However, it’s not reasonable to say they were “using air strikes to kill children”
Something does not add up though. In all this time they still say they have killed only 20,000 terrorists and detained 7000 ( see below). They were saying that over a year ago too.
Yet every night they kill another c 70 people with a 100 or more wounded even though they say they had ‘intelligence’ that such and such a command centre was where they bombed, or Hamas fighters.
In practice the non-militant Gazans the IDF are killing far outweigh the number of actual terrorists.
A study by OHCHR, which verified fatalities from three independent sources, found that 70% of the Palestinians killed in residential buildings or similar housing were women and children.[29][30]
The number of injured is greater than 100,000;[41] Gaza has the most amputated children per capita in the world.[42]
Scholars have estimated 80% of Palestinians killed are civilians.[5][4][6][28]
Last night nine of a woman doctor’s children’s were killed in one go:
BBC today
An Israeli air strike on Gaza hit the home of a doctor and killed nine of her 10 children, the hospital where she works in the city of Khan Younis says.
Nasser hospital said one of Dr Alaa al-Najjar's children and her husband were injured, but survived. Graeme Groom, a British surgeon working in the hospital, said he had operated on her surviving 11-year-old boy.
A video shared by the director of the Hamas-run health ministry and verified by the BBC showed small burned bodies being lifted from the rubble of a strike in Khan Younis on Friday.
This is really is dismembering and burning babies.
At this point it does not make any sense to say the IDF does not kill children intentionally because they know full well their strategy is getting them nothing but mostly dead Gazan bodies, and quite possibly dead hostages too with not much to show for it in all these months yet they are carrying on bombing.
And that is without the fully intended murders they carry out then lie about. Hind for example.
Or destroying the infrastructure so Gazans will eventually die from other causes like no medicine, infection etc
Or blockading and starving the whole population.
(*The information I cited earlier about the numbers of Hamas terrorists killed was from Haaretz May 22:
The Spoils of War: Israel Confiscated 100m Shekels in Cash, 5,600 Guns Since October 7
The figures released by the IDF relating to the spoils it has seized during the Gaza war raise questions when compared Israeli claims about the number of Hamas terrorists killed October 7. According to estimates, the IDF killed 20,000 terrorists during the war and took some 7,000 Gazans as security prisoners.)