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— Roger Hallam (@RogerHallamCS21) October 2, 2026

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3 October 2026
‘They did not pass, they will not pass’
https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/they-did-not-pass-they-will-not-pass
A demonstrator releases a smoke flare in front of a mural on Cable Street in the East End of London, which commemorates the Battle of Cable Street, October 6, 2016
Anti-fascist, trade unionists and Eastenders to celebrate victory over Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts at the Battle of Cable Street 90 years ago
ANTI-FASCISTS, trade unionists and Eastenders will come together this weekend to celebrate victory over Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts at the Battle of Cable Street 90 years ago.
Declaring “they did not pass, they will not pass,” a march and rally this Sunday, October 4, will honour the Jewish and Irish communities of the East End, the communists and socialists who mobilised to stop the fascists marching through Cable Street 90 years ago — and to stand together against “hatred, division and racist scapegoating” on Saturday.
“This Sunday every anti-fascist can celebrate the decisive moment when British fascism was blocked, driven back, and Oswald Mosley’s attempt to build a working-class base for his reactionary and racist political project was sent into reverse,” Communist Party general secretary Alex Gordon said, calling for a huge turnout.
“Mosley’s attempt to build a political movement on antisemitism, was defeated by the class unity of Jewish and Irish workers in Cable Street and the solidarity of working-class anti-fascists from across Britain.
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Article continues at https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/they-did-not-pass-they-will-not-pass
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3 October 2026
Large volumes of medical supplies for Gaza face wait times of 74 days for Israeli clearance: WHO
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Premature babies are struggling to survive due to limited fuel supplies and shortages of medical equipment in Nuseirat, Gaza, Palestine on April 15, 2026. [Moiz Salhi – Anadolu Agency]
Large volumes of medical supplies meant for Gaza wait a median of 74 days for clearance by Israeli authorities, the World Health Organization said Friday, urging “unimpeded and predictable” access for the much-needed aid, Anadolu reports.
“Not one hospital in Gaza is fully functional,” Reinhilde Van De Weerdt, WHO representative in the occupied Palestinian territory, told reporters in Geneva.
Van De Weerdt said chronic shortages of medicines and medical supplies remain a major obstacle to restoring health services, despite a year having passed since the ceasefire was announced.
“Without those items, no hospital will ever be fully or even partially functional,” she said.
According to the WHO’s latest analysis, large volumes of medical supplies wait a median of 74 days, roughly 2 1/2 months, for Israeli clearance.
“If the shipment hasn’t been approved, then we start that lengthy, cumbersome process all over again with no guarantees for a different outcome,” she said.
READ: Gaza genocide continues a year after ‘ceasefire’, Medical Aid for Palestinians warns
Medicines have an approval rate of nearly 87%, while medical equipment – including X-ray machines, sterilization equipment, and spare parts for CT scanners – is regularly rejected, she said, “often with no explanation given.”
“Every extra day in storage or in transit brings medicines a day closer to expiry, an equipment closer to being damaged before it ever reaches the person who needs it,” she warned.
She also described the security situation in Gaza as “very, very precarious,” saying collecting medical supplies from the Kerem Shalom crossing requires WHO teams to travel through an area controlled by the Israeli military using armored vehicles and personal protective equipment.
The process must be coordinated with Israeli authorities and teams often face delays in receiving the green light, she said, adding that logistical staff can leave early in the morning and return late in the evening with supplies that had been waiting at the crossing.
The WHO called for the “unimpeded and predictable” entry of humanitarian and health supplies into Gaza at scale and the use of multiple crossings.
READ: UN official says criticism of Israeli policies in Gaza cost him his job
Ed Miliband claims that he and Andy Burnham have reformulated Blair’s triangulation strategy. Their new formulation entails acknowledging that they were wrong on Israel and Palestine but entails doing absolutely nothing about it and continuing exactly the same policies hoping that you’re too stupid to notice.
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham admits to blatently lying and engaging in deception to become leader of the UK Labour Party and Prime Minister.

Andy Burnham backs Israel
3 October 2026
3 Palestinians killed, 4 injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza despite ceasefire
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Emergency responders and bystanders at the scene of an Israeli unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) strike Palestinian group gathering near the Ansar roundabout in western Gaza City, Gaza, Palestine, on October 02, 2026. [Ali Jadallah – Anadolu Agency]
Three Palestinians were killed and four others, including a child, were injured Friday in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip amid continued violations of a ceasefire that took effect Oct. 10, 2025, Anadolu reports.
In the latest attack, a Palestinian was killed in an Israeli drone strike targeting the courtyard of a residential home behind the Al-Razi Medical Complex in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
Medical sources told Anadolu that the body of Ibrahim Abu Uwaimer was brought to Al-Awda Hospital in the camp following the strike.
Earlier, a medical source told Anadolu that Ahmed al-Ramlawi was killed in an Israeli strike targeting a tent on the rooftop of a home near Palestine Stadium west of Gaza City.
In another attack, a medical source told Anadolu that Ibrahim Munir al-Masri was killed and another Palestinian was injured in an Israeli strike targeting a gathering of people near the Ansar junction southwest of Gaza City.
Earlier, three Palestinians, including a girl and an elderly woman, were injured by Israeli army gunfire targeting Street 5 in the Al-Mawasi area and the vicinity of Hamad City northwest of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, the source said.
Witnesses told Anadolu that Israeli military vehicles opened heavy fire on residential areas and tents sheltering displaced people in northern, eastern and southern Khan Younis.
READ: Israeli opposition leader says young Israelis backed killing ‘everyone’ in Gaza
Israeli warships also opened fire on the coast of Khan Younis, according to the witnesses.
Earlier in the day, local sources told Anadolu that the Israeli army carried out a major demolition operation targeting homes and buildings inside areas under its control in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood east of Gaza City.
Israeli warplanes also carried out at least two strikes on evacuated buildings east of the Al-Tuffah and Shujaiya neighborhoods, with no casualties reported, according to the sources.
In central Gaza, Israeli artillery shelled eastern areas of Deir al-Balah and the Al-Maghazi refugee camp amid gunfire in the vicinity, the sources said.
Israeli violations of the ceasefire agreement had killed 1,439 Palestinians and injured 5,052 others as of Thursday, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
Since Oct. 8, 2023, Israel has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians and injured over 175,000 others in the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian figures, while around 90% of the enclave’s infrastructure has been destroyed.
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Ed Miliband claims that he and Andy Burnham have reformulated Blair’s triangulation strategy. Their new formulation entails acknowledging that they were wrong on Israel and Palestine but entails doing absolutely nothing about it and continuing exactly the same policies hoping that you’re too stupid to notice.
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham admits to blatently lying and engaging in deception to become leader of the UK Labour Party and Prime Minister.

Andy Burnham backs Israel
3 October 2026
Israeli forces detain 2 Syrians during incursion into southern Syrian village
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A view of the area around Tel al-Ahmar in Syria’s Quneitra countryside, where a raid and infiltration by the Israeli army were reported, with around 30 Israeli military vehicles deployed in the area from morning until evening the previous day on September 15, 2026. [Izz Aldien Alqasem – Anadolu Agency]
Israeli forces detained two Syrians during an incursion into Maariya village in the western countryside of Daraa province in southern Syria, later releasing one of them, according to Syrian Arab News Agency on Friday, Anadolu reports.
An Israeli force comprising 12 military vehicles entered the village overnight through the northern road known as Wadi Road, coming from the direction of the plain, the news agency reported, citing local sources.
The force entered several residential neighborhoods, raided and searched homes and detained two residents, the sources said.
Israeli forces later released one of the detainees, while the fate of the other remains unknown, according to SANA.
Syrian Alikhbariah TV had earlier reported that Israeli forces detained a young man during the same incursion before the news agency provided additional details.
The incursion comes amid continued Israeli violations on Syrian territory, which President Ahmad al-Sharaa addressed in his speech at the UN General Assembly.
Sharaa said at the time that Israel had carried out around 500 airstrikes and artillery attacks and more than 1,200 incursions since late 2024, along with around 300 arrests and detentions.
He also reiterated Damascus’ rejection of attempts to impose a new reality, its commitment to the 1974 Separation of Forces Agreement and its demand that Israeli forces withdraw to positions held before Dec. 8, 2024.
READ: How Israel destabilizes the Middle East: Denying sovereignty and the right to exist
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Ed Miliband claims that he and Andy Burnham have reformulated Blair’s triangulation strategy. Their new formulation entails acknowledging that they were wrong on Israel and Palestine but entails doing absolutely nothing about it and continuing exactly the same policies hoping that you’re too stupid to notice.
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham admits to blatently lying and engaging in deception to become leader of the UK Labour Party and Prime Minister.

Andy Burnham backs Israel
3 October 2026

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