A Shocking Milestone in the Israel-Gaza War

Is Gaza a "lost cause"?

One could say this about any number of weeks, but it seems as if, this week, we’ve reached yet another degree of intensity—despair—in the war in Gaza, and the war on Gaza. The 30,000 figure has been breached, in a relatively small Gazan population of 2.2 million. 30,000 dead. To run the calculations, and note that the Assad regime only got to this number after 18 months, seems like it both does, and doesn’t, capture the gravity of the moment. Palestinians are not just numbers. They are not just collateral damage. How do we do justice to what has been lost? I’m not sure.