Forty-eight hours after the bloody terrorist incursions orchestrated by Hamas against the population of Israel, some of the names of the more than 48 confirmed dead, hundreds of kidnapped, thousands injured and tens of thousands of evacuees or affected by the so-called Al-Aqsa Storm are beginning to be known.

Entire families who were in farming communities near the Gaza Strip; neighbors walking the surrounding streets or driving to work; young people enjoying a music festival for peace.

Police and military who were caught unprepared by missiles and pickup trucks packed with armed militiamen: a litmus of lives, most of them innocent civilians, have been broken forever.