| Comparison to UK building shelters during WW2 is not reasonable and mentions of "which the Government of Gaza will not" are disingenuous. They can not in any meaningful way build shelters that would protect 2.3 million people living there. UK was ~500x the size, not including colonies, or whatnot and a great power not under decades long siege at that time. On the other hand, Gaza is small, and Israel famously blocks imports of construction materials and technology to Gaza, and attacks international ships and kills crew that attempt to bring it there without approval. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_flotilla_raid https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/17/gaza-recycles-rubbl... Civilian bomb shelters are also not very useful without a warning system and against an enemy, that can target them directly and is in the sky 24/7. Show me a typical Israeli bomb shelter that can survive a direct hit from one or two of those JDAM guided 1000/2000 pound bombs, without everyone inside being killed. Locations of all the shelters would be known to Israel, so they'd be easily targeted. Anyway, yeah, apples and oranges of a situation, comparing this to anything in the past, including air raids on London. |