The Irish Independent’s View: No ceasefire can be sustained amid all-out missile assaults on civilians

A wounded Palestinian child receives treatment following an Israeli strike on a house in Gaza City. Photo: Reuters

When the indiscriminate bombing that killed nearly 70,000 Palestinians, many of them children, ended with a ceasefire, the whole world brightened.

In Gaza, smiles broke out on faces that had been cast in despair after two years of carnage.

So the resumption of hostilities in a wave of Israeli strikes that left 104 Palestinians dead was a devastating blow to the nascent peace process.

Tel Aviv claims the attacks were retaliatory after the killing of an Israeli soldier. It said it struck “dozens of terror targets and terrorists” in response to violations by Hamas of the Do

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