Following the fall of the Assad government, Israel has launched an aerial bombing campaign to demilitarize Syria while expanding into the Golan Heights in the South.

According to Al Mayadeen, the airstrikes resulted in massive explosions that caused an earthquake-like tremor, and left several civilians killed and injured. The aerial attacks on the Syrian coast have been described as “the heaviest strikes” in the area in more than a decade.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/17/israel-continues-expansion-into-syrian-golan-heights/

🇰🇷 Tens of thousands of people mobilized outside the National Assembly in Seoul on Saturday, December 14, to support the bid to impeach President Yoon Seok Yeol. The crowd erupted with cheers when lawmakers voted for his impeachment in the afternoon.

Members of the International Strategy Center were on the streets, speaking to trade union activists and citizens about why they were mobilizing and the significance of the moment in the struggle for true democracy.

🎥Check out the collaborative report of ISC and Peoples Dispatch.

🇵🇸 Dispatches from Rafah

Asmaa Ibrahim al-Sultan is currently sheltering in a school in Rafah in Southern Gaza with her children. She shared a testimony about her daily challenges to provide adequate and dignified conditions for her family, including her newborn baby.

Israel continues to deprive the people of Gaza of basic necessities such as food and life saving medicine, and continues to lay siege to different parts of the enclave. Meanwhile the United States has continued to provide military, diplomatic, and political support, ignoring demands for an arms embargo and compliance with the ICC arrest warrant.

Demands for renationalization of water services in England grows as private London water supplier requests bailout.

“This is daylight robbery. There are two people who can stop it, the judge in court today and Steve Reed, the environment secretary. He can protect billpayers from this by withdrawing Thames Water’s license, on the basis of financial insolvency, illegal sewage dumping, or both,” Cat Hobbs, Director of We Own It, told Peoples Dispatch.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/17/can-britain-re-nationalize-water-services/

One year after Israeli forces abducted Dr. Ahmed Muhanna, the director of Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza, the lack of information about his status exemplifies a worsening crisis for health workers in Palestine.

In the same period that Dr. Muhanna’s colleagues marked 365 days without answers, Israeli forces killed a nurse and Dr. Saeed Judeh, northern Gaza’s last orthopedic specialist, during attacks in the proximity of Kamal Adwan Hospital.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/18/one-year-since-the-abduction-of-dr-ahmed-muhanna-gaza-health-workers-endure-more-attacks/

Hundreds of students at Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) marched within the campus on Monday, December 16, commemorating the fifth anniversary of the state’s attack on students at one of India’s premier universities in New Delhi.

Speaking to Peoples Dispatch, Sanam Husain, unit secretary of the left-wing Student Federation of India (SFI), claimed the JMI administration was suppressing democratic spaces at the university, acting under the directives of the right-wing central government, which has curtailed all democratic spaces.

Sanam expressed concern that punitive actions would be taken against students who participated in Monday’s march, as has happened in the past, considering the intimidation against SFI leadership, including threats of suspensions and fines.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/18/jamia-millia-islamia-students-rally-against-attacks-on-religious-minorities-in-india/

The lives of hundreds of thousands, especially in the famine-struck Zamzam camp for Internally Displaced People (IDPs), hang in the balance as the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has intensified attacks on North Darfur state’s capital El Fasher.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/18/besieged-and-bombed-amid-famine-hundreds-of-thousands-of-idps-struggle-to-survive-in-darfur/

🇵🇸 Dispatches from Rafah #2

10-year-old Dana shares about the difficulties she faces as a young girl being in a displaced persons camp.

Despite calls from international bodies like the United Nations, the World Health Organization, as well as leading international humanitarian organizations, Israel has continued to severely restrict the entry of aid shipments to Gaza. Israeli forces also continue to carry out airstrikes across Gaza strip, killing dozens in the last several days.

The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) committed numerous massacres all over the Gaza strip during the last few days killing dozens of people.

Amid the escalation of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza strip, media reports and statements from both sides have indicated significant progress in the Gaza ceasefire and captives-for-prisoner swap deal.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/18/israeli-massacres-sweep-gaza-as-ceasefire-deal-is-reportedly-closer-than-ever/

"The insurance companies are the ones that are telling you what you can and can’t do for your patients.”

We spoke to single-payer healthcare activist Dr.Margaret Flowers in an exclusive interview about the role that private insurance companies play in denying care to patients.

Before the sun rose at 6 am, thousands of Amazon workers in facilities across the United States launched the largest strike against the multi-billion dollar corporation in US history.

Amazon workers are hitting the company where it hurts the most—walking off the job right before the end of the year holidays, the busiest shopping season of the year.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/19/workers-launch-largest-strike-against-amazon-in-us-history/

📢 In the 91st issue of People’s Health Dispatch, we highlight the ongoing struggles of Palestinian health workers under Israeli occupation, examine the fight for universal healthcare in the US, and explore how nurses in Brazil are battling super-exploitation to transform their working conditions. Click 👇🏾https://tinyurl.com/peopleshealthdisp91

🇸🇩 December 19 marked 5 years since the beginning of Sudan's December Revolution.

5 years ago, the brave people of Sudan rose up against the increased cost of bread, and stayed on the streets for months demanding an end to the dictatorial rule of Omar al-Bashir and a true democratization process. However, despite the demands for a democratic, civilian run government, the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces took control and their transitional, power-sharing government collapsed in April 2023. Ever since, Sudan has been engulfed in a bloody civil war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and RSF.

Last year, we spoke with Eugene Puryear of BreakThrough News to discuss the significance of the December Revolution and the continued struggle of the Sudanese people for democracy.

At the 9th Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, Cuba President Miguel Díaz-Canel called for a massive march of the Cuban people to demand an end to the economic blockade that has suffocated the socialist island for more than five decades.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/19/cuban-people-to-mobilize-against-us-blockade/

“We want a union, everyday!”

Amazon workers hold the picket line on the second day of the largest strike against the billion dollar corporation in US history, pushing through the NYPD’s threats and blatant attempts to help the company keep deliveries moving through as per usual.

🎥Check out what workers had to say

"How can anything deteriorate in Gaza? Isn’t the situation as bad as it could get, the genocidal war of the Israelis grinding on?

Israelis are not only bombing residential areas and killing unarmed civilians, but they are also preventing the injured from being rescued and the dead from an honorable burial."

Indian historian, editor, and journalist, Vijay Prashad explains the situation in Palestine after 14 months of Israel’s genocide on Gaza.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/20/the-genocide-grinds-on/