The UK Covid Inquiry may have been hogging the headlines this week, but our readers are still gravely concerned about the bloodshed in Gaza.

Earlier this week, a correspondent railed against the decision by the US and the UK to suspend funding to the principal UN aid agency in the region.

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Today, one of our readers poses a series of anguished, heartfelt questions about all that has been going on.

David J Crawford of Glasgow writes:

"When did it become acceptable behaviour to murder people in cold blood who at that moment in time pose no threat to you on the excuse that you believe them to belong to a “terrorist” organisation?

When did it become acceptable for members of an occupying army to dress as native civilians and murder patients in a hospital?

When did it become acceptable for innocent children to be blown to pieces or buried alive at a rate exceeding 3,000 a month on the feeble excuse that they are being used as human shields?

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When did it become acceptable to continuously bomb for months on end an area roughly twice the size of Dumfriesshire with a population density equivalent to central London and kill over 25,000 of its citizens, the overwhelming majority of whom were women and children?

When did it become acceptable for aid to be stopped to a UN relief organisation working in a besieged enclave on the strength of unsubstantiated claims made by the invading army that has already killed over 130 UN staff members in the very same state as well as a similar number of reporters?

When did it become acceptable for governments to ignore the overwhelming will of their citizens and to at best ignore or at worst condone this kind of behaviour?"