Editorial: The attack on a relief convoy, an assassination on diplomatic premises and a devastating hospital raid show Israel does not heed allies or critics
The attack on a relief convoy, an assassination on diplomatic premises and a devastating hospital raid show Israel does not heed allies or criticsven by the standards of a conflict that has killed almost 33,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and created the entirely human-made famine taking hold in Gaza, Israel has crossed multiple lines in just a couple of days.
Asking Israel to investigate these deaths, as the UK has done, is absurd given Israel’s history of obfuscation in such cases and avoidance of accountability. It is uncomfortable to dwell on foreign lives lost when thousands of Palestinian deaths have received little scrutiny, but the destruction of the relief system is killing many more. Aid ships have turned back in the wake of the attack.
In the face of growing unpopularity at home, with tens of thousands of Israelis joining the families of hostages to, Mr Netanyahu sees his best hope of survival as a forever war. Israel’s allies are increasingly reluctant to defend his actions, but they won’t stop them either.
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