cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40905746

Dec. 24, 2025

The process can be violent. A Bedouin family told Reuters attackers who descended from Or Meir hurling Molotov cocktails drove them off Palestinian-owned land nearby last year. They fear they won't ever be able to return.

Messages posted on Or Meir's channel on the Telegram social media platform celebrate chasing out Bedouin herders and show the new settlers’ determination to secure lasting control over what they call “strategic” territory.

This year was one of the most violent on record for Israeli civilian attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank, according to United Nations data that shows more than 750 injuries and the rapid spread of outposts throughout land Palestinians hope will form the heart of a future state.

Israeli NGO Peace Now has recorded 80 outposts built in 2025, the most since the organization started its records in 1991. On December 21, Israel's cabinet approved 19 more settlements, including former outposts. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said the goal was to block Palestinian statehood.

Pinar del Río will host the national event on Saturday to commemorate the 38th anniversary of this valuable initiative, promoted by Army General Raúl Castro Ruz.

from Granma
December 25, 2025 22:12:52
Translation: Walter Lippmann

Pinar del Río.- "Here, one planting is removed and another one comes right behind it. We never have empty plots." Dany Mena García pauses his work to confirm what is plainly visible.

For a long time, the organoponic farm known as La Erea, located on one of the banks of the Guamá River, in the city of Pinar del Río, resembles a garden that maintains different shades of green throughout the 12 months of the year.

When seeds are scarce, a relative sends them from abroad, and when the electricity shortage began to jeopardize the irrigation system, an international collaboration project donated a new one that runs on solar panels.

Therefore, in its 49 flowerbeds there are always vegetables and greens in harvest.

"The acceptance is tremendous. People come here looking for everything. Since it's an organoponic farm that's in permanent production, people start arriving early. I don't know how many people have already passed through our point of sale today."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40875313

Dec 26, 2025

Ahead of Saturday’s one-year anniversary of Israel abducting Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya from the Gaza hospital he ran, advocates demanded the release the scores of health workers still imprisoned by Israeli occupation forces.

“One year ago, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya was abducted by the Israeli military along with dozens of other medical staff during a horrific raid on the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza,” Dr. Yipeng Ge, a member of Doctors Against Genocide, said Friday on social media. “Free Hussam Abu Safiya. Free them all.”

Anna Liedtke, a 25-year-old German journalist and activist with the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, has publicly revealed that she experienced sexual assault while held by 'Israeli' forces.

Liedtke, who was aboard the vessel Conscience attempting to break the naval blockade of Gaza, said she was raped during a transfer between 'Israeli' prisons.

The journalist described her detention as lasting five days following the interception of the ship. She stated that the assault occurred while being transferred from Ktzi’ot to Givon prison during routine strip searches.

Israeli warplanes launched fresh airstrikes across eastern and southern Lebanon on Friday, extending a pattern of ceasefire violations that has continued for months.

Despite the ceasefire reached in November 2024 after more than a year of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, Israeli forces have continued to carry out near-daily attacks inside Lebanese territory.

Israeli troops also remain deployed at five locations along the border despite provisions in the truce requiring a full withdrawal.

Hamas has called on Israel to allow an impartial international investigation into its attack on 7 October 2023 and has rejected that it killed civilians or committed atrocities.

“The resistance did not target any hospital, school, or house of worship; it did not kill a single journalist or any member of ambulance crews. We challenge [Israel] to prove otherwise,” it said.

In the new document, Hamas said that “Western media and Zionist lobby groups” had launched a disinformation campaign about the events of the attack.

“The Israeli entity promoted a series of lies and fallacies about killing children and raping women, paving the way to proceed with an all-out genocide project that was pre-planned and aimed to erase Gaza from existence,” it said.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40849657

Correcting distortions and reviving the economy is not a slogan; it is a concrete battle for stability in everyday life, so that wages are sufficient, so that there is food on the table, so that blackouts end, so that transportation is revived, so that schools, hospitals, and basic services function with the quality we deserve. We have debated vigorously, without triumphalism, and we have defended an economic agenda that goes to the root of the problem, and that implicates every agency, every territory, and every cadre.

We accept the urgent need to advance toward macroeconomic stability. That means putting accounts in order, confronting inflation, adjusting the budget to protect the neediest, and solving the complex issue of the exchange rate. These are not simple or popular decisions, but a responsible Party aims not for the easy way out, but for a real solution to the problem. The task is to combine economic rigor with social justice, and that combination can only be guaranteed by the socialist revolution

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40851086

de #PanoramaMundial / #WorldOutlook diciembre 24, 2025

A continuación publicamos un discurso de Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, primer secretario del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba y presidente del país. Díaz-Canel intervino en el clausura de la 11ª Sesión Plenaria del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba el 13 de diciembre de 2025 en La Habana.

La reunión se celebró en medio de los desafíos extremos que enfrenta el pueblo cubano, producto de más de 60 años de guerra económica por parte del gobierno estadounidense. El mal llamado embargo estadounidense es un “cerco especialmente diseñado para castigar a la rebelde Cuba por su osada pretensión de seguir siendo libre, independiente y soberana a unas pocas millas del imperio”, dijo Díaz-Canel.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40819216

By Mera Aladam
25 Dec 2025 12:21 GMT
last updated: 07:25 ET

A hospital in the war-torn Gaza Strip was forced to suspend medical services on Thursday due to fuel shortages caused by an ongoing Israeli siege, despite the ceasefire signed in October.

Ahmed Muhanna, director of al-Awda Hospital in central Gaza, told Al Jazeera Mubasher that, “with a heavy heart”, staff were forced to pause most services.

He stressed that depriving health institutions of fuel prevents thousands of Palestinians from accessing vital medical care.

The hospital, located in the Nuseirat refugee camp, provides maternity services and is caring for more than a dozen children suffering from malnutrition.

ALGIERS, Algeria -- Legislators in Algeria voted to declare France’s colonization of the North African country a crime, approving a law that calls for restitution of property taken by France during its 130-year rule, among other demands seeking to redress historical wrongs.

In a solemn ceremony steeped in symbolism, 340 of 407 members of Algeria’s National Assembly voted late Wednesday to approve the law. The move came just a few weeks after African countries made a collective resolution for recognition and reparations for colonial-era crimes.

France slammed the law as a “hostile act” threatening bilateral efforts to heal wounds of the past. The two countries retain close cultural and economic ties but have troubled diplomatic relations.