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> He also said the activity in his area of service is referred to as Operation Salted Fish – the name of the Israeli version of the children's game "Red light, green light".

The Israeli tradition of giving their Gaza operations names of children's games also continues, after "Operation Cast Lead".

(Not sure if they wanted to make a reference to Squid Games as well...)

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Green light : They send out notifications to people telling them aid is available at a certain location.

Red light: 10 minutes later they send out another notification saying no aid is being distributed there today and start shooting anyone in the area

Just like several months ago, “we advise Gazans to move to southern Gaza as operations intensify in the north”.

Within days: “Israeli bombing of southern Gaza intensifies 80%”.

I have to say, these warnings are byond any logic I can comprehend. It it not like Hamas does not get these warnings. Obviously they moved aswell. Then again, was this intended by Israel? So in the end nobody can trust these warnings. They are pointless.

The target for the warnings isn't Palestinians, it's a figleaf for international media.

Yes I dunno what the term is but it's common to telegraph ops like this. US did the same in Yemen and they see a) civvies moving away from munitions storage areas b) terrorists trying to move munitions to safety. It can inform of new targets

You don't understand military ops. By announcing like this they can see the Hamas operatives expose themselves as they start moving, preparing like little ants and bomb them - not civilians.

If the whole point is to enable them to bomb Hamas and not bomb civilians, why did they bomb so many civilians? This is prima facie absurd.

They didn't bomb so many civilians. Their collateral damage is actually the least in modern times and modern wars. Its just sad that sometimes the terrorist planning to kill thousands is standing in a group with 10 civvies.

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