We saw on Al Jaseera the brutality carried out in the square of the mosque, filmed by people there with their mobile phones.

There can be no excuse for that, wholesale brutalisation and terrorisation of unarmed people, mostly kids, attempting to attend their prayer.

The timing of it was interesting also, a leader accused of corruption by his own people, ordering an attack that he knew the only possible response could be rockets, giving the excuse for yet another war against the Palestinians, thus redeeming himself somewhat in the eyes of his people.

What they didn’t expect was the volume of media coverage, exposing their crime to the rest of the world.

Nelson Mandela was right, when he declared Palestine as Apartheid.

It was, and it is, and it appears to be progressing to genocide.