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Gaza genocide: How Israel made horror a ritual of daily life

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Gaza genocide: How Israel made horror a ritual of daily life Submitted by Hossam Shaker on Fri, 08/14/2026 - 12:37 The buzzing of drones, the hunt for water, the crumbling teeth and the worn sandals reveal what casualty figures cannot convey about Israel's ongoing slaughter Children fetch drinking water at the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on 28 April 2026, as most of Gaza's 2.4 million people remain displaced, many of them repeatedly (Eyad Baba/AFP) Off Life under genocide has its familiar daily rituals. A discerning eye detects latent horrors in the scenes that unfold in succession across screens. Elsewhere, the scene itself disappears beneath rubble, entombing the bodies of thousands of Palestinians whose breath was cut off below, while their families remain unable to retrieve them. In the Gaza Strip, modern brutality has made its terrible presence felt through atrocity after atrocity, in full view of the entire world. These horrors were caused not by a natural disas