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Commentary: What does it feel like to be dehumanized? Just ask any Palestinian

For the past 11 weeks, we Palestinians have seen enough tragedies to fill several lifetimes. More than 20,000 of us in the Gaza Strip have been killed by Israel. An analysis found that’s proportionally higher than the average civilian death toll in conflicts from World War II till the 1990s. Two million Gazans are now displaced inside this narrow and impoverished piece of land — crammed into ...
A Palestinian girl stands over her mother, both wounded in an Israeli strike, at the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis on the southern Gaza Strip on Dec. 28, 2023, amid continuing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.

For the past 11 weeks, we Palestinians have seen enough tragedies to fill several lifetimes.

More than 20,000 of us in the Gaza Strip have been killed by Israel. An analysis found that’s proportionally higher than the average civilian death toll in conflicts from World War II till the 1990s. Two million Gazans are now displaced inside this narrow and impoverished piece of land — crammed into homes, schools or in tents on the rubble that once was our homes. The majority are on the verge of starvation.

The soaring numbers may no longer shock you. Your

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