Irish Examiner view: How did we let the situation in Gaza come to this?

we may never know how many bodies are buried under the rubble in Gaza 

Children play around waste in front of the closed UN agency for Palestinian refugees headquarters in Gaza City, on Monday.  Picture: Bashar Taleb/AFP/Getty

How did it come to this? To where the people of Gaza are no longer on the brink, but well beyond it and falling into the precipice? To where thousands of babies could die in days because vital aid has been kept away from them?

And yet even the most casual observer could have predicted this once the scale of the Israeli retaliation became apparent, and certainly after most of Gaza’s 2.3m people became displaced. Deaths are north of 53,000 confirmed but we may never know the full toll, or how many bodies are buried under the rubble.