You're quite right. Which is why the Israelis didn't use artillery in densely populated areas. As the journalists on the ground correctly reported, there was no artillery employed until shortly before the infantry and armour were ready to advance, and even then it was employed only in the areas surrounding Gaza City, to clear out minefields and IED's.
Yes, Israel didn't flatten the gaza strip via MRLS and artillery fire as they would be tried of genocide after that (1,5 million residents afterall). However IDF is relently shelling the gaza strip with land and naval artillery and that means collateral damage, no matter how it gets spinned. From todays
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"The guiding principle behind the . . . operation is . . . we are moving in with full force, shooting everything we have, including artillery," Alex Fishman, an Israeli military affairs correspondent, wrote Sunday in the newspaper Yediot Aharonot. "We'll pay the international price later for the collateral damage and the anticipated civilian casualties."
Sorry, I can't feel too sorry for the Islamic nut cases.
Me neither. I'm sorry for palestinian and israeli civvies who mostly has no say in this splendid little war and get killed because both sides play dirty.
The images that you posted are smoke rounds
Yeah,
rounds, just as deadly as clusters when fired on:
“Although, I can’t say with 100 per cent certainty that these are classic white phosphorous rounds, they appear to have some form of white phosphorous content,” said Charles Heyman, a former editor of Jane’s World Armies. “If that is the case, this is bad news and the Israelis will lose out in terms of their international standing.”
The Israeli military last night denied using phosphorus, but refused to say what had been deployed. “Israel uses munitions that are allowed for under international law,” said Captain Ishai David, spokesman for the Israel Defence Forces.
Those pics were not posted by me, I just asked the cluster & grad kill radiuses.
My whole point was that IDF will lose the propaganda war as videos of dead and maimed civvies roll continuously on Al Jazeera et al. It just generates more terrorism and destabilize secular arab countries & strengthen Iran which is waging a propaganda war on "palestinian cause" as rest of the middle eastern countries stay pretty much silent.
IDF shoulda driven those tanks through gaza strip on first hour the war started. Hamas was so shell-shocked by bombings that their leadership, weapons stores and C&C would have been destroyed virtually unopposed. Now hamas had plenty of time to recover and prepare their defences as IDF bombed pitiful gazan infrastructure
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ff pla101prc which army are you now serving? Thank you.