Israeli troops are fighting with Hamas militants on the edges of Gaza City, as the Palestinian death toll rises above 9,000. U.S. and Arab leaders are raising pressure on Israel to ease its siege and at least briefly halt its attacks in order to aid civilians.
Terror: causing fear by using violence that is unlikely to cause harm to the majority of people to achive political change.
This is literally what Hamas did on the 7th of October. Israel isn’t isn’t aiming at fear, their plan is to kill every Hamas member.