Today, the Gaza Strip witnessed another security incident after an Israeli special forces unit infiltrated Gaza City to arrest a Hamas security official. Regardless of the targeted individual's identity or political or organizational affiliation, a larger and more crucial question must be asked: What about the civilians?

Every time there is a military operation, clash, or bombardment, civilians pay the price. Children, women, and young people, who have no connection to what is happening, find themselves caught in the crossfire, amidst shelling, fear, and death.

We are not just talking about numbers… We are talking about mothers who have lost their sons, children who have lost their parents, and families forced once again to confront loss, displacement, and fear.

How long will this continue?

How long will we continue to die every day?

How long will we be displaced from one place to another?

How long will we bury our loved ones, then try to start over, only to have our tents and homes destroyed, forcing us to flee again?

We are human beings. We have names, memories, dreams, and families we love. We are not just numbers in news reports, and our lives are not worthless.

Three years of war, destruction, and displacement have trapped us in an endless cycle: we lose, we flee, we rebuild what we can, and then the bombing comes to destroy everything again.

How long will this go on? When will civilian lives in Gaza have value? When will this killing stop? And when will we finally be allowed to live like the rest of humanity?

SpaceX gets to purchase 440 acres from land owner as long as Brownsville de-annexes so they lose jurisdiction and can’t collect taxes on it which wouldn’t have even been that much for the richest man in the world. SpaceX forced them to vote on a Saturday without seeing the full contract with $220M dangled in front of them for water infrastructure, which in the end benefits the new “cyberport”/LNG/SpaceX anyways