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\u201cWrite my name on my leg, Mama Once more we `discover\u2019 that `indiscriminate bombing\u2019, just like so-called stampedes<\/a> and so-called natural disasters<\/a>, is never indiscriminate. The bombs and missiles seek out children and women. This is the case in Gaza. On November 3, the World Health Organization reported<\/a>, \u201cAs of 3 November, according to Ministry of Health data, 2326 women and 3760 children have been killed in the Gaza strip, representing 67% of all casualties, while thousands more have been injured. This means that 420 children are killed or injured every day, some of them only a few months old.\u201d And this week, under the headline \u201cGaza Civilians, Under Israeli Barrage, Are Being Killed at Historic Pace\u201d, The New York Times<\/em><\/strong> reports<\/a>, \u201cPeople are being killed in Gaza more quickly, they say, than in even the deadliest moments of U.S.-led attacks in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, which were themselves widely criticized by human rights groups.\u201d \u00a0The article goes on to explain, \u201cIt is not just the scale of the strikes \u2014 Israel said it had engaged more than 15,000 targets before reaching a brief cease-fire in recent days. It is also the nature of the weaponry itself.\u201d Israel has chosen to use specific armaments that would cause the most damage and death. And who are the overwhelming majority of those killed and injured? Women and children. More women and children have been killed in the shortest period of time ever recorded.<\/p>\n As Neta C. Crawford, a University of Oxford professor and co-director of Brown University\u2019s Costs of War Project, noted<\/a>, \u201cThis is a scale of immiseration over such a short period of time that it\u2019s really difficult to comprehend.\u201d According to Marc Garlasco, a military adviser for the Dutch organization PAX and a former senior intelligence analyst at the Pentagon, to comprehend the devastation of, and the death toll among, women and children, one would \u201c\u201chave to go back to Vietnam, or the Second World War.\u201d We have gone back to Vietnam or the Second World War.<\/p>\n What else is there to say? Who will remember the ultimately uncounted, uncountable women and children? When the world `returns to normal\u2019 in the great promised `after the war ends\u2019? When the discussions turn to public policy and `reconstruction\u2019 and `national security\u2019, who will lift the stones and whisper or shriek or simply speak the names, the lives, the \u2026<\/p>\n Instead of conclusion, a poem, once more, from and by Paul Celan \u2026<\/p>\n
\nWhen the bomb hits our house
\nWhen the walls crush our skulls and bones
\nour legs will tell our story, how
\nthere was nowhere for us to run\u201d
\nZeina Azzam<\/a><\/p>\n