The Death Count Trap: Why Tallying Victims Won't Stop Israel’s GenocideThe words 'killed', 'injured', 'maimed', and the like often lose a great part of their meaning when they are repeated so relentlessly. Take, for example, a headline like: "13 Palestinians Killed in Gaza, Others Wounded." A day earlier, 13 were killed, and the day before that, nine others were killed, and so on. As reports of Israel's daily harvest of Palestinian lives in Gaza multiply, journalists too often neglect to humanize those killed. This report was released on the same day that Gaza health authorities updated the official death toll to over 73,311 Palestinians.