The IDF have dropped roughly 16 million warning leaflets, made hundreds of thousands of mobile phone calls, hundreds of thousands of sms messages and when intending to destroy a building 'tap on the roof' by sending a small rocket prior to the destructive one.
For all that, the IDF have achieved a lower civilian death rate than the Iraq war, the Kosovo war and the Syrian civil war.
Those leaflets are often contradictory and misleading, according to this report by
the BBC - yet another violation of their International obligations towards the civilian population in Gaza. What's the point of putting further information online, when Israel blocks internet communication?
"It is estimated that Israel has dropped more than 70,000 tons of explosives on the Gaza Strip in addition to its bulldozing operations, resulting in the destruction of all buildings at a distance of up to one kilometer in the east and north of the Strip in order to create a so-called buffer zone," according to the Geneva-based human rights monitor organization...more bombs than were dropped during WWII.
At least 370,000 housing units in Gaza have been damaged, including
79,000 destroyed completely, the report said, along with commercial buildings. After previous Israel-Hamas conflicts, housing was rebuilt at a rate of 992 units a year, it said...reconstruction is estimated to take around 20 years.
Over an area smaller than the Isle of Wight.
Meanwhile...
...the blame game goes on; each side picking holes in the other, while Blinken flies around the Middle East in attempts to square the circle with more blue sky thinking out of the box, running each proposal up the flagpole and racking up more frequent flyer miles in the process of going round in the same circle. He's such a square square. Poor chap resembles an oozlum bird more than a latter-day Kissinger. An errand boy sent by grocery clerks to pick up the bill which runs into the billions of dollars. "The horror, the horror!" exclaims Uncle Joe, every time someone shows him the running costs of this forever war, waged by lunatics who not only want to run the asylum but bulldoze the old buildings into the dust and build a new Jerusalem atop the stinking corpses lieing 'neath the rubble.
Give the Devil his due. He knows how to keep a war going.
