Live blog: Gaza under attack

The Israeli daily Haaretz is reporting that the Secretary-General of the Lebanese movement Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, telephoned Hamas political chief Khaled Meshal and Islamic Jihad leader Ramadan Shalah and praised their resistance against Israel, adding that his organization was prepared to assist them in their struggle.

"Israel's current massacre in Gaza is premeditated, calculated and accurately executed to mete out severe pain on the 1.7 million Palestinians who live in that huge prison camp. That is not surprising, given Israel's record of state terrorism. 

"What is surprising is the failure of some otherwise conscientious citizens of the world to take any practical step to hold Israel to account and end its criminal impunity, particularly through widespread boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) initiatives. 

"All talk about 'both sides' is not just patently false and ill-conceived; it is downright immoral, as it equates the colonial and apartheid oppressor with the colonized and oppressed. To end all violence, the initial instance of violence by the oppressor and the consequent resistance of the oppressed, one must work to end oppression--the root cause of all violence. Thus BDS."

--Omar Barghouti, Palestinian human rights activist and co-founder of the BDS movement.

Shops were shut across the West Bank on Monday in protest at the ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip.

Streets appeared deserted all across the occupied Palestinian territory with banks, universities and official institutions closing their doors, according to Anadolu Agency reporter.

The strike comes one day after at least 110 Palestinians, including 72 in the residential area of Shejaiya in eastern Gaza City alone, were killed in Israeli air and artillery attacks, making it the deadliest day of the ongoing Israeli onslaught.

At least At least 509 Palestinians have been killed and more than 3,000 injured since the Israeli assault began on July 8.

The deadly Israeli offensive in Gaza has let loose an unprecedented wave of insults on media websites and social networks in France that moderators say they are struggling to contain.

The bombardment by land, sea and air that has killed at least 425 Palestinians has enflamed tensions far afield from the Middle East, especially in France with its large Muslim and Jewish communities.

"As soon as you talk about Israel, it crystallises all passions, with up to 20,000 or 30,000 comments sometimes after an article, of which we will only let five to 10 percent through," said David Corchia, head of Concileo, a firm of moderators that counts the dailies Le Figaro and Liberation as clients.

The moderators have little time to decide whether to let a remark through, and generally block 25 to 40 percent of comments.

But on the subject of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the rejection rate can reach 95 percent.

British Palestinian academic and political activist Azzam Tamimi tweeted that he thinks that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be needing a reputable mediator to negotiate a deal to release the captured Israeli solider by Hamas. The 'dictator of Egypt' (in reference to Egyptian President Abdul Fatah al-Sisi) will not do him any good, says Tamimi.

The Palestinian Ministry of interior is reporting that 506 peoples have been killed, and 3,150 others wounded in Gaza since the launch of the Israeli military onslaught on July 8.