There is no collective punishment, measures aren’t being done to punish but to limit the effectiveness of people actively trying to kill them.
If you have to hide behind ‘yes what we’re doing would be war crimes but technically we’re not a nation’ then it doesn’t really change anything, regardless of what their actions are labelled they must be stopped and Israel is taking the measures it feels are needed to do this while also trying to limit the negative effects to other people caught up in this.
There is no collective punishment, measures aren’t being done to punish but to limit the effectiveness of people actively trying to kill them.
If you have to hide behind ‘yes what we’re doing would be war crimes but technically we’re not a nation’ then it doesn’t really change anything, regardless of what their actions are labelled they must be stopped and Israel is taking the measures it feels are needed to do this while also trying to limit the negative effects to other people caught up in this.
destroying homes and hospitals, shutting off critical infrastructure, bombing city blocks is definitely collective punishment.
if hamas built a tunnel under my local hospital, I would not be okay with anyone firing missiles at the hospital.