Seven days of arithmetic became eight, and the newest entries are infrastructure. In Monday's wave, Israeli strikes hit a mosque, a water desalination plant and tents housing displaced families, killing at least seven people including two children, according to the day's reporting. [1]

The count carries names. A house strike in the Bureij refugee camp killed a four-year-old boy; in Khan Younis, another child died of gunshot wounds after Israeli forces fired on her. [1] At the mosque, Mohammed Abu Amra, 48, made the record plain: This mosque has been here since the day we were born... They are bombing our mosques where we pray. [1]

The pattern holds exactly as this paper documented it a week ago — Israel has announced strikes on six of the seven days since Jared Kushner's delegation traveled to Jerusalem to ask Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to draw down attacks, while Gaza's health ministry puts ceasefire-period deaths near 1,300. [2] The American request was delivered in private, which is how its suspension stays private too; nothing public records a single day the asking changed the flying.

A desalination plant does its dying slowly. Damaged water systems kill later — in contaminated taps, in clinics, in numbers no daily wire attributes back to the blast that opened the pipe. [1] Warehouses and water plants sit below the threshold of what strike announcements count, which is precisely why they get hit in ceasefires: nobody keeps a scoreboard for thirst.

Restraint requested privately was always going to expire quietly. The pipes are how Gaza keeps the receipt.

-- YOSEF STERN, Jerusalem