29 Measures

There are 29 days in February this year. The GBU-28 missile, classified as a laser-guided bunker-buster, is manufactured in upstate New York. No fewer than 27 Palestinians were killed by Israeli airstrikes at the Abu Hussein school, in Jabaliya refugee camp on November 23rd 2023. The death toll in Gaza as of two days ago topped 26 thousand. At 25 miles long, Gaza is about as wide as the city of Atlanta. Manufactured by Russia, the 9K38 Igla surface-to-air missile weighs roughly 24 pounds. In three days, Ahed Tamimi will be 23 years old. Israel’s attack on the Gaza Strip during Operation Cast Lead lasted 22 days. The RQ-21 Blackjack surveillance plane receives some of its parts and guidance technology from Elbit Systems. Hisham Awartani, Kinnan Abdalhamid and Tahseen Ali Ahmad had so far seen 20 years of life before they were shot in Burlington, Vermont. The funeral procession for 19-year-old Labib Dumaidi happened on October 6th. Inhabitants of Beit Sahour hid 18 cows during the 1980s because the cows and the collective who cared for them were considered a national security threat. On Dec 1 2023 the United States sent bunker buster missiles to Israel mainly on C-17 military cargo planes. Gaza has been under a blockade for 16 years. The walk from Gaza City to Khan Younis is roughly 15 miles. It was easy to see the lioness in then-14-year-old Ahed Tamimi, resisting that soldier such that she seemed ten feet taller. After Israel killed his mother and abducted his father, 13-year-old Mohammad Al-Yazji takes care of his seven siblings—the youngest of them barely six months old. 12 months in a year and not one of them should see this much death. On average, Israel kills 11 Palestinians every hour. Mohammad Ibrahim Fahed Bahloul, 10, was shot in the chest by an Israeli soldier on November 23. Due to its so-called inexpensiveness, the AIM-9 Sidewinder missile is used by 48 countries. At least 8 types of olives are harvested in Palestine. October 7 was not the beginning but the beginning of something else. Iris haynei, the national flower of Palestine, has 6 petals. 5 fruits that are more than fruit to Palestine: watermelon, strawberries, oranges, olives, eggplants. The deathly inconvenient lie: believing there are only 4 regions. Given they last upwards of thirty years, 3 generations of Palestinians have seen the devastation of apartheid. Between 2 bodies of water—a river and a sea—is an ocean full of futures. Only 1 outcome will suffice: a free Palestine.