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Yeah it's pretty much the equivalent of the trolley-problem in real life.
The question is how many casualties are "valid" before the cost is too high - and that's just a morally impossible choice to make prefectly
People that pretend it's a black and white question and that either pretend the IDF is 100% wrong or the IDF is 100% right are just ignoring one side if the issue completely.
In general I'd say the IDF is more often right than wrong in this conflict but they obviously fucked up, too - but at least for them it's not the intention to cill civilians other than for the people they try to actually get to
Shooting hellfire missiles at crowds from helicopters, just a regular Thursday oopsie daisy.