GAZA: THE SUFFERING CONTINUES
Today in Gaza, most of the TV cameras are gone and media interest has declined. But, more than nine months after the announcement of a supposed “ceasefire”, the suffering of the Palestinian people continues.
Today, 92% of housing units in Gaza are damaged or destroyed, 70% of the entire population lacks adequate housing and is forced to live in makeshift shelters, 86% of agricultural water wells have been damaged, the vast majority of households report significant challenges in accessing safe and clean sanitation facilities and 90% of all energy infrastructure has been destroyed.
And what about the children? Today in Gaza, 91% of school-aged children do not have sustained access to in-person education, 93% of school buildings will require full reconstruction or major rehabilitation to be functional again and 70% of infants and young children under two years of age are experiencing moderate to severe food insecurity.
All of this is taking place after the horrific destruction that Netanyahu’s extremist government brought to Gaza over the last three years: more than 73,000 Palestinians killed and 173,000 wounded — mostly women, children and the elderly. In addition, virtually the entire infrastructure of Gaza was destroyed.
Israel now controls an estimated 70% of Gaza, well beyond what they agreed to, and has built dozens of military outposts inside Gaza since the “ceasefire” began. In the nine months since the “ceasefire” was announced, Israel has killed at least 1,150 Palestinians, including a family of six last week.
Now, as if to remove any doubt about their intentions, senior leaders of the Netanyahu government are moving to make the occupation permanent. Recently, a number of government ministers led thousands of settlers to the Gaza border demanding new illegal Jewish settlements be built there. National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir stood up and said "Gaza is ours."
The shameful fact is that the United States is complicit in everything that is happening in Gaza. We have funneled tens of billions of dollars in military aid to an Israeli government that has consistently violated international law and whose leader is a war criminal.
The good news is that the American people are catching on. More and more Americans — Democrats, Republicans and independents — are demanding that we stop all military aid to Israel and use our considerable leverage to end the suffering of the Palestinian people.
Enough is enough! Congress must listen to the American people. NO MORE U.S. MILITARY AID TO ISRAEL.
Laughing. In front of a cage, under a tent, in the middle of a swamp, surrounded by alligators - where they plan to hold HUMAN BEINGS whose only crime was crossing a border in search of a better life for their family.
These are the darkest of days.
Please - it is OK to say that you didn’t vote for this. It is OK to say ENOUGH.
And if you look at this picture and feel joy - may God have mercy on your soul.
The US should STOP FUNDING KILLING THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT CIVILIANS just because they live in a country whose government is considered a threat to the US and its allies. Governments start all this shit, but normal ass people pay the price. Fucking War Pigs
Trump’s Treasury Secretary is a hedge fund CEO with at least $521 million in assets. He has avoided $900,000 in Medicare taxes and is opposed to raising the $7.25 an hour federal minimum wage. Please tell me again how Trump is a champion of the working class…
The multi-billionaire tech oligarchs in America worth $1,747,000,000,000 represent a clear and present danger to the misinformation, manipulation and control of the media today, not TikTok. These 8 men became $23,344,000,000 richer on Friday and pay a lower tax rate than a nurse.
“Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God’s children,” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Elon Musk's Wealth
2012: $2 billion
2025: $449 billion
U.S Child Poverty Rate
2021: 5.2%
2023: 13.7%
When I started talking about Oligarchy, many people didn't understand what I meant.
Well, that's changed.
When the 3 wealthiest men in America sit behind Trump at his inauguration, everyone understands that the billionaire class now controls our government.
We must fight back.
Welcome to the Divided States of Oligarchy:
Elon Musk Wealth
2012: $2 billion
2025: $449 billion
Jeff Bezos Wealth
2012: $18 billion
2025: $245 billion
Mark Zuckerberg Wealth
2012: $44 billion
2025: $217 billion
Federal Minimum Wage
2009: $7.25 an hour
2025: $7.25 an hour
The amount Elon Musk just paid for Twitter ($44 billion) is nearly equal to Biden’s proposed climate budget ($44.9 billion), in case anyone's wondering how seriously we’re taking the climate crisis
This is how Mariupol looks like. People cannot get to the cemeteries, so they bury those who died as a result of Russian shelling right in the courtyards of residential buildings.
#RussianWarCrimes
In both photos is pharmacist Nina Zhuk. The first photo was taken before February 24, 2022 at her workplace in a pharmacy in Kharkiv. The second - after the Russian bombing of the central part of the city.
Source Ministry of Health of Ukraine
#RussianWarCrimes
It is very cynical to destroy the city for weeks, keep people in basements without water and electricity, prevent them from evacuating and then take them to Russia in order to show on television how Russia "saves" people from Mariupol which Russian troops deliberately destroyed
Russian militarisation in children's songs. They sing about their readiness to die for #Putin if he calls them for the last battle. Sevastopol & Crimea are ours, and we'll return Alaska too. Parents, teachers and organisers who made this scary show possible are #NotJustPutin.
New piece on the CDC's Title 42 order in the New England Journal of Medicine concludes:
"There is no public health evidence that singling out asylum seekers or other migrants for exclusion from the United States is effective in stemming the spread of Covid-19."
#EndTitle42
Please retweet our @NEJM Perspective if you agree CDC must end expulsion of asylumseekers at border now. Health professionals please help call for end to this misuse of public health for political ends.@PIH@P4HR @JoiaMukherjee @AcereEleanor@KennjiKizuka
https://t.co/Vy2RWm5T61