Numbers can be dehumanising. However, when placed in their proper context, they help to illuminate wider issues and answer urgent questions, such as: Why is Occupied Palestine at the threshold of a major revolt? And why can Israel not crush Palestinian resistance, no matter how hard or violently it tries?
That’s when numbers become relevant. Since the start of this year, nearly 200 Palestinians have been killed in the Occupied West Bank and Gaza, among them 27 children.
If one is to imagine a heat map correlating the towns, villages and refugee camps of the Palestinian victims to the armed rebellion, one will
