Collective punishment is a result of Hamas aggression. The innocent civilians who suffer from this punishment have their beloved government Hamas to blame.
It's that simple.
I don't think it is that simple at all. The defect in the arguement is the use of the
term "collective punishment" The fact that innocent civilians suffer in a military
operation does not DEFINE "COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT" thereby rendering the
military actions "illegal" Return fire is never illegal. The CITY which harbors
missile launchers actively lobbing missiles at the heads of israeli babies is not
"INNOCENT"-----it is guilty of gross war crimes. The oveerwhelming majority of
people who die in war are innocent----including the soldiers. Collective
punishment is a term which was coined to describe that which islamo nazis do----
from lining people against a wall and shooting them by the dozens because
SOMEONE DID SOMETHING "WRONG"-----or the enactment of pogroms and
lynchings based on libels. RETURN FIRE IS NEVER "collective punshment"----
if embargoes and boycotts are "collective punishment" then the jihado-
nazis have been doing it against israel for more than half a century and counting