A timely article by Simon Jenkins from yesterday's Guardian Indiscriminate slaughter from the air is a barbarism that must be abolished

...The tragedy in Gaza surely marks the time when the world declares air-launched bombs and long-distance shells to be illegal under the 1983 Geneva convention. They should be on a par with chemical munitions, white phosphorous, cluster bombs and delayed-action land mines. They pose a threat to non-combatants that should be intolerable even in the miserable context of war...

I am puzzled by the fact that there can be people who recognise the criminality of Hamas use of its rockets, but don't see the far more lethal Israeli use of their air-launched bombs and shells as equally criminal.