UK’s Corbyn lauds late US President Jimmy Carter for ‘speaking honestly about Palestine’
The UK’s former Labour Party leader and current Member of Parliament Jeremy Corbyn has described the late Jimmy Carter, who died on Sunday, as “one of the only US Presidents to speak honestly about Palestine”.
Reposting a video of Carter on social media, Corbyn quotes the late president, who died at the age of 100, using the word “apartheid” to describe the situation for Palestinians under Israeli occupation.
“The word apartheid… is exactly accurate,” Carter says in an interview.
“The Palestinians can’t even ride on the same roads that the Israelis have created or built in Palestinian territory,” Carter said.
“The word 'apartheid' is exactly accurate…they are absolutely and totally separated."
I will remember Jimmy Carter as one of the only US Presidents to speak honestly about Palestine. pic.twitter.com/DGjsoRFVvo
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) December 30, 2024
More than 13,500 Israelis ‘wounded from the war’ since October 7, 2023: Report
The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation has reported that the rehabilitation department of Israel’s Defence Ministry receives about 1,000 new people each month who have been “wounded from the war”.
Since October 7, 2023, more than 13,500 Israelis have been injured and admitted for treatment at the rehabilitation department, the broadcaster reported in a post on social media.
Of those wounded, 51 percent are under the age of 30 years and 43 percent of the total are dealing with “psychological reactions”, the broadcaster said.
More than 82,000 Israelis left country in 2024 amid rocket attacks
More than 82,000 Israelis have left the country since the beginning of this year as Israel conducts its war on Gaza, official figures show.
The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics said 82,700 people left Israel in 2024. The bureau did not specify the reason, but previous Israeli media reports attributed it to rocket fire from Lebanon, Gaza and Yemen.
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