Far better than almost any other nations in a state of war, actually. Civilian to combatant death ratio was about 1:1 in the latest 2014 war, 4 times better than the usual modern wars involving first-world nations.
What a war it was indeed. Aerial bombardment of a walled city. A rocket launched from Gaza injures a few people in Israel; a bomb (no need to mention phosphorous wink wink) dropped from a state-of-the-art fighter jet destroys an entire city block.
And when Israel finally decided that it was time for the "mighty" IDF ground forces to enter the stage... nothing really happened. The rockets just continued to be launched from Gaza for a whole month. It was a really amusing "war" to watch in my opinion :D
I'm no military expert, so I don't have one. Scratch that, I do. Allow aid to reach the million or so civilians in Gaza instead of choking it from all sides.
What I do know is that Israel was forced to agree on a ceasefire with a a bunch of "terrorists". Quite hilarious.
Aid is reaching them everyday, both from Israel and Egypt checkpoints. They're also trading with both countries quite a lot. You don't think that this "siege" word actually means a blockade, do you?
The only thing that is required to be smuggled are rockets.
How can someone stop doing something he's not doing? These wars were started by Hamas, attacking Israel. These attacks never stop, and haven't stopped since the end of the last war, there's a rocket landing in Israel wvery week or two. Thankfully, these attacks are not heavy enough for full response, but blaming these wars for someone else than a terrorist organization that is trying to provoke a conflict is ridiculous.