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Oh fuck off. It wasn't even one whole day before the US blew up ~150 elementary school children.
And a lot of other innocent people too, what's your point?
That your statement that an investigation would be moot is absurd.
Also, the general downplaying of an awful war crime is very off-putting. There's a very big difference between civilian casualties as collateral damage (still terrible), and straight up targeting an elementary school full of children.
You can pretend you can be civilized in a war, but truthfully war is barbarous and criminal in of itself. The crime started when the war started. Investigate all you want and pretend your conscience is clear, it won't change anything.
You're not wrong about war being barbarous and criminal, but this is not black and white. There are levels to this.
Yeah, and bombing from the sky goes through all of them quite fast
It only goes through all of them when you target elementary schools and hospitals.
Precision bombing is a myth. When you bomb you're ok with hitting hospitals, schools, etc.
They were pretty precise with targeting that school. And Israel has been pretty precise in Gaza in targetting hospitals, journalists and schools.
What you're describing is collateral damage, and that's different than specifically targetting these places.