Irish Examiner view: World must intervene in Israel and Palestine

Israel’s response will justifiably earn rebuke from people around the world and the celebration of Hamas’s initial barbarism on streets around the world should earn the same hostility

A rescuer pulls the dead body of a little girl from the rubble after Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City on Monday, one of the latest acts in 'this vicious circle of bloodshed, hatred, and polarisation' as UN Secretary General António Guterres, described the conflict. Picture: Belal Khaled/Anadolu/Getty

United Nations Secretary General António Guterres will have known his appeal last night to “end this vicious circle of bloodshed, hatred, and polarisation” between Israel and Palestine would fall on deaf ears.

Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu had earlier said it was “just getting started” as hundreds of innocent Palestinians died in its attacks, launched in retaliation for Hamas’s execution of hundreds of civilians at the weekend.