This editorial describes Israel's situation pretty well, I'm afraid. (But the Palestinian situation with less empathy: harm to civilians may literally have been "minimal", but that's a sizeable minimum.)
What I should have said was that for the author to frame this as a question of whether or not the harm is miniminal is itself a failure of empathy.
I have been reading the MSF reports (and the NYT) and they say that IDF soldiers have hurt and killed people who were clearly civilians. I'm still hoping that this is not universal and not IDF policy, but I'm not optimistic.
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Date: 2002-04-16 09:15 am (UTC)I have been reading the MSF reports (and the NYT) and they say that IDF soldiers have hurt and killed people who were clearly civilians. I'm still hoping that this is not universal and not IDF policy, but I'm not optimistic.