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2026-01-28: Palestine Roundup

So far today: 2026-01-28 4:37pm GMT

Albany & El Cerrito for Palestine (2026-01-28). Saturday 1/31: Palestine and the Palestinian People before October 7th, Lecture 2. indybay.org Albany Library Edith Stone Room…

Ed Newman (2026-01-28). Gravely ill pro-Palestine activist ends hunger, thirst strike in UK prison. radiohc.cu By Anealla Safdar | Umer Khalid, a 22-year-old British pro-Palestine activist, has ended a hunger and thirst strike in prison after his health deteriorated rapidly, with fears he was at high risk of a heart attack. | Khalid, who is being held on pre-trial remand at the Wormwood Scrubs Prison in London, ended his protest on Monday, after being rushed to in intensive care as his heart rate slowed to a dangerous level. He has since returned to prison. | Doctors feared that Khalid, who suffers from limb-girdle muscular dystrophy, a condition that causes muscle weakness and wasting, was likely to die suddenly after he…

WSWS (2026-01-28). Art Gallery of Ontario rejects acquiring Nan Goldin work because of her opposition to Gaza genocide: "Palestine is a great exception that doesn't include freedom of speech" wsws.org A committee at the AGO rejected buying a work by Goldin because several members found her denunciation of the Gaza genocide "offensive" and "antisemitic."

Albany & El Cerrito for Palestine (2026-01-28). Thursday 1/29: Thursday Human Billboard for Palestine. indybay.org El Cerrito Plaza San Pablo Ave and Carlson, in front of Daiso…

Monica Moorehead, Editor (2026-01-28). What unites Palestine and Minneapolis. workers.org During the January 23 protest at Union Square in New York City, Workers World Party displayed placards saying: "Stop the Occupation from Minneapolis to Palestine!" This message was not intended to equate the almost 78-year-old apartheid, Zionist military control over an entire people to the current invasion of Minneapolis by . . . |

aljazeera (2026-01-28). LIVE: Gaza 'desperate' as Israel aid blocks hit children hardest, UN says. aljazeera.com Palestinians 'desperate' for Rafah crossing to open as prolonged closures compound widespread suffering, warns the UN.

United World International (2026-01-28). Erdoƒüan: Türkiye is one of the poles of the new global order; Foreign Minister Fidan talks on the US, Israel, Iran and Gaza; Minutes of meeting with àñcalan go public. uwidata.com Last week's agenda in Türkiye was busy, as usual. President Recep Tayyip Erdoƒüan delivered a speech assessing rising global tensions and Türkiye's position in it. Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan issued a pointed warning over developments in Iran. And the official minutes from a meeting between jailed PKK leader Abdullah àñcalan and MP were released. Erdoƒüan: …

aljazeera (2026-01-28). Is Trump's 'Board of Peace' an effort to curtail Europe's middle powers? aljazeera.com Most European countries have declined or demurred on their invitations to the US president's initiative to rebuild Gaza.

ICRC (2026-01-28). Gaza: "Palestinians are wondering how they will get through the winter" icrc.org

Editor (2026-01-28). As Trump's 'Board of Peace' Presses Forward, Palestinians in Gaza Fear What Lies Ahead. scheerpost.com " In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we're doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a By…

Ed Newman (2026-01-28). Gaza's unequal dead: 10,000 Palestinians under rubble, one Israeli captive. radiohc.cu By Mohammad Mansour | To retrieve one body, the Israeli military mobilized a fleet of tanks, drones, and what locals described as "explosive robots". | They turned a neighborhood into a "kill zone", dug up approximately 200 Palestinian graves, and left four civilians dead in their wake. | The focus of this overwhelming force was Ran Gvili, an Israeli policeman killed more than two years ago, the last Israeli captive in Gaza after more than two years of Israel's genocidal war on the besieged enclave. | His successful recovery on Monday was hailed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a triumph of commitm…

Staff (2026-01-28). Biden adviser hits back after Netanyahu blames international arms embargo for deaths of IDF soldiers in Gaza. haaretz.com

ICRC (2026-01-28). Gaza: Severe winter conditions compound humanitarian crisis for displaced Palestinians. icrc.org

newleftreview (2026-01-28). Kevin Cox: South Africa In History's Shadow. newleftreview.org Why is South Africa seemingly still mired in the income and spatial segregation patterns of the apartheid era? Standard explanations focus on the ANC, either as too neoliberal or too statist. Kevin Cox looks instead at the making of classes—and expropriation of African farmers—in conditions of globalization's labour shock.

albawaba (2026-01-28). Netanyahu sets conditions for Saudi normalization, warns of dual regional 'axes'. albawaba.com ALBAWABA- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said any potential normalization agreement with Saudi Arabia would depend on Riyadh refraining from supporting actors that attack Israel or deny its legitimacy, underscoring Israel's security-first approach to regional diplomacy. | Speaking at the Second International Conference on Combating Antisemitism in Jerusalem on Tuesday, Netanyahu said Israel is closely monitoring discussions around Saudi-Israeli normalization but stressed that peace cannot come at the expense of Israeli security. "Anyone who wants to normalize with us must not join or support entities t…

ecns.cn (2026-01-28). China refutes rumors of ban on Israeli tourists. ecns.cn A spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in Israel on Wednesday refuted claims circulating on social media that China has "officially banned all Israeli tourists" from entering the country, calling the reports false.

Ed Newman (2026-01-27). UK authorities arrest 86 protesters demanding the release of Palestine Action prisoners. radiohc.cu In Britain, at least 86 protesters were arrested on the grounds of a London jail as they gathered to demand the release of Palestine Action political prisoners. The protest also focused on Palestine Action political prisoner Muhammad Umer Khalid, who is 22 years old and relaunched his hunger strike about two weeks ago. He had initially been on hunger strike since November, briefly pausing in December due to severe health complications. | Videos of the protest at West London's Wormwood Scrubs jail shows police shoving protesters to the ground and handcuffing them. | LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM — 2026/01/11: Hung…

newarab (2026-01-27). Gaza film 'The Voice of Hind Rajab' nominated for BAFTA award. newarab.com

Rina Bassist (2026-01-27). As phase 2 looms, Netanyahu insists no Turkish or Qatari troops in Gaza. al-monitor.com Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a Tuesday address that his country would not completely withdraw from the Gaza Strip under the next phase of the ceasefire, which the Trump administration is pushing to advance.

Staff (2026-01-27). Headlines for January 27, 2026. democracynow.org Trump Admin Removes Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino from Minnesota, Minnesota GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Drops Out of Race, Citing Trump's Immigration Crackdown, Partial Government Shutdown Likely as Senate Dems Refuse to Back Funding Bill over DHS Funding, Immigrant Families Protest Inside ICE's Detention Facility in Dilley, Texas, Immigration Agents Detain 2-Year-Old Girl in Minnesota and Her Father, Israel Recovers Remains of Last Hostage Held in Gaza, U.N. Says 37,000 Palestinians Forcibly Displaced in the Occupied West Bank in 2025, Human Rights Activists News Agency: Iranian Security Forces…

Pacific Media Watch (2026-01-27). Australia cancels visa of Israeli influencer over 'hate speech' against Islam. asiapacificreport.nz Pacific Media Watch Australia has canceled the visa of an Israeli influencer over his controversial verbal attacks against Islam, report news media. Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke cancelled the visa of Sammy Yahood hours before his flight to Australia, according to Sky News. He was scheduled to visit Australia and speak at major events in…

aljazeera (2026-01-27). Australia cancels visa of Israeli influencer accused of 'spreading hatred'. aljazeera.com Social media influencer Sammy Yahood is known to spread Islamophobic content online.

Jason Ditz (2026-01-27). At Least Three Civilians Killed in Israeli Strikes on Southern Lebanon. news.antiwar.com Israeli strikes across southern Lebanon have left at least three civilians dead since Monday, including a TV presenter for Lebanon's Al Manar TV identified as Ali Nour al-Din, who was killed on his motorcycle in the city of Tyre. The IDF confirmed the strike and the assassination of Nour al-Din, but as is so often …

Skwawkbox (2026-01-27). Israeli woman surprised to find she is 'dead' as anti-Iran propaganda backfires. thecanary.co Israel's mass propaganda campaign to undermine the Iranian government has backfired in a rare moment of humour. Along with governments and media the US and UK, Israel has claimed 'thousands' killed by Iranian security forces. In reality, evidence indicates that the murders have been perpetrated by Israeli agents and their Iranian proxies. The Zionist/western propaganda […] | By

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