The defenseless individuals of Gaza are being taken advantage of by the terrorists who have no regard for their (civilians) life. In fact, IDF has more regard for Gaza civilians’ life than Hamas has. Check who uses civilians as human shields, it is broadly documented. Check which terrorist organization seeks genocide based on religion and which country lacks faith-based persecution.

The responsibility falls on both parties. Hamas is responsible for a heinous crime which provokes this retaliation. But all aspects of the retaliation is still Israel’s responsibility.

Sending rockets from Gaza strip’s hospitals and schools in years past is broadly documented. If terrorists attack civilians using own civilians as human shields, having destruction of Israel as their stated goal[0], then the choice for Israel seems to be between responding with possible civilian casualties in Gaza or accepting the blame for deaths of its own people if Israel’s defense system malfunctions (which happens even these years). It’s a fun trolley problem no one asked for.

In fact, I believe Hamas has been spraying rockets with depressing regularity, and I believe Israel was not retaliating in kind for a long time in recent years. It’s baffling how many people consider this state of affairs normal: militant group openly attempting to kill civilians in your country, and your country doing not much in terms of response lest it causes deaths of civilians camping near that militant group.

It’s only less baffling if we remember that antisemitism is still quite common, just less public.

[0] That said, we should remember that converting every other faith or non-faith to Sunni Islam is the end goal of jihad in practice.