I'm with you on this. If the Israeli army wanted to target civilians and children the death toll would be an awfully lot larger than even the wildest Palestinian claims. Evil Jooooish soldiers targeting happily playing children with a machine gun? Um... I doubt it.
Look at the precedence. These medieval savages glorify targeting civilians, while the IDF will abort a mission if there is a high probability of collateral damage.
A no brainer as to who occupies the moral high ground.