Daily casualty reports from Gaza (over 73,000 killed according to local health authorities, including more than 21,000 children) risk desensitizing outside observers, reducing individual human tragedies to routine statistics.

The author stresses that every death represents real people and families, compounded by acute food insecurity affecting 1.4 million and the absence of any safe place in the territory.

Despite widespread knowledge of the ongoing violence, international inaction continues, leaving Palestinians with deep cynicism about justice and placing moral responsibility on those who merely track the numbers without meaningful response.

The words “killed,” “injured,” “maimed,” and the like often lose a great part of their meaning when they are repeated so relentlessly. Take, for example, this headline: “13 Palestinians killed in Gaza, others wounded.” Though many of us can still feel a deep sense of sadness over such a tragedy, the news itself becomes less shocking over time.According to figures produced by the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, Israel has killed or wounded more than 250,000 Palestinians since the start of the genocide in 2023. The tally is updated daily because the killing never stops. On July 23, six Palestinians were killed in Gaza. A day earlier, 13 were killed, and the day before that, nine others were killed, and so on.It is this “and so on” that makes us lose our sense, over time, of what these tragedies actually entail. These are innocent people who are burned alive in their tents, bombed in........

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