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In the summer of 2014, Hamas committed incessant terrorist attacks against Israel, prompting us to launch Operation Protective Edge.
Scroll to see the operation like never before:
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IDF Paratroopers search for the 3 Israeli teenagers kidnapped and murdered by Hamas in Operation Brother's Keeper, before the start of Operation Protective Edge.
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Israelis take cover on the highway when sirens sound due to incoming rocket fire from Gaza.
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Gazan civilians run to the roof of a building used by Hamas for terrorist activities after Hamas encourages them to serve as human shields.
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The IDF field hospital takes in Palestinian patients from Gaza.
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An arsenal of mortar shells is uncovered in a Hamas tunnel in Gaza.
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IDF soldiers prepare to neutralize a Hamas tunnel in Gaza.
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A blind woman is found by IDF soldiers near a suspected tunnel entrance in Gaza. She drinks for the first time in days after not having access to water.
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IDF infantry troops march back to Israel.
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Our forces depart from Gaza, marking the completion of Operation Protective Edge.
๐ธ: Barak Chen and Reuters
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Here's some important context to the headlines youโre seeing about Israel Defense Forces operations in the Gaza Strip โฌ
1/ Hamas has turned residential areas in the Gaza Strip into military strongholds.
It uses tall buildings in Gaza for multiple military purposes such as intelligence gathering, planning attacks, command and control, and communications.
2/ When Hamas uses a tall building for military purposes, it becomes a lawful military target.
We are live-tweeting as IDF Chief of the General Staff LTG Aviv Kohavi speaks at the Institute for National Security Studies 14th Annual International Conference:
The enemy chose to entrench itself and its weapons, including missiles and rockets, in urban areas.
They deliberately ignore international law; the clearest proof of this is that they intend to fire all these missiles toward Afula, Metula and Gush Dan.
They have dispersed and decentralized all their networks, so it is imperative to adapt both the State of Israel, the IDF, and the international community to this reality.
1/ No military should have to write a thread like this, but we canโt stand idly by when there are important questions that must be asked:
Last week, a Hezbollah arms depot exploded in the middle of a neighborhood in southern Lebanon
...but why was it there in the first place?
2/ Hezbollahโs strategy is to hide their weapons inside civilian neighborhoods. Why? So that if things were to escalate with Israel, Israel would have no choice but to target civilian areas.
3/ Why does Hezbollah want Israel to target civilian areas? Because then there would be international outrage at the fact that Israel has targeted civilians.