What should they have done?

They should have done what they did.... UP UNTIL they abandoned all of the practices that supposedly made them "The most moral military on the planet." It's at THAT POINT that their response became inappropriate. It's ridiculous that we're just expected to allow them to violate the international rules of war (which they ADMIT TO DOING because "Hamas is using the rules of war against us!"), we need to overlook all of the "oopies" (OoOoO Gehfoigal! We bombed the aid truck! Oops!), and we pretend that (if they succeed in eliminating Hamas) they aren't going install their own puppet regime to deny Palestinians their self-determination, indefinitely. Which they are. That is clearly the plan. They're going to take that natural gas too.

Hym "What should they have done? Not displace an indigenous population to create an artificial ethnic majority? Maybe? I donno. Given me Gal Gadot?"