>> Israel very very carefully avoids any collateral damage to Palestinian civilians.
Too bad, that. Unless you stop the breeders, there will always be more cockroaches with homemade rockets.
Long, long ago, the LORD GOD instructed the Israelites to utterly destroy certain groups of Philistines and Canaanites. In other words, wipe out the DNA of that vermin. It has always been man’s sinful proclivity to disobey the LORD. Their disobedience has come back on them a hundredfold.
Israel is not a THEOCRACY ... but a member of “the West” and as a modern democratic country — upholds the rights of all civilians, either under military or civilian control. They also uphold all religious rights of the major religions ... and protect all religious sites.