Immediately afterward, Israel began a campaign of obliteration throughout Gaza. Almost all the region’s 2.3 million residents have been displaced. Virtually every school, hospital, and university was either damaged or destroyed. The deliberate withholding of aid and destruction of infrastructure have resulted in widespread famine and death by disease. Over and over, residents were ordered from their neighborhoods into “safe zones” and then wiped out there. Some people are afforded precision in death, but not these: there is no accurate count of the murdered. There may never be.
