Chris

Targeting a child certainly would be unlawful, by the ‘laws’ of war, such as they are. Targeting a member of an armed Iranian proxy militia, and killing a child in the effort, would probably not be. Like it or not, this is the world we live in and those are the complex web of international treaties that attempt to keep a lid on the worst expressions of human nature.

That’s not to minimise the tragedy or glorify the violence at all. But any attempt to understand what’s happening, and even to campaign for change, requires us to recognise the context in which it happens. Shouting ‘murder’ may feel morally satisfying but it won’t persuade any of the people who did this, or enabled it.