A National Funeral in a World Accustomed to Genocide

Nearly a thousand days after the bombing of a residential block in Gaza's al-Sabra neighborhood on November 22, 2023, civil defense announced a toll of 308 victims, including 44 children and 37 women, with only 112 remains found. The article argues that the world has normalized genocide and that the international system failed to prevent the crime despite knowing about it.

Nearly a thousand days after the bombing of an entire residential block in the al-Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City on November 22, 2023, civil defense announced the massacre's toll at 308 victims, including 44 children under sixteen, 37 women, and more than ten people with disabilities. The teams found only the remains of 112 of them, while the rest remained missing under the rubble. Search operations began on July 14, 2026 and continued until August 1. The article argues that this delayed funeral carries the memory of an entire city, and that the world has learned to coexist with genocide, as tragedy has shifted from an event demanding action to consumable content. It criticizes the international system that spoke of protecting civilians but failed to prevent the crime, considering that law has become a description of crime after it occurs, not a tool to prevent it. It concludes that the world no longer waits for the end of genocide to judge itself, but has begun to normalize it.