Professor Avi Shlaim: "The Israeli response cannot, by any stretch of the imagination, be described as a measure of self defence. Look at the scale of the killing. That is not self defence. That is slaughter of civilians on an industrial scale"
Antรณnio Guterres: "it is important to also recognise the attack by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum. The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of occupation.. their people displaced & their homes demolished. Their hopes for a political solution.. have been vanishing"