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Els Torreele

@elstorreele.bsky.social
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Interested in Shifting Powers towards Health Equity, Economic Justice, post-Finance Capitalism, Climate Justice, Equitable Access to Medicines and Vaccines, and a better future for all of us. Founding Director of æqua.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Last year Bolsonaro was prosecuted with overseeing a vast scheme to overturn the 2022 election he lost. Lula’s worker party steadied brazil after a near decade long recession Now Brazilian Voters have handed the reins of power in senate,congress, states & perhaps presidency back to the bolsonarists
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MrMirth @mrmirth.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
So much for Israeli military efficiency and morality. They never had either. It was destruction on a mass scale, of people and infrastructure. War crime.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 6h
i’m just so fucking sorry that my muslim friends have to be hit with this despicable racism every single day. it’s not ok and you should not have to tolerate it. this country belongs to all of us.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 6h
‘Narcos’ star Wagner Moura delivers a chilling message to Brazilians ahead of their presidential election, warning that Trump is eyeing Brazil’s vast mineral wealth—and that Flávio Bolsonaro could help hand it over to the U.S. He lays out the playbook he says Trump has already used around the world
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‘Narcos’ Star Exposes Trump's Brazil Playbook—and the Money Trail Leading to His Allies
Oscar-nominated actor Wagner Moura traces a web of MAGA donors, Trump family business interests, and Brazilian political operatives as he warns that Brazil's vast mineral wealth could be the next targ...
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C'est du Belge @polbegov.skyfleet.blue · 19h
"Les contribuables demandent des garanties", "On doit se réveiller": débat houleux sur les aides publiques après l'annonce de GSK
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"Les contribuables demandent des garanties", "On doit se réveiller": débat houleux sur les aides publiques après l'annonce de GSK
Le licenciement collectif qui se prépare chez GSK pose la question des aides et incitants publics. Sur cette question, Gilles Vanden Burre, coprésident...
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 15/10/2026
Official data shows tens of thousands of migrants and asylum seekers have been sent to countries they have no ties to.
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Trump ramps up third-country US deportations despite global rights outcry
Official data shows tens of thousands of migrants and asylum seekers have been sent to countries they have no ties to.
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 15/10/2026
EU leaders are in Brussels to discuss EU budget and new sources of revenue. The 🐘 in the room? WEALTH TAX. Who should pay for the next #flood? #Heatwave? Climate chaos? Those MOST responsible for the damage. We are calling on leaders to #TaxTheSuperRich to help fund a fair, green transition.
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EU’s richest 1% linked to more than €300 billion in annual climate debt   - Greenpeace European Unit
The richest 1% of people in 24 EU countries are linked to an estimated €301 billion in climate debt through their ownership of companies and…
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
New post: "Drowning in slop" Large parts of the state are being increasingly overwhelmed with complaints, appeals, objections.... written by AI. It's gumming up every process. Britain is particularly vulnerable. How bad has it got and what can we do about it? samf.substack.com/p/drowning-i...
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Drowning in slop
Can the state survive the rise of AI?
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Christine @psychicmum.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
bsky.app/profile/wome... We are tired of this shit but we aren’t giving up
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C'est du Belge @polbegov.skyfleet.blue · 15/10/2026
Le PTB exige le remboursement des aides publiques en cas de licenciements : "Ces aides servent à maintenir l’emploi ? Ou à arroser les actionnaires ?"
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Le PTB exige le remboursement des aides publiques en cas de licenciements : 'Ces aides servent à maintenir l’emploi ? Ou à arroser les actionnaires ?' - RTBF Actus
C’est une annonce choc dans le milieu de l’emploi : l’entreprise pharmaceutique GSK, plus grande employeuse privée...
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I’m blessed to be in many public health, medicine & science “group chats” & wow has there been an outpouring of deep sadness today. Helen was a one-off. We’ve been sharing anecdotes of how awesome it was to be interviewed by her. This mass outpouring & the reminiscences signal a life well lived. RIP
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
You don't fix one security crisis by creating another. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending
Exclusive: Some of £2bn savings needed from energy budget expected to come from boiler upgrade scheme, sources say
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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
US threatens to block arms for Ukraine over attacks on Russian refineries - Instead of ending the #IranWar, the US is lobbying European capitals and Kyiv in an attempt to end the attacks on Russian oil refineries www.ft.com/content/68fd... via @FT #DonaldTrump #inflation #MakeAmericaSmall #Maga
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US threatens to block arms for Ukraine over attacks on Russian refineries
Officials lobby European capitals and Kyiv following Trump’s diesel deal with Putin
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
…. the late Bruno Latour remarked that “Brazil is today what Spain was in 1936, during the civil war: it is where everything that will be important in the next decades is visible.” read our litlte magazine phenomenal world in English and Portuguese: phenomenalworld.org/interviews/b...
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Brazil and the World System
An interview with Brazil's Minister of Finance, Fernando Haddad
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haversack @hsack121.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Lynn Miclea @lynnmiclea.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
1. Can a language model feel pain? Clearly not. Large language models are computer software and they can no more suffer than any other human-created artifact can. >>
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
These guys have drawn their lines. Pretending that this will all go away if we don't mention their names is the definition of surrender. archive.ph/8oXvJ
Peter Thiel slams Obama, Pope Leo in new ‘Antichrist’ lectures
The tech billionaire accused them of using AI concerns to “boost their own popularity,” according to recordings obtained by POLITICO.
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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“The notion of killing as “fun” is crucial.” www.theguardian.com/global/comme...
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How do human beings explain taking part in genocide? NAZA provides a chilling look | Omer Bartov
It’s easier to blame brutes and sadists for extreme violence. But as we see in the documentary, modern genocides are fueled by people who are uncomfortably recognizable
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C'est du Belge @polbegov.skyfleet.blue · 11/10/2026
Des dizaines de milliers de manifestants à la Marche pour le climat à Bruxelles : "Le gouvernement fédéral et la Commission européenne font beaucoup trop peu" :
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Des dizaines de milliers de manifestants à la Marche pour le climat à Bruxelles : 'Le gouvernement fédéral et la Commission européenne font beaucoup trop peu' : - RTBF Actus
Organisée par la Coalition Climat avec la participation de nombreuses autres organisations, cette marche veut dénoncer le...
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I would add an 18th catastrophic threat: the rise of far right, authoritarianism, backed by technofascist billionaires
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
When members of the IRB that reviewed a study are resigning in protest because they recognize the unethical design of the study and the avoidable harm it will cause, maybe it is a sign to no proceed with said study. Great reporting in the guardian. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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TAGHIVscience @taghivscience.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"The Danish research ethics committee at the University of Southern Denmark had never considered medical studies before, but it changed the rules in order to vote on this one. While committee members with expertise argued against approving it, the majority ruled to move forward."
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Navi Pillay’s Nobel peace prize is a vote of confidence in a global legal order under fire theconversation.com/navi-pillays...
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Navi Pillay’s Nobel peace prize is a vote of confidence in a global legal order under fire
Recognising Pillay is an affirmation of what has been achieved, but also about what must not be lost.
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 09/10/2026
And now Omnibus X wants to deregulate EU pesticide standards further. In the wrong direction, at speed. 🔗 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/10/f... 🔗 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/06/e...
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European Commission backtracks on promise to end EU exports of banned and dangerous pesticides | Corporate Europe Observatory
Today NGOs from the ‘End Toxic Pesticide Trade Coalition’ called out the European Commission following media reports that it would not hold its promise to end the toxic export of EU-banned pesticides ...
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 09/10/2026
🏆 Judge Navi Pillay just won the Nobel Peace Prize. Pillay chaired UN commission that concluded Israel was guilty of genocide in Gaza. Earlier this year she told MEPs exactly what EU pesticide export double standards cost people around the world. The Commission still hasn’t answered her. Thread 🧵👇
Photo of Navi Pillay
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Jan Willem Goudriaan @jwgoudriaan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Thread of @doctorow.pluralistic.net on the dangers of the billionaires and their power to destroy the lives of workers, communities and the environment To protect democracy we need radical redistribution of wealth and limits
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Pamela Ferdinand @pamelawrites.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Gifts, payments, free meals, and other marketing ploys by pharmaceutical companies heavily influence doctors to prescribe more drugs, choose less appropriate treatments, and drive up prescription costs, shows a systematic review of 93 studies. @usrighttoknow.bsky.social usrtk.org/healthwire/d...
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Drug company gifts, meals, and payments to doctors lead to worse prescribing, review of 93 studies finds
Doctors who accept drug company gifts, payments and meals prescribe less appropriately and at higher cost, a new Cochrane review of 93 studies finds.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 09/10/2026
"We, the undersigned States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), reaffirm our continued and unwavering support for the independence, impartiality, and integrity of the ICC." JOINT STATEMENT by CANADA, DENMARK, GERMANY, FRANCE, ITALY, JAPAN, NETHERLANDS, UK
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JOINT STATEMENT OF THE FOREIGN MINISTERS OF CANADA, DENMARK, GERMANY, FRANCE, ITALY, JAPAN, THE NETHERLANDS, UNITED KINGDOM
We, the undersigned States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), reaffirm our continued and unwavering support for the independence, impartiality, and integrity of the...
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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l'Avenir @lavenirnet.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“Pas dans nos poches !”: entre 30.000 et 50.000 Belges dans la rue contre les mesures de l’Arizona
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“Pas dans nos poches !”: entre 30.000 et 50.000 Belges dans la rue contre les mesures de l’Arizona
Entre 30.000 et 50.000 personnes ont manifesté à Bruxelles ce vendredi à l’appel des syndicats CSC et FGTB. À l’approche de l’échéance budgétaire du 13 octobre, les témoignages traduisent une même colère face aux mesures envisagées par le gouvernement. ...
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Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We have a new paper with evidence that fiscal consolidation leads to sizable and persistent declines in public investment in advanced economies; reductions in government consumption are smaller. Real spending on health, education, social protection, environmental protection falls to varying degrees.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Pretty Awesome 👍
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/10/2026
The world is in *really* bad shape right now, but it doesn't have to be. As Mamdani has shown us, it's not that hard to run a well-administered, advanced technological civilization. Fixing potholes and making transit work and enforcing housing rules isn't rocket surgery.
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Tulio de Oliveira @tuliodna.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Today is a proud day! One of our own, win the Peace Nobel Prize! Congratulations Prof Navi Pillay, an alumni, staff, and professor of University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. Fighting for justice, peace and freedom is one of things that drive us.
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Global Justice Now @globaljusticenow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We and 120+ organisations across Europe are calling on our governments to cut ties with Palantir for good! @corporateeurope.org @epsu.bsky.social
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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hours after #NaviPillay was awarded with the Peace Nobel Prize, the US government has imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court. It would prohibit transactions with the Court, cut off its resources and restrict its ability to operate www.spiegel.de/ausland/usa-... #RuleOfLaw #DonaldTrump
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Stunden nach Nobelpreis für ehemalige Richterin: USA verhängen weitreichende Sanktionen gegen Internationalen Strafgerichtshof
Die USA steuern auf einen diplomatischen Konflikt mit Europa zu: Washington will die Handlungsfähigkeit des Internationalen Strafgerichtshof beschränken. Den Haag kritisiert das Vorgehen scharf.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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FNV Vakbond @fnv.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
'We hebben gestreden voor onze rechten als werknemer, voor het recht om aan tafel te zitten, voor eerlijke lonen en banen en #EUInc breekt dat allemaal af!', zegt FNV-er David van de Geer. Wat dit kabinet met WIA en WW doet is niet uniek, er komt vanuit Europa een grote afbraakgolf op ons af.
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Ankharis @ancaris.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Innovation and competitiveness in the health sector must be measured in terms of patient and public health benefits, including affordable and equitable access to health innovations, not in terms of economic competitiveness." @elstorreele.bsky.social www.friendsofeurope.org/insights/cri... #R&D
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Reclaiming medicines and health innovation for our health - Friends of Europe
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Extinction Rebellion Global @xrglobal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
THE FIGHT TO BE HEARD A new documentary from @amnestyuk.bsky.social explores the recent crackdown on protest in Britain. youtu.be/sYOAeQEjWsc
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The Crackdown on Protest in the UK | Amnesty International UK Documentary
YouTube video by Amnesty International UK
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Nature @nature.com · 07/10/2026
None of this year's science Nobel Prizes have gone to women. The number of these prizes to go to women remains at 27 out of more than 600. See how many you can name in our quiz: www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's almost like putting a quack anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health policy has consequences. "The United States has now had more measles deaths in the past two years than we have had in the previous three decades combined...": www.ms.now/news/pennsyl...
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Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the U.S.
The state has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, health officials said Monday, making it the largest outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades.
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 06/10/2026
The Israeli army has bulldozed over 1.6 million olive trees in Gaza since the beginning of the genocide in 2023, threatening the livelihood and heritage of olive farming communities, and the survival of a centuries-old Palestinian cultural tradition. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/afte...
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After three years of genocide, Gaza’s olive harvest is going extinct
The Israeli army has bulldozed over 1.6 million olive trees in Gaza since the beginning of the genocide in 2023, threatening the livelihood and heritage of olive farming communities, and the survival…
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