this implies that you actually think hamas killing kids was A) necessary for stopping the butchering of palestinians, and B) had any chance of stopping the butchering of palestinians in general, as opposed to giving israel the perfect excuse to start carpet bombing with no restraint. it didnt stop the genocide, there arent fewer casualties and there never were going to be, this was always going to accelerate the conflict towards a full-blown ethnic cleansing- thats probably why Israel did nothing to stop it despite having been warned by neighouring intelligence ahencies beforehand

and yes, it is easy for me to talk from my ivory tower, and im aware that these folks dont have the privilege of debating this shit as opposed to living it, and just quitting out the app when theyre tired of it, the same way any other conflict is a lot easier to judge from afar

im not calling them monsters* or subhuman, im not implying they deserve what theyre getting or that this is anything less than a crime against humanity

killing kids is bad, regardless of how justified it felt for them

*barring the actually openly sadistic shit, such as the fucks who raped their victims 'in the name of a free palestine!'