Yes it is.

Assymetric warfare is ugly as fuck because it has to be. And this conflict is assymetric as hell.

Both sides are trying to demoralize the enemy to gain what they want. War is diplomacy when all other methods have failed after all.

Unless Israel or the =est of the world wants to give Palestine an enormous cache of high tech weaponry they'll fight like this because because it's one of the few ways for them TO fight.

So they commit atrocities and Israel commits atrocities and round and round it goes

Saying war is messy is one of those things. Like "friendly fire". Like all language describing all forms of war it fails utterly to convey the senselessness and inhumanity of the darkest parts of our nature.

There are no good sides of bad sides in this conflict. Each side is both, and the bitter reality is that a state of war or armed conflict is by its very nature atrocious. There's just the desd, the living. And those who have been left behind.