The Ministry of Health in the Palestinian enclave reported this Sunday that 62% of primary care medications are unavailable, and the limited supplies do not cover the needs of patients in the Gaza Strip.
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A total of 288,208 patients are at risk of serious relapses, including strokes and heart attacks, the Gazan Health Ministry added.
The List of Essential Medicines, considered by the Ministry of Health for its report, is an internationally recognized list published by the World Health Organization (WHO). It identifies the most important medicines to meet the priority health needs of the population.
Director of Pharmaceutical Care at the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, Dr. Alaa Helles, says there is a severe shortage of vital medications in Gaza. The highest it has been in two years. Israel is not allowing medicine into Gaza. pic.twitter.com/VuySKCAtkf
— Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا (@SMohyeddin) December 21, 2025
“The health system in the Gaza Strip is in a serious state of unprecedented deterioration after two years of war and a total blockade. This has led to a drastic decrease in its capacity to provide diagnostic and treatment services, along with a severe shortage of medicines,” a statement said.
70% of oncology service medications are also unavailable; laboratory tests and supplies for blood banks only cover 59%; and there is a 38% deficit in emergency and intensive care services, which could deprive 200,000 patients of emergency care, according to the ministry.
“Cardiac catheterization and open-heart surgery services have been completely suspended, as 100% of the necessary medications and medical supplies are unavailable,” the ministry added.
On the other hand, regarding medical evacuations in Gaza, the WHO reported weeks ago that 10,645 were carried out since the beginning of the conflict (October 2023), but only in the period between July 2024 and the end of last November, more than 1,000 patients died while waiting to be taken out of the Strip for treatment.
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Israel's Cabinet on Sunday finalized approval of 19 new Jewish-only settler colonies in the illegally occupied West Bank, a move the apartheid state's far-right finance minister said was aimed at thwarting Palestinian statehood.
Cabinet ministers approved the legalization of the previously unauthorized settler outposts throughout the occupied Palestinian territory, bringing the total number of new settlements in recent years to 69.
The move will bring the overall total number of exclusively or overwhelmingly Jewish settlements—which are illegal under international law—to more than 200, up from around 140 just three years ago.
Included in the new approval are two former settlements—Kadim and Ganim—that were evacuated in compliance with the now effectively repealed 2005 Disengagement Law, under which Israel dismantled all of its colonies in the Gaza Strip and four in the West Bank.
"This is righting a historic injustice of expulsion from 20 years ago," Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich—who is a settler—said on Sunday. "We are putting the brakes on the rise of a Palestinian terror state."
"We will continue to develop, build, and settle the inherited land of our ancestors, with faith in the righteousness of our path," Smotrich added.
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Following an earlier round of approval for the new settlements last week, Palestinian presidential spokesperson Nabil Abu Rudeineh said, “All Israeli settlement activity is illegal and constitutes a violation of international law and international legitimacy resolutions."
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres earlier this month denounced Israel's "relentless" settlement expansion.
Such colonization, said Guterres, "continues to fuel tensions, impede access by Palestinians to their land, and threaten the viability of a fully independent, democratic, contiguous, and sovereign Palestinian state."
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials—some of whom, including Smotrich, deny the very existence of the Palestinian people—have vowed that such a state will not be established.
While Netanyahu—who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza—is under pressure from right-wing and far-right government officials, settlers, and others to annex all of the West Bank, US President Donald Trump recently said that "Israel would lose all of its support from the United States if that happened."
Some doubted Trump's threat, with Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) executive director Sarah Leah Whitson reacting to the new settlements' approval by posting on X that "the ONLY reason Israel gets away with this naked thievery is US military and political support."
Israel seized and occupied the West Bank including East Jerusalem along with Gaza in 1967, ethnically cleansing around 300,000 Palestinians. Many of these forcibly displaced people were survivors of the Nakba, the Jewish terror and ethnic cleansing campaign that saw more than 750,000 Palestinians flee or be forced from Palestine during the foundation of the modern state of Israel.
Since 1967, Israel has steadily seized more and more Palestinian land in the West Bank while building and expanding colonies there. Settlement population has increased exponentially from around 1,500 colonists in 1970 to roughly 140,000 at the time of the Oslo Accords in 1993—under which Israel agreed to halt new settlement activity—to around 770,000 today.
Settlers often attack Palestinians and their property, including in deadly pogroms, in order to terrorize them into leaving so their land can be stolen. Israeli colonists have also attacked Israel Defense Forces soldiers they view as standing in the way of their expansion.
In July 2024, the International Court of Justice—where Israel is currently facing a genocide case related to the Gaza war—found the occupation of Palestine to be an illegal form of apartheid that must be ended as soon as possible. The ICJ also ruled that Israeli settler colonization of the West Bank amounts to annexation, also a crime under international law. Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states that an “occupying power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.”
As the world's attention focused on Gaza during the past two years, Israeli soldiers and settlers have killed at least 1,039 Palestinians—at least 225 of them children—in the West Bank. This year, at least 233 Palestinians, including at least 52 children, have been killed so far, according to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East.
On Saturday, Israeli occupation forces shot and killed two Palestinians in the northern West Bank, including a 16-year-old boy, Rayan Abu Muallah, who the Israel Defense Forces said was shot after he threw an object at its troops.
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Ant Middleton is a former soldier in the special forces with his sights set on becoming the next London Mayor. Demonstrating why he may not have the smarts for such a role, he’s shared a recycled misinformation campaign from the 2024 US election campaign, only this time the image is alleged to be from Newport, Wales:
FFS indeed.
Such an impressive track record from Ant Middleton
A recent Substack described Ant Middleton as follows:
With an elite military background spanning the Royal Marines, 9 Parachute Squadron, and Special Boat Service (SBS), Ant has built a reputation as one of the most formidable minds in mental and physical endurance.
I don’t know about you, but I’d hardly say sharing misleading inflammatory content is indicative of ‘one of the most formidable minds in mental and physical endurance’. Far from it.
Earlier this year, Wales Online reported that Middleton has been banned from being a company director following a failure to pay over £1m in tax. Again, hardly indicative of someone who would do a good job in charge of our capital city.
Snopes exposed the image Middleton shared as misleading in 2024, when it was peddled by far-right politicians and influencers in the US. The image was found to originate on a reddit thread, and was taken in Columbus, Ohio – not Springfield, as was suggested. While Snopes did not confirm how the bird died or what subsequently happened to it, they did conclude it had nothing to do with the ‘they’re eating the dogs‘ panic which Trump was spreading about the Somali population of Springfield.
Trump: “They’re eating the dogs. They’re eating the cats.”
Follow: @AFpost pic.twitter.com/yPsEteHumA
— AF Post (@AFpost) September 11, 2024
THEY'RE EATING THE DOGS! AND THE ENDANGERED SPECIES! pic.twitter.com/ImjFjhyRbl
— Not Real Donald Trump (@RealDonalDrumpf) September 11, 2024
Originally deployed to cause panic about a ‘migrant crisis’ in the US, Middleton is now using the same image to incite fear and hatred in our own communities.
It wasn’t an easy mistake to make..
Plenty of other accounts saw through the fake news, using quite simple deductive reasoning:
Big houses on wide road
Enormous plots, metal boundaries
Lawns parched; sky clear of raincloud
No front garden plants, just lawn
Mail delivered to a garden post
Off road parking
American license plate
No litter, wheelie bins, potholes or evidence of cable layingNot Wales. https://t.co/OGPVfSHUW8
— Lachlan Stuart
(@Lachlan_Edi) December 20, 2025
Even community notes corrected the error, not that Ant Middleton seems to care:
Love a community note. Unsurprised Ant Middleton can’t figure out the difference between Welsh and American suburbs. pic.twitter.com/Ik9TQLPf4e
— Civic Kieran (@KieranCivPol) December 21, 2025
Speaking about potential motivations for churning out false information:
Shit like this is how you know most far right accounts are desperate for US attention and money.
-the story itself is basically a copy of the Haitian immigrant claims
-the image they use is very clearly in the us not wales
-the image is a guy who was actually helping the geese https://t.co/gAoIxwyEKx pic.twitter.com/SJUj5Ne8p5— kian (@kianthequark) December 20, 2025
It hardly seems like Middleton is even familiar with what our homes and roads look like.
Surely someone who wants to run for Mayor of London would care about the accuracy and legitimacy of his posts and those he retweets? Or maybe, just maybe, the wellbeing of the UK isn’t really his priority, as alluded to in the following tweet:
You're out in the freezing winter rain hanging flags on lamp posts.
Tommy Robinson and Ant Middleton are living it large in a Muslim country.
You are not the same – you aren't even fighting the same 'enemy.' pic.twitter.com/Qatcq9vqnA
— Woke Lefty
(@SalfordMe2023) December 19, 2025
Tommy Robinson, close ally of Ant Middleton, was shouted down in Dubai whilst being interviewed. Ty Mitchell, professional boxer and Muslim from Derby, failed to hide his disgust at seeing Robinson getting air-time, and quickly attempted to shut it down.
Pointing out the racism, division, and hate that Robinson is fuelling back home, Mitchell demanded the media stop giving oxygen to his bile. He also pointed out that Robinson only seems to care about Muslim offenders, conveniently ignoring or defending his mates in the face of allegations of sex crimes.
The video below shows Middleton alongside Robinson during the heated exchange:
A different angle shows that Ant Middleton was there when tiny Tommy got bullied. pic.twitter.com/Va7t7RayK6
— Mukhtar (@I_amMukhtar) December 19, 2025
So zionist shill Tommy Robinson just said "the majority of nonces [in the UK] are white" admitting he chooses not to speak on it. He's a rage-baiting state-asset fucktard who exists to divide and incite hate and make damn sure we are all distracted, screaming at each other… https://t.co/ujF8abdYSg
— Fiona Rose Diamond (@CoviLeaks) December 19, 2025
Determining whose interests Robinson and Middleton are actually working in doesn’t take a genius:
British Muslim revert boxer, Ty Mitchell, confronted the notorious Islamophobe and Israeli agent Tommy Robinson at a Misfits boxing event in Dubai. Ant Middleton watched on as Tiny Tommy got bullied. pic.twitter.com/n29fui8PsR
— Muslim Daily (@muslimdaily_) December 20, 2025
Hate never helps anyone
The British far-right have a long history of churning out misinformation for their own agenda. Our own Willem Moore reported on the dangerous lie that Robinson shared earlier this month:
10 dead as a car is driven into a Christmas market preparation crowds in France’s Guadeloupe.
Legacy media silent. pic.twitter.com/MlITDYQ372
— Tommy Robinson
(@TRobinsonNewEra) December 6, 2025
Clearly people like Ant Middleton and Tommy Robinson don’t care about anything but their own egos and self-interest.
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The ELN Christmas ceasefire 2025 offers respite for Colombians amid denunciations of U.S. naval aggression and regional militarization in the Caribbean.
In a significant gesture of seasonal goodwill, Colombia’s National Liberation Army (ELN) has declared a unilateral Christmas ceasefire across the country, effective from 12:00 a.m. on December 24, 2025, through 12:00 a.m. on January 3, 2026. The insurgent group announced the pause in hostilities via an official communiqué, extending a message of peace to the Colombian people and reaffirming its longstanding tradition of halting military operations during the holiday season.
“This ceasefire is a gift of tranquility to the Colombian people during this sacred time of family, reflection, and hope,” the ELN stated, emphasizing that the measure aims to allow communities—especially in rural and conflict-affected regions—to celebrate without fear of violence.
The announcement comes amid heightened tensions in Colombia’s northern departments, where the ELN recently carried out a series of attacks on military bases and police stations in Cesar and Norte de Santander. These actions, the group explained, were a direct response to what it describes as an escalating U.S.-led military offensive in the Caribbean, which it claims threatens the sovereignty of nations across Latin America.
ELN Christmas Ceasefire 2025: A Pause for Peace Amid Imperial Aggression
While offering peace for the holidays, the ELN used its communiqué to denounce the presence of U.S. naval forces in the Caribbean Sea, which it accuses of conducting “acts of piracy” against civilian vessels. According to the group, U.S. warships have sunk more than 30 boats and caused loss of life in international waters near Colombia under the guise of counter-narcotics operations—a claim echoing recent statements by the Venezuelan and Cuban governments.
“The recent surge in armed actions, including our 72-hour armed stoppage, is a necessary response to the warlike aggression promoted by Washington,” the ELN declared. “We will not stand idly by while foreign powers seek to control our seas, plunder our resources, and dictate the fate of our peoples.”
The group explicitly rejected the deployment of U.S. troops in the region, framing it as part of a broader imperial strategy to dominate the Global South. In 2025, this strategy has intensified, with the U.S. Southern Command expanding naval patrols, establishing temporary bases on Caribbean islands, and coordinating joint exercises with regional allies—moves that critics argue violate the spirit of the CELAC “Zone of Peace” declaration.
Read the Organization of American States’ latest report on peace efforts in Colombia
Despite ongoing peace negotiations between the ELN and the government of President Gustavo Petro—widely regarded as the most promising dialogues in decades—the conflict remains volatile. Just days before the ceasefire announcement, a clash in a rural area of Colombia left four soldiers dead, underscoring the fragility of the current truce framework.
Yet the ELN’s decision to honor the Christmas pause reflects its commitment to humanitarian principles, even amid distrust. Historically, the group has respected holiday ceasefires, using them not only as acts of goodwill but also as opportunities to engage in internal reflection and community dialogue. This year’s gesture carries added weight, coming at a time when U.S. policy appears increasingly interventionist.
Explore UN Office on Colombia’s support for humanitarian ceasefires and peace implementation
For many Colombians, especially in Indigenous and Afro-Colombian territories where state presence is minimal and armed groups exert influence, such pauses are lifelines—windows of safety to travel, trade, and reunite with loved ones. Civil society organizations have welcomed the ELN’s announcement and called on all armed actors, including state forces, to reciprocate the restraint.
Geopolitical Context: Latin America’s Sovereignty Under Maritime Siege
The ELN Christmas ceasefire 2025 must be understood within a wider regional crisis: the militarization of the Caribbean and Pacific coasts by external powers, primarily the United States. Under the banner of “counternarcotics” and “security cooperation,” Washington has intensified naval operations near Colombia, Venezuela, and Central America—often without the explicit consent of host governments.
This posture, critics argue, revives the Monroe Doctrine in modern guise, asserting U.S. dominance over what it deems its “sphere of influence.” The consequences are severe: civilian vessels are boarded, fishermen are detained, and maritime trade routes are surveilled—creating a climate of fear that particularly affects small-scale fishers and coastal communities.
Moreover, the timing is critical. As Colombia advances its “Total Peace” policy under President Petro—a strategy seeking simultaneous negotiations with all remaining armed groups—external interference risks derailing domestic progress. The ELN’s linkage of its armed actions to U.S. naval conduct suggests that regional peace cannot be achieved without confronting imperial overreach.
Globally, this dynamic reflects a growing rift between the Global North and South. While Western institutions frame military deployments as “stability operations,” many Global South nations view them as neo-colonial intrusions that undermine self-determination. In Latin America, where memories of CIA-backed coups and banana wars remain vivid, such deployments trigger deep historical trauma.
Review the CELAC Havana Declaration on Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace
For Colombia—a nation scarred by six decades of internal conflict—the path to peace is both internal and geopolitical. The ELN’s ceasefire offers a moment of respite, but lasting tranquility requires more than goodwill; it demands respect for sovereignty, demilitarization of seas, and an end to foreign intervention.
As church bells ring across the Andes and families gather in villages from Chocó to La Guajira, the ELN’s message is clear: peace is possible, but only if empire steps back.
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The streamer Asmongold is one of the most wretched people on the planet. He’s also an incredibly popular streamer on the American right, with his video uploads receiving more than a hundred million views a month on YouTube.
As someone who seemingly fell into politics accidentally, Asmongold is more of a follower than a leader when it comes to political trends. This suggests he’s seen the way the tide is turning on the American right, and he’s decided his continued support for Israel will be bad for business:
Asmongold is backtracking his support for Trump and Israel as their approval nosedives.
Despite a year of daily praise, Asmongold now claims he never trusted Trump.
And he says protesting Israel is "America first" despite prior calls for protesters to be jailed and deported. pic.twitter.com/4nper1dvsQ
— Disinformation Tracker (@Disinfo_Tracker) December 20, 2025
Asmongold the wretch
When we say Asmongold is wretched, there are two points which best sum this up. The first is the squalor he chooses to live in:
Asmongold must be a multi-millionaire given his success, so he could pay for an army of cleaners to tend to this. The fact that he doesn’t suggests one of two things:
- He loves it.
- He’s realised he can better attract unwashed followers by presenting himself as the king of the shut-ins.
The second point is the ‘rat alarm clock’, which was… unique.
I’ve had many dead rats in the house, but there was a dead rat in the house… I use the dead rat as an alarm clock, because basically I live in Texas. It gets really hot in Texas, and whenever it would get really hot… the house would get hotter, and it would like cook the corpse of the rat, and it would make it smell worse.
So like I would wake up every morning at like 7:30 or 8:00 am.
Like I was ready to fucking go because the first thing that happened is I’d smell that goddamn rat. You know what the fuck? Yeah, this is a, that’s what, it’s a natural alarm. Yeah, free alarm clock.
To reiterate, this man is one of the most popular right-wing influencers in the world.
You’ve heard of Ben Shapiro? Asmongold gets five times as many views as him on YouTube.
You’ve heard of Steven Crowder? Asmongold gets more than ten times as many views on a good month.
Even Candace Owens gets fewer views than Asmongold, and she’s on an absolutely stratospheric rise to prominence at the moment.
Dead rat and all – whether any of us like it or not – this is an influential figure in the world.
“Based”
In the video at the top, Disinformation Tracker shows a recent clip from the Embassy of Israel in which a speaker is talking about how they’ve named and shamed “antisemites”. Asmongold suggests they’ve done this through “maliciously edited clips”. He further says that anyone who considers themselves part of the ‘America First’ movement should see their inclusion on such a list as a qualification for office.
For clarity, America First is spearhead by the Nazi Nick Fuentes:
Nick Fuentes just nukes Vivek Ramaswamy: “You can go back to India.”
Pack your bags, curry boy, and go back to India! America first, no apologies!
pic.twitter.com/aNStwVuxU2
— America First (@AFpumpfun) December 20, 2025
Nick Fuentes explains the main challenge to America First is organized jеwry.
“What I would like is for the US government to not be influenced by these foreign allegiances.” pic.twitter.com/Ma0LFpvbG1
— S.clips (@whitesocksclips) October 28, 2025
Now that you’re seeing phrases like ‘organised Jewry’ flying around, you’re probably starting to suspect these lads don’t oppose Israel because of the Palestinian genocide. Clearly there is actual antisemitism at play here.
America’s support for Israel has always been based on the US’s interests in the Middle East. Successive Israeli politicians have pushed what they can get away with, however, by influencing Western politicians to support them before their own country:
Ted Cruz says: “I came into Congress to serve Israel and I work every day to do that.” pic.twitter.com/qPhaAklhzb
— Brian Allen (@allenanalysis) December 7, 2025
Of course this would backfire.
Of course people would begin to ask ‘what the fuck is going on here?‘
Tucker Carlson blasted US leaders for letting Israel dictate American policy, saying Netanyahu brags about controlling Trump and the US, and called it humiliating that Americans are being forced into harmful decisions for another country.
Carlson said the “humiliation ritual” pic.twitter.com/Acjq2IDtXF
— Irlandarra (@aldamu_jo) October 4, 2025
Depraved new world
The MAGA movement is clearly coming to an end, because Donald Trump is decomposing before our eyes, and there’s no one who can fill his oddly proportioned shoes:
OMG Trump looks like total shit. If you ask me, it is a wonder that this guy is still even alive. pic.twitter.com/vzyo3UqXsa
— Brendan Boyd (@vbboyd) December 3, 2025
Everyone on the right knows there will be a vacuum, and to fill it they need to differentiate themselves from their rivals. Becoming anti-Israel is an obvious position to take, because anti-Israel sentiment is now the normal position:
While a super majority of Americans oppose U.S. financial support for Israel, by 9 points they favor recognition of a Palestinian state https://t.co/TF5y8ik1pJ pic.twitter.com/fKeTmkoq48
— Brian Tashman (@briantashman) December 20, 2025
Try as they might, we’re not sure the Zionists can smear Asmongold given that he is essentially a human smear. We’ll call him out if he’s antisemitic, but other than that he’s a problem for Israel’s propagandists to deal with.
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By Willem Moore
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