Carpet bombing the strip with conventional munitions until there isn't anything left alive on the surface would do a lot to assist with repopulation of the area with more desirable inhabitants. Sure, you aren't going to kill all of the fighters, but you'll get most of the women and children and destroy Hamas's ability to continue the population and replace fallen fighters. Close the area off and re-treat the area every few months to get any stragglers, then let it lie fallow for about 2-3 decades. After a period of time, sweep in and round up the aged fighters who will largely be unable to resist at this point. You can intern them, or do whatever you feel is needed. Now the area should be ripe for re-colonization with minimal risk of unexploded munitions and hidden fighters.

Of course, that's only possible with a complete disregard for human life or morals. So basically what a lot of countries accuse Israel of having.

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Posted by StrawsDrawnAtRandom

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Posted on 8/1/14 at 2:52 pm to cokebottleag

Drones have something like a 90% militant mortality rate. The majority of civilian casualties come after the initial strike when they come to help those who have been hit -- and generally they arrive in unmarked vans so there's absolutely no way to identify who they are.

Israel, for all of its "surgical" strikes can't seem to keep the civilian casualty rate under 50% -- even if a group is using civilians as shields, there's no excuse for it to ever be over 70% especially in a small nation like Palestine. Finding, identifying and eliminating targets should be much easier for "the strongest military in the Middle East".

Israel really doesn't focus on drone warfare yet, but I guarantee their strikes would be much better if they were using them. Conventional munitions just don't have high success rates anymore.

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