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From John Voelz

John Voelz has been a singer-songwriter for the past 20+ years performing and recording throughout the U.S. and Europe. Voelz is very much an artist one would classify as a renaissance man—visual artist, painter, poet and musician with a well rounded style of his own ranging from heartfelt acoustic ballads to hook-filled pop rock/Americana/Country and blues. Most of Voelz's music has a common strand of spiritual lyrics and even unapologetic acknowledgement that Voelz is a follower of Jesus, but many who are irreligious will also find an attraction to the themes of peace, hope, love, grace, forgiveness, struggle, and dreams for a better humanity and what it means to be human.6 a.m. and the sun was beginning to rise over the Mediterranean.

I checked the Twitter timelines of local Gaza accounts for information on the bombings and found that most were reporting on a strike on a four-story home owned by Abu Hussein Kallab, a businessman in Rafah whose factory had been destroyed in a separate strike. Over a dozen bodies had been extracted from the rubble, including a little girl who had survived with a mouth full of concrete shards. The ferocity of the airstrike was on par with the attack aimed at Deif, a massive concentration of force on a single home that suggested top-level targets were inside.

By late morning, I learned that the dead bodies extracted from the rubble included three top Qassam Brigades commanders who