[xwdv]

Intent matters. If you are trying to destroy terrorists, it can be a messy job that results in innocent bystanders also dying, but that alone doesn’t make you a terrorist.

When you specifically target innocent civilians just to make some kind of point, you are a terrorist.

[kingofpandora]

Israel explicitly pursues collective punishment as a strategy. Always has and it's obviously what's happening in Gaza now.

[xwdv]

There’s no alternative, the terrorists hide amongst the civilians.

[_ncyj]

I’ve heard people argue that the intent is unclear when over 60% of the death toll in Gaza are civilians.

I have obviously never been involved in war so I’m not sure if that’s normal.