Making Money from War

Global Rights - Human Rights

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Listen:

 

We stand at the edge of a fucking Abyss. Its rabble-rousing smoke

silently sucking the oxygen from already crucified lungs. Like

lemmings, a hundred million motherless soldiers, our long-lost

brothers and sisters, (your own sons and daughters, comrades and

-neighbours), must soon step out into desolate space

 

…must soon fall fearlessly where there's no need for flags no more,

no need to fan the bloody fearful flames. Just Money. Only the crude

patriotism of profit, the precision strike of its grasping claws, its

exchange value in an endless use of “smart bombs” and “suicide drones”

 

…of “Explosive munitions, such as “bombs, grenades, torpedoes, mines, missiles and similar munitions of war and parts”…“cartridges”, some types of “ammunition and projectiles” and parts, including “shot and cartridge wads”… “bullets”, “Parts and accessories” (of military weapons, including components for “revolvers and pistols”, “Shotguns and rifles”, “Rocket launchers, flamethrowers, grenade launchers, torpedo tubes and similar projectors”, “Tank and other armoured fighting vehicle, motorised, whether or not fitted with weapons, and parts”

 

…all now lurking overhead, they loiter loveless and indecent in their

homicidal and hateful seduction, soon to descend swiftly with their

algorithms of arrogance and anger, of acquisition, asset and

annihilation… just more “business as usual”…

 

Welcome then …to the financialisation of fear and terror [Contd.]

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Military Industrial Complex Benefits from Israel's war machine - Davidsvine, CC BY 4.0

UPDATE - The Gaza Strip (14, July, 2026)

Fatalities and injuries

• Between 7 October 2023 and 12 July 2026, according to the Ministry of Health, as reported by the Health Cluster, 73,231 Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip and another 173,686 were injured. This includes 1,084 fatalities and 3,491 injuries between the announcement of a ceasefire agreement on 10 October 2025 and 8 July 2026.
• UNRWA has recorded 392 colleagues killed in Gaza since the start of the war (310 UNRWA personnel and 82 persons who were supporting UNRWA),^[2] up to 15 July. 
• The latest Protection Cluster snapshot revealed that communities continued to report persistent fear and insecurity due to ongoing shelling affecting displacement sites, residential areas, streets, and public spaces. The continued unpredictability has reinforced psychological distress, disrupted daily life, and contributed to a persistent sense of fear and uncertainty among affected populations.

UNRWA - Situation Report #230 on the Humanitarian Crisis in the Gaza Strip and the Occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem