While all that rocket destruction has been raining down, the IDF has managed to accomplish the following:
Kill three Israeli soldiers while wounding 20
Three Israeli soldiers from the Golani infantry brigade were killed and about 20 others wounded, three seriously, one critically, after an errant IDF tank shell hit a building in which they were operating.
Injure IDF soldiers by machine gun fire and while detonating an explosive
Over the past two days there have been at least two cases in which soldiers have been injured in 'friendly fire,' one by machine gun fire and one during the detonation of an explosive device.
Kill about 100 Palestinians, many of them civilians
Of course, the IDF is killing Palestinians in far greater numbers.
Kill two entire Palestinian families along with a pregnant Palestinian woman and her four children
Over the past 24 hours, two Palestinian families were killed. In the Shati refugee camp the parents and five children of the Abu Aisha family were killed. In the Zeitun neighborhood, the seven members of the Salmuni family were killed. In another incident, a pregnant Palestinian woman and her four children were killed.
Productively deploy their military air craft
The infantry forces advanced yesterday under cover of heavy artillery and helicopter fire.
The Israel Air Force continued Monday to bomb tunnels on the border at Rafah, to prevent their renewed use by Hamas as supply tunnels along the Philadelphi Route.
And when all else fails to get Palestinians to come out and fight and be slaughtered, the IDF has developed tactics to convince Palestinian children to show resistance. We are left to let our imaginations wander as to what "response-stimulating operations" entail.
IDF troops are going out on ambushes and attacks known as 'response-stimulating' operations.
