israel has a fucking history of bombing civilian targets for the sake of bombing civilian targets, and have admitted to doing it, calling it the dahiya doctrine or "mowing the grass", the idea being that it would make the people turn against the anti-zionist militants (but of course it has the opposite effect, as terror bombing usually has). the difference this time is that it is on a much more massive scaling, it is one of the most destructive bombing campaigns in human history and the most destructive bombing campaign this century. so far more than 60% of gaza has been turned into rubble, claiming that all these buildings were legitimate military targets, because apparently there's a hamas militant under every stone, is to say the least ridiculous. you certainly cannot claim that they have gone "to extreme length to avoid civilian casuaties" either, the fucking evacuation orders they have given out have often come too late or not at all, and when entire neighbourhoods are to be evacuated the supposed safe zones that they are to go to are also being bombed. and that's just the bombing of civilian infrastructure. there has also been numerous testimonies of the idf targeting civilians directly, and of course the idf has severely limited the ability of ngos to bring food, water, medicine, and other neccessities into gaza to the point that they are facing a famine.
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