McDonald’s withdrawal from investing in Israel

report Mehr News Agency quoted by the Palestine Information Center; “McDonald” company, as the world’s chain restaurant giant, after being sanctioned in response to the Zionist regime’s war against Gaza, takes back the franchise of all its branches in the occupied territories from the Israeli company that owns it.

McDonald’s action in distributing thousands of free meals among Israeli soldiers has brought widespread criticism and sanctions.

This company has announced an agreement with Alunial, which owns the McDonald’s franchise in Israel, to restore 225 branches of this restaurant with 5 thousand employees throughout the occupied territories. It has arrived.

McDonald’s announced that the war against Gaza has “significantly” affected the company’s business since October 7.

Massive protests have affected McDonald’s sales in the Middle East, Indonesia and France.

After McDonald’s franchise owners in Muslim countries such as Kuwait, Malaysia and Pakistan separated their account from this company by issuing statements for supporting the Zionist regime and They distanced themselves from it, the boycott of this restaurant chain started all over the world.

Last January, the company acknowledged that Israel’s war against Gaza “significantly impacted the performance of its international branches in the last quarter of 2023.”

While the biggest victims of the Zionist regime’s brutal war against Gaza are Palestinian children in this area, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics announced that the occupying forces kill 4 children in Gaza every hour. They are martyred and after 181 days of this war, 43 thousand 349 children are living without their parents or one of them.

According to these statistics, more than 14,350 martyrs of the Zionist regime’s criminal war against Gaza are children, and 44% of the victims of this war are children. More than 70% of the victims are women and children.

Based on these statistics, since Israel invaded Gaza on October 7, 2023, in addition to the continuous killing of Gazan children, 117 children have been martyred in the West Bank and 724 Children were also injured in this area. Also, among the 1,620 people who have been displaced in different areas of the West Bank, 710 of them are children.

This report further states that in 2023, the occupiers detained 1085 children from the West Bank and 318 children in occupied Jerusalem. Also, 204 children, including 202 from the West Bank, one from the Gaza Strip, and one from the occupied territories of 1948 are still in the prisons of the occupying regime.

Statistics show that from February 15th to March 15th, 95% of the residents of Gaza, which are about 2.13 million people, suffer from severe food insecurity, which is among Children are much worse and most children under the age of 5 in Gaza are severely malnourished. So far, at least 28 children have died in Gaza hospitals due to malnutrition.

On the other hand, since the Zionist regime invaded Gaza, about 20,000 children have been born in Gaza, and there are 60,000 pregnant women in Gaza, and an average of 180 per day. In the case of childbirth, there are terrible challenges facing mothers and babies due to the lack of health facilities.

In addition to malnutrition, infectious diseases, the most common of which is diarrhoea, chronic skin and digestive diseases, etc., which the children of Gaza suffer from the aggression of the Zionist enemy Faced with it, these children are completely psychologically damaged, and many of them have often lost their family members, and they don’t even have anyone to take refuge in when they are afraid of the continuous bombings of the usurping regime.