Here are 15 things you should never have to say to a country:
1. Stop bombing children.
2. Don’t kill journalists.
3. Don’t bomb hospitals.
4. Don’t shoot patients through their hospital window.
5. Don’t drive bulldozers over dead bodies.
6. Don’t bomb ambulances.
7. Don’t do ethnic cleansing.
8. Don’t call humans animals.
9. Don’t starve people.
10. Don’t cut off people’s water.
11. Don’t cut off the electricity at hospitals, killing their ICU and NICU patients.
12. Don’t bomb doctors.
13. Don’t bomb UN staff.
14. Don’t do apartheid.
15. Stop lying constantly.
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Israel has being doing all that for YEARS now if not DECADES.
And Israel’s chief enabler, the US has been doing many of those things too including even drone-executing children as a form of collective punishment.
Kids
https://www.aclu.org/video/aclu-ccr-lawsuit-american-boy-killed-us-drone-strike
Residential area
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/29/asia/afghanistan-kabul-evacuation-intl/index.html
Hopsitals
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36174047
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunduz_hospital_airstrike
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/balkans/stories/brussels052199.htm
https://theintercept.com/2015/10/07/a-short-history-of-u-s-bombing-of-civilian-facilities/
And - neither Israel nor the US gives an aerial intercourse about what the rest of us think regarding those fifteen things. In fact, I get the feeling they are points of pride, with a soupçon of irritation over bad press and possible election fallout.