Before you start "blaming" Israel for this that and the other, a bit of a look at the history surrounding the territory might throw a bit of understanding on the situation?

Just look at the relatively recent history of the last 100 years and see what went on over that time? Moving on to only 65 years or so ago to the end of the British Mandate, the civil war and the declaration of Independence by Israel, the Green Line established and what's happened since then?

Terrorists began doing what they're still doing today ie infiltrating Israel, killing civilians and soldiers then melting back to where they'd come from.

Without warning Egypt, Syria and Jordan attacked Israel and were a bit miffed when Israel managed to defend itself.

As if that wasn't enough, a bunch of countries (plus the PLO) joined forces and continued to have a go for a couple of years. Then the PLO continued the conflict from the Lebanon eventually continuing on and off for 20 years or so.

Not content, the Palestinians continued to fire rockets at Israel and people did what they're doing now = blaming Israel for fighting back.

Every so often, the situation escalates (as it has just done again) and Israel retalliates then people criticise Israel. Israel are not fighting an enemy who dresses in a uniform, draws battle lines and faces Israel with their weapons. No, they hide amongst the population and make sneak attacks from advantageous positions so is it any wonder Israel got a bit cheesed off with it and seized those positions in order to remove those strategically important positions from those who continued to attack from there?

It's quite OK for terrorists to rain death and destruction on the Israeli people from the safe haven of civilian areas but it's not OK for Israel to try stop them? It's tragic that innocent people are getting killed and injured but it's up to those surviving people to stop the terrorists within their society from carrying out their wicked business and not support them in any way.