While the IDF act to protect and preserve the lives of the population of Israel.....

To this I might add that the IDF, recognized as being the most moral army in the world, goes far beyond the norms of the rules of warfare, as set out in international humanitarian law, to avoid civilian casualties in war whilst the terrorist group Hamas, who instigate the wars, are committing war crimes by using their populace as human shields and storing and employing weapons and munitions from schools, hospitals and mosques and other civilian locations.