We certainly did. And we had tunnel rats clearing out extensive tunnel networks. They had about a 30% casualty rate (5% killed and 20+% wounded.) My cousin was a tunnel rat and was seriously wounded. He’s 76 now and very active, fit, and doing well. He lives in Tidewater but spends most of his time at his house in Duck these days.
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They can’t. Wars are like that. Innocent people die.
It's sad that they are so frightened by a boat carrying food, medicine, and baby formula that they are forced to commit a war crime to stop it. Yes, since the boat was in international waters, it is a war crime (and act of piracy) to attack it.Greta Thunberg and other activists on Gaza aid boat will be deported, Israel says - live updates
Israel's foreign ministry has branded it a "selfie yacht", while Thunberg says she has been "kidnapped" after Israeli forces boarded the vessel.
In 2025, you expect Israel to sign up for a ground assault that will kill so many of their own soldiers when the Hamas people are in tunnels? The bar for Israel is impossible to clear.
I guess option 2 of leveling all of Gaza (except the tunnels, somehow) is a much better option.
I take it you missed the news about Sinwar being killed in one of these tunnels? Or was that CGI and fake news?
Beginning, IIRC, with the lie that IDF bombed a hospital, when it was Hamas who bombed their own hospital.
It's sad that you don't understand why they have to stop every boat, truck, etc coming into Gaza.
It’s a war. The area has a government led by a terrorist organization. There will be innocent people that die. Every war has that.
So it only took leveling all of Gaza to get to him. Wow, kudos
Nope, just one well-placed bunker-busting bomb into his tunnel, which happened to be directly adjacent to a hospital.
Bullshit. You don't stop a boat 160 miles from Gaza in the middle of the night with a special ops team in international waters. What's the point of stopping an aid ship?
Sure, but do you have any expectation of restraint when one side has immense technological and resource superiority? What’s an acceptable ratio of innocent civilians: armed combatants in such a war? What about innocent Palestinian civilians: IDF forces? How many “bad” children should be sacrificed for the safety of a single ”good” soldier?
A war is between two armies. This is not the case. This is an army against mostly civilians.
So yeah, then just take out the hospital while you're at it to get one guy. You show your true colors and just admit that you don't value Palestinian lives. Stop pretending like you care.
They didn't take out a hospital. They took out the bunker adjacent to and beneath the hospital.
You do when you're at war.
Come on.....Because Israel can't be sure it's only aid. They can't even be sure it's an aid ship.
Oh, I forgot. they used the magic bombs that only hit tunnels and skip the buildings. My bad