Uncertain ‘peace’ in Gaza. 103rd vigil takes place
November 2025
Cold, wet, dark and miserable was the setting for our 103rd vigil with around 25 in attendance. Gaza has dropped out of the news now that there is supposed to be a peace deal and attention has switched to the terrible events in Ukraine. Drone and rocket attacks are increasing in intensity with little sign of an end despite another of President Trump’s one-sided peace deals which has to be agreed by this Thursday.
Both Gaza and Ukraine demonstrate similar characteristics namely, Trump’s seeming admiration for tyrants and bullies. The Gaza peace process looks precarious and one report suggests 310 Palestinians have been killed in the past 6 weeks. Aid is still only entering in small quantities.
One major effect of the peace deal is a significant drop off in aid. One charity has reported a 51% fall in contributions and another used to sent $5000 per week now can only send $2000. Other charities report similar falls.
Other reports to emerge in recent weeks concern the appalling conditions Palestinians are held in. Some are in an underground prison never to see daylight for months at a time. The prison in question is Rakefet.
Sources: BBC, B’Tselem, Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, Guardian.
A video of the vigil thanks to Peter Gloyns.
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Dear Peter,
Jonathan Cook and the Electronic Intifada have both done analyses of what it will mean for Palestinians – a continuation of the genocide and the resettlement of the Green Zone by Israelis. I did n’t realize that the final agreement was today. It certainly seems to have dropped from the MSM. Peter Oborne’s new book, Complicit, is well worth a read.I
Val
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Hi Val,
Thanks. I’m just starting on another book on Gaza and then I will read PO’s.
Peter
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