The phrase "best-efforts to avoid non-combatant deaths" is _extremely_ load-bearing in your post.
Israel is locked into a multigenerational existential conflict with people who utterly hate their guts for just existing. Similar feelings have developed on their side. Claiming that Israel cares about not killing Palestinian civilians is utterly laughable, especially given the news.
I happen to believe it’s true that a best effort is made to minimize civilian death (you can read about the lengths Israel goes to in order to avoid civilian casualties, more than any other country, and to such an extent that Hamas takes advantage of these tactics), but it’s also not as load bearing as you suggest.
There are rules of engagement and tradeoffs in war (Eye In The Sky is a decent film that focuses on this).
There’s still a major distinction between intentionally targeting civilians for torture and death and civilians killed as collateral damage while persuing an enemy combatant.
There's no amount of sophistry that can handwave away the fact that Israel is knowingly killing dozens of civilians for every Hamas member that they kill.
I'm not going to be able to convince you that what Israel is doing post 10/7 is wrong (nor can I even convince myself entirely).
But what I do know is (was) wrong was the attempt to found an ethnostate in the center of a political entity that religiously hates your people. That was monumentally stupid. But now I'm just whining.
I find the statements about best efforts hard to believe, considering that we're talking about the most far-right government Israel ever had, with several cabinet members making statements in favor of removing all Palestinians from the Gaza strip and the left bank, and a prime minister that knows he'll lose his job the moment he stops the hostilities. Today we're faced with the logical impossibility of Israel ordering an "evacuation" from Rafah, with nowhere for those people to go to.
Israel has a problem with domestic extremism, but that doesn't invalidate the points that were made.
But they do the same way the US cares more about Palestinians than the Houthis do. Of course such feelings are inhibited because of attacks, so I don't know which expectations you have here.
Israel is locked into a multigenerational existential conflict with people who utterly hate their guts for just existing. Similar feelings have developed on their side. Claiming that Israel cares about not killing Palestinian civilians is utterly laughable, especially given the news.