the point was predicated on the immediacy of beating the qwap of a bully before they can get away. agree that just blowing their house down is ineffective, as we all now see. someone said “fighting fire with fire is not as effective as fighting fire with gasoline”.
“blowing their house down”
If HAMAS leaders don’t actually own their houses (or apartment units) all they lost was chattels.
Just how much of the infrastructure has actually been destroyed? If I simply go to a web search map, say, Google, which indicates imagery from 2024, and zoom in and hunt around in, say, North Gaza, overall it just doesn’t look that bad. A small F2 tornado going through there would appear to be a much greater calamity from an infrastructure standpoint...