Posted on 07/15/2014 2:24:45 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
It's become another military euphemism, along with "collateral damage" and "friendly fire."
The "knock on the roof" is the Israeli military's warning for civilians before it fires on a building and is being used extensively as Israeli airstrikes target Hamas sites in Operation Protective Edge.
The Israeli Air Force developed the technique in 2009 as a way to warn civilians in Gaza to leave buildings it has identified as locations where Hamas keeps ammunition, a rocket stash or command post. But it is a controversial policy that has been criticized by human rights groups.
The procedure generally begins with a phone call to the occupants to leave a building, according to Relik Shafir, a retired brigadier general in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and a former fighter pilot.
Such places, he says, are often under constant surveillance, and the IDF has a sense of how many people live there, and how many leave.
If it is still unclear whether a building is occupied, a missile that carries little or no explosive load is aimed at the roof of a building. The impact is felt, but it rarely causes casualties.
"It's meant to get people to take us seriously," says Shafir.
There is no standard gap between the delivery of the "dummy" missile and fully armed missiles, says Shafir. It can be minutes or even hours. It depends on how important the target is. But there are hundreds or even thousands of such places in Gaza, chosen by Hamas precisely because they complicate targeting.
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How much warning do the palis give civilians before dropping a rocket on them?
Pretty soon they’ll be driving right up to the front door with Schlomo’s Taxi Service to help the people get out in time.
bttt!
The only thing these warnings do is alert hamas terrorists to leave, and shoo-in their human relatively-innocent woman-and-children fodder. Generally, visible on the roof, to see if they can stave-off the Israeli strike. All the while, the hamas terrorists watch all unfold from across the street.
CNN is long tied with terrorists.
So who cares.
So, then, just whack them without any warning. See if they like that any better.
“How much warning do the palis give civilians before dropping a rocket on them?”
When there’s a confrontation between a crazy person and a sane person the police insist that the sane person do exactly as they say. The insisted on action is usually to the damage or detriment of the sane person. But the cops know they can’t get the crazy person to stop. So, they insist that the sane person not respond. They don’t care what happens to the sane person, they just want the conflict to stop.
warnings are ridiculous. makes Israel look like a stupid fool
That’s why I asked the rhetorical question — Is this any way to win a war?
I don’t recall Israel ever doing this in 1948 or 1967.
Heck, I don’t recall the USA doing this in the war to defeat Imperial Japan or Germany.
As a former attack piloy in Vietnam, I think this idea sucks. It’s akin to a LEO firing “warning shots,” which is never done. But the Israelis are bending over backward to avoid international criticism from Lefties. Waste of time and energy.
TC
The cries of injustice fall flat when screeched by evil men.
Excuse me Moishe...
my 3-year-old daughter is wired with 10Kg of explosives.
Please leave this open-air market in the next 5 minutes.
Sure..that happens.
Israel could drop warm fuzzy bunnies with a “please Don’t Shoot Rockets At Us” note with Hello Kitties all over it and the world would still get their knickers in a twist ...
That’s no way to win a war. Hamas needs to die with their pants down.
Can you imagine WW2 being fought that way?
“Dear Adolf,
We plan to bomb your staff headquarters in five hours. Would you be so kind as to leave before then? Goodness knows, we don’t want any civilians to be hurt.
All the best,
Winnie”
They aren’t rights groups — they’re Jew-hating pro-genocide thugs.
Thanks SeekAndFind.
That they still go out of their way to prevent civilians causalities speaks well to their character.
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So what CNN and its affiliated Progressive whiners are objecting to is that a few minutes is not enough time to haul the rockets, mortars, etc. from the building and that the Israelis should tell them exactly when the real bombs will arrive.
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