Archive for October 12th, 2023

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12/10/2023

‘Silent Coup’ — How Corporations Rule the World

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The 20th Century saw a great global uprising against European imperialism as the former colonial countries shook off their shackles and rose up for independence. More than a half century later, global inequality is sharper than ever before.

To understand the current predicament of the vast majority of the world’s people, we must understand the intervening decades.

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12/10/2023

With Gaza Sealed Off, Palestinians Face Aid Freezes Too

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By Akshaya Kumar, Director of Crisis Advocacy  | Human Rights Watch*

— This week, as it pounded Gaza from the sky following Hamas’s deadly weekend attacks, the Israeli government also cut off Gaza’s electricity, fuel, water, and food in what it described as a “total siege.”
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Palestinian men carry bread through a heavily bombed street following Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City on October 10, 2023.   © 2023 Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty Images

Fuel for Gaza’s sole power plant has run out and it has shut down. Without fuel or electricity, the internet has been disrupted and the area’s water pumping wells may be forced out of service.

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12/10/2023

Real or Fake? Verifying Video Evidence in Israel and Palestine

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By Sophia Jones and Sam Dubberley  | Human Rights Watch*

How HRW’s Digital Investigations Team is Working to Build Evidence

202310mena_palestine_gaza_rocketstrike_mobilephone.jpgA man records a video with his mobile phone of rockets being fired from Gaza City towards Israel on October 7, 2023. © 2023 MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images

Disclaimer: This dispatch includes distressing descriptions of violence, as well as stills of and links to graphic imagery and footage.

As news broke early Saturday morning that members of Palestinian armed groups from Gaza had breached the border fence, massacring hundreds of civilians, including children, in southern Israel, videos began emerging on social media.

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12/10/2023

Humanitarian Situation in Gaza ‘Beyond the Imagination’

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(UN News)* — The humanitarian situation in Gaza is “indescribable” and “unprecedented” as the battle between extremist Palestinian armed groups and Israeli forces escalates.

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That’s according to a senior UN official with humanitarian office OCHA inside the enclave, speaking to UN News on Wednesday [11 October 2023].
 
“Every hour that passes brings more fighting and devastation,” Hamada El Bayari told us.
 
Mr. El Bayari described the latest situation on the ground to Khaled Mohamed, saying that there is currently no “safe passage” anywhere for civilians trying to find cover from Israeli airstrikes, with around 340,000 Palestinians now displaced.

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