re: #14 darthstar

It’s maddening to see these terms thrown around with reckless abandon.

A lot of things may be happening.

This much is certain. Civilians are dying in Gaza. Some from direct and indirect acts by Israel. Some from direct and indirect acts by Hamas.

Israel has a responsibility to minimize casualties while undertaking its sovereign right to defend itself from attack. Depending on whose figures you use (wiki has three sets - the Gaza Health Ministry, UN, and IDF), Israel is either doing a tremendous job of limiting civilian casualties, or it’s purposefully targeting civilians and firing on civilians with reckless abandon.

The truth - as always - isn’t so clear. The IDF has acknowledged incidents where they did kill civilians by accident (several kids on a beach last week), but they’ve also identified targets in close proximity to civilians and called off strikes. UNRWA, no friend of Israel, has found two schools were used as weapons depots by Hamas in contra of UNRWA rules and backs IDF contentions that Hamas is using UN and civilian facilities as bases of operation for attacks against Israel.