On Tuesday, a massive column of black smoke billowed over the Port of Gaza as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reportedly aimed their strikes at vessels in the besieged Palestinian city. Footage captured explosions in the waters of the port, and it showed a small fishing boat engulfed in flames. An IDF statement asserted that the Israeli military was ‘currently striking terror targets belonging to the Hamas terrorist organization’ along the coast of Gaza. There were concerns that Hamas may attempt to use the port to leave Gaza and strike at other parts of Israel, or turn cargo ships into makeshift weapons. These strikes on the Port of Gaza followed an unprecedented attack by Hamas on Israel on Saturday, October 7, and Israel’s equally unprecedented response. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Freedom over censorship, truth over narrative. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Telegram: https://t.me/rtnews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RT_com

On this episode of The Cost of Everything we take a closer look at how lack of access to the banking system is detrimental to the economic well-being of citizens as many, especially the poor, don’t have access to banks. Host Christy Ai spoke with professor and author Richard Wolff about how the banks and even the cryptocurrency markets are for-profit entities that seem to exclude the unbanked, and about how governments are trying to give the unbanked access to banking as an added government service. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Freedom over censorship, truth over narrative. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Telegram: https://t.me/rtnews Follow us on X: https://twitter.com/RT_com