It's intellectually dishonest to describe Israel's actions as a "defensive war".

Gaza has resistance groups with small arms, while Israel has reduced Gaza to a smoking ruin with 2000lb bombs dropped from F35's, driven over countless Palestinians (dead and alive) with Merkava tanks, sniped countless children with drones, and dropped white phosphorous on civilians and UN Peace keepers. Israel has access to a devastating array of weaponry, and has no qualms about using any of it for anything.

"resistance groups with small arms" that have managed to kill 700 people in a single raid and keep bombing the entire territory of the country. When did rockets become "small arms" by the way?

> When did rockets become "small arms" by the way?

Many rockets fall within the SALW category.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_arms_and_light_weapons

Is this real equivalence? Over 40,000 people have been killed by Israel since October 7th 2023. Israel has one of the most advanced militaries in the world! They are Goliath.

We know that Israel was responsible for many of those deaths. I say that not to absolve Hamas of responsibility, but simply because it's a fact.

And when compared to F35s, tanks, missiles and the iron dome... I think simple, often homemade, rockets are small arms.

The UN could only definitively say that about 14,because Israel wouldn't allow the UN to perform a full investigation.

No conspiracy is needed: we have several statements from IDF members about the Hannibal Directive being used, and about the types and quantities of munitions being used; we know the IDF destroyed hundreds of vehicles.

Of course, if you define "credible sources" as the western main stream media, nobody will put it all together like this.

https://electronicintifada.net/content/how-israel-killed-hun...

That's quite far from being a credible source. The author is being investigated by Met police for encouragement of terrorism, I would guess for his promotion of propaganda from Hezbollah and other terrorist orgs. At least on EI he's willing to write "Israel", rather than "the Jewish Nazi entity" as he says on social media.

https://www.thejc.com/news/met-police-reportedly-raid-home-a...

Yes, critics of Israel are being silenced in the UK. Several journalists have been raided and/or arrested, as well as several citizens because of anti-Israel content online. A 77 year old woman reportedly had her house raided last night for sharing her views on Twitter.

It is even more intellectually dishonest to argue whatever a war is a defensive war or not based on the amount of large military equipment one side have or if there were some war crimes involved from one side or another.