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Palestinian Land Authority head: 12,000 settlement units approved and 7,000 Palestinians displaced in West Bank this year

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Israeli forces demolish two Palestinian-owned houses using heavy machinery on the grounds that they were built without permits in the town of Anzah, south of Jenin in West Bank, Palestine, on July 27, 2026. [Nedal Eshtayah – Anadolu Agency]

About 12,360 settlement units have been approved in the occupied West Bank this year, while nearly 7,000 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from more than 260 communities, Palestinian Land Authority head Alaa Al-Tamimi said.

Speaking to broadcaster Cairo News on Tuesday evening, Tamimi said briefings given by UN envoy at the UN Security Council today were important in exposing what he described as Israeli crimes in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, as well as ongoing crimes in the Gaza Strip.

He said that since the fragile ceasefire in Gaza came into effect, more than 1,200 Palestinians had been killed, including women and children, while Israeli bombardment and other attacks had continued.

READ: Israeli occupiers establish illegal settlement outpost in yard of Palestinian home in West Bank

“During 2026 alone, the establishment of 12,360 settlement units was announced,” he said.

Tamimi also described attacks by Israeli settlers in the West Bank as “settler terrorism”, saying their aim was to forcibly displace Palestinians from their communities.

“The number of Palestinian communities that have been displaced has risen to more than 260, with more than or nearly 7,000 Palestinians displaced during 2026,” he said.

READ: UN officials: Occupied West Bank at ‘breaking point’

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UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham admits to blatently lying and engaging in deception to become leader of the UK Labour Party and Prime Minister.
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Donald Trump sings and dances, says that it’s fun to kill everyone … unless he gets distracted or falls asleep.
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PM rejects unions and climate activists’ calls to set maximum workplace temperature

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/pm-rejects-unions-and-climate-activists-calls-set-maximum-workplace-temperature

 Union members and climate activists set up a ‘cool station’ outside Highbury and Islington station to hand out heatwave safety advice to workers [Pic: Immo Klink]

PRIME Minister Andy Burnham rejected calls to set a maximum workplace temperature by a coalition of unions and climate activists today, as the Met Office predicted this summer will become Britain’s warmest on record.

The Heat Strike campaign called on Labour to set a national maximum indoor working temperature of 30°C, dropping to 27°C for those doing strenuous work.

Coalition campaigner Liam Geary Baulch said: “Everyone is feeling the effects of the climate. The government must protect workers when it’s too hot to work and safeguard everyone’s future. 

“The petitions show people are scared. These heatwaves are causing a national health and safety emergency. That’s why we are urging the PM to put the brakes on now, to stop accidents and save lives. 

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https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/pm-rejects-unions-and-climate-activists-calls-set-maximum-workplace-temperature

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Nigel Farage urges you to ignore facts and reality and be a climate science denier like him and his Deputy Richard Tice. He says that Reform UK has received £Millions and £Millions from the fossil fuel industry to promote climate denial and destroy the planet.
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Morning Star Editorial: Heat strikes are a warning — we must change to adapt to a hotter world

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/heat-strikes-are-warning-we-must-change-adapt-hotter-world

HEAT strikes, like those due to begin this Friday by London bus drivers organised in the Unite union, will become more common as long as governments shut their eyes to the scale of climate adaptation needed.

This punishing summer, now entering its fifth heatwave, is extreme but not unexpected.

All 10 of the hottest years on record in Britain have been since 2002. The reality of a warming climate has been recognised for decades. The TUC has been urging a legal maximum workplace temperature since 2008.

Britain is bound by international treaties to seek to reduce the emissions that cause global warming, though serious action to do so has fallen well short of what’s required and open climate denialism is now fashionable again, thanks to an aggressive new right taking inspiration from the anti-science Donald Trump regime in the United States.

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Increased frequency of extreme weather, the see-saw between longer droughts and fiercer floods that are ruining harvests, has not interrupted British governments in their long push to debilitate the public sector, imposing deep cuts on the fire brigade as on every service that cannot be turned into a cash cow for private providers.

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https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/heat-strikes-are-warning-we-must-change-adapt-hotter-world

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Nigel Farage urges you to ignore facts and reality and be a climate science denier like him and his Deputy Richard Tice. He says that Reform UK has received £Millions and £Millions from the fossil fuel industry to promote climate denial and destroy the planet.
Nigel Farage urges you to ignore facts and reality and be a climate science denier like him and his Deputy Richard Tice. He says that Reform UK has received £Millions and £Millions from the fossil fuel industry to promote climate denial and destroy the planet.
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‘We are in a mobile greenhouse’ say bus drivers striking over heat

https://socialistworker.co.uk/trade-unions/we-are-in-a-mobile-greenhouse-say-bus-drivers-striking-over-heat/

An Arriva bus in north London (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

Arriva North London bus drivers will be on strike on 26 dates from August to October

An amber heat health alert came into force across most of England as Socialist Worker went to press on Tuesday.

The impact of the soaring temperatures on workers’ health and safety has been staggering, with many employers failing to make adjustments for the heat or provide air conditioning in workplaces.

But bus drivers in north London are refusing to roast for corporate greed.

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A bus driver and Unite rep at Arriva North told Socialist Worker that workers were effectively “working in a mobile greenhouse”.

He explained that the air cooling systems installed on buses only managed to reduce temperatures by around two or three degrees because they take air from outside and circulate it.

“Driver cab temperatures can be more than 40 degrees, sometimes up to fifty degrees. The systems are just blowing hot air.”

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https://socialistworker.co.uk/trade-unions/we-are-in-a-mobile-greenhouse-say-bus-drivers-striking-over-heat/

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Outrage as Thames Water hands finance officer £1m sign-on fee

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/outrage-thames-water-hands-finance-officer-ps1m-sign-fee

 Thames Water sign at a water works in Islington, north London, July 23, 2026

CAMPAIGNERS demanded the government take back control of debt-ridden Thames Water after its “indefensible” decision to give a £1 million golden handshake to its finance chief amid likely drought conditions in large parts of the country.

Britain’s largest water company gave Steve Buck the huge sign-on fee in July as it continues to struggle with a debt pile of around £20 billion, as well as public outcry over pollution and mismanagement of the utility.

The payment, which a senior company figure admitted would be seen as “unjust” by customers, was made despite renewed strain on southern England’s water systems, as Amber heat alerts were issued for most of the country yesterday.

More areas across England are likely to plunge into drought this week, as the Met Office predicted temperatures are to soar into the mid-30°Cs yet again this week.

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https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/outrage-thames-water-hands-finance-officer-ps1m-sign-fee

April 2023 Surfers Against Sewage and Extinction Rebellion protests in St Agnes, Perranporth, Truro and Charlestown which unveiled spoof Blue Plaques to the MPs and Conservative Government who allowed raw sewage to be dumped in the sea (Image: Surfers Against Sewage)
April 2023 Surfers Against Sewage and Extinction Rebellion protests in St Agnes, Perranporth, Truro and Charlestown which unveiled spoof Blue Plaques to the MPs and Conservative Government who allowed raw sewage to be dumped in the sea (Image: Surfers Against Sewage)
Image of a burst water main.
Image of a burst water main.
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