According to the Independent today, "The massive destruction in Gaza is no accident," writes Ben Lynfield.
And Israel's Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni, kindly explains why 0ver 900 Palestinians have been killed in the last two weeks, including 325 children.
She said yesterday that Israel was deliberately "going wild" in its use of military force in order to restore its deterrence capability.
"We have proven to Hamas that we have changed the equation. Israel is not a country upon which you fire missiles and it does not respond. It is a country that when you fire on its citizens it responds by going wild – and this is a good thing."
'Going wild' is one way to describe what others such as Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights here, here and here , the International Red Cross, Amnesty International, Al Haq, Human Rights Watch, War on Want and B'Tselem, are describing as 'reckless' 'disproportionate' and 'indiscriminate'.
The shelling of residential areas, the failure to protect the civilian population, the use of Palestinian families as human shields, impeding as well as the targetting of medical personnel, politicians and police officers, constitute grave breaches of the 4th Geneva Convention, that is, War Crimes.
Yesterday, David Miliband, the British Foreign Secretary, added his voice to the growing call for an international war crimes investigation.
