the lid off of a much deeper political crisis in the country.

Ju-Hyun Park breaks down the key factors to understanding what is happening in South Korea and how the country is "brushing against a revolutionary situation".

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/08/south-koreas-impeachment-fails-whats-next/

#PeoplesHistory | 🇵🇸 Today, we remember the brave Palestinian people who stood up against the Israeli military occupation of Palestine in the massive uprising known as the First Intifada.

In 1987, protests began at the Jabalia refugee camp after an Israeli vehicle ran over and killed four Palestinian workers. The anger over the incident ignited the deep discontent of the Palestinian people that had been living under Israeli military occupation since the 1967 war.

Under Israeli occupation, Palestinians were subjected to curfews, raids, arrests, imprisonment, deportations, property demolitions, and displacement of Palestinians to suppress popular resistance and make way for the Zionist settler-colonialist project of creating a completely Jewish state.

Who is the next president of Uruguay Yamandú Orsi and how did he defeat the ruling right-wing party in the recent presidential election?

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/09/yamandu-orsi-the-history-teacher-and-uruguays-next-president/