Gaza bombardment and slaughter continues

The last few days saw continued heavy bombardments of Gaza by Israeli forces - from the sea, air and on ground. There was no let up of Israeli attacks on the besieged brutalized people of the Gaza strip. Death toll of civilians continue to mount on the Palestinian side. To date, over 450 are counted as dead while the number of injured is over 2,500. The number of homes damaged and people made homeless is in the tens of thousands. As I type this, I'm watching a live camera feed of Gaza while it burns. I can hear the drones constantly buzzing and the ferocious shelling is heard in the distant. Plumes of dark smoke can be seen from countless roof tops of homes that have just been hit by artillery fire or missile attack. It's a very grim scene, the night before we saw intense fighting - and saw the IDF unleash a hellish bombing campaign on the civilian population that left countless dead - countless buried alive - countless of mangled bodies - mostly children and women - who had their heads blown right off. There is no rationale or justification for this brutal criminal attack by Israel. To say it's "disproportionate" is a crime of understatement in itself. This kind of brutal savage attack is criminal - a war crime against humanity that cries out to the heavens. Israel cannot claim it has "the right to defend itself" when it is an occupier and has maintained a intolerable suffocating siege on the people of Gaza and the West Bank. It cannot make that claim while Israel continues to steal land and build illegal settlements. It cannot make that claim while Israel continues to torment, brutalize and subjugate the natives. Had Israel allowed a Palestinian state to emerge consisting of territory pre 67 and then such a state would fire rockets into Israel, then and only then can Israel have the right to defend itself. It then has the right to do whatever it chooses to do to defend its citizens. It can bomb whomever inside the Palestinian state that is firing into Israel. In that situation, I would even support such action by Israel. To occupy and brutalize a people for over 40 years and then claim victim-hood when the prisoners get restless is a bit silly and no one should take Israeli claims seriously. They don't have the right to occupy and oppress other people in perpetuity. The longest modern day occupation has just gotten bloodier today for the natives.