Over the course of the last several weeks, I’ve been compiling war data to take stock of the past year and observe how conflict has coincided with and shaped the experiences covered in our end of year issue. Included in this compilation of data is a month-by-month list of all casualties and injuries in both Palestine and Lebanon, as well as Israeli casualties from the terrorist revolts on October 7th, 2023. Watching a spreadsheet of human numbers rise month by month and then grow to include massacres of children (well over 13,000 in Gaza, over 170 in the West Bank, and at least 240 in Lebanon), and children who have lost one or more parents (over 35,000 in Gaza) is an experience that renders global commitments to human rights and international law to nothing more than smoke and mirrors. As I sifted through media reports to draw up a timeline
