More than 100 Palestinians have been killed as Israel intensified its bombardment of Gaza after a weekend of broken truces.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called for an immediate end to the violence in Gaza that has left more than 1,000 people dead and the area in a “critical condition”.
The UN’s top human rights official has warned that Israel may have committed war crimes during its ongoing military offensive in the Gaza Strip.
When the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, accused Hamas of using “telegenically dead Palestinians for their cause”, he overlooked an element of the conflict that could not be skewed for the viewing public: the damage to Gaza’s infrastructure.
Israeli forces have targeted 780 “Hamas targets” within Gaza since the beginning of Operation Defensive Edge, which has left at least 100 Palestinians dead and 675 people injured.