Only Israel can end war

"HAMAS... started this conflict with their brutal attack on Israel", writes Alan Carter about the current genocide taking place in Gaza (Letters, August 1).

- Tony Bennett, Ashington

But Hamas didn’t start the conflict; it began many decades earlier, when Israeli forces occupied Palestine. The Palestinian people became refugees in their own land. They have lived in an open prison, denied their right to self-determination, robbed of their dignity, their freedom, and all too often their lives.