Saleh al-Arouri, the deputy head of Hamas’ politburo, was killed in a strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut. Two Qassam Brigades commanders and three Hamas cadres were also killed in the blast. The assassinations attributed to Israel crossed a red line set by Hizballah’s Hasan Nasrallah months earlier.

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In 2014, three of Muhammad al-Salak’s children were killed by Israeli shelling in Shujaiya, east of Gaza City, and the father lost his right leg due to his injuries. Days after his wife was shot dead by troops, Muhammad was killed at the age of 48 in the current war, according to his friend Muhammad Abu Bayd, interviewed by Ruwaida Amer for The Electronic Intifada.

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Sura Sufyan Mousa gave birth to her son in Rafah, southern Gaza, after being displaced from her home where she left behind a new wardrobe for the baby. During labor, “I felt the weight of death all around me as I saw women giving birth without anesthesia,” she recalls.

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Israel has killed 50 people in my Gaza village writes Nawal Soleman Akel, currently in Belgium. Among them are Wissam, who leaves behind a twin; young father Muhammad Abu Latifa; Hamam Abu Taima, whose charred body was identified by the keychain in his pocket; and Rani Muammar, the village doctor, killed along with his wife and their four children.

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Ethnic cleansing is Israel’s real war aim in Gaza, and the logical outcome of Israeli policies over many decades. That outcome is not guaranteed, writes The Electronic Intifada’s Omar Karmi, and international pressure is growing along with regional tensions, suggesting Israel is running out of time.

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