Images of emaciated, skeletal children in Gaza landed on news outlets’ front pages last week. It seemed to shake some world leaders and ordinary citizens out of a stupor.
It’s a year and nine months since Israel began laying siege and raining devastation on Gaza, after the slaughter of Hamas’ 7 October terror attacks. After 21 months of bombing and civilian death tolls now reported in the tens of thousands, a new word has begun appearing ever more prominently in media coverage.
