My Cousin’s Cows Near the Gaza Strip Sixteen Months Later

In October 2023, I wrote about the Hamas attack on Avi’s kibbutz, Alumim. Fifteen months later, the war was still going on. “That’s coming from Jabalia,” Avi said, referring to a city of 172,00 in the northern Gaza Strip. As we watched plumes of smoke rising, he told the story of the past fifteen months, and what life is like now.