I'm not sure what "examine on a case by case basis" really means in this setting. Who can possibly examine the results of thousands of air strikes in a week in any meaningful way?
Satellite imaging cited in this Economist article (https://www.economist.com/briefing/2023/...on-in-gaza ) suggests over 4.3% of buildings in Gaza, 11k+ buildings, home to ~92,000, have been damaged or destroyed since start of bombing campaign. I'm pretty skeptical that all 11,000 buildings were housing Hamas fighters or weapons. It is obviously impossible to know for certain what percentage of these were legitimate military targets, but the real issue is that it is pretty plainly obvious to me that there is no way even the IDF can know that given the volume of attacks.
Do we think that the IDF had up to date, accurate targeting data for all 6,000 of those bombs? Doesn't seem possible.
Satellite imaging cited in this Economist article (https://www.economist.com/briefing/2023/...on-in-gaza ) suggests over 4.3% of buildings in Gaza, 11k+ buildings, home to ~92,000, have been damaged or destroyed since start of bombing campaign. I'm pretty skeptical that all 11,000 buildings were housing Hamas fighters or weapons. It is obviously impossible to know for certain what percentage of these were legitimate military targets, but the real issue is that it is pretty plainly obvious to me that there is no way even the IDF can know that given the volume of attacks.
Quote:The Israeli Air Force claims to have dropped nearly 6,000 bombs on the narrow strip of land in the first week of the war—more than the yearly rate of American forces in their operation against Islamic State in 2014-17.
Do we think that the IDF had up to date, accurate targeting data for all 6,000 of those bombs? Doesn't seem possible.