Israel intensifies its assault on southern Gaza, causing renewed concern about civilian deaths

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3. By this time, with over 15,000 Palestinians killed, no one should believe that Israel plans to protect civilians.

By using the biggest bombs, they are maximizing civilian death and infrastructure destruction. Israel claims that it is targeting only military facilities, but Hamas has no military bases. They have tunnels under much of Gaza. In an area as small as Gaza, there are no military targets. There are only spaces where civilians reside, and these are the spaces Israel is bombing. To root out Hamas without killing as many civilians as possible, the IDF needs to go into the tunnels, but that would mean possible deaths of their own soldiers. So far, Israel just prefers to kill all Palestinians, hoping a few Hamas fighters also get killed in the process.