IAF Pilot calls off strike on Gaza target after spotting children nearby

[tjl148]

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**Not if those leaflets and "warning shots" are closely followed by destructive airstrikes on civilian targets.**
Do you know how "closely" the airstrike followed the warning?

**Restraint, in this context, would be for the overwhelmingly superior military power to refrain from bombing targets known to be stuffed full of civilians. **
The mission of the IDF is to protect Israeli citizens. Restraint is doing this with the fewest civilian casualties. It isn't to let Hamas bomb whenever they want, as often as they want. Name a time when Hamas called off a rocket launch because it might kill civilians. In fact, their goal is to kill as many civilians (Palestinian and Israeli) as possible. So you are defending Hamas who intentionally kills innocent civilians and you condemn the IDF that attempts to minimize civilian casualties and still carry out its mission?

**If that means that a few ineffectual rockets get launched into Israel, then that's a reasonable trade-off, especially considering the historically dismal success rate of those rockets.**
Really? Do you think the families of those killed in the rocket attacks agree with you that they are "ineffectual"? So your point is Israel should tell Hamas that if you don't kill more then 10 or so Israelis a week we will not respond? Hamas can kill a few innocent civilians a week and not face any consequences? That make so sense to me.

**I'll answer that question after you tell me how many Palestinian civilians Israel gets to kill before it's held accountable for those deaths.**
And who, other than Israel, has held Hamas accountable for intentionally killing innocent civilians?