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We celebrate 25 years of the inaugural assistance flight that marked the beginning of the Integral Health Agreement between Cuba and Venezuela, a model, exemplary, and unique relationship; sustained by unity and deep loyal, and Chavista friendship. This alliance is not guided by selfish or material interests, but by complementarity solidarity, and the supreme value of cooperation, based on the idea: win-win.
In a post on Facebook, she wrote: “Our hearts are broken and we need to share this..
“Our autistic son has been treated so unfairly, and we feel deeply let down.
“For over four years, he’s been doing work experience at Waitrose and Partners store in Cheadle Hulme.
“Every week, for two full mornings, he worked so hard – emptying four or more cages of stock, stacking shelves, and helping wherever he could.
“He loved it there. The shop staff were absolutely amazing with him and made him feel part of the team.
“Many of them would say things like, “You work harder than some people who are paid to work here.
“He gave over 600 hours of his time – purely because he wanted to belong, contribute, and make a difference.
“When we asked if there was any chance he could be offered just a few paid hours – not as charity, but as recognition for all the time, effort, and heart he’s given – we were shocked by how dismissive and cold the response was.
“The manager said, “We can’t just let him do his thing,” when that’s exactly what he’s been doing successfully for years.”
She continued: “After everything he’s done, there was no apology, no thanks, and no recognition for his commitment. Just silence.
Remarkably, despite being right-handed, from 72 onwards, he re-learned how to do everything with his left-hand. Recently, he has been in and out of hospital in Torbay a number of times – with NHS staff stabilising his health and allowing him to go back out “waving” in the Bay. However, the visits are becoming far more frequent and I have started to receive enquiries about his health – even from the local and national media! Typical of my Dad, (he taught us to always find a way through the current hardship), he is dictating the content of his latest posts to whichever family member is visiting him. Hopefully, he will rise again for one more good round – and demonstrate his mettle and grit yet again!
Fletcher warned that the aid blockade “starves civilians”, denies them basic medical services, and “strips them of dignity and hope.”
He underscored the neutrality and impartiality of humanitarian efforts, adding: “We believe that all civilians are equally worthy of protection. We remain ready to save as many lives as we can, despite the risks.”
However, the latest delivery mechanism proposed by Israel, he said, “does not meet the minimum bar for principled humanitarian support.”
“To the Israeli authorities, and those who can still reason with them, we say again: lift this brutal blockade. Let humanitarians save lives,” he pleaded.
Addressing civilians in Gaza, Fletcher said: “No apology can suffice… But I am truly sorry that we are unable to move the international community to prevent this injustice. We won’t give up.”
At the Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery of St Petersburg (Leningrad), the President laid a wreath at the Motherland monument to honour the memory of the fallen Leningrad residents and defenders.
At least 420,000 civilians of Leningrad who died from starvation, cold, and disease, or in air-raids, as well as 70,000 soldiers are buried in the cemetery’s 186 communal graves and 6,000 individual military graves.
The memorial wall behind the Motherland monument carries the words by poet Olga Bergholz: “No one is forgotten, nothing is forgotten.”
These military movements aim to strengthen American hegemony in the region at the expense of the peoples of the Arab region and their aspirations for freedom, independence and separation from imperialist control. If the agreement is implemented, our Palestinian people will find themselves facing a new entitlement in the West Bank, where they will have to defend their existence and rights against the policies of the occupation and the fascist, murderous settler gangs. The large and violent attack on Palestinian villages by these murderers is the greatest evidence of the upcoming challenges. The Palestinian masses in Gaza and the West Bank will remain in a permanent confrontation with the occupation to preserve their dignity and survival, which requires a unified Palestinian position against any form of normalization with the Zionist occupation and confronting its plans and attacks.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 