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They can retaliate of course, they just do not have the moral highground to complain about them. They occupied and installed a racist apartheid system in Palestine that continues to this day. It's like complaining that Ukraine defends itself from Russia in unconventional or unexpected ways: war doesn't have to be symmetric.

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On 29 November 1947 the UN General Assembly voted on the partition plan, adopted by 33 votes to 13 with 10 abstentions. The Jewish side accepted the UN plan for the establishment of two states. The Arabs rejected it and launched a war of annihilation against the Jewish state.

The attacks from Gaza towards Israel are targeted at civilian infra.

I mean it's basically the same for both sides...

The attacks from Gaza are targeted at civilians with the intention of killing civilians. They are also launched from civilian areas inside Gaza.

The Israeli retaliations are targeted at the militants with the intention of killing the militants. The strikes are incredibly surgical and despite needing to happen in civilian areas usually only kill the targeted militants.

But not always.

Still much much better than any other military that's tried to do surgical strikes in civilian areas.

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