[yosamino]

I was going to write a whole different comment, but then I thought

> What if, yosamino, your knowledge of the euphemism of knocking on a roof is outdated and this km3r is right? you should probably double check so that in case they are right, you are not having a stupid argument but one backed by facts.

And then I found this hilarious quote:

> As women and children lived in the house, a Hellfire missile was initially shot at the roof as a warning.

referring to American slaughter in Mosul, but still relevant.

The more relevant description is in this article

> The US has adopted a controversial air strike technique known as "roof-knocking", which is best known for its use by Israeli forces during conflicts in Gaza.

> The tactic involves detonating a small explosive above the roof a target as a way of signalling to nearby civilians to get out of range.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/27/us-adopts-contro...

Which tracks a lot better with the descriptions of the practice I have heard from people who experienced it.

So while this is from 2016 and by that metric is 10 years old, you'd have to please show me some information about the army of the state of Israel downgrading their tactics from sending as small bomb to sending a ... what are you claiming they are dropping? a rock ?

[km3r]

“Roof knocking” is when the IAF targets a building with a loud but non-lethal bomb that warns civilians that they are in the vicinity of a weapons cache or other target.

https://www.idf.il/en/mini-sites/hamas/how-is-the-idf-minimi...

Non lethal not non explosive, I stand corrected. Now can you answer the question.

You even admit it's a smaller bomb than then say its double tapping? Those are two opposing things.

[yosamino]

You know, quoting from the idf website about their humane way of bombing, is a little bit like praising the IRA for calling in a bomb threat before exploding a bomb in a crowded place.

A double tap is the practice of bombing a location, waiting for people to help the humans who were injured and then kill those people as well.

Dropping a "loud but non-lethal bomb" and when humans gather on the location where you did that, responding by dropping a "loud but very lethal" bomb to kill all those humans is only on a technicality different from a "double tap" as explained above.

If your plan of (euphemism) "knocking" was to minimize human casualties, but when it turns out it increases human casulties and your only response to this is to shrug and say "at least I tried" - how sincere was your attempt at minimizing human casualties really in the first place ?

> Those are two opposing things.

I think you are stretching the definition of "oppising" furtherthan it can be stretched

[LorenPechtel]

Except it's not about killing the helpers. It's about ensuring an unambiguous warning that they are about to drop a real bomb. Get out NOW!! The people understand the message.

But when Hamas points guns at them and says run to the roof they do because that might work, running is sure to get them shot.