It escalated in October but even shortly before there were regular clashes.

From 2017 https://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/18/politics/paul-selva-gary-peters-autonomous-weapons-killer-robots/index.html

America’s second-highest ranking military officer, Gen. Paul Selva, advocated Tuesday for “keeping the ethical rules of war in place lest we unleash on humanity a set of robots that we don’t know how to control.”

I do not understand this either

I read " yes Israel committed war crimes but also we are not sure if Israel committed war crimes."