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LEAVING London at barely 6am on Saturday I reached Calais around noon, frazzled from the coach and ferry journey.
I’ve visited refugee camps in Palestine, slums in Brazil, but I never expected to see such destitution on European soil, mere feet away from upstanding French homes, sanitised streets.
Visiting The Jungle was a humbling experience to say the least. I spoke to people whose lives were torn apart by imperialist wars and extreme poverty.
The catastrophe unfolding in Gaza – where Palestinians are freezing to death in tents – is not a natural disaster but a calculated outcome of Israel’s ongoing blockade, aid restrictions and continued violence, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Trump’s Gaza deal is a transient, self-aggrandising spectacle that barely distracts from the West’s outright complicity in the massacre in Gaza and our slide into warmongering, writes MATT KERR
