A quick note to my readers: I’ll be on break this week from publishing and will return on Monday, February 24. In the meantime, please enjoy an article from the archive. Thank you for your daily readership!
Since the morning of October 7, 2023, the eyes of the world have been anxiously fixated on a sliver of land along the eastern Mediterranean Sea that spans 25 miles north-to-south and up to 7 miles east-to-west. Gaza is home to over two-million Palestinian Arabs in one of the most heavily fortified encampments on the planet. The surprise attack by the religious militant group Hamas on Israel that morning put the very worst of our humanity on full display. By day’s end, over 1,100 Israelis were dead. Men, women, and children had been horrifically murdered, brutalized, raped, burned, or dismembered. Additionally, an estimated 250 were taken hostage back into Gaza. One-hundred days later, many have yet to be released or found alive. It is difficult to comprehend the collective trauma of such an event that remains unresolved.
Matt Till 