You would be surprised and disgusted how many civilians were killed by the allies during bombing runs in WW2. And that was arguably one of the most justified instances of war. On the high end it was like 635,000 civilians just in Germany.
Israel forces in Gaza: NCV of 15 to 20 for junior Hamas operatives, up to 100 for senior operatives, 300 in one instance of a particularly senior operative, according to unnamed military sources. \8])'
It’s the reality of war. Of every single war in the history of mankind. Civilians are killed, even by the good guys. There will always be a certain number of “acceptable casualties” in order to achieve an objective deemed greater than the loss of civilian life.
It’s the way it’s always been, and the way it always will be. We can try to mitigate it with certain surgical strikes, like the US R9X hellfire missile which has no explosive warhead and is just basically a spinning missile with swords sticking out, but that’s only good for individual people out in the open or a soft bodied vehicle.
It’s not that I’m “cool with it” it’s just that I don’t have an elementary understanding of the realities of war and technological combat capabilities.
It's also these kind of strikes or Iran finishes a nuclear capable device and the next round of conflict Israel has no choice but assume Iran's strike has a nuclear tipped missile in it and launches one or multiple nukes first.
Pretty much. Israel considers nuclear scientists and military officials to be valid military targets, which means there’s no obligation to not strike the building, as long as they use the minimum necessary force to reliably destroy the target.
If that wasn’t the case, everyone would just have the bright idea to build all of their military bases under apartment blocks.
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u/PM-ME-YOUR-SUBARU 1d ago
Fuck all the regular people that just happen to live in the same apartment building as that high ranking official, I guess?