There's still an element of hypocrisy in the suggestion that non-combatant deaths were somehow accidental, whereas in most cases the truth is that they may have been seen as regrettable, but predicted and inevitable, which means intentional in normal language.

But it's a step towards reconciliation, and as such to be welcomed. And it is a step that has never been taken by governments who have been and continue to be responsible for far higher death tolls of non-combatants in past and continuing conflicts, such as the British or the Americans or the Israelis or Palestinians.