For the 612th day in a row, Gaza remains under a brutal assault, its skies filled with the drone of warplanes and its streets stained with the blood of the starving. What the Israeli military calls a “war on terror” has become, for Palestinians, a war on existence, one that targets the hungry, the displaced, and the defenceless.

In central Gaza, 28 civilians were rushed to Al-Awda Hospital on Monday morning, wounded after Israeli aircraft struck those gathered near a supposed aid distribution point at the Nuseirat checkpoint. A day earlier, 13 more lives were taken in Rafah, where families had queued for food at a centre set up with American involvement. Instead of hope, they were met with bullets.

Bombardments continued across the Strip: airstrikes in Jabalia, artillery shells raining over Gaza City’s eastern quarters, missiles pounding Khan Younis. Nowhere is safe. Not even refugee camps. Not even hospitals.

With over 54,000 Palestinians killed and more than 126,000 wounded since October, the numbers no longer shock, they haunt. And yet, hospitals are now warning of imminent collapse as fuel supplies dwindle, threatening the lives of thousands who have already survived the unimaginable. This is not a war. It is the methodical unravelling of a people. And the world watches, in silence.