non-combatants

You make it sound like Christians aren't currently engaged in religious wars that involve the murder and rape of uninvolved non-combatants.

In a place where managing outbreaks with the lowest possible loss of life to non-combatants.

What about the children and non-combatants who have incorrectly been killed due to drone strikes?

This is a WMD where non-combatants are being unwittingly used to fight a computer war between countries they have nothing to do with.

But, I'm not aware of any high tech war technology that explicitly tries to prevent risk of injury to non-combatants.

Likewise, unless you can show that Israel is deliberately targeting Palestinian non-combatants then there's not going to be an international legal basis for sanctions.

Further, the more accurate such munitions become the easier it is for non-combatants to avoid areas where they are likely to be killed or injured.

Terrorist organizations systematically target non-combatants in order to achieve their goals, do not display uniforms or have a command structure that can be entreated with.

A terror attack would have deliberately targeted the wedding convoy because it's a soft target and because of the fear it would inspire among civilian non-combatants.

Ultimately we'll have drones that drug soldiers and non-combatants rather than kill them.

Moreover deaths of non-combatants have been steadily rising.

Drone strikes explicitly try not to hit non-combatants.

For instance consider from a soldier's perspective "Since I've been told I can't shoot citizens or non-combatants, I assume the system enforces this.

As such, US citizens and non-combatants have nothing to worry about." And yet our troops do have issued firearms (at least during things like field exercises and training), and the republic has not fallen to a coup.

From Wikipedia: "Terrorism is commonly defined as violent acts (or the threat of violent acts) intended to create fear (terror), perpetrated for a religious, political, or ideological goal, and which deliberately target or disregard the safety of non-combatants (e.g., neutral military personnel or civilians)." This guy is a mass murdered, not a terrorist (in the usual sense of the word).