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In reply to the discussion: 13,000 dead children in Gaza [View all]SunSeeker
(51,777 posts)Hamas specifically targeted civilians on October 7. That is a huge difference from what the IDF is doing. Hamas did not give the civilians any warning. They did not give them a date when the killing would commence. They just went in and sadistically raped and killed civilian men, women and children. Hamas is a terrorist organization.
Of course the IDF knows that civilians may be killed when they target Hamas. That is why the IDF gave the civilians warning and time to move out of Northern Gaza. But Hamas keeps using civilians as human shields and hides among civilians in hospitals and refugee camps.
Just like we knew civilians could likely die when we targeted terrorists in Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq, we could not simply abandon our mission to take out those terrorists who were plotting American deaths. Those civilian deaths are on the terrorists who hide among civilians.
And it was Hamas who started this war, fully knowing it would "martyr" Gazans.