The Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain
Week commencing 24th October 2025
The Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain
Week commencing 24th October 2025
The Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain
THE GUNS have fallen silent again in Gaza following a renewed outbreak of violence that left two Israelis dead and many more Palestinians killed or wounded in Israeli air-strikes last weekend. Humanitarian groups expressed concern that the latest attacks would exacerbate civilian suffering in Gaza, where hospitals, shelters and schools are struggling to recover from two years of destruction and blockade.
An international conference to lay out the plans for the reconstruction of the Palestinian enclave is set for Cairo in November. And the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague has rejected Israel’s appeal to cancel arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant.
Dozens of Palestinian Arabs were killed or injured in Israeli air-raids last weekend. The Zionists said it was in retaliation for deaths of two Israeli soldiers in a Hamas “terror attack” in Rafah. But Hamas denied any involvement in the deadly bomb blast which now transpires was caused by a bulldozer operated by an Israeli company running over unexploded ordnance. According to Drop Site News, an independent investigative news agency based in Washington, both the White House and the Pentagon were quickly aware of this despite Israeli claims that it was a Hamas tunnel attack. The Israelis soon backed off under American pressure – made vocal by The Donald’s deputy, J D Vance in talks with the Netanyahu clique on Israel this week.
“I think that we are one week into President Trump’s historic peace plan in the Middle East, and things are going, frankly, better than I expected that they were,” Vance told the media in Israel following talks with the Netanyahu government in the implementation of the next stage of the American-sponsored 20-point cease-fire deal.
The next step will be to set-up the “international security force” that the imperialists say will maintain law and order in the Gaza Strip after Hamas has left. The Americans are already talk ing about an Egyptian-led international force supported by a thousand Palestinian police officers from the “autonomous” Palestinian Authority administration in the West Bank to help secure the enclave once Hamas hands over control. The only problem is that Hamas isn’t going.
Hamas is operating along twin tracks Politburo member Ghazi Hamad said. The first is preserving the Palestinians’ national identity and managing the reconstruction, which, he stressed, must not come at the expense of that identity. The second is to maintain their legitimate arms which are exclusively used to repel Israeli aggression. The senior Hamas officer said it is the Palestinians themselves who should govern the territory and that the movement rejects any international trusteeship over the mechanisms for managing Palestinian affairs.
Back in Israel Ayman Odeh, the Chair of the communist-led Hadash alliance in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, has called on fellow opposition factions to unite to bring down Netanyahu’s far-right government “as soon as possible”. Odeh said the Netanyahu government has three aims during the current parliamentary session, “harming the Palestinian people in the occupied West Bank, promoting a judicial coup and preventing the Arab population [in Israel] from running in the next elections. I call on the opposition factions to act together, in unity, against these three things, not just against one thing, but in principle against this government in all directions, and to do everything to overthrow this government as soon as possible,” he said. “The Hadash-Ta’al faction will work to increase the voter turnout among the Arab population and democratic Jews in order to prevent the government from continuing for another term”.