A seriously injured Palestinian boy is rushed to hospital after Israeli shells hit Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip. Photograph: Khalil Hamra/AP
The killing of at least 19 Palestinians overnight in the Gaza Strip has triggered mixed reactions among the comments posted on the website of Israel's left-leaning Haaretz newspaper. Many, like Ralf, believe innocent people are inevitable casualties during war and that Palestinian militants provoked today's shelling.
Moise, however, thinks the Israeli soldiers responsible should be "judged and killed".
"As a Jew, I am really sorry for what happened.We do have a problem in Gaza. It's a fact.
But killing kids makes us worse than the terrorists themselves."
Israeli authorities have expressed regret about today's deaths and launched an investigation into the events. Yet Carl, blogging from Jerusalem as Israel Matzav, is claiming that the deaths could be the result of Palestinian militant error.
On International Solidarity Movement, this interview with a resident of Beit Hanoun offers a glimpse of life in a town besieged by tanks.
Blogger Terry Scott warns the newly empowered US Democrats that the continued support of "Arab Americans and people of conscience" depends not just on events in Iraq but also the two-state solution in Israel and Palestine.
