They've tried so hard. Apart from those 10,000 children.
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Wow. Just wow. I have no words for this.
And nineteen other jokes to tell your ethnonationalist friends!
The thing I just don't get is what purpose would bombing even serve in this war? We all know Hamas hides in the tunnels, we all know IDF doesn't know everything about said tunnels (i.e. doesn't have a perfect map of them) and blowing up tunnels by bombing the houses on top just feels like the most destructive way possible.
I get it's far more dangerous to clear the tunnels inch by inch on foot. They're likely booby trapped and it is fighting your enemy on home turf. But given that civilians aren't allowed in the tunnels it seems like the obvious way to minimize civilian casualties down to virtually nothing. Pair that with above ground house by house clearing and you have the slowest war in world history yes, but maybe the first ethical war as well. But it's clear that was never a goal. Israel is doing what they can to ensure they get to finish this before the world at large stops them. And by finish I mean raze Gaza (and the West Bank) to the ground and end any hope for Palestinan statehood once and for all.
I get it's far more dangerous to clear the tunnels inch by inch on foot. They're likely booby trapped and it is fighting your enemy on home turf. But given that civilians aren't allowed in the tunnels it seems like the obvious way to minimize civilian casualties down to virtually nothing.
Exactly. They didn't do this because the IDF is the most cowardly army in the world.
Oh no, can't risk our precious soldiers so instead let's completely level innocent people's homes to get down to tunnels which are at least 10 metres underground. And they expect us to understand.
Yeah we understand alright, they realised it's easier to just kill them all from afar and pick up the pieces after. Morality be damned. If there was a god he would be looking at them with absolute shame.
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That's a strange way to misspell: committed genocide
There's no laughing at this BS. It's truly heartbreaking.
If true, they’ve been spectacularly shit at it. Ffs.
Peak “at least we did our best” energy
This is the best summary I could come up with:
No military fighting an entrenched enemy in dense urban terrain in an area barely twice the size of Washington D.C. can avoid all civilian casualties.
The Israeli Defense Force has used many types of PGMs to avoid civilian harm, including the use of munitions like small diameter bombs (SDBs), as well as technologies and tactics that increase the accuracy of non-PGMs.
By contrast, Israel provided days and then weeks of warnings, as well as time for civilians to evacuate multiple cities in northern Gaza before starting the main air-ground attack of urban areas.
Israel has dropped over 520,000 pamphlets, and broadcast over radio and through social media messages to provide instruction for civilians to leave combat areas.
The IDF also conducted daily four-hour pauses over multiple consecutive days of the war to allow civilians to leave active combat areas.
Despite the unique challenges Israel faces in its war against Hamas, it has implemented more measures to prevent civilian casualties than any other military in history.
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I mean, it could have been shortened to "lol yeah sorry about the deaths, but that's just warfare bro" but that would be a little too facetious.
Yes, collateral damage and loss of life is always a risk that can't be mitigated in this scenario, but it's hard to accept that over the course of nearly four fucking months.
I do need to get hold of that journo though. If he gives out handjobs like he's jacking the IDF off with that story, I'll be turned off women for life.
Ah, something contrary to the common narritive.
By "the common narrative" do you mean reality?
Hasbara, is that you?