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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."