The civilian deaths are in large part a matter of military engagement in dense populated areas. The Israelis can hardly be held accountable for the use of human shields, in one form or another, on the part of its enemies, who deliberately put civilians in harm's way in the (frequently successful) hope of deterrence. Regardless of the circumstance, a numerical reference to body count cannot ever in itself, devoid of context, establish the basis for asserting that a war crime has been committed. That's always a contextual issue.
That being said, it is undoubtedly true that the Israelis are guilty of war crimes. Even just on the same topic, there are multiple accounts of them using enemy children as human shields - which is absolutely barbaric.
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