The immorality of Israel's targeting in Gaza

Richard Irvine, the son of a decorated RUC officer, points to his family's experience of the Northern conflict as proof of the immorality and cynicism of Israel's stance on the bombing of Gaza.

As a child I remember the shotgun in the hallway and the revolver by my parents’ bed.

In the evenings only my father was allowed to answer the door, and the hall lay in a permanent dark while the porch was illuminated.  In the morning there would be checks under the car, my father bending down in all weathers to gaze for a device he was unlikely to recognise even if he did see it.