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Don’t Look Away – OpEd

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17.09.2026

On 15 September 2026 Trump approved a further $2.8bn heavy-bomb sale to Israel: 40,000 one-ton bombs, 20,000 of 2,000-lb class, and 20,000 bunker-busting penetrators. The author says the package restocks munitions human-rights groups have tied to destruction of homes and infrastructure in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon. June 2026 NRC figure cited: 170,000 Gazan households (~1 million people) in tents; 5,000 households sleeping outdoors; 52,000 in crowded shelters—short of sheeting, plywood, and rope heading into winter.

A Global Solidarity for Peace in Palestine group holds weekly calls with West Bank Palestinians on restrictions, hunger, care, land loss, and settler violence. PYALARA asked for school basics for Gazan children—paper, pencils, books, desks, bags. UNRWA education director Julia Dicon, to UN News, stressed why schooling still matters for refugee children.

Tala Mousa, 17, and Farah Mousa, 15, won the 2026 Middle East Earth Prize for turning bomb rubble into reuse blocks for beds, paths, and partitions. The author contrasts that with White House décor spending and names Boeing, Lockheed Martin, RTX, General Dynamics, and Northrop Grumman as firms that gain from the sale. Closing line: U.S. complicity and “don’t look away.”

After spending millions of dollars redecorating the White House and transforming D.C. monuments, President Trump approved, on September 15, 2026, an additional 2.8 billion dollar sale of heavy bombs to Israel, including 40,000 one-ton bombs, 20,000 of the 2,000 lb. bombs, and 20,000 bunker-busting penetrator warheads. Israel has used these bombs to destroy homes, families and........

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