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Agreed. First and foremost this is a humanitarian disaster, I got send a video of aftermath but didn't want to watch it.
Edit: to be fully clear, same goes for any civilian casualties on any side. Israeli, Palestinian, Jew, Muslim, whatever; we are all human.

Israel says it was a Hamas rocket that fell short, as 30-40% do, so I'm told.  As they are somewhat home made, it's a credible number.
So maybe best to reserve judgement for a bit.
Hi did.  He also noted the "... myth of six million dead jews in WW2 ...."  So, not a serious person.  Blocked him some time ago.

Unlikely. I shoot competitively (locally), hang around good shooters, and I don't know anyone who could reliably get a smallish moving target with a rifle, let alone a handgun.  One could put shotshells in the handgun, but these have low range due to dispersion and ballistics (think maybe ten yards or so).
Volley fire from a platoon, maybe.  
So we've see a lot of EW guns taking down, or trying to, drones.  Next step is one or more soldiers in a platoon to also have physical means, like a net.

That video is said to be an old video, although I agree that it is best to reserve judgement for a bit.

Also, If I lived within 500meters of this guy, or God forbid in the same building. I would relocate by any means necessary. I don't think he is a safe person to be round ,now, or ever again. The risk of anything from his cell phone exploding to a skyscraper falling on him seem rather high.

I don't disagree that Israel, particularly in the past, has engaged in actions that we, today and then, look at askance.  Much of it through their proxies in Lebanon, as you noted.  So it's possible to say that the Palestinians have a legitimate, provoked cause - I don't, but it is not an entirely unreasonable position.
Having said that: Hamas put its headquarters under the Al-Shifa hospital; inculcates hatred of Jews in the Gazan population from a very early age, including in formal grade schooling and children's television shows; and literally worships death both in its charter ( e.g., death for the sake of Allah "is the loftiest of its wishes", Article 8 ) and its leadership's ongoing statements.
Now Hamas has deliberately committed large-scale atrocities: torture, rape and murder of now about 1400 people; kidnapping and hostage-holding of even (or especially!) babies and toddlers; murder and bodily desecration of babies.  And all deliberate, not an unfortunate side-effect of achieving military objectives.
Some say that Israel also does atrocities.  To conflate Israel's current behaviours with the above is to devalue the meaning of the above, which is abhorrent.  For example, Israel announces attacks in advance to encourage civilians to leave the area; Hamas encourages/forces said civilians to stay, using them as ammunition in the info war.
If the US lost as many people, proportionally, to torture, rape and murder, it would be about 52000.  If Mexican government forces crossed the border and tortured, raped and murdered the entire population of, say, Calexico, what would the United States do?  We know what they did when 2,977 were killed.
Let's sum it up with a Lord of the Rings analogy.  It's factual to say "Mordor is savage and evil, but Gondor has its problems."  Yes, Gondor is imperfect, sometimes significantly so.  But the worst of it can be fixed by the best of it, unlike Mordor.  
While I would not stretch that analogy too far, this is a good time for moral clarity, to pick a side. Then, when the dust has settled, make Gondor better.
With some luck, Hamas will be extirpated, Palestinians will have a chance at better government and culture, and in a few generations this will be in the past.
Absolutely.

Unlikely. I shoot competitively (locally), hang around good shooters, and I don't know anyone who could reliably get a smallish moving target with a rifle, let alone a handgun.  One could put shotshells in the handgun, but these have low range due to dispersion and ballistics (think maybe ten yards or so).
Volley fire from a platoon, maybe.  
So we've see a lot of EW guns taking down, or trying to, drones.  Next step is one or more soldiers in a platoon to also have physical means, like a net.

Work pretty good on ducks and those little buggers can really move.

We know that they are cowards,” says Moussa Abu Marzouk, a senior Hamas official based in Qatar. 
Says the guy hiding in Qatar. 😆😅🤣
After this latest Hamas terrorist activity he may need to hide in a cave in Afghanistan somewhere. That would be a lifestyle change for him.
 

Unlikely. I shoot competitively (locally), hang around good shooters, and I don't know anyone who could reliably get a smallish moving target with a rifle, let alone a handgun.  One could put shotshells in the handgun, but these have low range due to dispersion and ballistics (think maybe ten yards or so).
Volley fire from a platoon, maybe.  
So we've see a lot of EW guns taking down, or trying to, drones.  Next step is one or more soldiers in a platoon to also have physical means, like a net.

Thinking for a few seconds more, going from what is possible to what it means, tactically:
concealment is, as we've seen consistently, degraded dramatically.  More so with autonomy and increased range (better batteries, drone carriers fueled by gasoline or RTGs, etc.). cover is a completely changed concept.  It used to require as little as maybe 45 degrees ( e.g., a concrete pillar to crouch behind ).  Now it needs to be 720 degrees - 360 horizontally and 360 vertically.  But if your cover is 720, while you can't be attacked (short term, cover can be degraded), neither can you attack or move. So you pop open a door / hatch / pile of logs to attack or maneuver, and the waiting drone(s) swoop in.

Who could have thought attacking a NATO gas pipeline would lead to getting ATACMSed. 
Shocking turn of events.

You could do this autonomously now, or very, very soon.  The Skydio 2+ can follow an individual, like a mountain biker or skier, while autonomously avoiding obstacles - this is used for filming, but has other obvious applications.  A bit more smarts in the chassis, and you have a hunter-killer.

https://www.skydio.com/skydio-2-plus-enterprise

Bloody Black Mirror. Btw. may be wrong, but it seems small kamikaze quadrocopters hunting singular soldiers seem much more common now than barely year ago.

Replace the pole with a tree and in CM it would hit every time! lol

But in CM projectille would fly through the pole (flavor object) and wouldn't ricocheted )

I'm late catching up you've all probably commented on this already...
But that a "Combat Mission Moment" if ive ever seen one.

Now this is a solid demonstrator for the advantages of cluster munitions over conventional.
 

Get shot down only slightly less easily?
I thought we'd agreed that Attack Helicopters ... indeed, any Helicopter near the front ... was now more a liability than an asset?

Hamas is savage and evil.

For those who have been talking about LOAC, here's a tidy primer:
 

I'm just going to make this one statement to inform if never heard of. Whether you choose to look into it further is up to you or not. When the nations of Turkey, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Ethiopia, and Russia or former parts of Soviet Union which are muslim to name a few form an alliance of key players to pile on Israel then it's going to get Biblically prophetic hot. Notice that Egypt, Syria, and Iraq are absent from the alliance although they fought against Israel in the past. Iraq could be considered part of Persia though. Saudi Arabia specifically will not be part of this alliance, and will actually condemn it. All these countries will come against Israel, but it will be victorious which will be viewed as a miracle of God. The aftermath is described as taking 7 months to cleanse the land with special people who have to mark the land as the dead need to be disposed of in a particular way. The very fact that Israel became a nation again after 2000 yrs in 1948 as prophesied it one day would is something to consider in accuracy.
I did this painting, "The Bringing of Mars", 24 yrs ago in 1999 about it, but Ezekiel 38, 39 were written thousands of years ago.

Hamas is savage and evil.

For those who have been talking about LOAC, here's a tidy primer:
 

NAtions tried to work out a way of having Safe Zones from air attack between WW1 and WW2 to add to Hague and Geneva. They spent a *lot* of time and effort on the problem ... and no matter what they came up with they realised that it could be so easily gamed that trying to solve the problem was pointless.
Against psychopathic terrorists like Hamas there is no point in even trying.
Indeed, even expecting Israel to not attack targets because they'd cause 'excessive' civilian casualties when Hamas deliberately sets up their positions to make that impossible to avoid is pure insanity on the part of know nothing bleeding hearts (left and right wing, politically).

Hamas is full of fanatics. No matter what concessions Israel or the West attempts to give them will only allow them to regroup and try all over again. Israel MUST render them completely ineffective in order to put this to rest for at least another decade.
 

Indeed, apart from the logistical challenges of moving such a mass of people in such a short time without (probably) sufficient electricity/fuel/water/food/medicine there are many people in hospitals who would have issues moving even in a fully functioning western country. 
Plus Hamas will probably hinder the movement as they (also) don't care about Palestinian lives