Western media have been eager to send journalists, but denied permission. (That's mad, given how wantonly Israel has treated journalists, aid workers, etc.) You+Israel's govt fear that if journalists had access they'd be snowed. Maybe. Maybe not. But you can't pretend they do have access. They don't

There's just no defending the character of Israel's behavior in this conflict, under contemporary moral commonplaces.

Maybe for Israel it has been strategically correct. Maybe "consciousness searing" and "Dahiya doctrine" are a path to Israel's security. But those strategies have a real cost, in terms of regard for people who understood what civilized behavior means in a way that would exclude these practices.