“war” fits the description of what they’re doing pretty badly overall.
I’m afraid not - as far as certain states are concerned, the slaughter of masses of civilians have pretty much always been what the term “war” means.
The firebombings of Hamburg and Tokyo are merely two examples on a laundry list of things that gets called “war” by the states that perpetrate them.
To a white supremacist settler-colonialist state like Israel, indiscriminately murdering masses of Palestinians with the push of a button isn’t just “war” - it’s glorious “war.” When the other side shoots back, they don’t call that war - they call that “terrorism.” And they learned that trick from the imperialist states they also learned their white supremacism from.