Via Ishaan Tharoor in washingtonpost.com: On Thursday, the Gaza Health Ministry announced that the enclave’s death toll amid the ongoing Israeli offensive against militant group Hamas had surpassed 40,000 people. That statistic is grim in its own right, though implicit in it, too, is the staggering scale of destruction in Gaza — the quantifiable damage unleashed by Israel’s relentless bombardments of the territory and the unquantifiable toll of misery and suffering experienced by a hungry population, struggling for safety in a Gaza where no area seems safe.
