On hell - Jack Khoury in NYT:

‘The number of people killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war on October 7, 2023, has surpassed 60,000, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said on Tuesday.
While most of the casualties over the 21-month war were caused by Israeli airstrikes, Gazan officials are now highlighting deaths due to malnutrition and incidents near aid distribution centers.’

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‘A physician at Gaza City's Al-Shifa Hospital told Haaretz that for most people, survival has become the sole focus. "There's no time to grieve in the hospitals," he said. "Doctors are working with improvised tools, mothers search empty markets for baby formula, and fathers risk their lives standing in endless lines for aid that might never come."’

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‘The report also states that 2,163 families lost all of their loved ones – 7,563 people in total – while 5,943 families have only a single surviving member. Among the dead are 1,590 medical personnel, 122 civil defense workers, 228 journalists, 171 municipal employees and 777 security and aid protection staff.
The actual number of casualties could be significantly higher. Thousands of bodies are believed to still be buried under rubble and remain unrecorded. Around 7,000 people are listed as missing.
To draw international attention and increase pressure on Israel to end the war, local officials in Gaza have scaled back daily reports of airstrike casualties and now highlight only large-scale incidents.’

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‘Alongside the casualties of war and starvation, many chronically ill Gazans are struggling to survive. According to the media office, 41 percent of kidney patients in Gaza have died since the war began.’

Read the article here.

The incompetence of the world, of the US, both Biden and Trump vis-a-vis Gaza has been well documented by now.
NYT reported that the war soon after October 7, 2023, had mainly one goal, to keep Netanyahu in power.
The genocide in Gaza is a catastrophe for the Gazans in the first place, for the Israelis, for the Jews outside Israel, and I dare to say for the rest of the world.

International law was far from perfect, I argued that waiting for the international organizations and international law, could be compared to involuntarily assisted suicide, for the Gazans that is, but there are other examples as well.

But the dismantling of this system is a return to the jungle.

And life in the jungle tends to be brute, nasty and short, in the end for everybody.