On Sunday 8 November, rainwater entered the wards of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. Four days later, an Israeli missile tore through its surgical department. The attack in the early hours of Thursday killed six people, including surgeon Rizk Abu Shaira, and wounded dozens. Among those killed was Seif Ghazi Abu Hatab, who had been admitted after being injured while clearing rubble from a friend's home. He was due for surgery that morning. Israel said its target was a Hamas commander, as usual providing no evidence.
Nasser is southern Gaza's main referral hospital, now serving an estimated 1.3 million displaced people. The latest bombing struck its Intensive Care Unit. UN experts have described Israel's systematic destruction of Gaza's healthcare system as "medicide", which they identified as a component of the conditions inflicted on Palestinians that constitute genocide.
Across Gaza, heavy winter rains have submerged the tents of families repeatedly displaced by Israel's genocide. Gaza’s occupier was blocking the development of mobile homes, citing security concerns. At least 150,000 tents are waiting outside the territory, while aid agencies cannot secure Israeli approval needed to bring them in. Gaza's Civil Defence declared a maximum state of emergency and doctors warn of a meningitis outbreak in overcrowded, waterlogged camps. Rainwater is mixing with sewage. Nearly 90 per cent of Gaza's water and sanitation infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed by Israel's bombing campaign.
More than a year has passed since the ceasefire announced on 10 October 2025. Israeli attacks have been a near-daily reality since then, killing more than 1,600. Rather than withdrawing as per the terms of the ceasefire, the Israeli Occupation Forces have pushed deeper into Palestinian territory, controlling around two-thirds of the Strip. Israel has barred the Palestinian technocratic committee meant to run post-war Gaza from entering the enclave. Even Donald Trump’s Board of Peace has criticised Israel for its “insufficient response” to the “immediate humanitarian emergency.”
On Wednesday, addressing world leaders at the COP31 climate summit in Antalya, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan condemned the destruction in Gaza. "What has taken place in Gaza is not only a genocide, but it is also an ecocide," he declared. He described ancient olive trees felled, soil and water polluted, cities reduced to rubble and tens of thousands of tents engulfed by flooding. According to the UN Environment Programme, more than 97 per cent of Gaza's tree crops had been damaged by May 2025.
Yet further east along Türkiye's Mediterranean coast, at the port of Ceyhan, tankers have been loading Azerbaijani crude oil destined for Israel. An investigation by the Palestinian Youth Movement, Energy Embargo for Palestine and the Progressive International identifies 77 shipments from Ceyhan to Israeli ports between May 2024 and June 2026 — despite Ankara's announcement of a comprehensive trade embargo on Israel in May 2024. Twenty of those shipments, carrying an estimated 2.4 million tonnes of crude oil, were identified in the investigation's latest update this week.
The oil travels from Azerbaijan through Georgia to Türkiye along the Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline, in which BP and Azerbaijan's state oil company SOCAR are the largest shareholders. In Israel, refineries turn crude oil into fuels for the Israeli armed forces.
The investigation traces how vessels listed Egyptian or Italian ports as their destinations, switched off their tracking signals and reappeared days later having discharged their cargoes. In May, El País followed one such tanker, the Kimolos, which had loaded crude at Ceyhan and declared Egypt as its destination. It disappeared from tracking systems off the Lebanese coast before satellite images located it at Israel's Ashkelon oil terminal.
Türkiye's Commerce Ministry said that none of the 57 shipments identified at the time had been officially declared as destined for Israel. Its Transport Ministry insisted that vessels discovered unloading in Israel had been barred from returning to Turkish ports.
Yet the new evidence identifies further journeys after these assurances. Among them was the Nissos Koufonissi, which departed Ceyhan on 19 June 2026, having made two suspected deliveries to Israel in December 2025. The investigation calls on Ankara to enforce its embargo, prevent further oil shipments to Israel and prohibit the vessels involved from docking at Turkish ports. It also calls on dockworkers to act against the trade, following the dockworkers global day of strikes and actions on 30 October.
In Antalya, Erdoğan has condemned the destruction of Gaza's land and water. At Ceyhan, his government could act on those words: enforce its embargo and stop the oil shipments to Israel.
Progressive International takes Bolivia’s revolutionary process to the big screen
The Progressive International is making its first feature film, Call Me a Communist, tracing Bolivia’s revolutionary process through the life and ideas of former vice president Álvaro García Linera. Filmed at his home in La Paz and drawing on rare archival footage, the film follows García Linera from guerrilla organiser and political prisoner to Marxist theorist and strategist of the Indigenous-led government that nationalised Bolivia’s gas and rewrote the country’s constitution. PI has now launched a Kickstarter to fund the final edit, score and archival licensing needed to bring the film to audiences worldwide. You can find out more, watch the trailer and support the project here.
Ecuador’s opposition faces exclusion from the polls
Less than three weeks before Ecuador’s 29 November local elections, the country’s largest opposition force remains suspended, elected mayors are imprisoned and leading candidates have been barred or detained. Revolución Ciudadana was suspended in March; when its candidates sought another electoral vehicle, that party was suspended too. Former presidential candidate Luisa González was excluded from the ballot and arrested in October. The Progressive International Observatory will be on the ground in Ecuador, calling on international monitors to examine political exclusions and prosecutions across the entire electoral cycle.
Europe takes on Big Tech’s data centres
Communities across Europe staged around 90 actions in 15 countries against the rapid expansion of hyperscale data centres, demanding a moratorium while their effects on water, energy and local communities are assessed. Around 2,000 people marched in Zaragoza against projects backed by Amazon and Microsoft, while near Amsterdam activists entered a Microsoft construction site and temporarily stopped work before police detained between 150 and 200 people. The coordinated days of action brought together more than 100 environmental and community organisations against Big Tech’s expanding physical infrastructure.
Spain stops for housing
Millions of workers walked out across Spain on 11 November in the country’s first general strike in 14 years, putting the housing crisis at the centre of a national labour mobilisation. Ports, factories, transport and public services were disrupted, with production stopped at Volkswagen’s Navarre plant and SEAT in Barcelona. Called by the major trade unions alongside tenants’ organisations, the strike united demands over rents, evictions, wages and public services under a simple slogan: “Wages, housing, prices.”
6 November 1975 - The Green March
On 6 November 1975, Morocco sent 350,000 settlers to Western Sahara, ftollowing in the ftoots-teps of a land invasion that began days earlier.
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8 November 1965 - The Chagos Islands
On 8 November 1965, Britain detached the Chagos Islands from Mauritius to create the British Indian Ocean Territory, setting the stage for the mass expulsion of the Chagossians to make way for a US military base.
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This photo of Palestinian children holding signs demanding climate justice was taken by Awdah Hathaleen, the activist and English teacher of Bedouin decent who became a spokesperson in his home village of Umm al-Khair from the age of 17, receiving foreign diplomats, journalists and activists. From 2019 to 2023, Hathaleen collaborated in the making of the Oscar-winning film No Other Land, which documents Israeli settler violence in the region of the West Bank known as Masafer Yatta.
Hathaleen, who was born in 1994 in the Palestinian village located in the South Hebron Hills of the West Bank, was fatally shot there by Israeli settler Yinon Levi in 2025. Hathaleen’s family were expelled from Beersheba in the Negrev desert during the 1948 Nakba. In the decade from 2008–2018, Umm al-Khair dramatically grew in population, from an estimated 70 people, comprised from five families, to almost 700 due to the Israeli settlement of Carmel. Israeli settler violence is an ongoing issue. One of the children’s signs reads: Plant Trees NOT Settlements.
