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November 14, 2018       Share:    

Source: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israel-strikes-targets-in-heart-of-gaza-avoids-killing-civilians-to-prevent-war-1.6652536

Israel Avoided Killing Palestinian Civilians to Try to Prevent All-Out War

(Ha'aretz) Yaniv Kubovich - After an anti-tank missile was fired from Gaza across the border at a bus near Kibbutz Kfar Aza on Monday, followed by a broad Hamas offensive against Israel involving rockets and mortars, both the Israeli government and the army understood a substantial response was necessary. Unlike recent bouts of fighting, the army decided to start with significant Hamas targets in city centers - high-rise buildings of operational importance - rather than military targets in outlying areas. Thus, the Israeli airstrikes were "completely different from anything we've known in the past," said a senior Air Force officer on Tuesday. "We've learned how to attack these targets at the heart of residential neighborhoods and obliterate them without killing anyone in the strike."

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