“Knock, knock. Who’s there?” is a great way to start a timeless children’s joke, but in Israel today, it has another meaning.
It’s well known and abundantly documented that for many years, one thing Israel’s military does when targeting and taking out a terrorist, there’s a policy of what’s called “a knock on the roof,” where a non-lethal bomb is dropped on the roof of a building in which there is terrorist target. It may be the residence of a terrorist leader’s apartment building or the headquarters of a terrorist military or communications network. More often than not, these people and targets are deliberately located in apartment buildings and highly populated areas, surrounded by other people who are not directly combatants, because of the terrorist policy to use their own civilians as human shields.
The purpose of the knock on the roof is to give people the opportunity to evacuate the building before it is targeted. The good part of that is that it saves the lives of civilians. The bad part is that it also gives terrorists an opportunity to escape. In some instances, targeting of the terrorist is so precise that it looks as…
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