Palestine, Oct. 3 -- On October 7, 2023, Hamas militants launched a horrific attack inside Israel, leaving 1,200 people dead and taking 251 people as hostages. In response, the Israeli military launched an all-out war on Gaza that has so far killed more than 66,000 people, wounded 168,000, and forcibly displaced most of the 2 million Palestinians living in the Strip.

Over the past two years, Israeli forces have systematically destroyed the conditions necessary for life in the Strip, attacking hospitals, striking residential areas, destroying vital civilian infrastructure, and choking off access to food, water, medicines, and other basic needs for survival. Famine has been declared in northern Gaza-a manufactured emergency created by the ...