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> 1. It has to happen in the same time as the agression

There are still rockets flying out of Gaza into Israel.

> 2. Its only purpose is to defend against the agression

The people sending those rockets are in Gaza, so to stop them, Israel has to go there.

> 3. The defense has to be proportionate

That one is regularly the most difficult point of contention in individual self-defense. Hamas essentially goes by this playbook: https://imgur.com/XX6HVrn

So, moving it back to individual self-defense (or coming to somebody's aid, which is covered by approximately the same rules): what should be done about the guy holding a loaded gun at his hostage's head while covering himself in babys?

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> what should be done about the guy holding a loaded gun at his hostage's head while covering himself in babys?

It's a difficult situation, but I doubt the answer would be to shoot the guy and two babies, which is analogous to Israel's response, if you believe their claim that 1/3 of the people they've killed were Hamas.

And the total death counts are coming from a reliable source?

According to the AP, yes.

https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-gaza-health-mini...

>I doubt the answer would be to shoot the guy and two babies

not unreasonable if they are pointing the gun at you and your baby. How many children would you kill to save your child? would you just give it up to die?

Has Israel said what the plan is for Gaza in future? Politically, Economically, Rebuilding?

You do realize that Israel left Gaza alone in 2005? Everything that is happening since then is the direct result of what Palestinians did since then.

Netanyahu uses this situation to stay in power. He has no plans beyond that.

1. How many though and is it enough to justify the response. Why not go after those targets exactly. I'm sure they can tell exactly where the rockets are being fired from

2. Maybe, Netanyahu not sending Hamas hundreds of millions of dollars to begin with would have been better

3. The "human shields" argument got old the moment it came out that half the buildings in Gaza were destroyed, more homes than Hamas fighters

There's no moral high ground here unless you can find a way to dehumanize Palestinians. And that's unacceptable.

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