Criminal investigations isolate individual atrocities, while the genocide debate gets trapped in legal definitions. Both risk obscuring the policy that made civilian deaths routineThe responses of Haaretz journalists to the killings in Gaza are courageous, but they also reveal a key limitation in the type of criticism leveled at the military's conduct. Nir Hasson criticized the army's announcement that there's no justification for investigating three widely covered incidents that occurred during the Gaza war, the most famous of which was the killing of the seven World Central Kitchen workers.