Here's a story for you about how people work.
HAMAS: We will kill hundreds and hundreds of their civilian mothers, civilian fathers, civilian sons and civilian daughters. Civilian Babies, civilian toddlers...we'll bath in the blood of civilians. We'll rape, murder and desecrate those civilians in front of their civilian families. We'll kidnap and degrade those civilians. Destroy as many civilians for as long as we can. Let's keep a few hundred or their civilian mothers, civilian daughters, civilian sons and civilian fathers as prisoners, too. We'll make it witchy.
ISRAEL: We will destroy the people who did this. Many will get hurt and die. Our people and theirs. Many civilians. Many people who had nothing to do with this in any real sense. We'll try to keep that from happening. We don't have a choice. Our survival is paramount. They won't allow us to survive.
Around the world: a hospital <<<gasp>>> was struck! Israel is evil! poor Palistine! Occupied by Israel ! (not for ~20 years, but still)
HAMAS: Man, they have forgotten all about us!!! Fucking up a few thousand of those assholes really paid off. We got more money, we have Palestine in the news as martyrs, Arab nations that normally hate us are voicing support for us... LET'S KILL MORE OF THOSE CIVILIANS, IT'S WORKING!!!
The world: tsk tsk Israel.
What is the alternative? Turn the other cheek? To a killer who will only stop when you are dead?