Chris

Beforehand, it was easy enough - if you really wanted to - to tell yourself the IDF were taking all precautions to avoid civilian casualties and the high civilian death toll was entirely due to the difficult urban environment and Hamas’ preference for hiding amongst civilians in order to generate newsreel images favourable to their cause.

However, since they shot dead three Israeli hostages who were waving a massive white flag with Hebrew writing on it and shouting for help, it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that they might be being just a little reckless.