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What? At least on October 7th there were multiple cases of Hamas soldiers entering a home, shooting the parents and sparing the children. I mean they shouldn't have shot the parents either but they're a bit above IDF snipers actively aiming at and shooting children.
I have zero interest to comparing the awfulness of the IDF with the awfulness of Hamas.
But it is true that on October 7th Hamas killed kids, man, it's unfortunately just true.
https://www.factcheck.org/2023/11/dozens-of-children-died-in-hamas-oct-7-attack-on-israel-contrary-to-online-claim/
It's worth pointing out because many people still hold the implicit assumption that the IDF is just an overzealous army or some other whitewashed nonsense while Hamas is an unsalvageable terrorist organization. Because of that it's important to establish that in terms of terror IDF >= Hamas, and not at all Hamas > IDF.
Also I'm not saying no children died; that's just impossible. I'm saying that instances of a Hamas soldier intentionally shooting a child when they could've just not are very few, if any. I mean hell it says right in your link: 29. That's out of 1139 people, 2/3 of which are civilians, and after the IDF shot and bombed their own civilians to get Hamas fighters. This puts the number of children casualties among civilian casualties at about 5%. There are probably many reasons for this, but I think it's clear evidence that Hamas was at least avoiding children casualties as a conscious decision.
29/1139 gives you 2.5%. Children are a protected group under "non-combatants" in int'l law, and Israel has killed an estimated 13,000, or 40% of total deaths if it's 32,000, in just 6 months. Although I do agree with the other commenter that the correct number of children to kill, under any circumstance, is 0, I also think big problems need to be addressed first. Killing 13,000 children in 6 months is a big problem. The kicker here is the complete impunity, both legally and in the mainstream consciousness/ news reporting, with which Israel massacres children. That to me makes a whole lot more people than just Israel complicit in this big problem.