Collective punishment is rounding up groups of people and jailing them without benefit of a charge or a trial. Hundreds were rounded up in Gaza...the net was wide and people were taken without stated cause or proof. And homes were destroyed belonging to the families of the suspects ... before a trial and conviction.
It's actions like these that gets Israel in trouble with the rest of the world and ramps up calls for "BDS", and worse.
I simply wish Israel would think a little before plowing through. Ultimately they hurt themselves more than even their enemy.
Shalom :-)
They need to get it over in one huge plow.