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Most everyone would agree that this is the worst of all options, the collective-punishment approach of targeting Palestinian civilians for death in response to any attack.
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Or, protested other acts like the assassination attempts made by Israel against the political leaders duly elected in Palestine in 2006 ... or, Israel's imprisonment without trial of around 40 of the legislators elected in those elections ... or the damaging, collective-punishment siege that Israel imposed on 1.5 million Gazans, and continue to maintain in harsh form until today, in order to "punish" them for the way they voted in
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