Hamas terrorists use their civilian population (who, btw, elected them with full knowledge of their explicit genocidal aims) as human shields. More Palestinians than Israelis are killed. This is unsurprising. It's certainly no surprise to Hamas.

If the military balance were reversed and the Palestinians and their allies had the upper hand, not one Jew would be left alive between the Jordan and the Mediterranean. It's in the Hamas Charter.

Dave, London,

Not only did they kill a six-months-old baby my dear Lisa in Boston, MA/USA, the number is seventeen children dead in less than 24 hours!
This is a brutal attack by the inhuman IDF (Israel Defense Force), the professional army of the occupying force using the most sophisticated weapons including American presented fighter jets against civilians living anyway in poor refugees camps during the last 40 years after Israel caused them to become refugees, and against fighters who are armed with very simple hand made arms. IDF treats those fighters as an equal army, while they are only trying and sacrificing their lives to defend themselves in accordance with all international and human laws.

The result is one of the greatest mascaras of our time. Isn’t this a new holocaust? Shame on the civilized world to allow this.

saleh, amman, jordan

The Isrealis have just recruited another 100 terrorists

Charlie, Luton, UK

Why nobody writs how many children killed from Palestinian terrorists. How many people killed from the Palestinian terror?
And the air force attack is just response to over 50 rockets fired into Israeli territory in last few days.

C, Ghazzah, Palestine, Palestine

To the anti-Israelis:

Please stop and read the ENTIRE article. The IDF's attack was IN RESPONSE to over 50 ROCKETS fired into Israeli territory. In all fairness, the Israelis were defending themselves.

TO ALL YOU BRITS:
Palestine, Israel, and Transjordan (present Jordan) were placed under BRITISH MANDATE by the United Nations after WWI. Therefore I'd look to your past first before taking out your aggression on Israel.

KEEP IN MIND:

The PLO has endorsed terrorism in an effort to make their prescence known. I notice NONE OF YOU have commented on that fact.

C, Ghazzah, Palestine

Said it before and ill say it again... Isreal are commiting serious crimes against humanity for decades now and its getting out of control. Since they ever got support from the west they have been at war with countries much tougher than them. Now that the tides have turned because they now have UK & US help countries such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran and evan Iraq (Saddam) did not oppose Isreal.

I wonder how many innocent people have been killed by Isreal throughout the years? oh yes, there has been innocent Isrealli people killed and injured, but i think the Isreali people have now to decide wether or not their government are actually helping their situation or causing it to be more than its worth! Maybe its time for the Isreali people to have a government that is aimed towards peace? aimed towards targetting those militants and not the innocent women and children? and maybe its time we (the west) put the Isreali government up for war crimes? or discontinue our support?

Joseph Gibson, Stevenston, Scotland

"It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonialization or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands." -- Yoram Bar Porath, Yediot Aahronot, of 14 July 1972.

jayil, london, uk

I find the British and American posters that defend the IDF's murder of children on a regular basis, disgusting.


Israel has been if defiance of international law since 1967 but the international community never enforces the law. Yet will bomb other countries for the slightest reason.


Israel must be held accountable for it's defiance of international law and murder. The conditions in Gaza are comparable to the Cracow ghetto.

Israeli army generals are wanted for war crimes in the UK but our government treats the Israeli's as friends.

Palestinians have a right and duty to resist Israeli aggression, and the international community should cut ties with Israel and conduct no trade and exchange no intelligence.

Why did the fools ever allow the Jews to steal Palestine in 1946, they have a lot of blood on their hand. America and Britain are hypocrites that condone the theft of a nation and murder, yet we act so indignantly when people dare stand up to and resist us.

Justin Keeble, Ascot, England

They killed a six-month-old baby? That is a crime against God. That is heinous, there are no words to describe the injustice of innocent children dying in war.

Lisa, Boston, MA/USA

The world should unite politically against the Israilies. It is time to stop letting them get away with murder because of sympathy of events 2 generations ago.

len, london,

The ignorance of Yaseen is mindblowing and because of people like him , there can never be a peaceful solution. There has been no illegal land grab. The arabs attacked Israel and lost. 500 million arabs against under 1 million Jews ! What they could not win in war they now try to win with terrorism and propaganda lies.
GET REAL.

Tony, Edgware, MIdd.,

When Britain was at war over Northern Ireland

We didn't bomb the children of the Irish Republic !!

The Israelis are barbarians

billy, cardiff, wales

DOUBLE STANDARDS - Israel are sublime in creating the perception that they themselves are the innocent party. A couple of Israelis have been killed as a consequence of these rockets, thousands of Palestinians have died over the last year. Lets for once look at the situation from a helicopter view (no not an Israeli-american helicopter view), it is the Israelis who are commiting atrocities, illegally grabbing land and setting up settlements, commiting collective punishment, killing month old babies, wiping out poor and malnourished kids playing football, creating constant disruptions through numerous checkpoints, blocking electricity and clean water supplies. Are we to wonder why these "terrorists" are stupidly lauching rockets. For years Israel have made their lives hell and the world - or more specifically the West have to get Israel to make the first step possible by stopping their occupation. Now Isreali politicians are speaking of commiting a holocaust - they already are!!!

Yaseen B, London, UK

This article, which has no author or attributed source, suggests that Israeli soldiers entered after dark and killed four children playing in a field. I would have to say I doubt this.
We have seen how Hamas distorts the truth with photos of meetings held by candlelight in a powercut with the sun streaming through drawn curtains.
Reading the comments drawn from Hilton Gray, if this is another fabrication, look at the ramifications caused by the Times printing it. Has the source been checked? I wonder!
Why no mention of the murder by Quassam rocket of Roni Yechiah at Sapir College, Sderot to put the attacks into context?.

Adrian Korsner, London, UK

Cowardly Hamas and other groups have always used civilians to protect themselves. If they continue to fire and store their rockets amongst children and other innocents, they have noone but themselves to blame for the consequences.
No other country in the world would have exercised as much restraint as has Israel in the face of such attacks.
Any area from which the rockets are fired should be totally flattened no matter what.

Tony, Edgware, MIdd.,

The real enemies of the Palestinians are the Palestinians themselves. Their traditional tribal killing behaviour is out of context when trying to prey on a neighbour who has modern weaponery. On the infrequent occasions when they are persuaded to scale down the terrorist activities, retribution from Israel stops. The fact is that Islam requires conflict - peace for them is defeat -martyrdom is all. Humanity will not survive until this crazy death cult is eliminated.

Sean, Coventry, U

Ah so now who's threatening who with being “wiped off the map”! Seems to me the world doesn’t have to worry too much about the Iranian president, they should be more concerned with the bloody thirsty Israelis and their campaign of genocide against the Palestinians! This fool should be made to resign and then thrown in jail – threatening a holocaust is not something that should be tolerated by the civilised world!

Hilton Gray, London, UK

Then we wonder why the Palestinians fight back. To avenge the death of one Israeli by killing many more Palestinians, the Israeli government are digging a deeper hole for themselves.

Plus claiming that the majority of Palestinians killed are "militants"- well i don't know much of that I believe!

Seems like they throw their rockets aimlessly into Gaza and don't care who gets killed in the process because to the rest of the world the Israelis can easily turn around and say “well most people killed were militants".

When will the world stand up and take notice of such an injustice. We should be embarrassed of ourselves. Plus our govenment should realise that our silent and wiith America our unconditional support for Israel is a big factor in the increased terror threat in Britain.

Hannah Williams, Wickford,

Israel gave the Gaza to the Palestinians without preconditions. What do they then do ? They launch rocket attacks and even kill each other. They also destroyed the farms that were left intact rather than use them to support their own people.
When they destroyed the border with Egypt, this was nothing but a publicity stunt. The clothes the Egyptians had available for the Palestinians didn't fit because they were so fat and yet they would have the world believe there is a humanitarian crisis in Gaza. What rubbish - they seem to have run out of motorbikes, cigarettes, TV's and other such like essentials !
Peace will only come when the so called Palestinians of whatever clan unreservedly acknowledge Israel's right to exist in peace. They have no legal claim to any land held by the Israelis not only because they made war against Israel and lost but because it was Jordanian land or Egyptian land and before that Turkish, oh and previously Jewish way before the Arabs had any claim to it.

Tony, Edgware, MIdd.,

this is a disgrace, i was under the impression that weapons nowadays could hit a sixpense...so why are israel murdering innocent children? why is there no one in court for murder? how many isrealies have been killed over the last 2 years by militants and how many palestinians have been killed by israel missiles and soldiers?
Israel soldiers who kill innocent civilians should be in court charged with murder as should palestinians who do the same
im sorry to say i have no faith in israle or US policies as it seems they are to blame for most of the violence

peter cooper, manchester, UK

wow one Israeli death and the Israeli army lets loose. There's been what, about 30 Palestinian deaths since?

Makes me wonder who killed that 1 Israeli.

And just how many of those improvised rockets are falling into Israeli towns? I remember hundreds/ thousands being reported during single battles but there must be some serious grievance issues on the Palestinian side to make those many rockets.

Just how are they finding the supplies to make these rockets, I mean it's rocket science. The materials involved must be build to be able to travel dozens/hundreds of miles over the border. With/without explosive payload. There was even a threat by Hezbollah of Beirut to send rockets into Tel Aviv if downtown Beirut was attacked by Israel.

Peace will only be achieved if both Palestinians and Israelis decide to cease being either and emerge as a different society under one name.

Glen, north van,