Haaretz calls on Israel to end war in Gaza

Haaretz, Israel’s longest-running newspaper in print, called for an end to the war in Gaza in an editorial published on Wednesday.

“The incident in which seven people working for the international aid organisation World Central Kitchen...  cannot end with just a ‘comprehensive and transparent investigation’ by the Israel Defense Forces,” the editorial said.

“Nor is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s lukewarm apology – that ‘it happens in war; we are fully examining this. We are in contact with the governments, and we will do everything so that this thing does not happen again’ – sufficient.”

The editorial noted that WCK had been coordinating its movements with the Israeli military, which means the attack was “not a case of mistaken identity”.

Seven people working for WCK, among them people from Australia, Poland, Britain, and Palestine, were killed in an Israeli aerial attack in the Gaza city of Deir al-Balah.

“This week’s incident cannot be distanced from the ease with which the IDF kills Palestinians in Gaza,” the editorial said, adding that the hunger, destruction and the killing of aid workers signals that the war must come to an end.