It was Hamas who killed those children and women in Gaza. Hamas knowingly and intentionally provoked this reaction from Israel and they are the ones hiding behind the civilians shooting rockets from near hospitals. I think the reaction was calculate so they can additionally play the victims.
Many routers have an option to login to a VPN. Then all traffic that goes over that router to the internet goes over the VPN. Theoretically something like that should also be possible with a Linux server if the server is local. With this setup you shouldn’t need to configure the VPN on your local devices.