Having murdered 80,000 people, majority of women and children, in a small strip of land and saying "we could have killed them all if we wanted to so therefor it's not a war crime or genocide" is one of the most twisted fucked up things you can say.
I guess with your logic then the nazis didn't commit a genocide against the jews because they could have just killed all the jews in the prison camps right? Is that your argument?
The Nazi comparison is not only historically illiterate, it’s a desperate attempt to ignore how international law actually works. Genocide requires intent to destroy a people; urban warfare against a terrorist organization that embeds itself in schools, hospitals, and homes is a tragedy, but it isn't genocide
The 'intent' here is the destruction of Hamas a group that committed a mass-slaughter on October 7th and then retreated behind their own women and children. Under international law, when a military target (like a rocket launcher or a command center) is placed in a civilian building, that building loses its protected status and becomes a legitimate target.
If a rocket is launched from a house, the responsibility for the return fire lies with the person who chose to use that house as a base, not the person trying to stop the rockets. Israel didn’t choose the battlefield; Hamas did. If the goal were 'genocide,' the numbers wouldn't look like this in one of the most densely populated places on earth. The fact is, October 7th proved that we can no longer allow a genocidal proxy to sit on our border, and Hamas’s decision to hide behind their own civilians doesn't grant them immunity from the consequences of starting a war.