Israel has murdered 2,000 children in the last 15 years. That is cowardly

Dr Kevin McCarthy, referring to the killing of Jewish settlers, Eiran and Naama Henkin, in the occupied West Bank on October 1, rightly states that there is nothing heroic about murdering parents in front of their children.

However, nor are the Israeli occupation forces heroic to murder Palestinian children and adults, an everyday practice that has escalated in recent weeks. In fact, since 2000 Israel has murdered 2,000 children (an average of one child every three days), including a schoolboy shot dead a few days ago.

As an Israeli-Jew who supports the Palestinians’ right to self-determination, I agree with Israeli journalist, Amira Hass, when she writes in Ha’aretz ( October 7) that Israel’s PM, Binyamin Netanyahu, is intensifying the war against the occupied Palestinians, in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, with orgies of collective punishment.