Reply #91: The thing is...

[Karmakaze]

when the launcher is gone, any act of bombing the area is simply a case of revenge or punishment - there is no military necessity to bomb an area recently vacated by the enemy.

Israel has plenty of helicopter gunships and recon drones and planes, why can't they simply fly patrols and target only the launchers? The simple answer is they want to punish the population for supporting the fighters. So they wait until a rocket launch occurs, and then bomb the shit out of the surroundings, whether the launcher is still there or not.

That is exactly the same as rounding up and killing 10 civilians for every German soldier killed by the resistance. It is a war crime plain and simple. Collective punishment is a war crime, and that is exactly what the IDF is doing.