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They used a computer program to target hamas members based on signals and other intelligence inclusive of people who are not in any way combatants.

Bombs including and especially large not particularly sophisticated bombs were dropped on entire buildings preferentially at night to ensure the target would be likely to be home with their wife and family and you know any other families in the same building.

Previously such strikes with very large numbers of collateral damage were authorized to kill top members of Hamas. Now they were authorized to hopefully an 18 year old cook irrespective of the 7 children that would burn to death painfully in the fire.

They recovered around 150 hostages at the cost of 50,000 children being killed or injured.

https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/unimaginable-horrors-m...

Remember that Gaza isn't a democracy. Hamas is 50k people out of 2M of which the number of people that actually have decision making power would fit in a small room. Most people in Gaza aren't Hamas.

Israel is presently starving a large city full of people under the pretense of forcing them to leave knowing that can't do so. Starving people isn't morally different than herding them all into gas chambers.

If there is a place that needs immediate intervention it is using force to enforce peace in Gaza before all the remaining people in Gaza die.



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