Genocide for Sale: Gaza’s Engineered Financial Collapse

OVERVIEW

This article examines the engineered collapse of Gaza’s financial system as a form of modern economic warfare, where Israel’s blockade on cash, destruction of banking infrastructure, and control of border crossings have produced one of the most catastrophic hyperinflations in history. Tracing how scarcity, corruption, and extortion became tools of demographic control, it exposes the human cost of a system in which basic survival and the right to leave have been monetized. From cash brokers and currency repairers to cryptocurrency campaigns and black-market economies, Gaza’s residents have improvised alternatives amid economic strangulation.

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