State Department: No evidence Israel is deliberately targeting civilians

You can drop a bomb in the middle of a crowd of people and still claim to not have been targeting the people, they were just there. Doesn't really change the evilness of the action one way or the other.

Got it, all those people in the refugee camps weren't civilians.

I guess anything to justify mass murder...

Bombing promised safe routes and locations is totally not targeting civilians. Just ignore the mountain of bodies. Even if Hamas was sneaking out of them, you promised they'd be safe. The civilians had no other choice.

True, they're not targeting civilians. They're just killing everyone indiscriminately. Hell, they've even killed Israelis.

Is there any evidence they are making any effort to avoid or reduce civilian deaths?

Yes, the leaflets that warn civilians which areas will be bombed
- It's evidence that they're trying to create the appearance of avoiding civilian casualties.

All those journalists dying in their beds at night aren’t targeted eh? Seems legit.

More dead journos in 90 days than all of WW2.

Doesn't look like anything to me.
- According to an unsourced claim on Al Jezeera, which is definitively a source we can trust for this conflict.
It depends on what your definition of "civilian" is.

Just like there no evidence police deliberately use excessive force. It’s just standard procedure, nothing personal.

Clearly those Palestinians being bombed should have just complied.

That's not better than killing thousands of civilians UNINTENTIONALLY.

Nor does it remove it from being a war crime. Just being indifferent to whether one hits civilians or not is a war crime. The bar is one has to concern oneself actively with considering how to minimise civilian casualties.

And we're going to belive the fucking state department? Yeah right.

For sake of argument, suppose they earnestly believe this. I can think of a scenario consistent with that belief: that they also believe there are no civilians in the region, and that everyone present is Hamas.

Then all you need to tie a psychopathic bow on that is to say that anyone that doesn't openly denounce Hamas is part of Hamas.

Easy peasy lemon squeezy
- Checkout because these kids didn't condem Hamas.

It seems more like a wanton disregard for civilian casualties. Blowing up entire apartment towers because they believe one or more people there were valid targets is unacceptable but not technically targeting civilians.

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I've seen video of civvies in Gaza trying to take cover away from open space and being shot right through the knee. It's been circulating since what I think in real time would be 2 nights ago. State department has been captured by the IDF.

Maybe not deliberately, but is bombing buildings not caring if kids are in them or not better?? Not journalists killing is what I would like to see them comment on.

The Yankee War Machine department expects me to believe this.

For the cases when the Hamas are hiding in the same buildings as civilians (effectively using them as a human shield), what does the esteemed audience suggest?

Don't kill civilians.

It’s not hard unless you’ve lost your moral compass.
- I am sorry, but this isn’t an answer to the question.
Let's say for the sake of argument that a terrorist cell popped up in your town. Would be okay for the government to carpet bomb your town, including your house, to remove them? If not, how is that different from the scenario in Gaza?
- In this case the terrorist organisation is the de facto government and they just escalated an ongoing conflict into a war
- I understand you’re furious as many others here, but what exactly is it you suggest doing in this case?
Don't kill the human shield? You don't kill the hostages in a hostage situation. Well, if you're not Israel, at least. They seem fine with killing Israeli hostages as well and just blaming the other party for killing them by them not moving them out of the way of IDF bombs.
Take food and water to hand out to the people.
- To the terrorists or what
I would be banned if I said what I think members of the IDF should do.

You're going to have to take my word for it because I'm lazy and in bed, but Israel goes to serious effort to make no distinction between civilian, terrorist, protester or child.

They have rules of engagement so broad that basically nobody is safe. When soldiers gunned down children, they are either not charged or cleared by falsified evidence. Some of which admits that they killing was unjustified and offers alternative explanations to be given to the press.

Their bombs arent deliberately targeting much of anything... Even though those bombs are extremely expensive and capable of centimeter precision targeting.

Hamas was just the bodies that fell along the way.

All good then, you may resume. /S

God is dead still, they keep killing him for some reason. Sides don't matter.

Might as well justify America's mass shootings too. War is war.