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can a sane person explain to me how, "roof knock" to inform the civilians to leave a building before the inevitable explosives destroy the building are supposed

can a sane person explain to me how, "roof knock" to inform the civilians to leave a building before the inevitable explosives destroy the building are supposed to do anything other than collective punishment to the residents of that building? If you have actual intel of your opponent in a building, you take that out and collateral damage of human and infra comes with it but when you "warn" the people that a strike is incoming, what's the point?

mytailorisrich 3y ago
Those strikes are to destroy the infrastructure or assets located in a building, not the people. Of course when the target is a person or group of people there is no warning. I think there is also an element of PR in addition to genuine concern for collateral victims as this is an urban environment and Israel knows they will inevitably be accused of wrongdoing. Note that civilian buildings are purposely used to store military assets.
- tguvot 3y ago
  >Those strikes are to destroy the infrastructure or assets located in a building, not the people. Of course when the target is a person or group of people there is no warning actually depending on collateral damage strike could be cancelled. till bomb/rocket is released it's tentative strike. there is footage here and there of cancelled strikes. additionally IDF made some long multi-disciplinary research with ethicians, lawyers, mathematicians, etc about how to balance target (priority, level of immediate danger aka ticking bomb, long term implication of target staying alive, etc. it's not really published) vs acceptable collateral damage