If those who speak of proportionality would follow the implications of their request to its logical conclusion, they would soon find out that it would have been better to stay silent. The only proportional response is to end the threat which Hamas represents for Israel’s citizens. Not to engage in the sort of mass murder that only monsters such as Hamas assassins could and did in fact commit.

The Israeli military said it had started an effort to transfer incubators to Shifa Hospital, which is also a command post for the Hamas terrorist organization.

For 38 days, Silver, who had moved to Israel in the 1970s and made her home in Kibbutz Be’eri, had been believed to be among the nearly 240 hostages held in the Gaza Strip. But identification of some of the most badly burned remains has gone slowly, and her family was notified of her death on Monday.

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