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This is Iowa, home to the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant, operated by a private firm, Mason & Hanger.
Explores who profits from the Gaza wars, highlighting US-made arms, civilian casualties, and the global arms trade's impact.
Key Takeaways
- US and European arms industries profit significantly from conflicts like the Gaza war.
- Civilian casualties and humanitarian crises in Gaza are exacerbated by advanced weaponry supplied by foreign governments.
- The US government provides substantial military aid to Israel, often bypassing oversight.
- The global arms trade fuels prolonged conflicts and suffering in densely populated areas like Gaza.
- Independent media platforms like Nebula offer critical, in-depth perspectives on complex geopolitical issues.
Summary
- The video investigates the role of US-made 120mm tank rounds produced by Mason & Hanger in the Gaza conflict.
- It recounts the tragic story of six-year-old Hind Rajab and her family killed near Israeli tanks in Gaza.
- Details the US government's $106 million arms shipment to Israel bypassing congressional review.
- Describes the Israeli siege and repeated military assaults on Gaza, causing massive civilian casualties and humanitarian crises.
- Highlights the surge in stock value and profits of major arms manufacturers like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Boeing after conflict escalation.
- Discusses the blockade of Gaza and the resulting deprivation and displacement of nearly 2 million Palestinians.
- Mentions the resurgence of diseases and collapse of hospitals due to ongoing conflict and blockade.
- Frames the conflict as a genocide with Israeli forces using American and European weapons.
- Calls out the arms industry and CEOs as 'death merchants' profiting from Palestinian lives.
- Promotes Nebula as an independent platform for in-depth educational content on complex global issues including arms manufacturing.
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Speaker A
This is a 120mm tank round produced by Mason & Hanger.
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It blew up a UN school in Gaza in November of 2023.
Speaker B
120mm shell. Yeah, "Made in the USA".
Speaker A
The man holding the shell was later killed, surrounded by his family.
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On the 29th of January 2024, six-year-old Hind Rajab and her six family members fled as Israeli forces invaded their neighborhood.
Speaker C
Hello.
Speaker D
They are shooting at us!
Speaker D
The tank is next to me.
Speaker C
Are you hiding?
Speaker D
Yes, in the car, we're next to the tank.
Speaker C
Are you inside the car?
Speaker D
Yes.
Speaker D
They are dead.
Speaker C
Are they dead?
Speaker D
Yes.
Speaker C
Are they in the car with you now?
Speaker D
Yes.
Speaker A
Their car, 20 meters from Israeli Merkava tanks, was riddled with 335 bullets, killing everyone but six-year-old Hind.
Speaker C
Where are you hiding now?
Speaker D
In the car.
Speaker D
The tank is next to me.
Speaker C
Is it very close?
Speaker D
Yes, very, very close.
Speaker D
Please stay with me.
Speaker C
I'm with you until someone comes to get you.
Speaker C
I will not leave you alone.
Speaker D
When someone comes then you can hang up, okay?
Speaker C
No, I want to stay with you.
Speaker D
Please come take me.
Speaker C
Darling, I swear if I could I would come get you.
Speaker C
I'm here with you talking to you. I don't even want to hang up.
Speaker D
What time is it? It's almost night.
Speaker C
What?
Speaker D
It's almost night. I'm scared.
Speaker D
Please come get me.
Speaker C
Darling, I swear if I could I would come get you.
Speaker C
Ya Allah.
Speaker D
Ya Allah.
Speaker A
Trapped in the car, surrounded by bodies and bleeding out, Hind remained on the phone with the Red Crescent for the next three hours.
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The Red Crescent coordinated with the Israeli military to allow an ambulance to go rescue her.
Speaker E
Stay with me. Can you see the car?
Speaker F
No.
Speaker E
Do you have lights and siren on?
Speaker F
No sirens. Lights are on.
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As the ambulance arrived, just 50 meters from Hind, an Israeli tank fired on the ambulance, killing the two medics inside.
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People reached the site 12 days later to discover the bodies of Hind, her family and two medics.
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The exploded 120mm round found inside the ambulance was made by Mason & Hanger.
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It cost about $7,000.
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A month before Hind was killed, the American President, Joseph Biden, rushed about $106 million worth of these rounds to Israel.
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Bypassing congressional review.
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Those shells have killed many here in Gaza.
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Home to 2.1 million people.
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Most descendants of Palestinians expelled from what is now Israel over the past seven decades.
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This tiny artificial enclave, one of Earth's most densely populated areas, has been under Israeli siege since 2007.
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Israel's illegal blockade of Gaza restricts the entry of essential goods, a policy called "putting Palestinians on a diet".
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Since 2008, Israel's repeated military assaults, called "mowing the grass", have killed thousands.
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On October 7th, 2023, the Palestinian armed group Hamas breached Israel's technologically advanced border wall.
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And killed about 1,180 people, including 797 civilians, and kidnapped over 250 people.
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The day after that devastating attack, the market value of the world's largest arms dealers, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, and General Dynamics, soared by nearly 30 billion euro.
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By April, Israel had dropped 70,000 tons of bombs on Gaza.
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That's roughly 4.6 Hiroshima nuclear bombs.
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Israel's bombardment has killed about 41,000 people, including over 16,000 children, in what President Biden called "indiscriminate bombing".
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Over 92,000 are wounded and 11,000 are missing, presumed dead under the rubble.
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Meanwhile, Lockheed Martin raised its quarterly dividend from $3 to $3.15, making shareholders even richer.
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Nearly 2 million people have been displaced as they constantly flee the bombs.
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Hospitals have collapsed.
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Polio has resurfaced.
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And humanitarian aid is being blocked.
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In the West Bank, Israeli settlers are unleashing unprecedented violence against Palestinians living under Israeli military rule.
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An Israeli professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies said the world was watching a textbook case of genocide.
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Israelis are doing the killing, but they're doing it with American and European weapons.
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American taxpayers will cover the $14 billion extra dollars sent to Israel.
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While the Israeli, American, and European arms industries and their CEOs are seeing record profits.
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This is a video about death merchants.
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Grim reapers in suits harvesting Palestinian lives for cash.
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They want more bombs.
Speaker G
Whatever the Israelis want, we should give them.
Speaker G
Wooooow, what a video!
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Why did you do that?
Speaker H
And this seems to fit quite nicely with the Raytheon Defense portfolio.
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Understanding the logistics of the arms trade is crucial to understanding how the world works.
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Topics:Gaza conflictarms tradeMason & HangerUS military aidIsraeli-Palestinian conflictcivilian casualtiesLockheed MartinRaytheonhumanitarian crisisindependent media
