Nineteen months into Israel’s brutal offensive, Gaza’s streets are littered with the bodies of children, entire families erased in seconds, and hospitals reduced to rubble. The Palestinian Health Ministry reports over 53,900 dead since October 2023, with more than 3,700 killed in just the past week. The world watches, but the killing continues unchecked.  

In Khan Younis, charred remains of eight children were pulled from a bombed home. In Gaza City, artillery fire cut down a mother and her 10-year-old daughter. At Al-Awda Hospital, medics operate under siege as Israeli shells rain nearby, deliberately targeting ambulances. Starvation now claims lives too—Mustafa, a 10-year-old boy, wasted away under Israel’s blockade, his body too weak to fight malnutrition.  

The statistics blur into an endless horror: airstrikes level homes in Deir al-Balah, quadcopter drones drop explosives on displacement tents in Al-Mawasi, and rescue teams dig through rubble with bare hands while under fire. Yet Western governments, led by the U.S., continue arming Israel, shielding it from accountability.  

Gaza’s survivors ask how many more must die before the world acts. But with each passing day, the answer becomes clearer: for those in power, Palestinian lives are not worth stopping a war.