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The way I see it, Israel is doing its best to free the hospital from Hamas with as minimum innocents getting hurt as it can.
If that were true, then they would be sending in troops on the ground instead of indiscriminate bombings.
There are troops on the ground and the bombings are not indiscriminate, but on legitimate military targets.
What does the civilian:soldier death ratio need to be in order for it to be considered a 'legitimate military target'?
Honestly? As terrible as it sounds, it can be almost arbitrarily high if you look at the Geneva convention.
For example, a hospital can be targeted after nothing more than a warning if the hospital isn't used for humanitarian purposes only. There is no minimum duration specified between the warning and the attack.
Not that the Geneva conventions are a guide for morality. They solely limit the maximum of cruelty during war.