Israel tried this "defending" on every occasion in the past with exactly the same result. What makes this "defense" any different besides a LOT more civilian deaths? Killing wholesale to find a political solution have been tried many times in different conflict except it is among soldiers in uniforms.
Cutting off food, water, electricity, medicine, bombing multiple hospitals, schools, churches, mosques is a funny way to defend. Israel push people into a tight plot of land and treat them like animals, you expect civil behaviour especially the funding initially to create an opposition to PLO.
Compromise on the bigger solution of a 2 state will find more success than these tit for tat punishments, revenge in an endless cycle. US has lost its moral authority based on it 2 decades of failures in the ME. Currently US + EU + UK are just singing from the same Sammy tune while their respective citizens are rebelling in the streets civilly.
