Bandaging the wounds you can’t see

Earlier Sunday, ToI’s Debra Kamin wrote a piece, headlined “How do you bandage the wounds you can’t see?” looking at the traumatic impact of the war.

Israelis in the Tel Aviv area take cover as a warning siren sounds, signaling an incoming rocket, Tuesday, July 8, 2014. (photo credit: Flash90)

“The Israeli government is still calling the events in Gaza an operation, but for the homefront, it long ago spiraled into a war,” she notes. “The bloody toll in Gaza is horrifying; the loss, destruction and fear sowed among Israeli civilians is shattering. Every day brings more stories of fallen soldiers, their lives snuffed out in an instant of fire and utter injustice. Among the sunflower groves and sheep pastures near the Gaza border, a shovel’s scratching sound twists its way into dreams; in the coffee shops and boutiques of Tel Aviv, pedestrians jump or freeze at the wailing, siren-like sound of each passing motorcycle. The citizens of Israel know that their bodies are protected by the Iron Dome and by a military determined to finish the job. But what about their minds?”

— Read the full piece here.