• NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    The thing is: What’s going on in Gaza right now is the modern equivalent of carpet bombing. When you can call in airstrikes with building-level accuracy, there’s no reason to bomb whole cities to the ground anymore, so what Israel is doing now is its spiritual successor.

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      11 months ago

      Whilst I agree that Israel is willing to cause a lot of damage just to get rid of a small amount of Hamas members, it’s definitely very far from carpet bombing (of Dresden, for example) where there are several warnings to leave the critical zones.

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        11 months ago

        They sometimes send warnings (that Gazans aren’t always able to receive). A lot of the time they don’t. Also like the other guy said, Israel has dropped enough bombs for 6 Dresdens. They just didn’t do it all at once.

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          11 months ago

          It is impossible to make sure every inhabitant of Gaza gets the warning. However, it is quite a lot of warnings when they know who is registered under which telecom network, so they can mass send SMSs and also leaflets. Without those warnings, there would be far more causalities. And it is quite a good point that they did not do it all at once. That means civilians have some time to leave.