🧵"The new flattening method was given in the IDF the name 'ceiling-floor,' meaning to quickly attach between two parts of the house in order to ensure its annihilation."
Excerpts from a Ynet article about the Paratroopers Brigade activity in Gaza, published yesterday.
The screenshot is from the English version of the article, but the quotes are from the Hebrew version, since it contains parts that are missing in the English version.
Excerpts from a Ynet article about the Paratroopers Brigade activity in Gaza, published yesterday.
The screenshot is from the English version of the article, but the quotes are from the Hebrew version, since it contains parts that are missing in the English version.
"In recent months, the brigade's fighters have razed to the ground 2,137 buildings in the Abbasan neighborhoods in eastern Khan Yunis, near the border with Israel, but on the western - Gazan - side of the 70th Ridge. In the past year, the IDF has razed thousands of buildings on the eastern, higher side of the ridge near the border."
"The assumption is that the IDF will continue engineering work to flatten buildings, possibly including many high-rise buildings that remain in Gaza City."
"One of the deputy battalion commanders in the brigade, Major R. from the Paratroopers Reconnaissance Unit, developed a new method to speed up the flattening of buildings: dropping a small explosive munition from a drone onto a building’s roof in a way that creates a hole. Afterwards, a larger drone, capable of carrying dozens of kilograms, inserts explosives through the hole into the building. The charges are detonated remotely in a controlled manner, thus saving and shortening what used to be an hour-long process of booby-trapping buildings of 2–4 floors to just a few minutes — sometimes as little as three minutes."
"Officers who took part in 'Gideon’s Chariots' admitted that many of their missions were contractual in nature: the systematic, total destruction — within a minimal timeframe — of entire streets and neighborhoods in the Gaza Strip, similar to the erasure of most of Rafah since it was captured about a year and four months ago."
"The paratroopers managed to kill about 160 terrorists throughout the operation."
Very safe to assume that all of them, or almost all of them, were actually civilians.
Very safe to assume that all of them, or almost all of them, were actually civilians.
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