http://twitchy.com/brettt/2023/10/07/heres-video-of-an-israeli-roof-knock-on-a-building-in-gaza-n2388251
What's a "roof knock"? It's when Israel detonates an explosive on the roof of your building letting you know they're serious about you evacuating NOW. One of these roof knocks was caught on camera:
Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) ~ JUST IN: Terrifying moment caught on camera as a residential building in Gaza city is struck during a live interview with Al Jazeera reporter Youmna El-Sayed.
The building was later decimated.
The building reportedly held Hamas offices which is why it was targeted by Israeli forces.
What you are seeing in the footage below is a "warning shot" just minutes before the building was brought to the ground.
http://twitter.com/i/status/1710710085222301711
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The building was used by Hamas for weapons storage and operational planning.
Israel provided advance warning so that residents could evacuate before it was demolished.
Frontalforce (@FrontalForce) ~ “Roof Knock” just conducted on a High-Rise Building in Gaza City. It will get levelled soon.
Benjamin Netanyahu wasn't kidding when he told civilians in Gaza to get out tonight unless they'd rather be killed.
I don't blame him ... the Palestinians started this war ... and the Israelis are gonna end it.
Rushdi Abualouf (@Rushdibbc) ~ Israeli fighter jets destroy an 11-story (100 flats) building in downtown Gaza City, the second biggest building in Gaza, after warning the residents to evacuate ...
http://twitter.com/i/status/1710684075239878789
After warning residents to evacuate. Israel still does the "after" part despite Hamas.
Josh Fields (@partiallypro) ~ Honestly surprised they are still doing roof knocks after this (roof knocks are used to tell people to leave the building as a bombing is incoming).
Sotiri Dimpinoudis (@sotiridi) ~ Roof knocks in this situation shows that the IDF is weak.
Nah ... it shows that the Israelis are civilized.
Arijit R@y (@ArijitRy1) ~ After today's incident no need for roof knock ... use high grade explosives and level them.
Musc (@musc0vy) ~ All of Gaza should be rubble. Every last building.
Gal (@ReturnoftheGal) ~ Even now is Israel is conducting “roof knocks”. Astounding.
Phillip Raymond (@upser2004) ~ Crazy they are still doing roof knocks after what has been done.
Jonathan Levin (@JNLevin) ~ Stop with the roof knocks. Find the terrorists and kill every one of them.
AG (@AGHamilton29) ~ Hamas was using these buildings to maintain assets.
Even today, Israel is doing roof knocks and phone calls to give civilians a chance to evacuate before taking out a building. Unfortunately that also means terrorists get a warning too.
You know what else Israel doesn't do? Embed the IDF in civilian buildings and hospitals.
Lilly Wilson (@RealLillyWilson) ~ They have to stop doing this. Just take it down and be done with it.
Mark Halawa (@HalawaMark) ~ It’s a Hamas headquarters ... not a residential building like you’re trying to imply. More to come, inshallah!
BTFD (@JCBarraza2) ~ Israel is leveling empty buildings. Hamas sits back and cracks up at this stupid, half-measure. Either reduce the Gaza Strip to ruble (no roof knocks or phone calls) or this Palestinian savagery will continue.
Intentionally trying to avoid civilian casualties in time of war is next to impossible to successfully accomplish and often hinders fully achieving your military goals, but it is admirable, nonetheless.
What warning were Israeli civilians given?
None ... which is why Hamas is nothing but a bunch of rabid, murderous thugs who deserve to be wiped out.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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