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This photo from Palestinian photographer Laoy Ayyoub was taken last March at a private food distribution center in Rafah, according to The Washington Post.
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Most informed observers know that the actual death count in Gaza due to Israel's attacks on the territory is far worse than the large media outlets are reporting. Last February, my colleague Coll McCail — an astute college student in Glasgow — worked out a basic mathematical calculation that the corporate media refuses to do. The result of this calculation back then was chilling; now it is much worse.
Here is the latest data, updated as of yesterday (July 21): based on a statistical model developed by a prestigious medical journal called The Lancet, Israel has killed roughly 434,800 people in Gaza since the country's military started to attack the territory on 8 October 2023. That's 20.7% of Gaza's entire pre-conflict population dead. Over half are women and children.
If the same level of killing and indirect death that took place in Gaza during the 594 days of the conflict happened in the United States proportional to population, roughly 70 million Americans would have been killed.
I repeat: It is likely that the number of deaths in Gaza is the rough equivalent of 70 million Americans in proportion to current population. That's the equivalent of every person in the 28 least populous states in the United States. Or roughly every person in the entire states of California and New York.
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But no. Instead, they (Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal in particular) keep on dredging up decades-old photos and other memoirs from Trump's past relationship with Epstein, thereby keeping the ASSOCIATION of Trump and 'the notorious serial pedophile' in the headlines, and thereby insinuating that Trump partook in Epstein's sex crimes.
They've thereby turned what had been a powerful asset - disclosure/justice for 'the worst of crimes' - during Trump's re-election campaign... into a weapon against him.
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But the recurring pattern in 'pedophile network' scandals across the West in recent decades is that the 'pimps', when exposed and caught, always wind up being cast as 'lone wolf actors', while the large elite clientele they served ALWAYS remain protected. It's one of the core brutal truths all must learn about life on planet Earth, and while it's disappointing to see Trump uphold this pattern, it's important to remember that he and his team aren't actually 'Avengers' or superheroes. They're up against pathocrats with the power to 'move and shake' trillion$ on the global markets.
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SOTT Focus: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - June 2025: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs
We had it all this month: Volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, deadly floods, unprecedented hailstorms, sinkholes, freak summer snowstorms, and scorching temperatures.
Again, we cannot discard the possibility that the erratic activity could be caused by the electric interaction between our Star and its twin.
SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Iran War Aint Over: Trump 'Pause' Delays Goal of Thwarting Eurasian Integration
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And yes, Israel expects to dominate the Middle East as a result, so ITS 'positive motivation' is to ensure the US remains fully committed. The transatlantic deep state consortium that dominates the US government certainly is, but whether Trump completely betrays the core promises that got him re-elected remains to be seen...
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A notorious British MI6 agent infiltrated the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on London's behalf, according to leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone. The agent, Nicholas Langman, is a veteran intelligence operative who claims credit for helping engineer the West's economic war on Iran.
Langman's identity first surfaced in journalistic accounts of his role in deflecting accusations that British intelligence played a role in the death of Princess Diana. He was later accused by Greek authorities of overseeing the abduction and torture of Pakistani migrants in Athens.
In both cases, UK authorities issued censorship orders forbidding the press from publishing his name. But Greek media, which was under no such obligation, confirmed that Langman was one of the MI6 assets withdrawn from Britain's embassy in Athens.
© Yousef Zaanoun/ActivestillsA Palestinian man is seen wounded as hundreds more walk along Al-Rashid Street carrying bags of flour after aid trucks entered through the Zikim area in northern Gaza City, June 17, 2025. Several of those seeking aid were shot by Israeli forces.
Near-daily Israeli massacres at food distribution sites have killed over 400 Palestinians in the past month alone. Survivors describe stepping over corpses to get their hands on a bag of flour: 'What choice do we have?'In the early hours of June 11, before sunrise, 19-year-old Hatem Shaldan and his brother Hamza, 23, went to wait for aid trucks near the Netzarim Corridor in the central Gaza Strip. They hoped to return with a bag of white flour for their family of five. Instead, Hamza returned with his younger brother's body wrapped in a white burial shroud.
The Shaldan family had lived virtually without food for nearly two months due to Israel's blockade, crammed into a classroom-turned-shelter in eastern Gaza City. Their home, once nearby, was destroyed completely by an Israeli airstrike in January 2024.
At around 1:30 a.m., the two brothers joined dozens of starving Palestinians on Al-Rashid Street along the shore upon hearing that trucks carrying flour would enter the Strip. Two hours later, they heard shouts of "The trucks are coming!" followed immediately by the sound of Israeli artillery shelling.
IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, prompting the military prosecution to call for a review into possible war crimes
Israeli soldiers in Gaza told Haaretz that the army has deliberately fired at Palestinians near aid distribution sites over the past month.
Conversations with officers and soldiers reveal that commanders ordered troops to shoot at crowds to drive them away or disperse them, even though it was clear they posed no threat.
One soldier described the situation as a total breakdown of the Israel Defense Forces' ethical codes in Gaza. According to the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza, 549 people have been killed near aid centers and in areas where residents were waiting for UN food trucks since May 27. Over 4,000 have been wounded, but the exact number of those killed or injured by IDF fire remains unclear.
Haaretz has learned that the Military Advocate General has instructed the IDF General Staff's Fact-Finding Assessment Mechanism - a body tasked with reviewing incidents involving potential violations of the laws of war - to investigate suspected war crimes at these sites.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid centers began operating in the Strip at the end of May. The circumstances of the foundation's establishment and its funding are murky: it is known to have been set up by Israel in coordination with U.S. evangelicals and private security contractors. Its current CEO is an evangelical leader close to U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Comment: Read the above-linked investigation and it's clear this grotesque parody of a 'humanitarian aid organization' emerged from the bowels of the CIA, the Mossad, and Switzerland.
Conversations with officers and soldiers reveal that commanders ordered troops to shoot at crowds to drive them away or disperse them, even though it was clear they posed no threat.
One soldier described the situation as a total breakdown of the Israel Defense Forces' ethical codes in Gaza. According to the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza, 549 people have been killed near aid centers and in areas where residents were waiting for UN food trucks since May 27. Over 4,000 have been wounded, but the exact number of those killed or injured by IDF fire remains unclear.
Haaretz has learned that the Military Advocate General has instructed the IDF General Staff's Fact-Finding Assessment Mechanism - a body tasked with reviewing incidents involving potential violations of the laws of war - to investigate suspected war crimes at these sites.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid centers began operating in the Strip at the end of May. The circumstances of the foundation's establishment and its funding are murky: it is known to have been set up by Israel in coordination with U.S. evangelicals and private security contractors. Its current CEO is an evangelical leader close to U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Comment: Read the above-linked investigation and it's clear this grotesque parody of a 'humanitarian aid organization' emerged from the bowels of the CIA, the Mossad, and Switzerland.
Comment: The IDF can claim that it is 'working to ensure safe' food distribution but, as Haaretz reports, their own soldiers have confirmed that they are ordered to target starving civilians: