No words can possibly encompass the unbridled grief facing all humanity today on news of multiple beheadings and live incineration of Jewish children at Kfar Aza(It’s not war, it’s a massacre, 12/10). Such tactics completely bankrupt the right of any pathetic, militaristic organisation to exist. However, Israel must avoid over-reaction, recognising those innocents cowering behind the Gaza barricades are not guilty by association. All women, children and elderly should be temporarily evacuated out of Gaza to the West Bank. Traumatised by recent events, Israel’s new unity government will surely demonstrate moral courage to the world by exercising mercy and compassion to the multitude of innocents before unleashing a tempered, calculated and due punishment on an entity which has proved itself alien to human values. Alan Sexton, North Parramatta. 13Oct2023.