A concrete mountain towers over the least populated state in America.
The layers of Heart Mountain are reversed: 350 million year old rock resting on rock less than 20% its age.

Seven years ago, 171,889 beating hearts existed in Rafah.

10,224 beating hearts live near the Heart Mountain. A place that’s safe for the few. 

In 1956, Israelis killed 111 Palestinians in Rafah.
In 1967, they burned 144 of their homes.

Since October, Israelis have killed more Palestinians than we can count. The death toll a mystery, like the layers of Heart Mountain, studied by geologists for over 100 years.

In 1942, the United States loaded thousands of beating hearts onto trains and brought them to Heart Mountain.
13,997 Japanese Americans held captive. The largest resistance brewed.

It took less than 100 years for an apology, but how many centuries will it take for healing to come?

Today, 1.4 million still-beating hearts are in Rafah. 250 of them stop beating a day. 

When you starve to death, your heart shrinks to less than half its original size
Or its walls can tear or bruise due to the blast of a bomb.
The sudden loss of a loved one can cause the heart to fall off beat, to pump blood less efficiently. The risk of heart attack increases 21 fold. 

Intense grief alters the heart so much that it causes broken heart syndrome. The same symptoms of a heart attack appear. But we have been trained to turn our hearts to stone. A concrete mountain towering over our country, our dollars siphoned to kill.