A series of airstrikes conducted by the Israeli Air Force on November 7, 2023 shows several legitimate military targets being destroyed, as evidenced by the numerous secondary sympathetic explosions caused by the detonation of Hamas munition caches.

To the uninformed, or those who choose not to look, this could look like the wanton devastation and destruction of Palestinian land. Unfortunately, the reality on the ground is that there is no one in all of Palestine who cheers more for the death of Palestinian civilians than Hamas, who have effectively weaponized those civilian deaths against Israel, while emplacing a majority of their weapon's caches, systems, and armed combatants directly inside of locations where civilians are present.

This was a decisive action conducted by Hamas and the PIJ, as there is nothing that causes Israel to loose support from the rest of the world like an al-Jazeera photographer with a couple of dead Palestinian children on the other end of his or her camera lens.

If you watch this video with eyes that can see however, you'll notice that almost every strike on infrastructure is followed up by a secondary sympathetic detonation. This is an indicator that something explosive was struck, and the force of the blast caused those munitions to also kinetically detonate in a secondary blast. Other targets include armed Hamas and PIJ militants, some of which are probably responsible in some part for the 10/7 attacks which saw the direct targeting of civilian non-combatants.

Here's the thing about the Israel-Palestine war in Gaza and the false equivalencies that continuously get brought up by the Woke-O-Haram crowd. There is a stark difference between collateral damage, and the direct targeting of civilians by a mob of mass shooters. Collateral damage is a byproduct of war that absolutely cannot be avoided. It becomes even more difficult to avoid when your enemy wears civilian clothes and builds their fighting positions out of kindergartens and mosques. The civilian deaths on 10/7 were an intentional part of the plan to kill as many Israelis as possible regardless of who or how old they are.

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Josh Brooks

Josh is an American writer and former USMC machine gunner with eight years of experience in ground combat arms throughout the GWOT. He is currently based in Texas and specializes in combat footage analysis and digital marketing.Follow Josh at OfficialJoshBrooks.com