In a new statement, JfJfP’s executive committee condemns the horrific bombardment of Gaza and says it must be ended “immediately and unconditionally” in line with Jewish values and international law. The British government should use all possible means to hold Israel to account.

When asked about the gulf between Palestinian and Israeli deaths – currently 176:0 – in a supposedly equal conflict, Israeli spokespersons say ‘this is because of Iron Dome’. Without their infallible and innovative system (buy it now) the casualties would be the same. Dr. Moti Shefer, Israeli Defence Prize winner, says Iron Dome is a sham. Far fewer rockets from Gaza are being fired than Israeli propaganda would have us believe.

Gaza has been kept under siege since 2007. Its coastal waters are constantly patrolled by the Israeli navy and its land borders are marked by a high, continuous barrier. All the crossing points with Egypt and Israel are closed all or some of the time. Gisha (the NGO for free movement) gives a crisp account of the resulting lacks and poverty in the strip.

Action to protect Israeli people from Hamas rockets – which is how the IDF presents its attack on Gaza – goes down well amongst many Israelis. But pro-peace and left-wing activists are keeping up their public protests in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv despite attacks from the nationalists who are gung-ho for the war.

If the relentless bombing of Gaza has achieved one thing it has been to make the persecution of Palestinians the international issue of our times. We post a few of the hundreds of photos taken this last week of people protesting about the Israeli attack. What is noticeable is how young many of them are.

On one side is the Prime Minister and his chums in Conservative Friends of Israel who are locked in embrace of Israeli military power; on the other is a growing crowd, in which Jews are prominent, who are appalled at the use of that military power against Palestinians whom they hold under siege while pounding them with bombs.

In a remorseless article Jeff Halper argues that the Israeli government was just waiting for a pretext to attack Gaza as a step towards finishing off any Palestinian ambition for statehood. It follows the failure of Kerry’s peace efforts – deliberately thwarted by Israel – and tells the Palestinians they are to be shut up for ever. Labor and the Zionist Left set the pattern. A single democratic state is the only good outcome.

What is our demand asks Raji Sourani, the respected director of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights? It is not extravagant, not unreasonable. It is for international law to be applied equally to Israelis and Palestinians. The international community has turned its back on the application of the law in favour of political compromise and that has led to despair.

The sober news agency, IRIN, reports that the last few weeks have severely damaged relations between Jews and Arabs who had previously managed to co-exist. For some in East Jerusalem, where settler youth have become more confrontational, something has forever changed.

As rockets whizzed and bombs exploded, Haaretz was holding its long-planned peace conference. Here is the full text of the speech made by Special Assistant Philip Gordon. He dextrously links Israel’s need to have secure borders with the need for Israel to define its borders and accept the Palestinian right to self-government in “an independent, sovereign and contiguous state”. Which begs many questions.

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The obituaries of Hamas as a fighting force had already been prepared. Even the Israelis believed they were a spent force – thus the ease of the threats, the insults and then the military attack. Shlomi Eldar explains their fight-back as a result of their fanaticism – or of the fact that neither Hamas nor Israel has anything left to lose.

As the number of casualties in Gaza needing emergency treatment rises every day so the resources to treat them shrink as medical facilities are damaged, equipment runs out of fuel and there are no drugs left. All non-urgent operations have been cancelled so that the wounded – more than 500 – can be treated – somehow. Physicians for Human Rights – Israel and WHO make urgent pleas. Plus Al Jazeera.

Had a boy been burned alive because of his ethnicity in any ‘civilised’ country in the world, it would have provoked a national outcry and soul-searching at such savagery. Not in Israel says Uri Avnery. Though some Israelis are perturbed at the displays of racism in their country, most appear to be indifferent or morally frozen.

The names of Palestinians killed by the IDF in Operation Protective Edge, revised and updated . The names of 121 people killed have been gathered by Al Akhbar to produce the list which +972 is also using. By Sunday July 13, over 140 people are known to have been killed.

J.J. Goldberg reveals the disquiet the IDF is expressing at the politicians’ drive to punish Hamas against its own better judgment. A report from Ynet, in which the IDF comments on Operation Protective Edge are muted and all the flamboyant aggression comes from right-wing politicians, backs this up.

Hamas may have few friends now that al-Sisi is in command of Egypt. But few are backing what appears as Israel’s revenge attack on Gaza – between 70 and 80 people, including 14 children, killed by Thursday – rather than self-defence against rockets which have caused some damage to property but not, so far, to people. How can Bibi extricate himself?

David Harris-Gershon has been nourished since childhood by the belief in Israel as a light unto nations, a haven for Jews whom all others wanted to exterminate. Learning about the expulsion of Arabs and the Occupation strained his progressive zionism – but the racism of young Israelis has so horrified him he doesn’t know what to believe.

Between July 2013 and June 12 2014 (before Operation Brother’s Keeper began) Israeli forces killed over sixty Palestinians. This sustained low-level, lethal war against Palestinians is Netanyahu’s choice says Larry Derfner but plays no part in his spin on the current assault on Gaza: unprovoked attacks from Hamas requiring Israel to defend itself.

Ten years ago the International Court of Justice ruled that the “construction of the wall … and its associated régime, are contrary to international law.” Israel’s argument of ‘self-defence’ does not justify the wall. Despite the clarity of this ruling, States have not fulfilled their obligations to act on it. Stop the Wall defines what they, and other bodies, should do.