A month of war between Israel and Hamas has left more than 11,000 dead – almost 10,000 in Gaza – and 241 hostages. The attacks, far from stopping or complying with humanitarian pauses for the evacuation of civilians, are intensifying.

Thousands of Israeli soldiers are already advancing on land into the Strip, while the population suffers an unprecedented catastrophe. In this conflict, even the refugee camps, the UN centersthe hospitals suffer the impact of bombs Israelis.

A month ago, Israel woke up to the worst tragedy in its 75-year history. A month ago, also, the bloodiest month of the lives of the 2.3 million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip.

Since October 7, when militants from the Islamist group Hamas They massacred more than 1,400 Israelis -mostly civilians- andthey took more than 240 hostagesthe region lives immersed in a nightmare whose magnitude cannot be measured in numbers.

The conflict leaves more than 9,700 Palestinians dead in Gaza, including 4,000 children. Almost 25,000 injured, added to the more than 5,000 in Israel. And nearly one and a half million internally displaced people in the Strip and 200,000 in Israel.

Are unprecedented numbers, but they do not express what the mass graves full of corpses in the Strip and the containers with the bodies of mutilated civilians that rot while Israeli forensic experts are still trying to identify them do convey.

To destroy Hamas and take control of Gaza, Israel has not only fiercely bombed the enclave for 31 days straight but has also introduced a significant number of troopswho in less than ten days have managed to surround the strategic city of Gaza and divide the Strip between north and south.

The conflict crosses the border

The violence in Gaza has spread to other fronts, mainly the border between Israel and Lebanonwhere more than 80 people have died in the last month as a result of the most serious exchanges of fire since the war with the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah in 2006.

Added to this are a series of attacks on Israel from Yemen and a significant increase inviolence in occupied West Bankwhich was already experiencing its bloodiest year since the Second Intifada (2000-2005) and where more than 150 Palestinians and two Israelis have died since October 7.