Last night Israel managed to bomb three hospitals and the UN headquarters in Gaza. Three hospitals! That’s way beyond accident or incompetence and almost certainly means that Israel is deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure with no qualms about killing innocent civilians either.

Israel will, no doubt, harp on about how it has a right to defend itself from rocket attack, and that’s true, it does have that right. But it also has a responsibility, as a recognised state, to act in an appropriate manner, and most importantly, to obey the Geneva Conventions and not target civilians.

And no, it doesn’t matter what Hamas does, it can’t be used as justification for Israel’s behaviour. As Israel loves to point out, Hamas is a terrorist organisation and Palestine isn’t a state - therefore Hamas isn’t subject to the Geneva Conventions. It’s always claimed that ‘Hamas had fighters in the hospital’, or in whatever other buildings, such as schools, that Israel had just bombed, yet, even if that were true (and there’s plenty of evidence to suggest it’s usually not), it still doesn’t change the fact that someone on the Israeli side gave an order to attack, knowing full well that the majority of the casualties would be innocent civilians. I’m pretty sure that’s a war crime.

Pretty sad state of affairs.