I’ve been in shock at the beginning of the week, and then in survivor mode for the rest of it, so only today did it hit me, the depth of the horrors and hopelessness of our situation. It’s Gaza. The place that neither Jordan nor Egypt nor the Palestinian Authority want, because it’s Gaza. And we’re about to go into it again. Nobody wants that here, but there are hostages involved, and the attacks from Gaza (all of them deliberately targeting civilian population) continue non-stop, so we’re going in. That will mean many more wounded and dead, hails of rockets on Israeli cities and villages, and Gaza itself. The place where foreign aid money was turned into ammunition, booby traps and a maze of underground tunnels, instead of for any kind of benefit to the Palestinian people. The place where Hamas is even now doing everything possible to use civilians as human shields and cannon fodder.

So far there were two rocket barrages today. And lest anyone think that they didn’t do massive damage because the Hamas are like Stormtroopers who can’t hit anything, it’s only because of Iron Dome that the casualties here aren’t 10 times or more the already staggering 1,400 they currently are. These attacks are deliberately only targeting civilians, and they too are terrorist attacks (much like the Blitz was). I wish words could convey what it feels like to experience one of them.

I still have a low grade fever, but hopefully it will go away tomorrow. As my hands didn’t shake today, I made up for yesterday’s sketch and sketched another sketch today.