109 Palestinians killed to rescue 4 hostages
An Israeli military operation rescued four hostages at the cost of
killing 109 Palestinians.
It is not easy to tell how many of the 109 Palestinians killed were
HAMAS fighters and how many were civilians, but at least dozens were
civilians.
If HAMAS set up a military base in the middle of civilians, that
violated the rules of war -- in effect, using those civilians as human
shields.
Or it could be that the place was not full of civilians until they
moved there fleeing Israel's bombing elsewhere in Gaza. In that case,
Israel would be responsible for driving them into harm's way.
In either case, their lives do not become worthless because of their
situation.