I disagree with Candice on this point. When one side commits a horrendous crime, then the gloves must be allowed to come off, and perform the surgical removal of a source that will never change their goals of actually performing a killing genocide if they can get the necessary items needed to carry it off.
Israel showed restraint by providing time to vacate the area of innocents.
Problem was, Hamas would not allow them to leave. Their choice became die from Hamas as you try to leave or become martyr's by staying with a possibility of coming out alive.
The Israeli's are not trying to perform a genocide, they are trying to take out the cancer with the least possible damage to others remaining in the region.
It’s not a perfect parallel, but the retaking of Mosul is an interesting study. This is a higher number than most estimates, but Kurdish intel believes 40,000 were killed; many of those residents were killed by ISIL as said residents tried to get out. Many ended up buried in the rubble.
In any event, the casualties are no surprise and certainly not indicative of “genocide” on Israel’s part. Mosul, Fallujah, Marawi, now Gaza... The general pattern is pretty clear. :-(