Eventually you have to stop letting your enemy make the rules, and defend yourself.

Well, it looks to me like both sides are convinced that unless they punish the other side, the other side will keep on doing what they've been doing. Acting on that belief only provides evidence for the other side for the case that the other will stop at nothing but the other's extinction, that the only rational course of action is yet more offensive action until the other side finally capitulates- …which seems unlikely to ever happen so long as Palestine remains the accepted battlefield for the proxy war that this conflict is.

Yes, Hamas commits war crimes by using civilian infra Yes, Israel commits war crimes by bombing it The context of this exchange of atrocities is… the occupation of Gaza, which meets too many of the measures of a genocide. At this point, neither Israel nor Hamas are defending themselves, they're cooperating in the genocide of Palestinians The broader context of that is that Israel:Palestine is a proxy conflict between their respective allies, who are just fine watching Palestine burn