The dead body of a toddler is carried out of a bombed house. A woman weeps over a row of corpses wrapped in white. The latest casualties arrive in hospitals already overflowing with the wounded and displaced. A month into Israel’s brutal military assault on the besieged Gaza, Palestinians stuck inside the coastal enclave face daily suffering of a scale, intensity, and repetitiveness that have pushed some into fury and despair. “I swear we are waiting for death”, said Abu Jihad, a middle-aged resident of Khan Younis.
