The Australian government has told the International Criminal Court it should not investigate alleged war crimes in Palestine because Palestine is “not a state”, arguing the court prosecutor’s investigation into alleged attacks on civilians, torture, attacks on hospitals, and the use of human shields, should be halted on jurisdictional grounds.

“…Zionist hopes of British imperial patronage in Palestine were high, not least among the Jewish minority there, promised a `national homeland’. Many of them hoped to translate this concept into statehood, although Lloyd George had been thinking in terms of sanctuary in a protectorate rather than sovereignty. “

“In the Gaza Strip, engineer Mohammed Abu Matar and his team at Tashkeel 3D are using 3D printing technology to produce medical equipment needed to confront the pandemic.”

“What started as an experiment days after the coronavirus outbreak in the West Bank is now a factory producing thousands of masks a day.