from Mondoweiss
On October 31, the red “Breaking News” banner announced that Israeli warplanes had bombed a residential block in Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. Telegram channels then delivered more devastating news, revealing that the airstrike had targeted the al-Sanida neighborhood in Jabalia, where I grew up my entire life.
As I watched Al Jazeera, staring at the screen aghast, I recognized some faces covered with blood and dust, neighbors and relatives rising from under the rubble, some standing over piles of limbs and dead bodies. In that incident, Israel had carried out at least six airstrikes on the refugee camp, flattening an entire housing block within a few minutes and killing at least 400 people.
The Jabalia massacre made headlines for the devastation it caused and the cold calculus underlying the strike, most prominently shown when an Israeli military spokesperson effectively told Wolf Blitzer on CNN that killing 400 Palestinian civilians in order to kill one Hamas commander was acceptable. In less than 24 hours, Israel carried out another airstrike in the overcrowded camp; by the end of the next day, the number of killed rose to 1000 Palestinians.
But the Jabalia massacre was one of at least 2000 massacres that
Israel has perpetrated so far since October 7. As of the time of
writing, the war has claimed the lives of at least 28,000 people, the
majority of them women and children, while thousands still lie under the
rubble, and tens of thousands have been maimed and injured...
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