Watch what happens when Israel “knocks on the roof” of a terrorist home in Gaza

Ynet News posted this video that shows Israel’s “knock on the roof” is done before the blow up a home:

A video documenting the mortar fired on the home of Hamas rocket unit head Ayman Siam at the Bureij refugee camp, and a short while afterwards the missile that almost destroyed the structure, shows how the “knock on the roof” procedure works.

Siam managed to escape the attack on Thursday with his life.

The video, posted on Palestinian news site Al-Watan, shows the mortar hit the house, causing a small cloud of smoke to rise.

The IDF usually gives the house’s inhabitants longer, sometimes up to an hour, to flee the premises, but in the video, only 60 seconds pass from the warning mortar to the missile that strikes the house. This time, the blast is strong and when the smoke clears, the video shows the destruction of the structure.

 
 
Here’s the before and after of the home:

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Clearly Israel is only using enough explosive to destroy the contents of the home, leaving part of the home standing, which shows quite a bit of restraint.

I would have expected there to have been nothing standing had I not seen this.


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