Posted on 05/11/2021 11:28:20 AM PDT by USA Conservative
A short time ago Israel struck a 13-story residential building in Gaza City.
According to Channel 12, prior to the strike people in the building received several warnings, including phone calls and messages, telling them to leave and a preliminary “roof-knocking” strike — using a small missile to strike the roof with minimal damage in order to cause all inside to leave before a major strike.
Hamas earlier threatened to launch long-range rockets at Tel Aviv should Israel continue airstrikes in residential areas. Channel 12 says the group was apparently referring to the high-rise in question.
It is not yet clear why Israel targeted the building. The network reports it apparently served as the home for many terror operatives, including some released by Israel during the 2011 Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange.
In videos from the scene, the building can be seen being enveloped in dense smoke before collapsing.
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Before and after pictures of the building that was attacked.
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It was not immediately clear if the building had been fully evacuated, or if there were casualties.
Israel’s armed forces and Palestinian militants exchanged rocket fire on Tuesday as days of fighting centered around one of the holiest sites in the world for Muslims, Jews and Christians snowballed into another deadly flare-up in a decades-long conflict. The bloodshed was likely to get worse, as both sides indicated that they would escalate their attacks.
Israel’s military said it was targeting Hamas militant leaders in retaliation for a steady volley of rockets fired from Gaza at Israel — more than 400, and climbing fast.
As an act of retaliation Hamas launched large rockets at Tel Aviv.
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Closet Nazis in the west criticize when the Israelis defend themselves in this way.
There are no civilians in Islam. There are people who are fighting you and people who support the fighters.
The Palis continue to sabotage their future.
Soon, they won’t have one.
“According to Channel 12, prior to the strike people in the building received several warnings, including phone calls and messages, telling them to leave and a preliminary “roof-knocking” strike — “
That’s what the muslims said when the World Trade Center towers were destroyed.
Sweet!
Sweet!
The goats are gonna get wore out from a bunch of angry religion of peaceniks.
If anyone wonders why they bomb an empty building- it is because that is where they allowed terrorists to operate- and if people don’t want THEIR buildings bombed they won’t let terrorists operate.
I think Israel is going out of it’s way to avoid casualties. To their detriment.
There is sophisticated enough radar that they can spot where a missile is launched from and respond almost immediately to the launch site.
Time for the people to realize that Hamas does stage attacks from civilian locations and allowing this exposes them to seeing those civilian or military sites disappear in retaliation by the Israelis.
They should quit with the warnings and completely annihilate the terrorists. Every last one of them.
Time for Israel to pave paradise and put in a parking lot. Ship them all to Syria and annex Gazza to Israel.
The video looked more like a controlled demolition.
The Israelis need something like a MASER, that would set off explosives remotely.
The effect would have been the same.
Yes it did. I’m betting it was.
11 story building in a “refugee” camp? Impossible!
The dangerous Muslim Occupiers need to be removed from Israel including all of the terrorists’ advance attack base areas (Gaza, Samaria, Judea, and Hezballah with its 150,000 bomb rockets on the northern line).. send them back to Arabia/Egypt/etc. Get it done and peace can then gradually grow. Arabia and Egypt know how to deal with Muslim terrorists and murder gangsters... Israel obviously does not.
Should have known....13 story building....kind of an unlucky number?
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