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There were at least several hundred civilian casualties. Don't try to play that game. If there were that many soldiers among the dead, they wouldn't have gotten that far. Additionally a huge portion of the dead were at the techno festival and at the kibbutzim.
I don't agree with Israel's actions against Palestinians and them trying to act like many civilian victims were terrorists. You shouldn't drop to that level though. We are better than that. Don't try to justify crimes against humanity, regardless who it is.
That's right, but that's also where the friendly fire took place, according to Asa Winstanley's article that I linked.
Look, all in all it's probably true that Hamas murdered several hundred civilians that day regardless. But I also don't think there's a viable way for a paramilitary group based in Gaza to do an uprising against Israel that doesn't end with several hundred civilians dead, as I explained, because Israel is a settler-colony and the use of settlers as the tip of the spear of the Israeli effort to settle Palestine is a central part of the project.
Moral comparisons between the actions Israel and Palestine take are always apples to oranges. You simply can't equate violence against the oppressed to violence against the oppressor. A future without violence against anyone is what the oppressed are attempting to build by defending themselves against their oppressors, after all, but you can't defend yourself without violence.
If you use violence to defend yourself, you open yourself up for a violent counterattack, which is exactly what happened. That's why violence is bad, because it allows more violence.
I've seen conspiracy theories that the Israeli government knew about the upcoming massacre and allowed it to happen anyway as a method of keeping control and also to dominate Gaza.