Medical evacuees from Gaza will now be allowed to go through the previously closed Rafah border crossing into Egypt. Ambulances and 150 hospitals are ready to treat the wounded, many of whom are now permanently disabled.

In this paper, I read about a mother, Rajaa Abu Mustafa, whose 17-year-old son, Mohamed, was shot and blinded in one eye while he tried to get food from aid trucks. He is one of 20,000 children and adults who desperately need expert medical care. Israel’s control of the crossing means that until now, it has decided who gets that care and who doesn’t.

At least they are alive. After years of denying the number of fatalities recorded by Hamas’s health ministry, last week, Israeli military chiefs now accept its figure of 72,000. The disappeared are presumed dead. But they are not yet counted.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his obliging Western allies have always discredited Palestinian sources. In October 2023, Joe Biden brazenly revealed his naked prejudice: “I’m sure innocents have been killed, and it’s the price of waging a war. But I........

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