Genocide as merch opportunity

 

JEFFREY ST. CLAIR
 

+ The official death toll in Gaza since October 7, 2023 now stands at 73,821 killed and 174,897 injured. The real numbers are certainly higher, likely much higher. Since the first day of Trump’s “ceasefire” agreement on October 11, 2025, Israel has killed at least 1,386 Palestinians in Gaza and maimed another 4,784.

+ At least 94 percent of Palestinians living in Gaza are in need of safe, sanitary housing. Tens of thousands live in tents, and many thousands more live in damaged buildings. This week at least 21 Palestinians, including 12 children, were killed and 14 others wounded after an apartment building damaged by Israeli attacks collapsed in Gaza City. More than 2,000 residential buildings in Gaza are at risk of collapsing.

+ At least 92 Palestinians have died in Israeli prisons since October 7, 2023. The latest is a 21-year-old man named Muutaz Al-Atrash, who died in the notorious Ofer prison on Tuesday. He’d been held in “administrative detention” (meaning held without charges) for nearly a year. He had no health issues when he was taken into Israeli custody.

+ Last Saturday, Iman Shalouf was shot in the head by Israeli forces while she sat inside a tent in the al-Malwasi compound outside Khan Younis in southern Gaza. Shalouf, who was found bleeding from her head by her young daughter, was 27-years old and almost 8 months pregnant. She and her baby were pronounced dead at shell-shattered Nasser Hospital. Israeli troops were later seen wearing T-shirts with an image depicting a pregnant Palestinian woman in the crosshairs of a gunsight, with text reading: “One Shot, Two Kills.” Genocide as merch opportunity.: “One Shot, Two Kills.” Genocide as merch opportunity.