The Los Angeles Times’ editorial board has said “it is time for a ceasefire” in Israel’s military offence against Gaza.

In an editorial, it stated, “It is time for the Biden administration to assert strong and sustained pressure on the government of Benjamin Netanyahu to stop attacks that have reportedly already killed more than 11,000 Gazans.”

Terming Israel’s operation as “decidedly non-surgical”, the LA Times emphasised that when the “so-called humanitarian pauses in the bombardment and ground operations are too brief to realistically permit innocents to flee […] such pauses are “so deficient as to be meaningless”.

The publication highlighted that the displaced people who moved to the south from northern Gaza Strip are now “trapped” as they can neither enter Egypt nor Israel.

“Remaining mindful of America’s mistakes, it is incumbent upon the Biden administration now to avoid complicity with Israel’s. We are past the time to excuse the horror in Gaza.”