'Targeting and or killing families in whole or in part' is a term we use based on "...certain acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group" as stated by the UN Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect.
In the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide:
| Article II In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
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We describe the Palestinians, whether in the West Bank or Gaza, as a national group because the naming of the population is that of their country. The name of the population goes back to the Roman Era. The Palestinians are an ethnic group because they identify with each other based on shared attributes, which may include culture, language, religion, ancestry, or other characteristics that are often passed down through generations. In other words, Palestinians are a people with a historical continuity.
The Israelis are not such people, first, because they only identify with each other based on the ideology of Zionism. Their name is not centuries old, but since May 14, 1948, and comes from the name of a tribe, the Israelites. The Israelis are descendants of migrants from Europe, and over the years, people from around the world. They are all people who have lost their historical continuity, as they left their countries of origin.
Palestinians are Muslims, so a religious group because of their faith. The Israelis are not a religious group but religionizng ideological group of people from around the world. The so-called war by the Israelis is also a “war” against a religion because the Israelis want the whole of Palestine "Jewish."