This article argues that the emphasis on “civilian deaths” as a privileged category, while it’s important, also ignores the basic inequalities of power that underlie Israel’s attack, and the occupation as a whole. http://paper-bird.net/2014/07/12/on-the-slaughter-of-innocents/ Interesting.

Humanitarian law should absolutely forbid what Israel is doing. “Human rights, if they mean anything, are not the rights of humans to be killed efficiently. Human rights are their rights to live.” This excellent article has more on the issue: http://paper-bird.net/2014/07/12/on-the-slaughter-of-innocents/