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The Hamas massacre fomented a trauma whose reverberations will be felt for decades to come. But the ensuing Israeli campaign of atrocities in Gaza destroyed the foundations on which the State of Israel was built

On Friday of last week, just as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu started his speech to the United Nations General Assembly, footage from Shifa Hospital in Gaza was posted on social media. A brother and sister, no more than 10 years old, sit on a bed. Both are injured and crying, covered in dust, with blood streaking red lines across their ashen faces.