Examining heavy damage done to 10 hospitals in Gaza, mostly done by Israeli bombardment.

Israel's "new" military approach to attacking southern Gaza is not all that different from the way it attacked northern Gaza.

Reportedly Israel is defying US pressure to avoid killing massive numbers of Palestinians in Gaza.

Israel's plans to attack HAMAS are based on the assumption that killing its leaders will destroy the organization.

This approach to a guerrilla organization with popular support basically never works.

HAMAS hopes that Israel will lose the war by being unable to wipe out HAMAS, while committing more and more atrocities. That could happen.

Israel would be wiser to refrain by choice from massacring Palestinians, based on recognizing the moral (and legal) obligation to do so.

*Extreme weather could [temporarily] shut down one in 12 hospitals worldwide, report warns.*

Two Tory ministers successively disregarded a court decision that foreigners who had been trafficked into the UK were entitled to stay there. Those ministers simply did not give them permission to stay.