Comment by skinkestek

You are correct.

Avoiding civilian casualties is however extremely hard when you deal with people who:

- fire rockets from schools, hospitals and generally populated areas (there are wide fields they could have used)

- encourage people to stay when they get informed about bombing

- count bombed terrorists as civilians (lists exist with names and photos of claimed "civilians" in uniforms and with guns)

- when hitting a stash of rockets in the middle of a neighborhood there's always a chance something flies further than the original blast

- "civilian casualties of Israeli bombing" also contains a good number of casualties of defect arab terrorist rockets.

Furthermore: it has always started on the Arab ("Palestinian") side the last years.

A massive difference exist if someone gets hurt after they started the fight or not.