Those booby traps also kill Gazan children. Did you see that recent video of the Gazan girl getting blown to bits? They tried to pin it on Israel, but it was a Hamas IED. That's why there was a camera pointed at it.
It matters because those structures have been converted from peoples' homes to weapons of war. And those weapons are dangerous to both Israeli soldiers and to Gazan citizens.
Many of the dead children pinned on Israel are the result of the bobby trapped buildings. This actually makes sense in Muslim media, where culturally those killed by either side are considered martyrs and afforded the gifts of heaven. But it makes no sense in Western media where human life is supposedly valued.
Do you care about the safety and security of people in Israel? What would you do if a fundamentalist group shot thousands of rockets into your town over a decade?
What would you do if you were expelled from your homeland at gunpoint by foreign settlers, and then 19 years later, your refugee camp was conquered by the very same people, who then ruled over you using brute military force for nearly 60 years, with no end in sight?
Based on your argument, why don’t the Gazans leave? Would you not consider Gaza to be a bad neighborhood?
The answer for both sides is that both sides have historical claim to the land, and there is no better neighborhood to live in for either of the sides anyway.
I accept that argument. If I were Gazan I’d leave too, if I could.
But Gazans can’t leave (the borders have been closed for years now), while Israelis can emigrate whenever they like. So on an individual basis, every Israeli has made a choice to accept living in the bad neighborhood, whereas the Gazans have no choice but to make the best of the bad situation.