A devastating read from Israeli publication +972mag
The Israeli army’s expanded authorization for bombing non-military targets, the loosening of constraints regarding expected civilian casualties, and the use of an artificial intelligence system to generate more potential targets than ever before, appear to have contributed to the destructive nature of the initial stages of Israel’s current war on the Gaza Strip, an investigation by +972 Magazine and Local Call reveals.
Current and former Israeli intelligence officers have begun to leak about the cruel, and counterproductive nature of their orders.
I encourage all of you to read the entire article. The folks at 972 did an excellent, thorough job.
“We are asked to look for high-rise buildings with half a floor that can be attributed to Hamas,” said one source who took part in previous Israeli offensives in Gaza. “Sometimes it is a militant group’s spokesperson’s office, or a point where operatives meet. I understood that the floor is an excuse that allows the army to cause a lot of destruction in Gaza. That is what they told us.
“If they would tell the whole world that the [Islamic Jihad] offices on the 10th floor are not important as a target, but that its existence is a justification to bring down the entire high-rise with the aim of pressuring civilian families who live in it in order to put pressure on terrorist organizations, this would itself be seen as terrorism. So they do not say it,” the source added.
If you, like I do, support safety and peace between Israel and her neighbors: How could bombing "power targets", and (as the article documents) deliberately murdering members of Palestinian civil society make Israel safer? We need Biden to do a better job at reining in Netanyahu and his war cabinet. They are proving that they are incapable of prosecuting this war.