4 Must-Watch Documentaries On The War In Gaza

The situation in the Gaza Strip could not be more dire.

Over 41,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel during its 11-month military operation in Gaza, according to Palestinian health authorities. After 25 years, polio is back in the Strip, and the Israeli military continues to kill aid workers, health workers and journalists. Hunger is so widespread amid Israeli aid restrictions that at a July blood drive at a Gaza Health Ministry site supported by Doctors Without Borders, one in 10 would-be donors “were unfit to donate due to anemia or malnutrition,” the aid group said.

On top of the roughly 1,200 people killed in Israel by Hamas’ armed wing and other Palestinian militants on Oct. 7, 2023, dozens of hostages taken into Gaza by those groups have died, at the hands of either their captors orIsraeli soldiers. Of around 250 hostages taken, only eight have been rescued via military mission, while 105 were freed in a prisoner exchange last year.

A cease-fire deal — despite being many hostages’ families’ top priority for months — does not appear likely in the short term, given Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s insistence on the “total” destruction of Hamas’ military and governing capabilities before the war ends.

Just recently, Israel also launched the largest military operation in years in the West Bank, the death toll of which is now approaching 700, according to United Nations officials. And Israel’s mass remote detonation of pagers, walkie-talkies and solar equipment in Lebanon this week — which killed several people, including children, and injured thousands more — heightened the risk of a broader regional war.

In less than a month, the conflict will reach its first anniversary. There have been numerous