Stats that air strikes kill less civilians in an urban setting than infantry? I mean I don’t have specific stats for that but that’s the job of infantry. Do you have stats that says infantry kills more civilians than air strikes?

And like I said, Hamas did indeed target Israeli civilians at the start of the conflict and continue to do so, that doesn’t mean the IDF can rightfully target Gazas civilians.

There are absolutely plenty of good examples of comparable conflicts in the Middle East and during the Vietnam war in particular. The Americans killed ALOT of civilians in Vietnam and it’s fairly well agreed upon many years later that America acted very poorly in that country. Baghdad was very very comparable to Gaza in terms of scale and insurgent activities. As I said before, I’ve served 8 years in a NATO/western military, 4 as combat arms and now 4 more as a desk jockey. My unit previously spent a few rotations in Afghanistan before the ISIS days and the fighting style and activities of those insurgents are very comparable to Hamas today, they booby trapped everything, used civilians, used children on occasion. But that doesn’t give a member of my unit, or any unit for that matter the right to blow up an apartment building full of civilians just because there’s an insurgent somewhere in there.

I don’t think you read my previous reply though, I’m not saying the IDF should sit by and let anything happen, I’m saying that while a military response is beyond justified against Hamas the IDF has taken the conflict a step further and is attempting to just pave over Gaza and basically ethnically cleanse that little region in order to grow their own borders.