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Maybe, just maybe, those are bad ideas. Which is why Israel has chosen it's current tactics.
Sending in troops to clear individual buildings is dangerous as fuck, go ask the Americans about what happened in Iraq and Afghanistan when they tried that. Why sacrifice Israeli lives to preserve Palestinians who are supporting Hamas by allowing them to be in their living spaces?
Ground penetrating radar? Are you fucking high? The Israelis and Egyptians a lot better tech than that and it still isn't stopping them. There are hundreds or thousands of these tunnels, with new ones constantly being constructed. The US tries this too, they've found hundreds and there are still plenty they haven't found.
you've been persistently testing the boundaries of what's acceptable rhetoric toward other users in this thread and i think it's time you take some time off here to chill out a bit.
It’s funny you didn’t respond to the comment about using weapons that can hit the specific building they were aimed at.
Yes, fighting the people that can actually shoot back is hard, that’s why the military constantly practices and drills doing it. It is however impossible that avoiding the Hamas and only killing random innocent people will ever have an impact on stoping the Hamas from attacking Israel. That is why it was so easy to outlaw collective punishment as a war crime under common article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, because it does not and has never worked to do anything but breed resentment and prolong a conflict.
You know tunnels of any significant length take months to years to construct, right? They also lead back to the places you want to target if you want to actually achieve anything. It also seems to work ok on along the rest of Gaza’s borders, as for some strange reason none of these magically infinite tunnels had crossed that border, or we would have seen them on Oct 7th.
But please, explain how Isreal’s current tactics of avoiding using weapons that can hit Hamas and never engaging any stronghold or trying to capture any Hamas leader without explicitly warning Hamas they are coming hours in advance is magically going to end this war.
Why, it’s almost like the government party that publicly funded the most extreme members of Hamas until 2019 to explicitly foster increased hostility and prevent a two state solution from ending hostilities might just not actually be trying to do what they were forced to say was their goal after October seventh.
The fact that you are being sanctioned for speaking sense does not reflect well upon the administrator of this forum.
Edit: Never mind, you were a bit rude below. You are making good points, so please keep doing that, just without insulting people.