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Proportionality is considered a necessary element in the justification of military action according to international humanitarian law.
If you can fully achieve your military goals by killing only 10 enemy soldiers, then killing another 90 for the sake of proportionality would be pointless and morally wrong.
This temptation, however, fails to produce valuable moral insight.
In pursuing just military goal, substantial efforts must be made to minimize civilian casualties.
West Point study: IDF uses a wide variety of warnings to civilians in the war zone in Gaza .
Fewer than one civilian in Gaza is killed on average by each bomb dropped from a jet fighter or shot from a cannon.
Israel ’s just military goal is the toppling of the Hamas terrorist regime, and this requires wide scope of operations.
Israel ’s military activities in Gaza should be considered proportionate inasmuch as they minimize civilian casualties in the course of fighting for a just cause.
But this is not how the morality of Israeli military conduct is assessed in mainstream commentary.
Criticizing others for exercising their right for self-defense without being able to offer any responsible and viable alternative is morally inert at best.
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