@mcnado it's not, though. That's not how war crimes work, nor is it what you're talking about here.

In general, war crimes only come up when there's a formal war. The Hamas attacks didn't qualify due to how they were carried out, without regular, uniformed soldiers and such. So the law of war isn't really on the table.

But we can go even more basic: it's not collective punishment not to help. It's neutrality.

It's simply factually false to say that the lack of aid is punishment.

Rather, you're accusing a war crime for something people didn't do in a circumstance where law of war doesn't apply.