Four Palestinians died in an apartment block in Gaza City on the morning of 3 October, and by the next day the youngest had already been buried at St Porphyrius Church. The strike on a residential building in the Asala area killed five people in total, four of them women, two of them Christian, in what Gaza’s Health Ministry logged as another ordinary entry in a dataset the world has agreed to call a ceasefire. Fouad al-Najjar lost his mother and grandmother that morning. “The occupation doesn’t differentiate between a Christian and a Muslim,” he said at the funeral. “It targets Christians before Muslims in Gaza. All of us have lost martyrs.” A day later, a strike on a vehicle in Deir al-Balah killed one person and wounded ten more. On 7 October, the third anniversary of the day this war is dated from, an overnight strike near the Nova festival site killed at least two more, among them Mohamed Tamous, a civil defense volunteer whose job was supposed to be pulling other people’s bodies out, not becoming one.