D. C. Bear said:Realitybites said:ATL Bear said:
Israel is recognized as one of the most effective asymmetrical warfare and counter-insurgency militaries in the world. Probably better than us.
Heck no. This is our guys cleaning out Fallujah, house to house.
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The IDF and its genocidal tactics can go to hell.
Your knowledge of the operational environment in Gaza is limited, probably by your social media algorithm. The wide physical destruction of buildings in Gaza is a tactical response to Hamas tactics of large scale wiring buildings with explosives. Those tactics at that scale were not really in play in Fallujah. If our forces faced the same conditions, I would expect we would have a similar tactical response.
UN Human Rights Council:
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The Commission reviewed photos and videos showing the widespread destruction of residential complexes and entire neighbourhoods in the Gaza Strip, including agricultural lands, public facilities, religious and cultural sites, schools, universities and hospitals. Many of these locations were damaged or destroyed by airstrikes as well as tank and artillery shells. Some were destroyed by bulldozers or controlled demolitions, rendering these areas uninhabitable. A resident of Gaza City told the Commission that the Israeli security forces looted everything from his house, destroyed his cars and then burned the house. Notably, Israeli soldiers have admitted to burning homes in social media posts.
The Commission notes that the Israeli security forces' unprecedented bombing campaign has left the northern part of the Gaza Strip and Khan Younis in the south virtually uninhabitable. Between October 2023 and April 2025, nearly seventy percent of total structural damage in the Gaza Strip occurred in the governorates of Gaza, Khan Younis and North Gaza. In April 2025, UNOSAT estimated a total of 258,201 damaged housing units in the Gaza Strip, with Gaza Governorate recording the highest number of destroyed structures, amounting to a total of 46,964, of which 37,169 were in Gaza City alone. According to a May 2025 satellite imagery analysis, UNOSAT identified 70,436 destroyed structures and 18,588 severely damaged structures in Gaza, out a total of 174,486 damaged structures.
Civilian objects that were essential to Palestinians, such as bakeries, were also destroyed. In November 2023, it was reported that all bakeries were inactive in the north of the Gaza Strip, due to the lack of fuel, water and wheat flour, as well as damage sustained to mills and the bakeries themselves during attacks.
Notably, as of 27 May 2025, UNESCO verified damage to 110 cultural and religious sites in Gaza since 7 October 2023: 13 religious sites, 77 buildings of historical and/or artistic interest, three depositories of movable cultural property, nine monuments, one museum and seven archaeological sites. The World Bank assessed in February 2025 that fifty-three percent of heritage sites in Gaza were damaged or destroyed.
The Commission has concluded in a previous report that Israeli attacks in Gaza since October 2023 have effectively destroyed the education system, with significant detrimental long-term repercussions for children and youth in Gaza and for the identity of the Palestinian people as a group. Israeli attacks have caused damage to more than 70 percent of the school buildings in Gaza and created conditions where education for children has been made impossible. Importantly, the Commission also documented several incidents of Israeli security forces burning or demolishing schools, many of which were empty at the time, and considered that such conduct was deliberate.
The Commission has detailed in a previous report its findings on the destruction and denial of medical facilities in Gaza by the Israeli security forces. The Commission has found, inter alia, that attacks on healthcare facilities were an intrinsic element of the Israeli security forces' broader assault on Palestinians in Gaza and the physical and demographic infrastructure of Gaza. The Commission has also found that Israeli security forces have deliberately killed, wounded, arrested, detained, mistreated and tortured medical personnel and targeted medical vehicles. Access to medical care in Gaza has been severely restricted since October 2023.
Importantly, the attacks against hospitals occurred even after the resumption of military operations on 18 March 2025, including the attack against Nasser Medical Complex and European Gaza Hospital on 13 May 2025. Reportedly, on 13 May 2025, at 02:45, Nasser Medical Complex was hit by an Israeli drone strike which targeted the burn unit of the hospital, killing two patients and injuring 12 others, and destroyed the hospital's infrastructure. The WHO further confirmed that the burn unit of the hospital was struck, destroying 18 hospital beds in the surgical department, eight beds in the intensive care unit and 10 inpatient beds. At 18:19 on the same day, the Israeli security forces reportedly targeted the European Gaza Hospital with a series of airstrikes, hitting the internal yards and the hospital's surroundings. OCHA reported that the incident killed at least 19 people, including five women, and injured more than 40, including four journalists. On the next day, the European Gaza Hospital was reportedly targeted again when the Israeli security forces struck a bulldozer that was brought in by the hospital to repair the roads to enable access to the hospital.
Medical experts told the Commission that the destruction of medical infrastructure, lack of supplies and the targeting of healthcare workers have compromised access to basic healthcare and treatment and, as a result, have had direct and indirect effects on health in Gaza. This has especially affected children. Attacks on the paediatric hospitals of Gaza, including Rantisi Hospital and Al-Nasr Hospital in Gaza City, as well as attacks on larger hospitals, have forced children with pre-existing conditions to seek care at smaller facilities that lack specialised paediatric staff and equipment. A doctor in Ahli Hospital stated that the hospital lacked the necessary medications and expertise for treating children with complex medical problems, such as severe asthma or epilepsy.
A medical professional who volunteered at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis stated, "there were probably three men [in the emergency room], and the rest were all children, women, elderly, everybody caught in their sleep, still wrapped in blankets." The Commission viewed a video (authenticated by Al Jazeera's Sanad agency) of a volunteer doctor at a hospital who stated that the hospital had run out of painkillers and the medical professionals had not been able to sedate the patients. According to the doctor, seven girls had had their legs amputated without anaesthesia, and most of the patients had been women and children who had been burnt throughout their bodies, with missing limbs. An obstetrician who was in Gaza in December 2023 and January 2024 told the Commission that the hospitals were overwhelmed, and thousands of displaced Palestinians sought refuge at hospital compounds. According to the obstetrician, the floors of the emergency department were bloody and overcrowded, making it difficult at times to reach patients who were on the floor. The obstetrician added that there were children "with horrific amputations, with burns, with traumatic injuries, on the floor in other people's blood" and there was no pain relief available.
The Awdah Hospital, the main reproductive healthcare provider in northern Gaza, was under siege in December 2023, with some 250 people trapped inside facing severe shortages of food, water and medicine. During the siege, several persons, including medical staff and a pregnant woman, were reportedly killed by snipers.
The Commission has also previously reported on attacks directed against healthcare professionals and medical units in Gaza. According to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, at least 1,581 health workers were killed between 7 October 2023 and 16 July 2025. As of 12 May 2025, 48 of the Palestine Red Crescent Society staff or volunteers had been killed, and many others had been attacked or detained. Medical personnel stated that they believed they had been intentionally targeted. The Commission documented direct attacks on medical convoys operated by the ICRC, the United Nations, the Palestine Red Crescent Society and non-governmental organizations. Access was also reduced owing to closure of areas by the Israeli security forces, delays in coordination of safe routes, checkpoints, searches or destruction of roads.
