The bombing is absolutely horrible to witness, of course, and it's now done in a world where it can all be filmed and distributed in real time so everyone can see the results of war, which are very hard to stomach.
However it is not true to say that this is some sort of a record, unfortunately since aerial combat became a reality you've got these enormous civilian death tolls. Sixty thousand civilians in France were killed by Allied bombs and that was us aiding them. We killed twenty five thousand in the Dresden firestorm.
The nuclear bombs dropped on Japan killed over a hundred thousand initially with the end result being double that.
And the Allies are celebrated as the heroes, the good guys.
The Vietnam war killed around two million civilians, although that is obviously more controversial, and there have been around three hundred thousand civilians killed in Iraq and a hundred and seventy six thousand in Afghanistan due to the coalition invasions.
In Yemen around twenty thousand civilians have been directly killed by Saudi airstrikes but a further two hundred and twenty seven thousand are estimated dead due to famine.
In Syria, an estimated two hundred and thirty thousand civilians have been killed in the recent conflict.
I could go on here, there have been many more conflicts globally since the end of world war two but you get the picture.
My point I guess is that this is horrible but it is not uniquely awful, there have been many occasions, most notably for our own history the second world war, where civilian deaths have been deemed worth it to achieve an objective by those in power.
I do genuinely think that the utter outrage here is that it is Israel carrying out the airstrikes and causing the deaths, and that if this had been a conflict between two majority-Muslim countries or areas in the Middle East it would not be top of the news cycle and attracting huge protests.