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Complicit in genocide: where Israel gets its weapons from
Far from ‘standing alone’ Israel is fully supplied with military hardware from various Western and non-Western countries, writes RAMZY BAROUD
ARMED TO THE TEETH: Although Israel makes certain signature weapons of war itself, like the Merkava tanks pictured here on the border of Lebanon in 2023, it relies on the US and Europe for the majority of its arms

OVER 9,000 Palestinian women have been killed since the start of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip. Mothers have been the largest share of Israeli killings, at an average of 37 mothers per day since October 7. 

The numbers above, from the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza and the Red Crescent Society respectively, only convey part of the suffering experienced by 2.3 million Palestinians in the strip. 

There is not a single section in Palestinian society that has not paid a heavy price for the war, although women and children are the ones who have suffered most, constituting over 70 per cent of all victims of the ongoing Israeli genocide. 

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