Forever-Occupation: Genocide, and profit: United Nations exposes corporate forces behind destruction of Palestine

Exhausted, Muhammad and his 12-year-old sister, Hala, sit outside their tent in Rafah. - UNICEF 

Forever-Occupation: Genocide and profit: Special Rapporteur’s report exposes corporate forces behind destruction of Palestine 03 July 2025

“In the past 21 months, while Israel’s genocide has devastated Palestinian lives and landscapes, the Tel Aviv stock exchange soared by 213 per cent (USD), amassing $225.7 billion in market gains—including $67.8 billion in the past month alone. For some, genocide is profitable.”

Only 1.5% of Gaza cropland left for starving Palestinians due to Israel’s war, UN says.

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Genocide: Israel, United States and apartheid regime

Pope Leo XIV leads the Angelus prayer in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, July 20, 2025. REUTERS/Yara Nardi

“I appeal to the international community to observe humanitarian law and respect the obligation to protect civilians as well as the prohibition of collective punishment, the indiscriminate use of force, and the forced displacement of populations,” the pope added.

The shelling of the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza also damaged the church compound, where hundreds of Palestinians have been sheltering from the Israel-Hamas war, now in its 21st month. Israel expressed regret over what it described as an accident and said it was investigating.

An Israeli organisation has said, "The Israeli regime enacts in all the territory it controls, Israeli sovereign territory, East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip, an apartheid regime."

"Apartheid was a system of racial segregation and discrimination enforced in South Africa from 1948 to 1994. It was a legal system that enforced racial segregation and political and economic discrimination against the non-white majority population. 

The system classified people into racial groups (white, black, colored, and Asian) and restricted their rights and opportunities based on their racial classification."

In a Six-Day War in 1967, Israel captured the Golan Heights, the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank, and gained sole control of Jerusalem.