This week:

• 12 Palestinians, including a 3-year-old boy, attacked and injured on their farms by Israelis from illegal settlements in the South Hebron area of the West Bank…

• UK Labour Party conference at Brighton passes motion condemning Israeli apartheid and calling for sanctions

• Covid-19 spike in Gaza exacerbated by Israeli authorities disrupting vaccine supplies

• Continued violations of al Aqsa mosque precinct.

"AFOPA calls on political parties in this country to take a stand …And on the Australian media to report on the shameful acts perpetrated every day against Palestinians…”

“The UN said some three years ago that it expects Gaza to become ‘unliveable’ by 2020,” recalls Majed Abusalama, award-winning Palestinian journalist, scholar, campaigner and human rights defender.”

“The United Nations has launched a special temporary service to arrange for patients from the Gaza Strip to receive medical treatment in Israel, East Jerusalem and the West Bank, the organization’s Middle East envoy announced on Monday. This is the first time the United Nations has gotten involved in the issue. It did so because many Gazans have not been able to arrange urgent treatments in the months since the Palestinian Authority ceased all cooperation with Israel. The PA had previously served as the liaison between patients and the Israeli authorities.”

“In late August, the coronavirus, which causes COVID-19, found a foothold in the Gaza Strip, one of the most densely populated territories in the World. Since then, infections have spiked significantly, with nearly 1,000 new positive cases reported in the last two weeks alone.”

“Spokesman of the Hamas-run ministry of interior in Gaza Eyad al-Bozzom told reporters that Egypt reopened Rafah Crossing point for four days to enable hundreds of Palestinians stranded in Egypt to return to Gaza.”