Former Speaker of the House
The United States and other world powers as well as the United Nations have called for “de-escalation” of deadly confrontation between the Israeli military and Palestinian forces in a bid to avoid a “full-scale war” between the two nations.
As of this writing, there seemed to be no let-up in the exchanges of Israeli airstrikes and Hamas rocket bombardments which have killed and injured hundreds of people, including women and children, and destroyed properties on both sides.
Intensifying the predicament are the violent riots and bloody assaults between Arab and Jewish citizens in several cities in Israel.