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 Both Hezbollah and Hamas hide their weapons in residential areas, under schools & hospitals, and various areas guaranteed to cause lots of civilian deaths if Israel attacks their leaders or weapons.  I'd argue that is a much greater evil than Israel defending itself and even sending out warnings to civilians to leave the area because an attack is imminent.  Israel is warning its enemies in order to save as many civilian lives as possible.  Hamas and Hezbollah are hiding behind civilians so any attack on them can be called genocide with no consideration of how many of their own people die or are disabled.

There has never been another case when terrorist attack the civilians in a nation and the nation that was attacked was told they can't fight back and need to compromise with the terrorists.  The norm is zero negotiation with terrorists.

Israel isn't perfect, but they are being put in a no win position by people who want to wipe them out of existence.