Nobody was criticizing Israel here. Here is the original post he replied to with this.Well, if that's your point I think I can largely agree with that. I don't see how this equates to treating everyone in Gaza as "combatant until proven otherwise" but perhaps I am being too pedantic here.
I can't speak for others, but I certainly wasn't trying to criticize Israel for how they are doing things, and you're right that they absolutely need to pull out all the stops, so to speak, in order to completely eradicate Hamas, which probably means completely eradicating most of Gaza as it currently exists, if they want to avoid an endless repetition of the horrors of October 7. But whatever they feel they can do, in the midst of all this, to spare those who are innocent, like children and elderly, is good on them in my book.
That was what I found odd.Or maybe they just don't want to kill a bunch of non-combatants.