Somewhere in the massive legal libraries of the world there must be the range of adequate responses that Israel can take to respond to the 5000 jihadi combatants attacking Negev and the thousands of rockets fired into Israel on 7 October 2023. Kidnapping hundreds in addition. Not to discount that the jihadi leadership declarations that more attacks will be carried out.
So until they find the legal paperwork, it seems that the IDF is busy degrading the jihadi war machine in Gaza. Part of the countering attacking the jihadis, has been how to reduce the collateral injuries and deaths to the non combatant Gazans. The jihadi regime’s official numbers of approximately 50.000 total Gazan deaths seems rather low, considering the many months of war.
Of course no legal paperwork will ‘return to life’ those killed at the music festival and in the farming villages. Nor all those Gazans and Israelis that have died since 7 October 2023. Wars are easy to trigger, but difficult to stop.