CPM urges phone blackout from 9 to 9:30 pm daily in solidarity with Palestine
The CPI(M) quoted a recently-released UN report, "From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide", and said it details how various multinational corporations are complicit in Israel's assault on Gaza."The sinister role of these corporations must be exposed, and they must be held accountable to the people," it said."These corporations feed off our digital footprints, even as they enable genocide. Shutting off our mobile phones for half an hour each day at the designated time is a small but powerful act of digital disruption, a strike against the surveillance capitalism that bankrolls Israel's genocide and apartheid," the Left party added.The war in Gaza was set off after Palestinian group Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, killing around 1,200 people and taking 250 people hostage. Israel responded with an offensive that has killed more than 57,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, displaced nearly all of Gaza's 20 lakh people and left many on the edge of famine.- EndsMust Watch
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