I don’t think anybody actively supports the killing of children, however, Israel can’t respond to the terrorist attacks without attacking Hamas. Hamas is well known for hiding weapons, militants, and supplies among the civilian population (whether they like it or not), the casualties on the Palestinian side was always expected to be high because of this. It was also expected that no matter how mildly or aggressively Israel responds, there will always be people who try to paint Hamas terrorists as the good guys (including justifying the terrorist attacks) and Israel as the bad guy.
There’s still a very big difference here. Hamas is killing civilians because they were the target. The intention was to commit massacres because their goal is genocide. Israel is killing civilian by accident because Hamas militants purposely endanger civilians to either protect themselves or increase the number of casualties. The intention here is to kill terrorists and the goal is wipe out Hamas. While killing civilians in either case is wrong as a matter of principle, the former is worse based on intentions alone.
I just want to say that any attacks on civilians, whether it be Hamas or the IDF, I don’t justify. While I agree that war inevitably brings about the deaths of civilians, Israel hasn’t exactly made it seem as if striking Gaza is purely to target Hamas. They’ve made their intentions on flattening the whole of Gaza clear and I’m not quite sure how cutting the water supply for 2million people could be a non-intentional act towards the whole population rather than opposed to only Hamas.
I don’t think anybody actively supports the killing of children, however, Israel can’t respond to the terrorist attacks without attacking Hamas. Hamas is well known for hiding weapons, militants, and supplies among the civilian population (whether they like it or not), the casualties on the Palestinian side was always expected to be high because of this. It was also expected that no matter how mildly or aggressively Israel responds, there will always be people who try to paint Hamas terrorists as the good guys (including justifying the terrorist attacks) and Israel as the bad guy.
There’s still a very big difference here. Hamas is killing civilians because they were the target. The intention was to commit massacres because their goal is genocide. Israel is killing civilian by accident because Hamas militants purposely endanger civilians to either protect themselves or increase the number of casualties. The intention here is to kill terrorists and the goal is wipe out Hamas. While killing civilians in either case is wrong as a matter of principle, the former is worse based on intentions alone.
I just want to say that any attacks on civilians, whether it be Hamas or the IDF, I don’t justify. While I agree that war inevitably brings about the deaths of civilians, Israel hasn’t exactly made it seem as if striking Gaza is purely to target Hamas. They’ve made their intentions on flattening the whole of Gaza clear and I’m not quite sure how cutting the water supply for 2million people could be a non-intentional act towards the whole population rather than opposed to only Hamas.