The replies to this thread are absolutely disgusting, people asking for the blood of huge numbers of people in retaliation for these killings. I can tell you that to go through a trauma and have family members hurt or killed in war doesn't bring a person to want more bloodshed; exactly the opposite in fact.
There is something seriously wrong when a group of people who are supposed to be arbiters of peace, forebearance, forgiveness, kindness and loving those in opposition shout for the needless murder of innocents in retaliation for the killings of innocents.
These Israeli families suffered, as do the Palestinian families and all those who have lost sons, mothers, daughters, fathers, sisters and brothers, too. You people might call yourselves arbiters of justice but there is no justice in murdering innocents in retaliation for the murder of innocents.
There was no justice when over a million Iraqi and Afghan civilians died during this War on Terror after the attacks and there'll be no justice if however many Palestinians or Israelis die in this war. War begets war begets war begets war. It never ends if eye for eye mentality is allowed to prevail, and those who suffer most are those who don't want any part of it, while bureaucrats plot the destruction and murder of innocents and while soldiers in armies put their lives on the line, and while these Palestinian fighters fight back. Nobody wins when innocent people are being slaughtered.
There are no winners.
The Israelis are as bad as any other, and you shouldn't set them on a moral pedestal. America, the UK, Russia, the Afghan militia, the Taliban, the Israeli government, the Palestinian fighters, ETA, the IRA, the French army, NATO, the Iraqi military, whatever, all those who've contributed to war and the killing of innocent people are every bit as equal in that they kill and fight incessantly, spending lives for 'peace' when peace will never come by forcing it on people, or killing for a cause when the killing only strengthens opposition.
It's pointless, futile and horrible and you are like the mob with sticks cheering on the execution.
You've made me feel sick.