The lesson of Israel’s unfathomably cruel war: ours is still a world where might is right

All the protests and outcry and condemnations from international organisations count for nothing if where we have ended up is a place where Palestinian children now carry their injured siblings for hours

Father of Palestinian youth Shaaban Ahmed Al-Dalu, who was burnt to death, along with his mother, in the fire that broke out as a result of the drone strike by Israel on the tents of displaced Palestinians in the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital compound in Deir al-Balah city, Gaza, on October 16. Picture: Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images

More than a year into Israel’s war in Gaza, it is hard to talk of “escalation”. 

Because to isolate single moments of military escalation, such as Israel’s attack on Iran on Saturday, seems to suggest that otherwise, what is taking place in Gaza is normal or acceptable.