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2022 was a moment of truth.

The year laid bare the political reality in Palestine from the river to the sea, dispelling any illusions that we may have had about the nature of “the conflict,” as it has been glibly called by the mainstream media. Two such illusions can be discarded immediately — for Palestinians, that the Palestinian Authority’s collaborationism can be maintained indefinitely, and for the Israeli state, that Zionism is anything other than a settler-colonial project that must constantly be at war with the Palestinian people.

Some of the Palestinians in Gaza killed during Israel's Operation Breaking Dawn.

During the three-day Israeli assault on Gaza between August 5 – 7, 2022, 49 Palestinians were killed, including 17 children. The Mondoweiss team identified every airstrike conducted by Israeli forces and undertook a project to memorialize the Palestinians who were killed, including interviewing many of their families. The following is a profile of each person killed during the Israeli offensive.

Relatives of five Palestinian children who were killed during an Israeli attack on Gaza hold placards next to their graves, in Jabalia in the northern of Gaza strip on August 16, 2022. (Photo: Ashraf Amra/APA Images)

Israel has admitted to conducting the airstrike that killed five Palestinian children in Gaza after initially blaming their deaths on a Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket. The strike targeted the al-Faluja cemetery in the town of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, and struck five children, four of whom were from the same family, while they were visiting the grave of their grandfather. The youngest victim of the strike was just three-years-old.