Comment by mlyle

> If you think it's justified to kill women and the "children", than you are no better than the supposed militia you are fighting.

I'm just going to stick to one point, because I've been trying to say it and it hasn't been heard. When you define "children" in a way that it includes a big fraction-- perhaps a majority of those-- taking up arms, it stops being a useful measure.

Israel's current estimate is a lower bound of "over 7,000" militants killed. The algorithm they use to determine someone is a militant is:

- found dead with a weapon

- or over 14 years old and male at a rocket launch site, a Hamas tunnel, or in a position which was firing upon the IDF

- or if you're known to Shin Bet as a Hamas/PIJ/etc member

- or if you're over 14, male, and killed with a large group of people meeting criteria above.

It's obviously imperfect; it overcounts in some ways and undercounts in others.

This means a lot of 14..18 males are counted both as "children" and "Hamas militants"