The Irish Times view on Gaza: international community must push for fighting to end

Resumption of Israel's military assault on Gaza after the five day pause is rapidly creating a monumental humanitarian catastrophe for the civilian population there. This is an utterly unacceptable yet inevitable outcome of the objective to destroy Hamas's military and political ability to attack Israel again. The United Nations Secretary General's decision to invoke Article 99 of the UN treaty by calling an urgent meeting of the Security Council to discuss the emergency is fully justified. Regional Arab and other powers have a big role to play in the search for peace if a ceasefire is agreed. The main regional…