Month: February 2025

“The Palestinians in Gaza should be allowed to go back to today’s Israel”: former UN official

Donald Trump proposed ethnic cleansing of Palestinians who are vigourously resisting by streaming back to northern Gaza and rebuilding. But even in Gaza, they are still refugees. “The real answer is for them to go back to the current state of Israel, from where they were expelled in 1947/48”, says Michael Lynk, former UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights for Palestinians. Watch our interview.

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Gaza starts rebuilding… Canada should help

Soon after the ceasefire was announced, Palestinians streamed north to find their destroyed houses and begin to clean up. Palestinians are already eagerly reopening wells blocked by Israeli troops, bulldozing rubble left by Israeli bombs and even repainting walls!!. By hand and using remaining and donated machinery, they have started to make Gaza liveable again. Some countries have started to help. Canada could do so as well…

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