Existential war??? No nation surrounding Israel can beat them and on top with US support. Their Military is superior in every which way. Also, it is Palestine that is having an existential crisis, a nation split into two with borders shrinking due to settlement. I don’t need to pick sides. Hamas is not a side to pick, it’s a terrorist outfit. Israel is democratic internally but is acting genocidally and barbaric organization the way they are bombing today in your own words. If Hamas is using civilians as Human shields then Israel has to find another way. Killing their way to Hamas is only going to create more Hamas like outfits. Israel is giving Hamas more people to recruit. If Hamas is eliminated then something else will take its place. A father holding a limb of her daughter in the hand searching for the rest of the body in the rubble is a potential recruit for Hamas or the next Terror outfit.