If only I was Superman, I would intercept the shells before they kill the children of Gaza

While you are at being Superman why don't you stop the rockets going into Israel even now, or depose the murderers who are your governnent. Or take the fuel Hamas is hoarding for its rockets and give it to the hospitals who need it.

Did Hamas “knock on the door” of The Kibbutz they raided where they slaughtered the residents? Where they be headed babies, cutting the unborn child out of a woman‘s belly, throwing babies into ovens where they were burnt to death. Raping young women and then taking their bodies back to Gaza where they were paraded through the streets to be spat on by onlookers. Save your tears Mr. Phd. Rather rise up and overthrow the Hamas terrorists (Yes BBC, they actually ARE terrorists, despite your denial)

I liked Yuval Noah Harari's statement that it is exceedingly difficult for us to hold the idea that we can be both perpetrator and victim simultaneously. I shared his dismay at the silence of the global democracies in the face of the appalling assault Israel has mounted in response to the terror attack and I also share his belief that the barbarism of Hamas' attack was designed specifically to plunge a knife into the collective wound the Jewish people suffered in the holocaust. And the ghosts haunting Gaza are legion - they are the ghosts of the millions killed in the pogroms and the holocaust and the mass of spirits the decades of this conflict have claimed and are adding to daily. Do we imagine that these spirits are roaming the banks of the river and the streets of Jerusalem demanding revenge? I must believe that these are not revenants, they are the souls of all of those dead children and mothers and fathers and brothers and that they plead with the living to stop adding to their number even as we the living trade barbaric blow for barbaric blow. How many more voices must be added to that haunting chorus before we say enough?

If you were Superman would you also MAKE SURE that you protect the Children of Israel too from the RELENTLESS incoming indiscriminate rocket and mortar attacks aimed at civilians?? After all, Children are children regardless of ethnicity, or residence!

This is sad, unfortunate and unnecessary. Even while imploring our empathy, note the paradigm: "The official death toll will reach 10,000 very soon". The Israeli paradigm is measured in lives saved, not by how many deaths could very soon be reached.

Other commenters seem to think that the Earth was created on 7 October. I don't support the actions of Hamas, the governing coalition in Israel, or any other right-wing government/movement, but the fact remains that Israel as a state (not Jewish people in general) has created a breeding ground for terrorism through segregation, deprivation, collective punishment and ethnic cleansing, all of which have escalated in the recent past (before 7 October). Netanyahu supported the rise of Hamas in a cynical move to divide Palestinians (this according to the Times of Israel, not me), endangering civilians on both sides for the sake of territorial expansion. Can you excuse the decision of a person to behead a baby? No, but you can try to understand it, especially if they've been raised by a traumatised society in an open-air prison under theocratic rule, and forced to watch the gradual ethnic cleansing of their ancestral land to make room for foreign settlers. These conditions, and the continuing bombardment, are a gift to terrorist recruiters.

And the children of Ukraine.... And northern Africa... Has the world gone mad?

Perhaps Mr Eid should gave started praying many years ago to be Superman so that he could have intercepted all the rockets fired by Hamas into Israel killing innocent civilians... Hamas, the typical cowardly terrorists that they are are now not only using the various nationalities they captured as human shields but also innocent palestinian civilians as human shields as well! And trying to gain sympathy from the international community in stead of evacuating the aged, children and woman! Israel was not forewarned about the despicable Hamas attack on innocent civilians but the Palestinians are repeatedly warned to evacuate before they attack! Keep on praying if you like Mr. Eid, but rather get off your butt and rescue your beloved Palestinians who knew pretty well what Hamas has been doing under their noses for years now!!

To be informed read any one of these authors. Professors Ilan Pappe, Avi Shlaim, Noam Chomsky, and, Norman Finkelstein. Also the journalist Gideon Levy of Haaretz newspaper. If you don’t want read - go to UTube.

Mr. Haidar Eid. I notice that you call upon your God to stop the slaughter of children, women and men in Gaza. My I ask if you called upon your GOD to stop the killing of babies, women and men in Israel. I doubt this very much as the people you apparently support want the total destruction of the Jews. Is not the God of Islam also not the God of the Jews? So the killing of children, men and women of Ukraine by Russian shells and missiles seems not to bother you and your GOD. Is this because they are not of the Islamic faith. Are Jews and others not of your faith considered to suitable targets and so have a lower status on your radar. Please get objective. Children being killed is wrong irrespective of where they live. Perhaps you condone the fact that fanatical so-called fighters cut the throats of babies. Now you ask your GOD and Superman to stop the killing of your kin. It is so typical that those who support the likes of Russia, Iran, Cuba, Hamas and many other dictatorial fanatics of human rights abuses never appear too inclined to go and live under these regimes. The mention of the word "WAR" in Russia will get you a few years in prison but because you live in the free world you think that you have the right to spread your one sided BS. Even Christians are not permitted to carry a Bible or wear a small cross on the Temple Mount In Jerusalem. Why? Because your faith is not tolerant of any others. That is way the cutting of throats of babies is acceptable.