WEEP AFTER GAZA BLOODBATH
said: “Traditionally, we’ve tried to play a role of fireman in the Middle East. Now we’re playing the role of arsonist.”
The Palestinian Authority’s leaders condemned the “massacre” and top UN human rights official Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein tweeted: “Shocking killing of dozens, injury of hundreds by Israeli live fire in Gaza must stop now.
“The right to life must be respected. Those responsible for outrageous human rights violations must be held to account. The international community needs to ensure justice for victims.”
The Arab League called a crisis meeting to discuss the “illegal” US embassy shift and the 57-nation ISRAEL’S military massacring Palestinians, many of them believed to be unarmed, is an act of weakness.
Bloodshed on the border with Gaza, effectively a squalid open-air prison camp, leaves peace less likely. Fresh hatreds will be spawned by Palestinian deaths, including a baby killed by tear gas fumes.
This is a grotesquely unequal contest over territory by a nuclear-armed Israel with warplanes RUN Palestinians flee Israeli tear gas BY KEVIN MAGUIRE and tanks, against Palestinians with empty hands or stones, knives, kite bombs and limited rockets.
Israel defies international law by annexing East Jerusalem and colonising so much of the West Bank that the two-state solution increasingly looks impossible. Donald Trump’s transfer of the US Organisation of Islamic Cooperation called it an “attack on the historical, legal, natural and national rights of the Palestinian people”.
Five US congressmen have issued a statement condemning Israel. It held Trump’s “provocative decision” to relocate the US embassy responsible for emboldening Israeli reactions to the protesters.
But Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to justify the embassy to disputed Jerusalem delighted Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu but inflamed Palestinians.
Labour’s Emily Thornberry put Boris Johnson to shame by doing what the Foreign Secretary would not: Condemn Israel’s lethal lack of restraint and demand a UN inquiry.
The dispute can be resolved only by honest negotiation. Killing settles nothing. military action, saying: “Every country has an obligation to defend its borders.
“The Hamas terrorist organisation declare their intention to destroy Israel and send thousands to breach the border fence in order to achieve this goal.
“We will continue to act with determination to protect our sovereignty and our citizens.”
The US ambassador to the UN told an emergency Security Council meeting that ally Israel had acted with restraint in the face of provocation from Hamas.
Nikki Haley said: “No country in this chamber would act with more restraint than Israel has.
“In fact, the records of several countries here today suggest they would be much less restrained.”