Ibaitik Itsasora
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Gaza BEFORE Israel showed up
Israel is a criminal state
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1887980771178070396
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Zionists in 2025… “Palestine never existed”
Zionists in 1899… “We will colonise Palestine”
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A Palestinian driving license that is older than “Israel”
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In 1948 Albert Einstein foresaw the Israeli terrorism in Palestine that would eventually bring a catastrophe on the Jewish colonists.
BREAKING: For the first time since its founding in 1944,
@AFP fears its journalists in Gaza may starve to death.
The agency has issued a desperate statement about the catastrophic conditions facing its last remaining reporters inside the besieged Strip.
Full statement below :
Without immediate intervention, AFP’s last remaining journalists in Gaza could die.
Agence France-Presse (AFP) currently works with one freelance writer, three photographers, and six freelance video journalists in the Gaza Strip — the only ones left documenting what’s happening on the ground. No international media has been allowed into Gaza for nearly two years.
We refuse to stand by and watch them die.
One of them, Bashar, has been with AFP since 2010. He started as a field assistant, then worked as a freelance photographer, and became the lead photographer in 2024.
On Saturday, July 19, Bashar managed to post on Facebook: “I no longer have the strength to work in the media. My body is thin. I can’t work anymore.”
Bashar, 30, lives and works under the same conditions as every Gazan moving from one refugee camp to another to escape Israeli bombardments. For over a year, he has lived in extreme poverty and continued working despite immense risks.
Sanitation is a major issue; he suffers from severe bouts of diarrhea. Since February, he has lived in the ruins of his home in Gaza City with his mother, four siblings, and his brother’s family. The home has no furniture, no electricity, no water he survives on scraps from relatives.
On Sunday, he reported that his older brother “collapsed from hunger.”
Even though these journalists receive monthly payments from AFP, the salaries barely or do not at all cover the soaring market prices. The banking system has collapsed, and the intermediaries who transfer money into Gaza take commissions as high as 40%.
AFP cannot provide equipment or even fuel so they can travel for work. Traveling by car means risking becoming a target of Israeli drones so they walk or use donkey carts.
Ahlem, based in the south of Gaza, says she’s trying to “keep bearing witness” for as long as she can: “Every time I leave the tent to cover an event, interview someone, or document a scene I don’t know if I’ll come back alive.” Her biggest struggle, she says, is finding food and water.
We are watching them collapse. They are young, but their strength is fading. Most can no longer move around Gaza to report. Their pleas for help have become a daily cry torn, desperate messages.
In recent days, their notes have grown shorter and weaker they no longer have the strength to even send us updates.
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Alex de Waal is one of the world’s foremost experts on famine. Listen to every word he says about Israel’s forced starvation of the people of Gaza:
“There is no case since WW2 of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled“
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1947423367084056974
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PALESTINE ONLINE 
@OnlinePalEng
Scenes from a peaceful protest held for Gaza in Berlin.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1947186238441628144
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Under the brutal Israeli siege, a family’s brief moment of joy comes as their son returns home with a bag of flour, having risked his life navigating deadly U.S.-Israeli traps just to put food on their table.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1947445202672832886
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Israeli soldiers with Canadian citizenship are afraid to return home after Canadian Police launch a war crimes investigation against them.. good!
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Finally.
Two Israeli soldiers have been arrested in Belgium facing accusations of war crimes in Gaza.
The days of impunity for Israelis are coming to an end.
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Mohammed jawad @Mo7ammed_jawad6
Only for the people who care about us, we are still alive.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1947260067092316638
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To be clear, there are US military & legal thinkers who are quite explicitly trying to give themselves more “legal” leeway to carry out crimes in a future US-China war – and they are explicitly playing down Israel’s own crimes now to prepare for that. (See next tweet)
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Abby Martin@AbbyMartin
uzt. 17
“Gaza is an experiment by the mega-rich trying to show all the peoples of the world how to respond to a rebellion of humanity; they plan to bomb us all.” -Colombian President @petrogustavo at The Hague Group Summit
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1945609892271738966
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The genocide in Gaza is being established as the future standard of US warfare – and, likely, the new standard across the Western world. Deeply disturbing.
https://newyorker.com/news/the-lede/whats-legally-allowed-in-war
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BREAKTHROUGH.
For the first time, Israeli war crimes suspects have been arrested and interrogated in Europe over war crimes in Gaza. This follows a criminal complaint filed by @Glan_Law & the
@HindRFoundationin Belgium. 
https://hindrajabfoundation.org/perpetrators/b
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Imagine a massive post-Oct 7 Cablegate-style document drop. It would undoubtedly show direct US management of Israel’s Gaza genocide, from the initial phases of mass murder to the minutiae of the current starvation policy.
It would expose top Biden and Trump officials as the Eichmanns and Goerrings of our time, and draw in EU officials as well.
The fear of exposure helps explain why Washington is working so hard to subvert international law, sanctioning UN rapporteurs, threatening the ICC, and even withdrawing travel visas for foreign rappers who call out Israel’s crimes.
They have already implicitly admitted their guilt, but a major document drop would provide the hard proof of it, and galvanize calls for their prosecution.
Is there another Chelsea Manning willing to expose the crime of the century? Or are they all in on it? Because at this point, silence is complicity.
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Gaza is officially in IPC Phase 5, the final, stage of hunger.
They are starving to death.
Aid sits at the border, deliberately blockaded by Israel If people don’t care now, they never will.
In the fullness of time no one will understand how anybody could be OK with this.
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Palestine Highlights@PalHighlight
Israeli forces killed journalist Tamer al-Zaanin (Left) and injured photojournalist Ibrahim Abu Ashiba (Right) while they were covering the abduction of Dr. Marwan Hams in Khan Yunis.
Follow: http://T.me/presstv
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Seyed Mohammad Marandi@s_m_marandi
Every day, Zionists and American mercenaries lure desperate and starving Palestinians to so-called aid distribution centers and then gun them down.
The two most criminal regimes in human history.
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James Rosen-Birch 
@provisionalidea
We’re way past the point where strongly worded statements are meaningful. Starving people can’t eat words
Aipamena:
The Foreign Ministers of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the European Union Commissioner for Equality, Preparedness and Crisis Management, today issued the following statement:
“We, the signatories listed below, come together with a simple, urgent message: the war in Gaza must end now.
“The suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths. The Israeli government’s aid delivery model is dangerous, fuels instability and deprives Gazans of human dignity. We condemn the drip feeding of aid and the inhumane killing of civilians, including children, seeking to meet their most basic needs of water and food. It is horrifying that over 800 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid. The Israeli Government’s denial of essential humanitarian assistance to the civilian population is unacceptable. Israel must comply with its obligations under international humanitarian law.
“The hostages cruelly held captive by Hamas since 7 October 2023 continue to suffer terribly. We condemn their continued detention and call for their immediate and unconditional release. A negotiated ceasefire offers the best hope of bringing them home and ending the agony of their families.
“We call on the Israeli government to immediately lift restrictions on the flow of aid and to urgently enable the UN and humanitarian NGOs to do their life-saving work safely and effectively.
“We call on all parties to protect civilians and uphold the obligations of international humanitarian law. Proposals to remove the Palestinian population into a “humanitarian city” are completely unacceptable. Permanent forced displacement is a violation of international humanitarian law.
“We strongly oppose any steps towards territorial or demographic change in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The E1 settlement plan announced by Israel’s Civil Administration, if implemented, would divide a future Palestinian state in two, marking a flagrant breach of international law, and critically undermine the two-state solution. Meanwhile, settlement building across the West Bank and East Jerusalem has accelerated while settler violence against Palestinians has soared. This must stop.
“We urge the parties and the international community to unite in a common effort to bring this terrible conflict to an end, through an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire. Further bloodshed serves no purpose. We reaffirm our complete support to the efforts of the US, Qatar and Egypt to achieve this.
“We are prepared to take further action to support an immediate ceasefire and a political pathway to security and peace for Israelis, Palestinians and the entire region.” This statement has been signed by:
•The Foreign Ministers of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK
•The EU Commissioner for Equality, Preparedness and Crisis Management
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mohammed hussein~Gaza @mohammedIhysse
Here I am, riding on the back of a car—still alive, but my country is gone 
I just wanted to show you how Gaza looks in ruins… how life struggles to move forward amidst the rubble. Free Palestine 
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1947335872442999067
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Insane how desensitised we’re becoming to these daily headlines and how it’s just accepted now. Horrendous.
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Sky News@SkyNews
uzt. 19
BREAKING: More than 30 people have been killed after Israeli troops opened fire towards crowds of Palestinians waiting for aid, according to witnesses and hospital officials https://news.sky.com/story/gaza-mor
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21 months of hell in Gaza. From decapitated babies to shredded limbs to mass starvation. Any
ceasefire is Gaza’s reprieve, not ours. We don’t stop. Not until Israel’s colonial project is dismantled. That is justice. My latest for
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Gaza is still hell on earth. Don’t mistake a ceasefire for peace
(https://www.newarab.com/opinion/gaza-still-hell-earth-dont-mistake-ceasefire-peace)
A ceasefire won’t bring peace or justice to Palestine. Gaza will suffer long after Israel’s bombs fall silent, and we must not turn away, says Hamza Yusuf.
21 Jul, 2025
Palestinians, ceasefire or not, must rebuild from the hell they’ve endured, writes Hamza Yusuf [Photo: Getty Images]
A ceasefire may be imminent in Gaza. It’s a phrase repeated many times, rarely bearing fruit, each instance lifting hopes, only to crush them. A cycle of anticipation giving way to despair.
This time, US President Donald Trump insists there will be a breakthrough.
To say the ceasefire is desperately needed is an understatement of epic proportions. For nearly two years, Gaza’s besieged population has endured relentless, systematic slaughter and crimes on an industrial scale.
Human Rights Watch has concluded that Israel’s cruel campaign has become a tool of extermination. Amnesty International has confirmed that starvation is being weaponised as a tool of genocide. The International Committee of the Red Cross has described the situation as worse than hell on earth.
But even those words fall short of capturing a reality where transporting dead bodies on donkey carts has become routine. Where shredded limbs are not props in a ghoulish Hollywood horror, but a daily sight in Gaza. Where engineered famine drives Palestinians to eat sand in place of flour. Where The Hunger Games is no longer fiction, but a chilling reality, one in which Palestinians are lured toward aid trucks, only to be gunned down by American contractors and Israeli soldiers. Literally, a game.
Where once the mention of a headless child or a burning toddler might have provoked an irrevocable wince, now it prompts only a grim question: “Which one?”
Where a new world has been etched into existence, one where the inhumane, calculated killing of Palestinians is not a crime but a marketing pitch for “battle-tested” weapons with “proven precision.”
In a rare moment of honesty, Israeli officials boasted about killing 100 Palestinians a day without the world caring. They told mainstream media about the killing fields Gaza had become, confident in a system that guarantees 100 percent impunity and zero accountability.
“Gaza will become a place where no human can exist,” they promised. Well, congratulations to the sinister policymakers and military chiefs in Israel: Palestinians are now praying to die rather than endure another day at the mercy of Israel’s war machine.
“I have no fears other than the possibility that the ceasefire won’t happen this time,” one person in Gaza described. Little wonder that this has become the prevailing sentiment.
For everyone outside Gaza, there too exists a fragile optimism, born not of confidence, but of profound disempowerment, as our screens overflow with relentless horror. We await a pause not because it brings peace to us, but to them.
But our responsibility remains unchanged: we are confronting a system built on an ironclad commitment to sustain Israel’s mission of Palestinian annihilation and dispossession. Until that structure, and the grim reality it imposes, is fully dismantled, any notion of pause is both premature and unjust.
Even as talks of a ceasefire supposedly progress, Israeli officials are drawing up yet more menacing plans for ethnic cleansing, this time with blueprints for concentration camps in Gaza. Every time the brutalities seem to have peaked, Israel surpasses them with egregious, unwavering consistency.
It is a sobering reminder: when the strategic objective is colonialism, there is no such thing as reprieve. A ceasefire is not peace. It is not liberation. Because even if a moment of reprieve arrives in Gaza, it will not stop illegal settlers from terrorising homes in the West Bank, nor Israeli snipers from deliberately targeting Palestinian children, acts that persist alongside relentless land theft.
There has, undoubtedly, been an awakening. It was never ‘complicated,’ and more people are beginning to realise that. Nor are there two ‘sides’ in this supposed level playing field of irreconcilable narratives, competing claims, and so-called land disputes. That recognition must continue to steadfastly instruct resistance.
But such is human nature: there will be a tendency to turn away from Gaza. A perhaps inevitable, creeping thought follows: if hundreds of thousands filled the streets chanting for a ceasefire, and it has come, what now remains?
The suggestion that the gaze can so easily shift away from Gaza is neither speculative nor rooted in cynicism. It is grounded in precedent. For 12 days, when Iran and Israel exchanged blows, Gaza was relegated in importance. Forgotten once again, in a cruel echo of the Palestinian experience over the last century: briefly remembered, then conveniently erased. True to form, Israel’s violence did not wane
One thing is certain: the global media will look elsewhere. These campaigns of systematic slaughter are the only times Gaza is momentarily prioritised by the mainstream. One more campaign ends, and they will no doubt circle back the next time the “status quo” is breached, when Israel once again returns to mow the lawn.
Then the cycle resumes. There will be performative hand-wringing over why this “conflict” keeps erupting, as a former Israeli surveillance chief turned analyst, or a former prime minister notorious for bombing Palestinians, is welcomed as a credible, enlightened guest. He will fill the airwaves and column inches, offering recycled takes on the viability of a two-state solution.
But it is precisely that woefully inadequate state of affairs, the management of occupation, that must not return. Relief does not equate to life. As the young and supremely talented journalist from Gaza, Abubaker Abed, recently said from Ireland: “I consider myself two months old,” referring to the time he has spent outside Gaza. “Because there is no life in Gaza,” he continued.
There is work to do. People who non-violently resist Israel’s genocide are being designated terrorists. An 83-year-old retired vicar was arrested not for supporting genocide, but for opposing it. Israeli soldiers will soon be walking the streets of our cities, fresh from systematically maiming, slaughtering, oppressing, and exterminating Palestinians. Justice means every single one of them is behind bars for war crimes.
Broadcasters and press outlets manufactured consent for Israel’s unspeakable horrors, then whitewashed war crimes and shielded the public from their full extent. They have already begun trying to launder their reputations with editorials and reports that now, suddenly, capture and convey the scale of Israel’s atrocities. Justice is when their names are no longer associated with bylines, but with complicity in war crimes.
A whole ecosystem was built to shield Israel from accountability, an ecosystem that made this genocide possible. Justice means dismantling it entirely, from the pipeline of support to the ethnonationalist project it enables.
Palestinians, with or without a ceasefire, must rebuild from the hell they have endured. Young children must now confront life without their parents, who were mercilessly killed. That coping will look different for each of them. How can life return to normal for eyes that have seen so much? It is a question we must answer.
“When finally, Palestinian children no longer fear the sky but feel safe beneath it.” The words of UNICEF global ambassador James Elder should be treated as a manifesto.
Solidarity is the minimum. Action must be sustained, in whatever form is most accessible and potent, whether through boycott campaigns, the creation of new political institutions, the election of representatives without blood-soaked hands, renewed legal campaigns, committed grassroots organising, or relentless accountability in arenas that mainstream organisations have shamefully abandoned. Inaction is inadmissible and inexcusable.
This, then, is a reminder. Perhaps first and foremost to myself. The bombs may eventually cease. The drones may fall silent. Aid might finally begin to flow. But that is not a moment to exhale in relief. It is not peace, and it is not a trap cloaked in help. It is simply the next phase in a long and brutal struggle.
Still, the three words that have come to define the past 21 months remain our call to action: don’t look away.
“I ask you now: do not stop talking about Gaza. Do not let the world turn its gaze away from it. Keep fighting, and keep telling our stories, until Palestine is free.”
That was the last message from slain Palestinian journalist Hussam Shabat. If for nothing else, do it for him.
Hamza Yusuf is a British Palestinian journalist and writer based in London.
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AIRDROPS DON’T SOLVE THE PROBLEM! Please don’t cause chaos! Hear this out please!
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1947261534352073084
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Italian Oscar winner Roberto Benigni, outraged by the Israeli massacres of Palestinians in Gaza. Free Palestine
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1947229327528956345
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Irish people took to the streets, demanding an end to Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza!
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1947235110345953692
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Israel has ordered mass relocations from displacement camps in Deir al-Balah — forcing families who already lost everything to move yet again.
93% of Gaza is now off-limits. This is like relocating the entire UK population to Wales.
Overcrowded, aid-dependent communities are being pushed past breaking point. NRC teams have also been forced to relocate — disrupting our ability to deliver safe water, sanitation, and education to families who depend on it.
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With aid dwindling and relocation zones expanding, Israel is dismantling what remains of life in Gaza — one street, one tent, one bucket of water at a time.
Western leaders must act.
Stop the forced relocations. Open all crossings. Let aid in — without limits. Allow humanitarians to do their job.
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China in English@ChinainEnglis
“China calls for an immediate lifting of the siege on Gaza and the unconditional entry of aid.
Using food and medicine as a weapon against civilians is a blatant violation of all international laws.”
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WFP Chief Cindy McCain describes how Israel killed over 60 aid-seekers in northern Gaza yesterday. “They were hungry. They were starving,” she said. “All of a sudden, Israeli tanks, Israeli guns, Israeli weapons of all kinds started firing at the crowd.”
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1947365980885115125
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Ragged Trousered Philanderer@RaggedTP
Genocide sponsored by:
Palantir
IBM
Microsoft
Caterpillar
Amazon
Lockheed Martin
Alphabet
Chevron
Elbit Systems
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[1/8] People in #Gaza who have survived bombs & bullets are starving. Yesterday, Israeli forces again fired on crowds waiting for aid trucks. Hospitals report >80 people killed. The starving arrived as the wounded. There seems to be no limits to this cruelty. Afrom Gaza…
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We are receiving desperate messages of starvation from #Gaza, including from our colleagues. Food prices have increased 40 fold. Meanwhile, just outside Gaza, stockpiled in warehouses UNRWA has enough food for the entire population for over three months. The suffering in Gaza is manmade and must be stopped. Lift the siege and let aid in safely and at scale.
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Today, I will leave… to search for food for my children. I’ve decided to go to the aid distribution point. I said goodbye to my family, my heart trembling… But I swore I wouldn’t return unless I brought something to feed them. I know very well that the road there is filled with death, But what choice do we have left except to risk everything?
We are faced with two options: Either a quick death at the distribution point, Or a slow death beside my family, starving and helpless.
Today, I walked away not knowing if I’ll ever see their faces again. I left carrying in my chest thousands of cries no one ever heard.
I just wanted to say goodbye to you all… And thank you. Yes, thank you for your silence, For your indifference, For leaving us to face this fate alone.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1947340852558286944
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Justice in motion, after Brazil, and Peru, Belgium goes where no one ever went before and arrests two Israeli soldiers after our complaint against them. Belgium above all acknowledged its universal jurisdiction and this is the bigger news.
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The Hind Rajab Foundation@HindRFoundation
BREAKTHROUGH: Two Israeli soldiers accused of war crimes in #Gaza were Arrested and interrogated at #Tomorrowland after a joint complaint by the #HindRajabFoundation & @GLAN_LAW. This is historical!
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Humanity is dead.
Gaza was the test ground.
Get ready for the hunger games.
Aipamena
TIMES OF GAZA@Timesofgaza
uzt. 21
The death traps of Gaza, where Palestinians risk their lives in search of food.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1947307388245324101
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Just 9 households own 15% of the wealth of US Big Tech hub Silicon Valley.
A mere 0.1% of residents hold 71% of Silicon Valley’s wealth.
At the same time, 110,000 households reported nearly none or no assets.
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Nine households control 15% of wealth in Silicon Valley as inequality widens
(https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/21/silicon-valley-income-wealth-gap)
Report finds that wealth divide widened in Silicon Valley at double the rate of the whole US over the past decade
Cecilia NowellMon 21 Jul 2025
Economic inequality has reached a staggering milestone in Silicon Valley: just nine households hold 15% of the region’s wealth, according to new research from San Jose State University. A mere 0.1% of residents hold 71% of the tech hub’s wealth.
The findings come from the 2025 “Silicon Valley Pain Index”, a report published by SJSU’s Human Rights Institute each year since 2020. The report aims to quantify “structured inequalities” in Silicon Valley, and measures “pain” as “both personal and community distress or suffering”.
This year’s index reports that the wealth divide has widened in Silicon Valley at double the rate of the whole United States over the past decade. The nine wealthiest households in the valley control $683.2bn – a $136bn increase over the past year.
At the same time, 110,000 households reported nearly none or no assets.
The cost of living in Silicon Valley has risen as well: renters must earn $136,532 to afford an apartment – the highest in the nation.
The report ranked San Jose No 4 in “impossibly unaffordable” cities worldwide (after Hong Kong, Sydney and Vancouver). Yet, no cities in Silicon Valley have raised the minimum wage in the past three years. The report finds that 54,582 low-income households do not have access to an affordable home in San Jose and that homelessness grew 8.2% from 2023.
When they created the Silicon Valley Pain Index in 2020, shortly after the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests, San Jose State University researchers were inspired by the Katrina Pain Index, which aimed to quantify the injustices New Orleans residents faced after Hurricane Katrina. The index continues to show stark racial inequalities.
Hispanic workers in San Jose, Sunnyvale and Santa Clara can expect to make 33 cents for every $1 their white peers take home. And although shareholders have voiced commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion, only 3% of employees working in research and development at Apple are Black (compared with 6% Hispanic/Latino, 36% white and 50% Asian).
Meanwhile, police violence remains a real concern – even years after the Black Lives Matter protests. Ten people died in police custody in the Santa Clara county sheriff’s office in 2024 – the highest in two decades. And San Jose reported five office involved shootings, up three from 2023.
However, the report did note certain improvements in the Silicon Valley area – including a decrease in police use of force incidents in San Jose, an expansion in services to prevent homelessness and environmental sustainability programs.
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This is the insanity of capitalism.
We have the technology to give workers far more free time to live enriching lives.
Instead, we expect them to work until they are seventy.
Gogoratzekoa:
The UK Government, as a currency issuing entity, can afford to pay whatever level of State Pension it wishes.
We can have the best state pension in Europe (or the world) but our government thinks we don’t deserve it.
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Prem Sikka@premnsikka
uzt. 21
Ministers to revive Blair-era Pensions Commission to tackle savings crisis. 2m pensioners live in poverty.
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Palestine Highlights@PalHighlight
Death toll from US-Israeli genocide in Gaza since October 2023 rises to 59,029 people, mostly children
At least 142,135 Palestinians, mostly children, women injured in Gaza as Israeli genocide continues unabated
Children as young as 11 are being executed by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, says the British gastrointestinal surgeon Dr Nick Maynard
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Teenagers being shot by Israeli soldiers – British surgeon in Gaza
(https://www.channel4.com/news/teenagers-being-shot-by-israeli-soldiers-british-surgeon-in-gaza)
News Correspondent
Nick Maynard is a British gastrointestinal surgeon, who is currently in Gaza, working at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.
We began by asking him what he can tell us about the shootings near the aid distribution sites on Saturday.
Nick Maynard: We’ve seen multiple injuries, predominantly in young teenage males, some as young as 11, 12, 13, 14-year-olds, who are being shot at the food distribution sites. And I’m hearing the same story from all the patients I’ve treated and operated on. Their families, and indeed medical and nursing colleagues of mine in Gaza who have been to these food distribution points to get food for themselves . And the story is the same from all of them – they’re being shot by Israeli soldiers or by quadcopters which are the remote drones being controlled by the Israelis and they’re been shot in multiple different body parts. And there seems to be a clustering of different body parts on particular days. So one day, they’re coming in having been shot in the abdomen. Another day they’re coming in having being shot in the head or the neck. Last Saturday we had four young teenage males, all who came in at the same time, having been shots in the testicles.
So there’s a very clear pattern and it’s almost as if a game is being played that today it’s gonna be the head, tomorrow it’s going to be the abdomen and these injuries are devastating. I had a 12-year-old boy die on the operating table the other day from a bullet. He’d been shot by an Israeli soldier at a food distribution point and had been shot through the aorta. So appalling injuries the like of which I would never have imagined could have happened if I were not seeing this with my own eyes.
“Appalling injuries the like of which I would never have imagined could have happened if I were not seeing this with my own eyes.”
– Nick Maynard
Ayshah Tull: The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation say reports of deaths near their aid sites are false and accuse media outlets of reporting them, as serving as mouthpieces for Hamas. What do you make of that?
Nick Maynard: Well, I don’t believe a word they’re saying. The experience that I’m seeing here that we’re all witnessing and the narrative I’m getting from the victims and all their families, without exception, is that these young teenage boys are being shot by Israeli soldiers or by the quadcopter drones at the food distribution points. So I think the evidence I am seeing and hearing from close colleagues is overwhelming and I’m in no doubt that is what is happening. And the clustering of the injuries that I described earlier, it’s beyond coincidence.
Ayshah Tull: You said you’ve also seen malnutrition in the time since you have been here. Can you tell us the extent of this and how bad it is?
Nick Maynard: Yeah, it’s terrible, the malnutrition. This is my third trip to Gaza. I’ve called this out on both my previous trips, but it’s much worse now. And I’ve seen it in many of the adult patients I’ve been operating on. They’re coming in malnourished, so their ability for their tissues to heal is severely impaired. And we’re operating on sometimes very major injuries, but injuries which they’d have a very, very high chance of surviving with appropriate surgery if they were not malnourished. And of course, we’ve got no nutritional support to give them in hospitals.
On the paediatric and tend to care unit, the lack of feed is dire. On the neonatal, I mean, they’ve been four premature babies who’ve died in recent weeks, purely because of malnutrition. Their mothers were too malnourished to breastfeed them and there was no formula feed to give them. And formula feed is being denied, they’re not getting any formula feed in. Some of my American medical colleagues had brought formula feed into Gaza but it was all confiscated at the border. The malnutrition I’m seeing is terrible and children and adults are dying as a result of it.
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At 16, they started taking NI payment from my wages. No one asked my permission. I was simply told this was to fund various things, including my pension at age 65.
It was a deal. They took my money. Then raised the age to 66. Then 67.
They are welching on the deal. That’s all
Aipamena
The Telegraph@Telegraph
uzt. 21
Labour have announced a review into the state pension age, opening the door for it to be raised.
Read the full story here 
https://telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/07/21/labour-to-review-state-pension-age/
The UK Government, as a currency issuing entity, can afford to pay whatever level of State Pension it wishes.
We can have the best state pension in Europe (or the world) but our government thinks we don’t deserve it.
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Nicholas Guyatt@NicholasGuyatt
Extraordinary scenes in the Commons tonight as Tory MP @kitmalthouse correctly accuses UK foreign secretary David Lammy of complicity in Israel’s crimes and warns him that he could end up in The Hague
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1947408684365033743
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These were the last photos I took of my hometown, Deir el-Balah. Tonight, Israel is bombing my beautiful town from the air, land, and sea, with fire belts that will likely cause massive destruction. I will always remember my city like this: beautiful and peaceful. Pray for my family, for my town, for my neighbors, and for their children.
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Geure herriari, Euskal Herriari dagokionez, hona hemen gure apustu bakarra:
We Basques do need a real Basque independent State in the Western Pyrenees, just a democratic lay or secular state, with all the formal characteristics of any independent State: Central Bank, Treasury, proper currency1, out of the European Distopia and faraway from NATO, maybe being a BRICS partner…
Ikus Euskal Herriaren independentzia eta Mikel Torka
eta
Esadazu arren, zer da gu euskaldunok egiten ari garena eta zer egingo dugun
gehi
MTM: Zipriztinak (2), 2025: Warren Mosler
(Pinturak: Mikel Torka)
Gehigarriak:
MTM klase borrokarik gabe, kontabilitate hutsa da
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1 This way, our new Basque government will have infinite money to deal with. (Gogoratzekoa: Moneta jaulkitzaileko kasu guztietan, Gobernuak infinitu diru dauka.)
