The war in the Gaza Strip is going from bad to worse with people mostly children and infants dying in large numbers. At the last official count it was said that 13,000 had died.
No nation was trying to rein in Israel from continuing with the indiscriminate killings. There is a limit to retaliation and killing innocent helpless civilian people is downright callous and barbaric.
For some 200 odd hostages that Hamas took the extent of retaliation is definitely not proportionate but exceeding all norms. Israel has been taking advantage of its close contacts with the West whose support is assured to them in continuing this carnage.
A temporary ceasefire was declared and some of the hostages taken by Hamas were released in exchange for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. This was a good sign and one had hoped that it augured well for a cessation of the current hostilities.
The only way to end the crisis in the Gaza Strip is to stop the current fighting and declare a ceasefire, unilateral if required by Israel. The killing has to stop.
