Chris Sidoti, a former human rights commissioner and one of Australia’s most experienced international legal experts, told the National Press Club the Palestinians in Gaza ‘have no means of escape’. ‘The Israeli authorities since the first day have been pursuing an operation of total destruction,’ Sidoti said. ‘And the fact that you’ve got 2 million people squeezed into an area half the size of Canberra who cannot get away from saturation bombing, starvation, denials of medicines and medical equ