It was that “pinpoint accuracy”, “surgical strike” stuff again, there were “unavoidable tragic errors”, “mistakes”, “scrupulous efforts made to avoid” etc., blah.
And as Britain’s Colonel Richard Kemp declared of the fourteen hundred dead of the Christmas and New year onslaught on Gaza in 2024-2009: “Mistakes are not war crimes.” (i)
“Light the fire so I can see my tears on the night of the massacre …” (Samih al-Qasim)