BRITISH ministers risk being “judged as participants in a policy of cold-blooded mass murder” unless they drop the weasel words and stop facilitating Israel’s war, peace campaigners warned today.

Palestinians returning home described a “wasteland” in the central Gaza city of Khan Younis after Israeli troops withdrew following a 22-day operation.

And images of similar devastation flooded the internet from the occupied West Bank, where Israel has opened what is effectively a new front in the war in recent days.