Israel always has to "defend itself" from the people it is attacking.What was happening at the time was a war. As usual, Team Pallywood tries to paint the Arab Muslims as innocent civilians being massacred by violent and evil Israelis when they were in fact, militants hiding and attacking from amongst a civilian population.
No different than today.
And only islamonazi morons see Israel defending itself from constant attack as being an attack by Israel. When the arab muslims stop firing illegal weapons into Israel then Israel will stop " attacking" in defence.