Lancet Political Letter

I recently became aware of a letter, An Open Letter for the People in Gaza, published in the British medical journal, Lancet, which denounced Israel in its recent conflict with Hamas. The main authors are members of anti-Israel organizations and did not disclose that fact in the article. The letter completely ignored the the guilt of Hamas in attacking Israel with rockets and tunnels into Israel for the purpose of killing Israelis as well as putting their own people in harms way for the political goals of Hamas. The building materials that they claim Israel has kept out of Gaza were used by Hamas to build terrorist tunnels for attacking Israel. The blockade of Gaza would not exist if Hamas were not stockpiling weapons to attack Israel. Unfortunately, collateral damages kill civilians in any war. What do they expect the Israeli people to do? Passively wait for the rockets and suicide bombers to kill them without a response?
A scientific journal should not be used as a one sided political platform. As a physician, I will be a little more skeptical of anything published in the Lancet.