But kills hundreds of civilians, potentially intentionally, in doing so?
I'm not even on any side here by the way. I just don't see how it's false equivalence when both sides have committed heinous war crimes and genocides in the past fortnight. Hamas perhaps initiated this latest chapter in the great big book of Middle East War, but let's not act like there aren't several previous chapters where Israel have been the instigators in the past.
That's not to say it was an excuse for Hamas to do what they did (there is none), but several thousand innocent Palestinian lives have been lost over the past decades and barely anyone said anything back then.