Archive for July 17th, 2025

17/07/2025

‘An Arsenal of Profiteering’: Military Contractors Have Gotten Over Half of Pentagon Spending Since 2020

Human Wrongs Watch

By Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service*

“These figures represent a continuing and massive transfer of wealth from taxpayers to fund war and weapons manufacturing,” said the project’s director.

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8 Jul 2025 – Less than a week after U.S. President Donald Trump signed a budget package that pushes annual military spending past $1 trillion, researchers today published a report detailing how much major Pentagon contractors have raked in since 2020.

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17/07/2025

In Gaza, Illness, Poverty, Mass Displacement, Depleted Services, ‘Causing an Increase in Domestic Violence, Sexual Exploitation and Abuse’

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — In Gaza, illness, poverty, mass displacement and depleted services are leading to soaring stress levels and causing an increase in domestic violence, sexual exploitation and abuse, according to the UN sexual and reproductive health agency (UNFPA).  

Amal works at the UNFPA-supported Women’s Affairs Centre in the Bureij refugee camp. A mother of three children, she has been displaced four times and lost ten family members in the war.
© UNFPA/Women’s Affairs Centre | Amal works at the UNFPA-supported Women’s Affairs Centre in the Bureij refugee camp. A mother of three children, she has been displaced four times and lost ten family members in the war.
 
In the past three months, a third of Gaza’s population (714,000 people) have been forced to move once again, separating families and dismantling local support systems.

Women and girls are bearing a heavy burden, fearing for their lives on the streets – at delivery points, and in overcrowded, makeshift shelters that lack privacy and security – as many sleep in the open.

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17/07/2025

‘Conditions in Gaza Have Reached an Unspeakable Level of Devastation With Children Paying the Highest Price’

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — Conditions in Gaza have reached an unspeakable level of devastation with children paying the highest price, top UN officials told the Security Council on Wednesday [], warning of soaring child deaths, starvation and a shattered health system amid continuing bombardment and displacement.

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A view of central Khan Younis in Gaza, showing the aftermath of airstrikes in a residential neighborhood. A stream of sewage cuts through the area, the result of destroyed infrastructure, raising fears of disease outbreaks.
© UNICEF | A view of central Khan Younis in Gaza, showing the aftermath of airstrikes in a residential neighborhood. A stream of sewage cuts through the area, the result of destroyed infrastructure, raising fears of disease outbreaks.
Tom Fletcher, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, said there was no “vocabulary” left to adequately describe conditions on the ground.

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