Israeli airstrike levels 7-story building in Gaza

[Jefferson23]

AP 3:40 p.m. EDT August 24, 2014

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli airstrikes leveled a seven-floor office building and severely damaged a two-story shopping center in the Gaza Strip early Sunday, signaling a new escalation in seven weeks of fighting with Hamas.

The strikes in the southern town of Rafah came just hours after Israel bombed a residential tower in Gaza City, collapsing the 12-story building with 44 apartments.

A total of eight people were killed in Sunday's airstrikes. Israel said one of the dead was a Hamas official involved in handling the group's finances.

The targeting of large buildings appears to be part of a new tactic by Israel. Over the weekend, the army began warning Gaza residents in automated phone calls that it would target buildings harboring "terrorist infrastructure" and that they should stay away.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/08/24/israel-airstrike-gaza-hamas/14523473/

[oberliner]

1. How were there so few casualties?

A seven-floor office building was leveled, a two-story shopping center was severely damaged, and a 12 story building with 44 apartments was bombed to the point of collapse and there were only eight people killed?

How is that possible?

[Jefferson23]

2. Must be humane precision strikes, oberliner. n/t

[oberliner]

4. It seems pretty miraculous

Thankfully, many must have been able to avoid these buildings or relocate somehow.

[Jefferson23]

5. Yea, miraculous. n/t

[MFM008]

3. soooooooo

so its ok to level a 44 apartment building as long as you give 20 minute notice and only 8 people are killed ( there may be more bodies in the rubble). So thats OK. The entire Gaza strip harbors "terrorist" infrastructure as far as they are concerned. Israels respect/moral authority is gone and they will never get it back especially from a former supporter like myself.