ISRAEL’S Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the rest of the world that he would brook no interference in his armed forces’ murderous offensive in Gaza.

US President Barack Obama had indicated that Washington was willing to “facilitate a cessation of hostilities,” potentially along the lines of a 2012 cease-fire its diplomats had helped broker.

Top UN human rights official Navi Pillay voiced her alarm that Israel’s aerial bombing frenzy could violate international laws prohibiting the targeting of civilians.

She said today that she has “serious doubt about whether the Israeli strikes have been in accordance with international humanitarian law and international human rights law.”

Ms Pillay noted that “civilians are bearing the brunt of the conflict” and urged both sides to refrain from launching attacks or putting military weapons in densely-populated areas.

However Mr Netanyahu was unmoved by the reality that over 100 Palestinians have been killed while the rockets fired by Hamas and other Islamist groups from Gaza have yet to claim a single Israeli life.

He said that he had had “good conversations” with a number of world leaders in recent days, but the air strikes would continue until rocket fire out of Gaza stops.

“No international pressure will prevent us from acting with all power,” he declared.

“I will end it when our goals are realised and the overriding goal is to restore the peace and quiet.”

Mr Netanyahu boasted that Israel had attacked more than 1,000 targets in Gaza during its four-day operation and was using twice the force it used during its similar offensive in 2012.

His swaggering demeanour was clearly aimed at demonstrating to the Israeli people that he is no less bloodthirsty that his main government critic Avigdor Lieberman.

Israel’s chief of the general staff Lt Gen Benny Gantz said yesterday that Hamas was “sinking into its own disaster,” while Israel was deploying its military might “not without reasoning, not without thinking, not without taking into account there are civilians in Gaza.”

Israeli leaders are mulling whether to launch a ground assault in Gaza, which would escalate the civilian death toll, and has mobilised more than 30,000 reservists.