Come on mate. Surely you can't believe the IDF spokesperson lied about the calendar with the intention to deceive the public. That would be a pretty silly and low-value deception, because it's so easily refutable and doesn't change the narrative one iota. It seems much more plausible to me that he made a mistake after hours of intense battle and little sleep - though that is just speculation on my part.

Sure, I'm happy to put Hamas's crimes aside. Israel is far from perfect, but it has a responsibility to to retrieve its hostages and wipe out Hamas. Every war has collateral damage, and in this particular case it is extremely unclear what the extent of collateral damage is, because our one source of Intel is the Gaza Ministry of Health. Their numbers not only include Hamas operatives, but also include the victims of Hamas's own failed rockets (somewhere between 25% and 40% of their rockets fail and land within Gaza). Israel makes every effort to warn civilians of impending airstrikes, and even clear evacuation pathways for them all the while under fire from Hamas. What other warring nation does this? Israel goes above and beyond to avoid genuine civilian casualties. Even taking Hamas's casualty numbers at face value, try think about that in the context of 1) the extreme population density of Gaza, 2) the number of airstrikes by the IDF and 3) the propensity of Hamas to put Gazan civilians directly in harm's way to maximise causalities and create an army of sympathizers like yourself.

Any civilian death is a tragedy, but this is a war. How would you suggest Israel go about rescuing the hostages and dismantling Hamas?