I agree.
If you are a Palestinian still in the hot zone you aren't an innocent civilian, you are a combatant.
Man, woman, or child.
Horrible, I know.
Reality isn't pretty sometimes.
That's why we have that old adage, or is it euphemism, I would prefer adage be correct because it seems everything that end in "ism" has a bad connotation, but I digress... that's why we have that old saying, the ugly truth.