This is Sure to Help Matters

There are no legitimate excuses for the use of suicide bombers to kill and maim civilians. It is a breach of every known law, agreement or treaty on the conduct of warfare.

That does not, however, excuse this:

Israeli forces blew up two large apartment blocks in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, making scores of Palestinians homeless after suicide bombers killed 16 people in Israel.

The army, carrying out its biggest Gaza incursion in weeks, said the operation in the Khan Younis refugee camp targeted twin five-storey buildings used by Palestinian militants for attacks on Israeli soldiers and settlers.

How can this possibly help the problem the Israelis and Palestinians are having? This could not even be considered something so stupid as "treating the symptoms rather than the cause." This is inflaming the cause and creating further symptoms. But with both sides led by doddering old fools, holding grudges and memories from decades ago, there seems little hope in the short-run for anything else.