Live blog: Gaza under attack

British MP George Galloway has announced that he will establish his own public enquiry into the BBC’s role in reporting the events of the past few weeks in Gaza.

The Bradford West MP, who called for more impartial standard of broadcasting on the conflict, accused the BBC of being very bias in favour of Israel.

His sentiment is shared by many in Britain, who were outraged when the BBC failed to report on the July 19, 2014 national demonstration which had been attended by tens of thousands of demonstrators.

Irish trade union Mandate has called on Irish food retailers to cease selling Israeli produce.

Mandate's petition, entitled ‘Stop Selling Israeli Produce’, has already attracted over 6,300 signatures since it was launched last Friday.

The petition follows a call from Mandate to more than 20 companies in Ireland asking management to “desist from trading, investment, or other commercial links with companies operating in providing services to, or sourcing goods from settlements in the region of Israel”.

A number of businesses around Ireland have publicly announced a boycott of Israeli goods.

Israeli forces shot and seriously injured a Palestinian child during clashes near Hebron on Sunday, medics said.

Hazim al-Shalalda, the directer of al-Mizan hospital, told Ma'an that 11-year-old Moheyeddin Salah Idriss was shot in the chest with a live bullet during the clashes.

The boy is currently in a coma and undergoing a complex medical procedure, al-Shalalda said.

Moheyeddin was shot during clashes near Kiryat Arba settlement east of Hebron, where protesters threw rocks and Israeli soldiers fired live bullets and tear gas at Palestinians.

An Israeli army spokeswoman said she was looking into the incident.

Noor Harazeen reports from Gaza about the severe shortages of fuel, electricity, medicine, food and water that continue to make life extremely difficult and continue to endanger Palestinian lives, despite the ceasefire. 

• Israel is ready to reenter Gaza if Hamas brakes the truce and is keeping its troops on the border. 
• It would be “a moral mistake,” not to act against fire from mosques, schools and residential areas. Such behaviour would represent “an enormous victory for terrorists everywhere.”
• "We have cooperated and are cooperating with PA. We’re prepared to see a role for them [in] the reconstruction Gaza, humanitarian aid, security questions. The ceasefire agreement was coordinated with them."
• "Hamas wants civilian casualties. They pretty much say so."  
• Likens Hamas to al-Qaeda and Boko Haram, and Islamic State. 
• Netanyahu thanks US Secretary of State John Kerry for his support, saying they continue to have good conversations. 
• Israel is building a system to detect and preventatively destroy tunnels, not unlike its current Iron Dome missile system. 

A speech by Ireland's Senator David Norris has become an internet sensation, being widely shared for Norris' blunt assessment that "Israel bombs first and weeps later." The senator also stresses that he is not anti-Israeli but that over the last 40 years he has seen the country morph from a liberal regime into an extreme right-wing regime 

Israel is "behaving in the most criminal fashion and defying the world and unscrupulously using the holocaust to justify what it is doing and it is time that rag was thrown away from them," he said. 

Leadeing Haaretz columnist, Anshel Pfeffer has published an article saying that the reignation of UK's Sayeeda Warsi would not lead the UK to change its policy but that it was a "bad sign". 

"The resignation of the senior foreign office minister illustrates how divisive Israel is now in the UK," Pfeffer said. "And the conflict's detrimental influence on Jewish-Muslim relations in Britain.

"But while her departure will probably have no effect on British policy, which has been largely supportive of Israel in recent weeks, it does reflect how divisive support for Israel has become in the British public sphere. It will also stoke the debate on whether Israel should face war crimes charges in the International Criminal Court."

In an interview with Australian media, Sabri Saydam, a PA advisor, speaks about how the Palestinian people have been further united by the crisis, with the various Palestinian factions now providing a unified front. 

Anadolu Agency photographers capture powerful images of the clear up gathering pace. 

The United Nations is ready to help rebuild Gaza but for the last time, UN chief Ban Ki-moon warned on Wednesday.

"The senseless cycle of suffering in Gaza and the West Bank, as well as in Israel, must end," he told a special meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. 

"Do we have to continue like this - build, destroy, and build and destroy? We will build again but this must be the last time -- to rebuild. This must stop now."