What's happened tonight in Gaza is a game-changer in a very bad way. Biden will no longer be meeting the leaders of Jordan and the occupied West Bank as planned. He'd probably love to cancel his trip, but that would look like he was deserting Israel, so I guess he'll come and be lied to by Netanyahu and fail to look him in the eye to criticise him.

I suppose it's pointless to keep prattling on about the deliberate targeting of civilians and the war crime of collective punishment. There have been furious demonstrations tonight against Israel in several middle-eastern countries, and Iran/Hezbollah are upping their level of threat.

We don't know who did this tonight but some of the hasty explanations given by Israeli spokespeople don't hold water. That was a big bomb and it was very precisely targeted. Progress in the wrong direction...