> Well, for one it should (at least try to) protect all civilians not just "its own". They do. They are known to go to extreme lengths to avoid harming civilia

> Well, for one it should (at least try to) protect all civilians not just "its own". They do. They are known to go to extreme lengths to avoid harming civilians, including calling up before bombing, dropping leaflets, "firecracker" bombing ahead of actual bombing etc. And why are they bombing civilian neighborhoods in the first place: because that's were Hamas puts their rocket lauchers. That is a war crime too, and it is worse, because the only reason they do it is to attract attacks towards civilian areas; tactically those rocket attacks are just dumb - they only serve to get media coverage when Israel find they have had enough of it and flatten it.