Two years have passed since the Hamas assault on Israel that began this latest cycle of devastation, and Gaza lies in ruins. What began as an act of terror has become the systematic annihilation of a people—a genocide, as even the United Nations has underlined.
More than sixty-five thousand Palestinians are dead, tens of thousands wounded, and almost the entire population driven from their homes. Hospitals and schools have disappeared under bombardment. Gaza's universities, once alive with young voices, now stand silent—a monument to an erased future. Children are being made to die of hunger while food and medicine wait at sealed borders. The punishment no longer targets those who carried out the attack; it engulfs an entire population.
Survival itself has turned into resistance. The wor