Under the circumstances, what is needed is not negotiations with Hamas, but strong military action against it. Israel should not undertake a brief incursion, but a major invasion of Gaza to uproot Hamas once and for all. If the Israeli leadership doesn’t take such action, it risks Hamas growing into an even greater menace to the State of Israel than it is today.

they have only meager friendly ones.

The article says the IDF saw gunmen in the crowd approaching the border and "fired at the lower part of their bodies". This makes Israel seem as if it doesn't believe it had the right to shoot to kill these people. You look weak, indecisive, and uncertain. The world will understand and support Israel better when you stop apologizing for shooting armed enemy combatants.

Even "moderate" is too much. One Israeli soldier is worth a million arab muslim occupiers of Palestine.