News of tragic casualties in Gaza became disturbingly routine during the genocide. Yet these losses, no matter how heart-wrenching, were reduced to a mere statistic – part of the more than 47,000 Palestinians killed by Israel since 7 October 2023. This jarring realization raises an urgent question: How have we, as fellow humans, allowed such massive loss of life to occur? Didn’t we say “never again?” At the core of this tragedy lies a simple but devastating concept: dehumanization. It’s the